Liv Clelia Mangiagli
(She/her)
Address: Kvadraturen Kunstatelier, Ullevålsveien 68, Bygg 15, 0454 OSLO Oslo
Floor: 3
Room number: 312
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Liv Clelia Mangiagli lives and works in Oslo. After years of focusing on analytical abstract painting and themes such as migration, memory work and environmental destruction, her art practice takes a turn towards the figurative. The color itself is still the motivating starting point. Fields are added, something is subtracted and contrasts are scraped out with the palette knife in a fine-tuned artisanal process. Throughout the course of the work, analysis and intuition alternate, but where abstract figurations previously arose, figurative animal and human figures now appear. The new project expresses something dreamlike, something that should be given time to find its shape.
Painting
Liv Clelia Mangiagli, Untitled I, oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm, 2024, photo: Private.
Liv Clelia Mangiagli, Untitled II, oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm, 2024, photo: Private
Liv Clelia Mangiagli, Untitled III, oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm, 2024, photo: Private
Liv Clelia Mangiagli, Untitled IV, oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm, 2024, photo: Private
In my studio
In my studio you can see the actual painting process and works from the series of new figurative paintings.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Collaborative project Kvadraturen Kunstatelier studio community; exhibition at the Old Veterinary College (DgV) in autumn 2025 with the working title “Animalis”. The theme is animals (in a very broad sense). Continue the development of my dreamlike figurative painting project.
CV
Education
2015 – 2019 Master’s degree in European languages. University of Oslo. Master’s
thesis in Italian: «Identity and sense of belonging among second
generation Italians in Norway. A qualitative study of the descendants of
the immigrants who came to Norway in the 1950s and 1960s».
2011 – 2015 Bachelor’s degree in History of Art. University of Oslo.
2006 – 2011 Full-time in-depth studies in classical drawing, painting and composition.
Christiania Kunstakademi (Art Academy), Oslo.
2006 Board competence. INN University, Norway.
1980 – 2004 Various drawing and painting courses, as well as icon painting.
2003 – 2004 Lighthouse programme (Fyrtårnprogrammet). Management and business
development. Innovation Norway.
1987 Goldsmith Master certificate. Sofienberg Technical College, Oslo.
1985 – 1986 Establishment school for women – Norwegian Institute of Technology
(until 1988).
1980 – 1983 Goldsmith training and Craft certificate. Elvebakken high school, Oslo.
Solo exhibitions
2024 Kvadraturen Kunstatelier (Art studio) Adamstuen, Oslo. Open Studio.
2023 Dalype Gallery, Oslo. TRANSIT – MEMORY – FUTURE. 43 oilpaintings.
2020 Artist of the month in March, Lillestrøm library, TRANSIT EUROPE - Impressions
from the Mediterranean area.
2015 Art studio Ensjø, Oslo. Open Studio.
2012 Hovedøya (island) – Klosterkroa (inn), Fjord of Oslo. [Diary] ILLUMINATIONS.
2011 Gallery Cuben, Oslo. INSIGHT.
Collective exhibitions
2025.09 Collaborative project within Kvadraturen Kunstatelier. The old Veterinary
College, Oslo.
2025.02/2024/2010 Rælingsutstillingen (municipality exhibition) Rælingen.
2024 Vestby Art Association’s Autumn Exhibition 2024: Theme AQUA. Vestby
Parsonage.
2024 Abstract Art Weekend. 14 oilpaintings. Art Gallery The gunpowder house,
Fredriksvern shipyard, Stavern.
2024 The old Veterinary College, building 17. Theme DIALOGUE.
2022/2019/2014/2010 Romeriksutstillingen (regional exhibition). Art Gallery
Jessheim og Art Gallery Lørenskog House.
2022 Lillestrømutstillingen. Art Gallery Brogata 2, (municipality exhibition) Lillestrøm.
2021/2019/2018/2017/2016/2012 Art Gallery Vanntårnet, Nesodden.
2019 Art Gallery Lørenskog House.
2017 Art Galleri Brogata 2, Skedsmo Art Association.
2015/2014 Akershus Art Centre, Lillestrøm. Theme: Anarchist Christmas exhibition.
2015 The Art Passage, Oslo Central Station.
2011/2010 Art Gallery Varmbadet, Drøbak.
2011 Art Gallery Lørenskog House.
2011/2010 Art Gallery Cuben, Oslo.
2000 Art Gallery OMK, Oslo. Theme: Icons.
Other work
1990-2006 Juvelen jeweller’s shop chain, Norway. Founder/owner/general manager.
1986-1989 Gullsmed Clelia, Goldsmith – Workshop – Gallery. Owner/jeweler/gallerist.
1983-1985 Sæter Goldsmith, Oslo. Jewelery repair and -production. Jeweler.