KIRSTEN WAGLE - CV.
Lives and works in Oslo.
Education
1978-82 - SHKS, Oslo. Textiledep. with/diploma.
1981-2018 – collaboration with Astrid Løvaas, Løvaas & Wagle.(From this period, look further below *)
from 2019 – own practice.
2026 "Morskipet". Fossekleiva kultursenter og Berger Museum.
2025 Solo exhibition, Soft gallery, Oslo.
2020 Østlandsutstillingen, Kunstbanken Hedmark Artcenter, Buskerud Artcenter,
Østfold Artcenter.
Solbrända erfarenheter. Soft gallery, Oslo.
Public collections
2025 The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
Kode Bergen
The city of Oslo Art Collection
Norwegian Parliament, the Stortinget
Telenor Art Collection
Grant
2026 Vederlagsfondet
Various posts etc.
Sensor KHIO, master.
College lecturer, SHKS.
”Stretch”, jury, Galleri F 15.
Sørlandsutstillingen, jury.
The National Jury, Norske Billedkunstnere. Norwegian visual artists.
The scholarship committee.Norske Billedkunstnere, Norwegian visual artists.
Board member, Norske Tekstilkunstnere, Norwegian textile artists.
Young Artists society, jury.
Sensor, diploma SHKS.
Member of:
Association of Norwegian Visual Artists(NBK)
Norwegian Textile Artists(NTK)
Norwegian Crafts Association(NK)
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Soloshows, L&W
2013 Soft Gallery Oslo.
2009 Gallery Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway.
2008 Gallery Kunst1.no, Sandvika, Norway.
2008 "Løvaas & Wagle". The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
2000 "Hunting scenes". Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway.
1995 "Wallhangings". Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Bergen Kunstforening, Norway.
Commissions, L&W
2022 Fjellhamar School, Lørenskog, Norway.
2022 Aukra cultural center, Norway.
2021 Hogsnes Health center, Tønsberg, Norway.
2021 Verdal Health center,Norway
2017 Health center, Trondheim, Norway.
2017 Ålgård square, Ålgård, Rogaland, Norway.
2017 Berg school, Oslo, Norway.
2016 Urbygningen, NMBU, University at Ås, Norway.
2014 Mandal school, Mandal, Norway.
2013 The House of Municipalities, Oslo, Norway.
2012 Voss Culture Centre, Norway.
2010 Marienlyst School, Drammen, Norway.
2008 Vestby School, Norway.
2007 Skien Leisure Park, Norway.
2007 Hamar Katedralskole,Norway.
2004 Kino 1, Sandnes, Norway.
2003 -2008 I Norwegian National Opera in Bjørvika, Oslo, Norway.
2001 Adventure of the Seas, RCCL.
1999 Vargstad High School, Lillehammer, Norway.
1998 Engebråten School, Oslo, Norway.
1997 Stage Drapery, Trøndelag Theatre,Trondheim, Norway.
1995 The Academy of Music, Bergen, Norway.
1994 Veterinary Science Research Laboratory, Jæren, Norway.
1990 Bakkenteigen College Centre, Borre, Norway.
1989 Stange City Hall, Stange, Norway.
1986 Bank of Norway, Oslo, Norway.
1985 Military Camp, Oslo, Norway.
Public Collections. L&W
2021 Bank of Norway.
2021 Municipality of Nesodden.
2020 Stortinget.
2012 Southern Norway Art Museum.
2009 Ministry of Foreign affairs.
2008 Ministry of Foreign affairs.
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and design.
2006 The National Museum of Art, Architecture and design.
Norwegian Art Council, Drammen Museum.
2002 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Oslo.
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Bergen.
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trondheim.
2001 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Bergen.
2000 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Bergen.
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trondheim.
1998 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Oslo.
1995 Government building, R-5, Oslo.
Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
1991 LOOC. Lillehammer Olympic Committee.
1989 Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
1987 Riksgalleriet.
1986 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trondheim.
1985 Norwegian Art Council.
1984 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Oslo.
1983 Museum of Arts and Crafts, Bergen.
1982 Art Collection of the community of Oslo.
Groupshows, L&W
2026 "Morskipet". Fossekleiva kultursenter og Berger
2025 "Samanføyningar". Hå gamle prestegård
2017 "Ode til en vaskeklut - hymne til en tiger". Norwegian Textileartists jubilee-exhibition, Oslo.
