Floating in Form and Time
Inghild transfers elements from one dimension to another, from form and time into a new dimension and a new concept in the future decade. A small everyday element becomes a sculpture in a public park or an installation incorporated into a theatre performance. Each new project reflects earlier work, recorded in the memory, and floating into new dimensions when reinvented.
Memory and recollection are crucial. Impressions are perpetuated by photos, captured on videotape, or expressed through spatial figures. Figures that are transformations of chosen, registered objects collected on journeys, including fragments of earlier works, remind us of them now. Put into a new context, they all become part of a new expression.
Albino Dog
1979 – 2025
Normoria
Guarding the entrance of Normoria Culture House
Kristiansund, Norway
2025
Leftovers
Exhibition about consumption and reuse.
Berg – Kragerø Museum
Kragerø, Norway
2008
Albino Dog Outdoor Sculpture
Outside hill at Nord University
Levanger, Norway
2002
Albino Dog Miniature
Bergen Festival Exhibition Kiosk by the center lake
Bergen, Norway
1999
Acquisition
The National Museum
Oslo, Norway
1999
Albino Miniture Dogs in Kiosk
Norwegian Profiles at Museum Volkswang in Essen and
Gast auf Zollverein, Kunsthalle
Essen and Rostock, Germany
1997 – 1998
Albino Dogs
3e Symposium of visual arts, Painted dogs, permanent work. Parc Rotary Harricana,
Amos, Canada
1997
Breathing Balloon
1998 – 2024
Earthworks — Breathing Balloon
Earthworks Group Exhibition
Expressing the role of art in the history of ecological resistance movements in the Nordic countries. Bergen Kunsthall (Art Hall)
Earlier Bergen Art Society
Bergen, Norway
2024
Namadis — Breathing Balloon
Bergen Kunsthall
Bergen, Norway
1988
Red Eyed Dog
1995 – 2023
Almost Grown Up
Jubilee Group Exhibition at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium (Art Laboratorium) turning 20 years.
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
Buskerud, Norway
May 6 – Sep 24, 2023
The Red Eyed Dogs
The Cotton Factory (Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall) Art Hall
Arendal, Norway
Oct 30, 2021 – May 15, 2022
K.U.K. Killi Olsen and Friends
Group exhibition
Trondheim, Norway
Sep 17 – Oct 30, 2022
I’m Multitude
Festival Exhibition at Festspillene i Nordnorge (Arctic Arts Festival) 2021
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (Northern Norwegian Art Museum)
Harstad, Norway
Jun 19 – Jul 25, 2021
Nachspiel / Vorspiel (After party / Pre party)
Vestfossen Art Laboratory
Vestfossen, Norway
May 2 – Oct 4, 2009
Music Festival Artist
Bødø Art Association (Kunstforening)
Bodø, Norway
Photo: Tom Melby
2009
Hamsun’s Fever
Theatre production by Hålogaland Theatre
Tromsø, Norway
May 7 – 30, 2009
The Caravan
1994 – 2023
A thrilling experience for a young mind
A Group Exhibition at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Henie Onstad Art Center)
Høvikodden, Norway
Curated by Elise Storsveen
Jun 19 – Nov 12, 2023
Outdoor-Indoor Interview
Outdoor/Indoor: a conversation with the artist Inghild Karlsen
2022
The Caravan
Arkipel, The Museum of Contemporary Art
Oslo, Norway
1995
Outdoor Indoor/São Paulo Biennial
Installation outside 22nd International São Paulo Biennale, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil
Oct 12 – Dec 11, 1994
Janus
2001 – 2023
Followers and Persecutors
Galleri Blaker, Skanse
Lillestrøm, Norway
Apr 15 – May 17, 2023
Janus
In the park at Bærums Verk, west of Oslo
Bærum, Norway
2013
Janus
Outside Kirkenes Police Station
Kirkenes, Norway
Photo:
2001
Else
1994 – 2023
Else
Reconstruction of the stockfish wooden frames mounted in 2005 outside Tromsø. The installation was ruined by a storm January 2022
Tromsø, Norway
2023
Outdoor/Indoor
Installation at Jaroslav Fragner Gallery
Prague, Chech Republic
Photo: Jiri Havran
2016
Else Stockfish Drying Rack Installation
Construction of the stockfish wooden frames outside Tromsø. Inaugurated by Queen Sonja of Norway, related to the 200-year celebration of Tromsø city.
Tromsø, Norway
2005
Outdoor Indoor/São Paulo Biennial
Installation outside 22nd International São Paulo Biennale, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil
Oct 12 – Dec 11, 1994
Winter Olympics in Lillehammer 1994
The funding was ceased and therefore the project had to be cancelled.
