SOLVEIG AALBERG

Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Crafts | 2022

Solveig Aalberg is a Norwegian textile artist based near Oslo. She studied at the National College of Art and Design, Oslo 1979–83. She has held solo exhibitions at (a selection) Kunstnerforbundet, RAM galleri, Galleri F15, Akershus Kunstsenter, Hå Gamle Prestegaard, Trafo Kunsthall, Haugesund Billedgalleri and Soft galleri. Her works have frequently been showcased in jurried exhibitions such as Høstutstillingen and Østlandsutstillingen.

Of the many jurried international exhibitions she has contributed to, we mention ‘The Spring Exhibition’, Kunsthal Charlottenburg in Copenhagen, ‘Artapestry5’, ‘ITF 6th International Textile Exhibition’ in the Museum of Kyoto, the ‘4th Nordic Textile Triennial’, and exhibitions in China, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands. In 2020 she participated in ‘Take Your TIME’ at Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, ‘The New Normal’ at Galleri Dikemark, ‘Sunburnt Experiences’ at SOFT galleri, and the annual exhibition ‘Craft’ organised by the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.

Aalberg has created public art for Drammen Energi, Bærum Hospital’s chappel, the National Archive in Kongsberg, Haukeland Hospital in Bergen, Ålesund Hospital, the sports centre Skien fritidspark, Asker Municipality, Bærum Municipality, and the Church of Norway in Holmlia, Røyken, Vardåsen, and Helgerud. Her works have been purchased by Arts Council Norway, KODE in Bergen, Asker Municipality, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim, and Viking Ocean Cruises.

Parallel to her own practice, Aalberg has curated for Trafo Kunsthall and participated in committees working on behalf of artists. She is currently also an artistic project leader for KORO, an organisation which commissions, funds, and manages public art in Norway.

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Solveig Aalberg reads the world around her through an organization of colors, textures and repetitions. She explores serial expression through weaving and needlework and seeks a union between the tactility of the material and the free room of the thought. In her artwork, movement is a central theme often involving a study of repetition, mirroring and displacement. Aalberg works in a visuel language where the simple and the complex are independent while also actively using her main textile materials to create contrasts between the formal and clean. Her work is about putting together different textures and colors in such a way that they, along with the shapes and the compositions, hit a string– preferably a meditative string– in the person looking at the textile.

Aalberg works in a visuel language where the simple and the complex are independent while also actively using her main textile materials to create contrasts between the formal and clean. Her work is about putting together different textures and colors in such a way that they, along with the shapes and the compositions, hit a string– preferably a meditative string– in the person looking at the textile.