Mari Eriksen (b. 1995) marieriksen95@gmail.com
Studio: Startblokka, Østre Aker vei 90, 0596 Oslo, Norway
Telefon: +47 46424354
The complex meeting of space, time and the things that surround us.The works address socio-political issues in an imaginary and non-literal way. I attempt to “frame” situations or conditions in and between people, and intend to contribute to a collective and individual experience of wonder and reflection; to confront reality with something fundamentally human
I want to form, shape, tell and convey with a set of materials, with an insisting attitude towards something being at stake. Fear, despair, hope and play is investigated whilst I search, gather, plunder, connect and present
There is a rather subjective hierarchy connected to the materials I
use, or stores and collects in my studio. A small piece of plastic, a pipe, a grassstraw or a tired iron tool; everything (and everyone) is included as vital in my life as it is now, and can contribute to realizing ideas of what reality is. I stick to an impresise and imporivsed approach. The works with sculptural objects, location and possibly soundscape is an independent and relatively introvert process - but when the work then is established, I consciousky changes focus towards the collectiveness that might arise when the audience meets in and around the work
. In which way can one move around the space - together or alone - what does one experience individually and what do we experience
together?
EDUCATION
2019-21: MA fine art, Kunstakademiet, oslo national academy of art, no
2015-18: BA fine art, Cambridge school of art, uk
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026: (upcoming)Vestfold Kunstsenter, Tønsberg
2025: (upcoming)22 juli senteret, Oslo
2024: Kongsberg Jazzfestival (upcoming) - Kunstprosjekter ulike lokasjoner på festivalområdet
2023: Kongsberg Kunstforening- Jeg vil hoppe paradis
2022: Buskerudmuseet - Portåsen. Floker / Mjøndalen
2022: Kongsberg Jazzfestival - Kunstprosjekter ulike lokasjoner på festivalområdet
2021: Galleri Seilduken - Respite room / Oslo
2020: Galleri Seilduken - Breath Im seeking you / Oslo
2020: Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus - Defence Bunker for the unpredictable / Oslo
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022: Loftet, Kunstnernes Hus - Hide and seek / Each one is good in his own house and garden - m/Kier Cooke Sandvik - FKDs Artists Duo Show / Oslo
2019: Resepsjonsgalleriet, Khio - Landing - m/ Jinbin Chen / Oslo
2019: Studio Baustelle - Fragments of a turbulent landscape - m/ jazzkomponist Leon Røsten / Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024: HULMUR gallery Mjelva - stortinget t-bane stasjon /Oslo
2023: SKOG artspace - Vinterutstillingen / Oslo
2023: NITJA senter for samtidskunst - Kunstloungen / Lillestrøm
2022: BO (Billedkunstnerne i Oslo) - Mistakes were made - curated by Mathilde Carbel / Oslo
2022: Drammen Museum - Novemberutstillingen. Lychepaviljongen / Drammen
2022: Prosjektrom Helium - Multippel 22 / Fredrikstad
2021: Drammen museum - Novemberutstillingen. Lychepaviljongen. Juried by Kari Anne Helleberg Bahri, Per Hess, Yola Tsolis, Håvard S. Johansen og Susanne Kathlen Mader
/ Drammen
2021: Buskerud Kunstsenter - Stipendutstillingen / Drammen
2021: Kunstnernes Hus - The Great Indoors, master degree show/residency. Curated by Pedro Gomez Egana / Oslo
2020: Galleri Seilduken - Solastalgic. Curated by Lesia Vasylchenco / Oslo
2019: P0, Khio - There and after, Oslo
2019: Kunsthall Oslo - christmas exhibition
2019: Total Museum - Image, between history and human, five interpretations / Seoul, Sør Korea
2019: Galleri Seilduken - Show off / Oslo
2019: Here and now - various locations / Oslo
2019: Galleri Golsa - Got it for cheap / Oslo
2018: Uferhallen - Ufer Open / Berlin
2018: Ruskin Gallery - The sustanability art prize / Cambridge
2018: Cambridge School of Art - Introspectrum / Cambridge
2018: Gallery 9 - In situ / Cambridge
2017: The David Attenborough Building - Geomancy / Cambridge
2016: Ruskin Gallery - Prolusion / Cambridge
OTHER
2024-25: UKS - vara - nominationcomitee.
2024(-): KÖSK - works for sale through the gallery.
2024(-): Buskerud Kunstsenter - works for sale in their gallery shop
2024: Oslo Open - Startblokka, Linderud
2023: NITJA senter for samtidskunst - works exhibited in Kunstloungen at NITJA/ Lillestrøm
2022/23: Kunstnernes Hus - T-shirt project - ten pieces for sale at Kunstnernes Hus / Oslo
2022: Atelier.as - works for salt in connection to atelier.as christmas calender. Exhibited in their space in Vika terasse, Oslo
2022: Oslo Open - FKDS studiofellowship at Kunstnernes Hus
2019: Akademirommet - co running the exhibition space in the back of Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2019: Curator - w/ Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir. The sun sets at 17.45 at Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus.
RELATED WORK
2025: (upcoming) 22 jui senteret: art prosjekt mediated to school children
2024: NBK Accosiation of norwegian visual artist - Vert under Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus
2024: Munchmuseet:art-workshop for children at a two-day festival (mini-munch)
2022-24: Kongsberg Jazz festival - residency position for newly graduated artist - development of various sitespesific art projects.
2023 (-) Kunstnernes Hus - Resepsjonsvakt/vert
2023 NBK Accosiation of norwegian visual artist - Vert under Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus
2019: Artist assistant - two months assistant for artist Sandra Vaka Olsen, Berlin
GRANTS
2024: Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond (NBK) Project support / Norway
2022: Viken Fylkeskommune - Utviklingsstipend kultur / Norge
2022: Kulturrådet - Prosjektstøtte - m/FKDS atelierfelleskap / Norge
2021: Kulturrådet - Diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere / Norge
2021: FKDS fondet for kunst og designstudenter ((Fund for Art and Design Students))Ateliéstipend, Kunstnernes Hus / Norge
MEMBERSHIPS
uks norwegian young artist society / nbk accosiation of norwegian visual artists / Bo billedkunstnere oslo / bbk buskerud bildende kunstnere