Sonja Bunes
(She/her)
Address: Kvadraturen Kunstatelier, Ullevålsveien 68, Bygg 15, 0454 Oslo
Floor: 3
Room number: 309
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
I work mainly with mixed media drawing, and painting on paper, and canvas. The sizes vary from A1 to miniature format. My works are most often about light, life and geometry; darkness death and chaos, in one composition or another. Within this, different themes arise. I am in a period with a focus on black, white and gray.
Mixed media drawing
Joy, Sonja Bunes, Liquid charcoal, Bamboo paper, 50x65cm, 2024, Galleri Minneparken
Struggle, Sonja Bunes, Liquid charcoal, Bamboo paper, 50x65cm, 2024, Galleri Minneparken
In my studio
In my studio you will now see me working with different types of charcoal; liquid (mixed with gum arabic and honey), solid, charcoal and synthetic, powdered and in pencil form. Other media may be mixed in…
Kvadraturen Kunstatelier consists of 35 artists on two floors. We have our own studios and common rooms in Building 15 in the Old Veterinary School at Adamstuen. Both the official OsloOpen artists and other members keep the doors open. In the common room there will be a small exhibition, with simple self-service coffee and tea. Welcome.
P.s. We have an old elevator that unfortunately is not always reliable…
Planned projects and exhibitions
- The Bærum Exhibition 2025 at Bærum Kunsthall April 3-27
- Animalis – a project with a selection of members from the Kvadraturen Art Studio at the Old Veterinary School – September 2025
- Art as… – a KMISO project – Fall 2025
CV
Member of Association of Norwegian Visual Artists, Young Artists’ Society, Visual artists in Bærum
KMISO – Art as… 2022, 2023, 2024, … kmiso.no
Exhibitions and teaching in Canada, Sweden and Norway
Teacher/supervisor at Nydalen Kunstskole
Christiania private Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, periodically from 1981-2016
BFA, Studio Major. Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1988-91