2016 "Everyday Matters". Galleri Format, Oslo.
2015 Summerexhibition, Tysse factory, Osterøy, Norway.
2013 "Tusen tråder". Lillehammer Kunstmuseum.
2013 "Soft". Gustavsbergs Konsthall.
2012 "Diamonds are forever". Gallery Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway
2010 "Goddesses-Gudinner, Women moving Art". The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
"We live in the time", Gallery BOA, Oslo, Norway.
Gruppeutstilling, Gallery Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway.
"Arvesyn", The Summer Exhibition, Seljord Kunstforening, Norway
"Snøhetta, architecture-landscape-interior". The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Museum of Architecture, Oslo, Norway.
2009 "10th Wave III:Art Textiles and Fiber Sculpture" , Browngrotta Arts, Connecticut, USA.
2008 Gallery Erik Steen. Groupshow.
"Constructions". Exhibition by The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair.
2007 "Art 4", The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
2006 "how to love juicy jam & jags". drud & køppe gallery, København, Denmark.
"Gather". The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
"Textile expressions in the contemporary Art", M.K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania.
"Beyond Weaving"; International Contemporary Textiles, Flinn Gallery, Connecticut, USA.
2005 "Tingene taler", Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trondheim, Norway.
"People and Things", Museum of Arts and Crafts, Bergen, Norway.
"Typical Norwegian", The Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway.
2004 "Nordic Cool, Hot Women Designers", National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington DC, USA.
2002 "Concrete, Non-figurative art in Norway 1920-2000", Lillehammer-Bergen-og Trondheim Artmuseum,
Lillehammer-Bergen-og Trondheim Artmuseum, Norway.
"Fiber", Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trondheim, Norway.
SOFA, Chicago, USA.
2000 "Focus on collection", Galleri Bomuldsfabriken, Arendal, Norway.
SOFA, New York, USA.
"Scandinavian Sensibility", Brown-Grotta Art Gallery, Connecticut, The North Dakota Museum of Art, USA.
1998 "Tendencies", Gallery F15, Moss, Norway.
1998-2000 I "Tekstil - Bilder Figurer Minner", National Touring Exhibitions, Norway.
1997 "Contemporary Art from Oslo", Gothenburg Art Museum, Sweden.
"The Textile Triennale in Tournai", Belgium.
Akershus artists in Finland.
1996 "Stretch", Gallery F15, Moss, Norway.
The UKS-biennale, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Art Associations in Bergen, Trondheim,
Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Norway.
1994 "In Touch", Maihaugen, Lillehammer, arr.LOOC, Norway.
"Norwegian Images", Gallery Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway.
"Textile in Time and Space". The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway.
"The South Coast Exhibition". 1994, Norway.
1993 "Pan-Flexible", European Textile Triennale, Germany, Poland, England, Netherland.
Tekstile Exhibition, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway.
1992 "Kryss-Crossing Borders", Bergen, Norway.
Textile Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway .
1990 "Textile-and-graphic art Exhibition", Vilnius Exhibition Hall, Lithuania.
"Nor-Form", Malmø, Sweden .
1989 "Norwegian Textile Art in Moscow", The Central Art Nerhus, Moscow, Soviet Union.
"Norwegian Textile Art", Museum of Arts and Crafts, Trondheim, Norway.
"Textile Art", Rogaland Artist Centre, Norway.
1988 "Textile Exhibition" Museum of Arts and Crafts, Oslo, Norway.
1987 "Norway in Gothenburg", Rhøsska Muséet, Konstepidemin, Sweden.
"Norwegian Textile", Gallery Wang, Oslo, Norway.
"Textile in space-87". Telemark Artist Centre, Norway.
1986 "6.International Biennale of Miniature Textiles", Savaria Museum, Hungary.
1985 "Nordic Textile Triennale".
"Sesjon -85", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway.
1984 "The UKS- Spring Exhibition", Oslo, Norway.
"The Westcoast Exhibition Norway.
"Norwegian Craft 10 years, anniversaries Exhibition", Museum of Arts and Crafts, Oslo. Norway.
1983 (-88, -89, -90, -93, -02) Høstutstillingen, National annual Art Exhibition, Oslo, Norway.