Maria Brinch
(She/her)
Address: Mariboesgate 11, 3. etg / 3rd floor, Mariboesgate 11, 3. etg / 3rd floor, 0183 Oslo
Floor: 3
Room number: Forbi kjøkkenet, innerste rom til venstre!
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Maria Brinch (b. 1984) lives and works in Oslo. She graduated from Oslo Art Academy and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Her practice incorporates the social aspect of craftsmanship, where the exchange of traditional knowledge is a platform for personal narratives and political experiences across cultures, resources, and assumptions.
In recent years, she has collaborated on exhibitions, workshops, and artist book productions with artists in Yangon, Myanmar, and Kampala, Uganda.
Her work has previously been shown at Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), KINDL (Berlin), UKS (Oslo), Kunstnerforbundet (Oslo), Salgshallen (Oslo), Elephant Kunsthall (Lillehammer), Entrée (Bergen), Myanmart Gallery (Yangon in Myanmar), Uganda National Museum (Kampala in Uganda), Hos Arne (Oslo), and NADA Art Fair (New York).
Maria Brinch combines photography and painting in collaged wall-hung textiles and makes her sculptural mounting rods in wrought iron and pinewood.
The photographic aspect consists of spontaneous mobile phone snapshots from her everyday life and staged tableaux, representative of our, and mostly her own, contemporary accumulation of stored digital information.
Brinch connects the fabric’s material function with its emotional dimension, with references to classic ornamental tapestries, urban laundry, and the territorial use of decorative wrought iron gates.
Her work includes worn objects and the annual artist book, The Birthday Paper.
Tapestry, painting, sculpture, text, installation
Plastic Ring On Steel
Maria Brinch
Tapestries
Photography and ink on wool, cotton canvas, steel bar, three glass sculptures
340 cm x 189 cm
2022
Kunsthall Oslo
Installation View
Photo: Maria Brinch
Atlas On Pinewood I-II
Maria Brinch
Tapestries
Photography and ink on wool, cotton canvas, pinewood bars
145 cm x 195 cm x 12 cm each
2021
Elephant Kunsthall
Installation view
Photo: Øystein Thorvaldsen
Atlas On Iron
Maria Brinch
Tapestries triptych
Photography and ink on wool, cotton canvas, wrought iron bar, nylon sculpture
363 cm x 120 cm x 4 cm
2021
Elephant Kunsthall
Installation view
Photo: Øystein Thorvaldsen
Inya Lake, Given Space On Pine Wood I-III
Maria Brinch
Tapestries, sculpture
Photography and ink on wool, pinewood bars, wrought iron sculpture
350 cm x 137 cm x 12 cm each tapestry
2019
Kunstnernes Hus
Installation view
Photo: Thomas Tveter
In my studio
At my studio I will have ongoing projects with plural tapestries in the making. Dyeing, coloring, ink painting and layering of textiles takes place to play with ideas of sculpture and installation sketches for upcoming exhibition projects.
Live performance at Marias studio:
Sunday April 27th 2025 at 4:30pm – 5pm:
Sound and textile performance by Turid Alida Røsten
At Galleri Grotten:
Vernissage Thursday April 24th at 6pm at Galleri Grotten.
The exhibition Hand Luggage runs through the Oslo Open weekend, and the venue is a 10 minute s walk from Marias studio in down town Oslo.
Address: Galleri Grotten, Akersveien 19, 0177 Oslo
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 4pm
Planned projects and exhibitions
SOLO SHOWS
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April 24th 2025 at 6pm
“Hand Luggage”
Galleri Grotten, Oslo
The exhibition Hand Luggage runs through the Oslo Open weekend, and the venue is a 10 minute s walk from Marias studio in down town Oslo.
Address: Galleri Grotten, Akersveien 19, 0177 Oslo
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 4pm
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31. mai 2025 kl 13.00
“BRINCH/RUMOHR”
Lindstrøm Hotel in Lærdal, West Coast of Norway
Duo show with new works by Brinch in combination with Knut Rumohrs legacy
Curated by Anna Haukeland
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In 2026 a new exhibition project will take place in collaboration and curated by Maynm/art gallery’s (in Yangon, Myanmar) founder Nathalie Johnston, in Colombo in Sri Lanka. The project will include the launch of the artist book The Birthday Paper #11.
