The Norwegian Crafts Annual Exhibition is the largest annual gathering of contemporary crafts from Norway. The annual exhibition has open submissions and is judged by NK's national jury, with the goal of taking the pulse of today's material-based art.
The 2024 Annual Exhibition is a collaboration between Norwegian Craftsmen, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum and Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst (K-U-K) in Trondheim.
The four jury members, Sigurd Bronger (jury chair), Marit Landsend, Elin Igland and Steffen W. Holden (representative of Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum), have put in considerable work to shape an exhibition that reflects today's crafts. Of the 1,494 submitted works, the jury has selected 62 works created by 50 artists. The audience can expect a wide range of techniques, materials and forms of expression, which both challenge and excite.
Venue:
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst (K-U-K)
Kjøpmannsgata 38, 7011 Trondheim
https://www.arsutstillingen.no/arsutstillinger/2024
"My works are based on places I have been that have a history or "speak" to me.
"North" is a free interpretation of a place in Gildeskål in Northern Norway that means a lot to me, which has fantastic limestone caves where traces of people from the Stone Age have been found. Unfortunately, we modern people have created new traces by carving names into the walls and one of the caves is now closed. For me it becomes an image of the traces we leave that destroy what we cannot see with the naked eye.
"The forest on the island in the bog"
Bogs have disappeared through the development of the landscape for many decades. We have started to reconstruct lost nature at the same time as large areas are disappearing in the development of roads, industry and cabins."
