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Karen Disen

Karen Disen got her Diploma in 1985 from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Metal and Jewelry department.

Karen Disen is a jeweler and metal artist. She has been teaching drawing and composition at the Design dep. and Art and Craft dep. since 1987. Among her favorite subjects are rhythms, improvisation, ornaments and visual abstractions from imagination. She has given lectures at National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and directed by Norwegian Crafts.

Since “Jugend Gestaltet” in Munich in 1987 Karen has been internationally known and the same year she established her own studio. Her work is original, she has specialized in weaving and welding stainless steel thin as paper. The visual language, possibilities in techniques and the capability of the stainless steel fascinate and challenge. Amongst her early works, the container/basket like objects had lot of attention and she is represented at all three museums of applied art in Norway. When Karen works with jewelry the anatomy and the movement of the body and gravity is central to the designs. In 2014 the museum in Oslo and Trondheim purchased a bracelet and a broach.

Research results

  • Karen Disen: Estetikk (2026).
    Other presentation. More information
  • Karen Disen: Hva er vakker natur i by? (2025).
    Academic lecture. More information
  • Karen Disen: Tegne workshop, Latvia Academy of Arts, Riga. (2025).
    Other presentation. More information
  • Victoria Rowena Browne, Oliver Hambsch, Aleksandra Anna Janik, Tiril Schrøder, Erik Solheim & Dler Mariam Dalo: Perspektiv på trykk - Fagområde Grafikk og Tegning ved Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (2024).
    Visual Arts. More information
  • Victoria Rowena Browne, Karen Disen, Jan Stefan Pettersson, Erik Solheim, Tiril Schrøder & Bror Mikkelborg: Print Matters III (2022).
    Visual Arts. More information
  • Trine Wester, Tiril Schrøder & Karen Disen: Rapport fra Research Lab høst 2020 (2021).
    Other. More information
  • Tiril Schrøder, Jan Stefan Pettersson, Victoria Rowena Browne, Karen Disen, Bror Mikkelborg & Erik Solheim: Print Matters II (2020).
    Museum exhibition. More information
  • Frances Robertson, Edwin Pickstone, Philippa Lyon, Duncan Bullen, Jane Fox & Tiril Schrøder: Frances Robertson and Edwin Pickstone: Common Craft | Philippa Lyon, Duncan Bullen and Jane Fox: Touching the World Lightly (2019).
    Lecture. More information
  • Karen Disen: Circuit II (2019).
    Museum exhibition. More information
  • Karen Disen: Circuit I (2019).
    Museum exhibition. More information

More research results at cristin.no