Marte Eknæs
Research Fellow at the Art and Craft department
Marte Eknæs’ practice is largely context based or situation specific. She employs a wide range of materials and mediums including found and fabricated sculptural elements, digital collages, text, video and drawing. She also often works collaboratively with other artists and in cross-disciplinary constellations.
She studied at the Environmental Art Department of Glasgow School of Art and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia for her BFA, and received an MFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.
Selected exhibitions include Kunsthall Oslo; Between Bridges, London; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo; What Pipeline and Susanne Hilberry, Detroit; Trondheim Kunstmuseum; Munchmuseum on the Move, Oslo (with Nicolau Verguiro); Kunsthall Stavanger and Efremidis, Berlin. Her video collaborations with Michael Amstad have been screened at UKS, Oslo; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Volksbühne, Berlin and The Kitchen, New York.
Research project: Active Forms: The Artwork and its InfrastructuresResearch results
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Marte Eknæs:
Active Forms: The Artwork and its Infrastructures
(2025).
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Marte Eknæs & Nikola Dietrich:
Insides
(2024).
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Marte Eknæs, Michael Amstad & Nicolau Vergueiro:
Infra
(2024).
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Marte Eknæs, Michael Amstad, Nicolau Vergueiro & Ciara Phillips:
Circulation Realm
(2023).
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Marte Eknæs & Nicolau Vergueiro:
Punish
(2023).
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Marte Eknæs, Michael Amstad & Agnar Gundersen:
Marte Eknæs forteller om Vekselvirkning
(2023).
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Marius Moldvær, Camilla Løw, Cecilie Sachs Olsen, Siri Breistein, Ellen Marie Fodstad & Marte Eknæs:
Kunst som utviklingskraft del 1: Hvordan spille på lag med kunstnerne
(2023).
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Marte Eknæs & Michael Amstad:
Temperature
(2022).
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Marte Eknæs:
Vekselvirkning
(2022).
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Marte Eknæs:
Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment
(2021).
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