1994
Else/The Polygonal Journey
Art installation and visual performance, including Danish and Japanese partners. The Nothern Light Planetarium
Tromsø, Norway
1990
Troll Crabs
2000 – 2022
The Cross/X – Krysset/X
Retrospective installasjoner from 1979-2021.
Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall (The Cotton Factory Art Hall)
Arendal, Norway
Oct 30, 2021 – Jan 30, 2022
Troll Crabs
K.U.K, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst ( Kjøpmann’s Str. Young Art)
Trondheim, Norway
Sep 17 – Oct 30, 2022
On or In the Ocean
The Sami Center for Contemporary Art
Karasjok, Norway
Photo: Anita Bjørnback
Jul 2 – Sep 5, 2021
Epoch of the Crab
The “Barent’s Spektakkel” is a cultural and political festival with contemporary art and music.
Kirkenes, Norway
Feb 12-16, 2020
Earth Balloon
1988 – 2016
The Earth Balloon Acquisition
Sculpture, felted wool, welded plastic. 3,60mtr (11.81 feet) in diametre. Lifts up during exhibition hours.
At Fine Art Collection, Nasjonalmuseet (The National Museum of Art)
Oslo, Norway
Photo: Annar Bjørgli
2016
Silent Revolt
Norwegian Process Art and Conceptual Art in the 70’s and 80’s Norway. The Museum of Contemporary Art
Oslo, Norway
Mar 4 – Sep 18, 2016
Earth Balloon
Arctic Art Festival
Felted wool Breathing Balloon was rowed out onto the fjord in a small rowing boat in what was almost a National Romantic staging.
Harstad, Norway
1989
Namadis
Produced by Bergen Art Association and Bergen Internasjonal Theater Festival
Bergen, Norway
Aug 31 – Sep 13, 1988
Earth Balloon
First Exhibition at National Museum of Art
Oslo, Norway
1988
Reflex
1982 – 2012
Catch the Moment — Reflex
The Art Bank/ Hedemark Art Center
Hamar, Norway
Sep 8 – Oct 28, 2012
Catch Eyes
Video, Performance, Exhibition. Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China
Apr 12 – May 12, 2008
Sen Reflex
Reflex Room, Video, performance. Ongoing project.
2008
In the Woods
Performance in the woods in the outskirts of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
2007
7 tilfeldige fra Bergen—Reflex Room
Video Performance
Touring Exhibition: Bergen, Oslo, Kristiansand, Trondheim, Norway
1982
Metro
1984 – 2021
Metro Man
Retrospective art work 1979-2021
Cotton Factory Art Hall
Arendal, Norway
Photo: Lilly Bjørk
Oct 30, 2021 – Oct 30, 2022
Metro in Seal Fur
Retrospective art work 1979-2021
Cotton Factory Art Hall
Arendal, Norway
Photo: Fanny Sara Godli
Oct 30, 2021 – Oct 30, 2022
Mearas, On or In the Ocean
The Sami Center for Contemporary Art
Karasjok, Norway
Photo: Kristoffer Dolmen
Jul 2 – Sep 5, 2021
Metro
Sculpture in a Park in Karasjokk
Karasjokk, Norway
2021
Metro/Aero
Inspiration from NYC Underground and from the air over the buildings.
Kunsthallen/Brands Klëdefabrik
Odense, Denmark
1987
Metro
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Berlin, Germany
1986
Metro
Kirkenes Art Association
Kirkenes, Norway
1985
Metro
Group Exhibition, Clocktower
New York, USA
1985
Metro
Working on the Metro figure that started in NYC 1984
Part of MoMA PS1’s studio program
New York, USA
Photo Paul Paiewonsky
1984
Scarecrow
1979 – 2022
Scarecrow Sculpture and Photos
Acquired by The Art Silo, former Art Museum of Southern Norway (SKMU)
Odderøya, Kristiansand, Norway
2022
Scarecrow
Retrospective art work 1979-2021
Cotton Factory Art Hall
Arendal, Norway
Oct 30, 2021 – Oct 30, 2022
Scarecrow Photos Acquistion
Photo Installation and Acquisition of inkjet photos
The National Museum of Contemporary Art
Oslo, Norway
2016
Glass Scarecrow
Included in an installation with a 8mm film Henie Onstad Art Center
Høvikodden, Norway
1984
Scarecrow Installation
15 scarecrows installed at Ynstadholmen
Mandal, Norway
1983
Scarecrow
A Group Exhibition at The Henie Onstad Art Center
Høvikodden, Norway
Photo: Leah Modigliani
1980
Scarecrow, Textile & Sculptures
Solo exhibition at the Young Artists’ Association (UKS)
Oslo, Norway
1979
Scarecrows
Print on Silk 285 x 340 mm
Northern Norwegian Art Museum
Tromsø, Norway
1979