Contemporary Artist
Bio
Graduate from the Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art in Bergen (2022) with a bachelor’s degree in fine art. Currently, she is studying at the master program in fine arts at the Art Academy in Bergen with a notable exchange to Kyoto City University of Arts in Kyoto, Japan (2023). Halland also holds a Diploma in fine art from the School of Art in Bergen (2019).
Her work touches upon issues related to time, decay, and the body. The work investigates these topics trough an intuitive process often resulting in three-dimensional works. Halland’s work has been presented among others at: IRGI gallery, Lithuania the Central Museum of Textile in Łódź, Poland and KODE in Bergen, Norway.
Artist statment
Textile is something close to us all, we wear or use textiles of domestic nature every day, in clothes, sheets, towels and so on. It has a constant presence in our lives. It is something that can be easily formed, changed, and manipulated.
The processes that lie behind these textiles are often time consuming. It demands the learning of the materials, techniques, and use. Can the time used, be of value in itself? Of key importance for me is the learning and understanding of traditional methods, to become a carrier of knowledge. As such it is possible to break from established methods and explore new ways of making. I hack these traditional ways of making to achieve other visual outcomes, while doing this I seek to engage in a multilateral approach where I am in dialogue with the material, listening and letting it guide me. It is through this process that mistakes and interesting directions can occur. Trough this method of making, topics such as Time, Decay, value, and the body is explored. A key point of interest is Value, value within material, body and process.
Solo Exhibitions
Katinka Halland
Galleri Taxi, Bergen, Norway
Group Exhibitions
Walk Eachother Home
KulturX, Xhibition, Bergen 2024
Second Skin: Encounters
Lysverket KODE, Bergen 2023
Maybe You Should Have Imagined Something Better
KMD/In your mind, Bergen 2023
Second Skin
Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, Poland 2023
Floccus
Wool week, 2 Bedford Street, Stroud England, 2022
Melange
Jinoos, Bergen, 2022
KMD:Textiles
Galleri Salhus, Bergen, 2022
Labyrinth
KMD, Bergen, 2021
Berøringspunkter
Galleri Salhus, Bergen, 2021
Beyond the Skin, Folds
Studio K, Stavanger, 2021
Contemporary thinking textile seeing, textile for future
IRGI galeriia, Lithuania, 2020
KMD Textiles
Norsk Trikotasjemuseum, Bergen, 2020
Bølgeblikk
Laksevåg hamn, Bergen 2020
Contact
Instagram @Ka_Halfduck