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Inghild Karlsen
Inghild Karlsen (born 1952) is a Norwegian visual artist, set designer, curator and organiser. She works in a range of media, including painting, print, sculpture, textile, installation, performance, theatre, scenography and photography and video. She is also a former director of Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.[1]
Biography
Inghild Karlsen was born in Tromsø, Norway in 1952. She lives and works in Tromsø and Oslo.
She trained at the National College of Art and Design (Norwegian: Statens håndverks- og kunstindustriskole) from 1972 to 1974. She also holds a teaching qualification in art and design, and studied at the Western Norway Academy of Fine Art (Norwegian: Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen) from 1976 to 1981 and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (Swedish: Kungliga Konsthögskolan) from 1981 to 1982.
Karlsen is active on the contemporary art scene through textile art, photography, sculpture and performance, as well as in her role as a curator for major projects. Early in her career, she worked mainly with textile art and materials such as felted wool and silk.[2] She works at the intersection of old and new and between the utilitarian and the aesthetic, with a particular focus on Northern Norwegian culture and craftsmanship in dialogue with contemporary art forms.
As a graphic artist, she works with drypoint etching. Her work in stage design encompasses everything from set design and costumes to text and layout. She has worked on national stages such as Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhter, Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, Hålogoland Teater in Tromsø and Det Norske Teatret in Oslo. She was also an early adopter of the performance art genre, collaborating, among others, with the Danish founders of 'Hotel Performa', Kirsten Dehlholm and Willie Flindt.
Karlsen has held solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally since 1979. She has also taken part in group exhibitions in the Nordic countries, as well as in the USA, Brazil, Italy, Germany and Poland. In 1999, she was the festival artist at the Bergen International Festival, and she has held studio residencies at MOMA, PS1 in New York (1984–85)[3], Cité in Paris (1988)[4] and Bethanien in Berlin (1995–96). In 1999, she was awarded the Norwegian Government's Guaranteed Income for Artists. Her work has been acquired by the Norwegian Cultural Council, Bergen Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Henie Onstad Art Centre at Høvikodden, Queen Sonja, the Northern Norway Art Museum, the University of Tromsø and Troms County Council.
Between 1999 and 2003, she was director at Kunstnernes Hus, where she curated several international exhibitions, including "Hot Pot," featuring contemporary Chinese art.[5]