Anja Hallek
(She/her)
Address: Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Fossveien 24, 0551 Oslo
Floor: 1
Room number: Keramikkavdelingen
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
Based in the ceramic materials, I work with sculpture and installation. Drawing on the materials rich history as a story-telling medium, and also its ”time-capsule” qualities, I fantasize about the future with my hands in the clay. Impulses from news, popular culture and -science are transformed into scenarios where pots carry magical functions and fable animals comment modern life.
sculpture, installation, ceramics
Tartrazine Rat #1, Anja Hallek, glazed ceramics, acrylic, string, 72 x 30 x 5 cm, 2024, pictured in the exhibition "Angle of Incidence", Galleri Seilduken 2, Oslo.
Image from the workshop at KHiO.
The Homing Pigeon, Anja Hallek, Glazed ceramics, window envelopes, print-outs of unread news notifications / love declarations / spam, ceramic sculpture: 150 x 100 x 120 cm, 2024, pictured in the exhibition "Sensasjonelt" at Galleri Seilduken 1, Oslo.
Installation view from "Angle of Incidence", 2024, Galleri Seilduken 2, image: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard.
Planned projects and exhibitions
2025, April 3rd – 6th, MA1-show, KHiO, Oslo
2025, May 10th – August 31st, Oscarshall, Oslo.
CV
Anja Hallek
b. 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Education
2024-now: Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Master in medium- and materialbased art, ceramics.
2023: Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. Exchange studies.
2021-24: Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Bachelor in medium- and materialbased art, ceramics.
2019-21: Leksands folkhögskola. Ceramics.
Solo/duo exhibitions
2025. Dårlig tid (litt krem). (with Sara Hødnebø.) Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo, Norway.
2024. Angle of Incidence. (with Mathilda Skoglund.) Galleri Seilduken. Oslo, Norway.
2024. Idiot Wind. (with Nora Hultén Törnerud.) White Box, KHiO. Oslo, Norway.
2023. Next time I’ll be a different tardigrade. Oles galleri på KHiO. Oslo, Norway.
Group exhibitions (selected)
2024. Sensasjonelt. BA-degree show. Galleri Seilduken. Oslo, Norway.
2023-24. International Biennial of Ceramic Art of Aveiro. Aveiro, Portugal.
2023. Hydrologiskt nuläge. Formsalen, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Oslo, Norway.
2022. A future in clay. Nitja senter for samtidskunst. Lillestrøm, Norway.
Other
2023, 2024. Stipend from Estrid Ericsons stiftelse.
2021. Student artist-in-residency at Not Quite in Fengersfors, Sweden.