BOOK PROJECTS
2025 The Birthday Paper #10
2026 The Birthday Paper #11
2026 Monograph ATLAS ON IRON – MARIA BRINCH, Mousse Publishing Milano
2027 The Birthday Paper #12
CV
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Maria Brinch
Born 1984, Norway
E D U C A T I O N
2012 Master degree Textile, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, NO
2008 Bachelor degree Textile, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, NO
2007 School of Visual Arts, New York City, US
2005 Strykejernet Art School, Oslo, NO
2003 Hartvig Nissen, High school, NO
S O L O S H O W S (SELECTED)
2026 BRINCH/RUMOHR, Lindstrøm Hotel in Lærdal, West Coast of Norway
2026 ATLAS ON IRON – MARIA BRINCH, Monograph, Mousse Publishing Milano
2025 Hand Luggage, Galleri Grotten, Oslo
2023 Four Arms, Floor Hanging, Hos Arne, Oslo
2021 I´m out of here I go again, Elephant Kunsthall, Lillehammer
2020 Patina December, Sinsenveien, Oslo
2020 My Mother Is Forgetting My Face, Galleri Entrée, Bergen
2020 Swimming Through Stone, Ørlandet Kunstforening, Ørland
2020 Repeat What You Like, Salgshallen, Oslo
2020 Less Max, Galleri Studio17, Stavanger
2020 Ink Lake (with Aung Myint), Myanmart Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2019 INYA LAKE, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2019 Embodiment (with Lilian Nabulime), Uganda National Museum, Kampala, Uganda
2019 Monday Close, Galleri LNM, Oslo
2018 Given Space, Myanmart Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2017 KROKEN, Asker Kunstforening, Asker
2017 TEXTILES, Torhovteatret, Nationaltheatret i Oslo
2015 The Emerald Blue, Screening, ONO, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2014 The Midnight Lunch Break, Gallery FORMAT, Oslo
2013 This I Promise With Dreams, Kunstnerforbundet Art Association, Oslo
2012 Too Solid For Poetry, RAM gallery, Oslo
G R O U P S H O W S (SELECTED)
2024 Aco Demo, KINDL, Berlin
2022 Texture House, Wergelandshaugen Visningssrom, Eidsvold
2022 The Mirror Of Production, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
2022 Chart Book Fair, with Elephant Kunsthall, København
2020 Hvitsten Salong, Vestby, Norge
2019 Flag Project, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø
2019 Got It For Cheap, Galleri GOLSA, Oslo
2019 Hvitsten Salong, Vestby, Norge
2018 Tuwaye, HOT Sculpture Garden, Kampala, Uganda
2018 Velvet Ropes, NADA Art Fair, New York, USA
2017 Hot Dropz, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand
2016 Decorations, Tableau Paper Show, Gym Ila, Oslo
2016 Got it for Cheap, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, NYC
2015 Menneskeberget, Edvard Munchs studio, Ekely
2015 Handlingens gang, Vestlandsutstillingen, Stavanger Kunsthall
2014 Talente 2014, Munich, DE
2013 PARABOL, Gallery F15, Jeløya Moss
G R A N T S (SELECTED)
2022 Norwegian Arts Abroad Programme, UD (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
2020 Diversetipend: Kulturrådet
Utstillingsstøtte/Prosjektstøtte: Kulturrådet, NBK, Norske Kunsthåndverkere
2019 3-årig arbeidsstipend, Statens Kunststipend
2018 Reisestipend/Utstillingsstøtte:
Norske Kunsthåndverkere, UD, Kulturrådet, OCA
1-årig arbeidsstipend, Norske Billedkunstnere
2017 1-årig arbeidsstipend, Norske Billedkunstnere
Utstillingsstøtte/Prosjektstøtte: Kulturrådet, NBK
2016 1-årig arbeidsstipend, Norske Billedkunstnere
Utstillingsstøtte/Prosjektstøtte: Kulturrådet, NBK, OCA
2015 Reisestøtte: Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards stiftelse
2014 Utstillingsstøtte/Prosjektstøtte: Kulturrådet, NBK
2013 3-årig arbeidsstipend, Statens Kunststipend
R E P R E S E N T E D / C O M M I S S I O N S
2024 Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamling
2023 KORO, Brønnøysundregistrene
2022 International Corporate Art
2021 Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum
2021 International Corporate Art
2020 NRK (Norsk Rikskringkasting) Art Fund
2015 International Corporate Art
2015 Oslo Cultural Agency, Ljabrubakken Caring homes
2014 KPA Art Fund, NO
2012 Oslo National Academy of the Arts, NO
R E S I D E N C I E S
2020 Gallery Myanmart, Yangon, Myanmar
2018 Gallery Myanmart, Yangon, Myanmar
2018 Njabala Foundation, Kampala, Uganda
2017 House of Talent, Kampala, Uganda
2017 Leveld Kunstnartun, Hallingdal, Norge
2008 / 2011 / 2012 / 2015 / 2017 / 2018 / 2020 Research travels in Myanmar