Åsa Båve
(She/her)
Address: Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo/ Kunstakademiet, Fossveien 24, 0558 Oslo
Floor: 3
Room number: Åsa Båve
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
I departure from my own experience within carework and I have a background in filmmaking and photography. Today my primary mediums are sculpture and performance.
The question of care as commodity and vulnerability as a strength are at the center of my practice.
installation, sculpture, video, performance, videoinstallation, textil
Åsa Båve, sculpture of soap in water, 60 x 150 cm, 2022, You Do Not Stop at Your Skin, Italienska Palatset, Växjö, detail image
Åsa Båve and Julie Barfod, performance, 2 x 2 m, 2024, Academy Room, Kunstnernes Hus, Installation image after performance
Sysslorna, Artistic Director: Åsa Båve, Choreographer: Elsa Aurell, Set Design: Frederikke Krogh, Dancers: Marianne Torstensson, Ingrid Moeschlin, Ann-Charlotte Fogel, dance performance, 30 minutes, 2024, presented at 3:e Våningen in Gothenburg.
Work in progress from my studio
In my studio
In my studio, you will find material experiments with soap, where I highlight its various properties and its transformation over time. I have been working with soap as a sculptural material for several years and am currently preparing for my master’s graduation exhibition this June. I will be making soap in my studio and am happy to teach others how to make their own soap!
Planned projects and exhibitions
2025 (february) Det ständigt pågående, solo show, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Norge
2025 (june) Exam show – Master in Fine Art, Kunstnerenes Hus, Oslo, Norge
CV
EDUCATION
2023-2025 Master in Fine Art, Art Academy, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo.
2016-2019 BFA in Photography, HDK-Valand, Gothenburg.
2013-2014 Project year in documentary filmmaking, Brunnsvik Folkhögskola, Filmbasen, Stockholm.
2012-2013 Artistic Figuration, Göteborgs Konstskola.
2008-2010 Filmmaking, Katrinebergs Folkhögskola, Falkenberg.
GROUP SHOWS
2024 Commonplace, Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway.
2024 Swim, Southern Sweden Design Days, collaborative exhibition, Malmö, Sweden.
2024 Swim, Craft Days, collaborative exhibition, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2024 Sysslorna, 3e Våningen, dance performance, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2023 Open Academy, Seilduken 2, KhiO, Oslo, Norway.
2023 KP23, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
2022 You do not stop at your skin, Italienska Palatset, Växjö, Sweden.
2022 Caring Futures, Solvberget Galleri, curator: Hege Tapio og Ingvild Hellstrand, Stavanger, Norway.
2021 Opið Hús, Nes Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland.
2020 Group Show 2 (Halloween Show), Vulkano, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2019 This is not a departure hall, Röda Stens Konsthall, exam show, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2018 Memory Foam, Galleri Monitor, HDK-Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2018 Skäms?! Frilagret, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2017 Bending the Frame, Preus Museum of Photography, printed matter, Horten, Norway.
SOLO SHOWS
2024 Sysslorna, BASEMENT, dance performance, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2024 Jag är en annan nu, Seilduken 2, KhiO, Oslo, Norway.
2023 Queer Salong, Page 28, Malmö, Sweden.
2023 De tillfälliga, Tvåla & Tvaga, Stockholm, Sweden.
2021 On Strange Tides, GIBCA Extended, Godisfabriken, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2017 May I Take Care of You? Galleri Rotor2, HDK-Valand, performance, Gothenburg, Sweden.
STIPENDS
2022 one-year working grant, Swedish Art Grant Commitee.
2021 Helge Ax:sons Johnson’s Foundation.
2021 Crisis Grant no. 3, Swedish Art Grant Commitee.
2021 International exchange and travel grant, Swedish Art Grant Commitee.
2020 Gothenburg City, Temporary Grant.
2019 Eric Ericson’s Foundation.
2019 Otto och Charlotte Mannheimer’s Grant.
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2017-now, streaming available on www.triart.se, Inte visste jag att det var livet, Short Documentary, 18 min.
2016 StockMotion, Stockholm, Inte visste jag att det var livet,Short Documentary, 18 min.
2016 Gothenburg’s International Filmfestival, Inte visste jag att det var livet, Short Documentary, 18 min.
2014 Gothenburg’s International Filmfestival, Bristning, Short Fiction, 14 min.
PRICES
2016 Best Cinemathography, Inte visste jag att det var livet, Stockmotion, Stockholm.
2013 ABFs Culture Grant for Bristning, Frame Filmfestival, Göteborg.
2013 First price in Heavyweight, Bristning, Frame Filmfestival, Gothenburg.
2014 Bristning, selected by Gothenburg’s International Filmfestival at Novemberfestivalen, Trollhättan.
2009 Best Editing, Untitled, Swedens Short Film Festival, Stockholm.