Kjersti Sundland is a visual artist working with a collaborative and research-based methodology. Her work often explores unusual sensory impressions and mental states that challenge the boundaries of what is defined as reality, fantasy, dream and waking state. Sundland is interested in how different mental states can open up new forms of thinking and reflection. The works are often based on historical archives and other research material, and made into different narratives through sound, video, sculpture, installation and performance. Sundland often works closely with visual artists, musicians, designers, and technicians. Music is central to her practice, where improvisation and interaction are important in realizing the different works.
Sundland holds a BA in Fine Art from Coventry University, and an MA in Fine Art from Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Kunsthall 3.14, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, TICA Centre for Contemporary Art, Tiran, Punkt Ø, UKS, Oslo, Trøndelag senter for Samtidskunst, Galleri Brandstrup, Artopia Gallery, Milano. Her videos and live video performances have been presented among others at PureScreen including Castlefield, Cork Film Center, B4 Play Video, Berlin, Netmage, Bologna, AudioVisiva, Milan and VideoLisboa, Lisboa.
Contact: kjersti.sundland(at)gmail.com
Solo exhibitions
2022 Concepts of O, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, curated by Jane Sverdrupsen
2020 Concepts of O, Kunsthall 3,14, curated by Malin Barth
2017 Human Chain Acting as a Radio Antenna, Tag Team Studio, Bergen, with Nora Adwan
2015 Conjoin – Follower, Bergen Kjøtt with Nora Adwan
2008 Time Code, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, curated by Alessandra Pioselli and Fabiola Naldi
2008 Rendering Video, TICA, Center for Contemporary Art, Tirana, curated by Alessandra Pioselli and Stefano Romano
2006 Monstrous Little Women, by Undersentralen. Barbara Hansen Gallery, Oslo, curated by Hjørdis Kurås
2005 Hollow Void Fictional time -laps Experiments, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo
2005 Habitat, Brandstrup gallery, Stavanger
2004 Habitat, Artopia Gallery, Milan, curated by Alessandra Pioselli
2003 A Dual of Giants, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo
2001 How To Give Your Pet your Personal Characteristics, Gallery Brandstrup, Oslo
2001 Days of the Living Dead. Gallery Brandstrup, Moss
2000 Little Boys Room, Atelier G9, Oslo
Group shows
2024 Den djupere tida, Husmannsplassen Stein, curated by Linn Cecilie Ulvin, Oslofjord Triennale 2024
2022 We Meet at Dusk, Hordaland Kunstsenter, curated by Daniela Ramos Arias and Scott Elliot
2021 Fremtidens Levninger, Public Art Project, Deichman Grünerløkka, Sofienbergparken, website fremtidenslevninger.no
2019 Hyperobjects, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, California. Featuring the Artwork of the UC Berkeley Art Faculty and Staff. Curated by Eamon O´Kane and Scott Rettberg
2014 Enduring Portrait, Hansevideoworks, Lûbeck
2014 Conjoin – Autumn Nights, Kalfarlien 18, curated by Nora Adwan.
2013 Looking Backwards – Recording Now, Hå Gamle Prestegård, with Torunn Skjelland
2013 Monday Begins Online, curated by Ytter
2012 The Ritual of Walking in a Circle, with Ellen Røed and Anne Marthe Dyvi. Ephemeral Sustainability, curated by Bergen Center for Electronic Art
2011 Looking backward, Recording now, Kathrineholm Kunsthall, Sweden. Curated by Truls Olin
2009 Two-point perspective, m Unn Fahlstrøm, Jennestad gallery, Vesterålen
2000-2009 Norske Bilder, Oslo town hall, Oslo
2007 Luft, Punkt OE/Galleri F 15, curated by Siv Hofsvang
2006 Videopassages, Care of gallery, Milano, curated by Alessandra Pioselli
2006 Women in Revolt. Palazzo d’Accursio,Bologna, with Shirin Neshat, Gioavanna Ricotta, Ottonella Moccelin, curated by Fabiola Naldi
2006 Videopassages, Via Torino, Milano, curated by Alessandra Pioselli
2006 Kjæledyr i kunsten,Sandnes Kunstforening, Sandnes
2006 ARTCPH, Artfair, Cobenhagen, repr. by gallery Brandstrup
2005 New Territories, Arco Artfair, Madrid, represented by Gallery Brandstrup
2003 Class of 2003, represented by Gallery Brandstrup, Vestfossen kunstlaboratorium
Live acts/performances
2023 Quantum Society by Sara Gebran, Radio Multe, radio performance with Gebran, Karen Werner, Sidsel Christensen
2022 Ethereal Ocean, performance lecture, DATES (with) Art, Politic and History 1913. Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, UIB
2022 We Meet at Dusk, broadcasting from a boat at dusk, Radio Multe, with Sidsel Christensen and Karen Werner. Part of the exhibition, We Meet at Dusk, Hordaland Kunstsenter
2018 La Borde Grenseløse Navn. Performance and installation. Synsmaskinen, by Frans Jacobi, Benedicte Clementsen, Ole Christian Ellestad, Kjersti Sundland, Volve Vokal. Artistic Research, Fall Forum, Aula KMD.
2018 Beneath a Somber Surface. Hypnosis Sessions, Martin Mikkelsen, Ole Christian Ellestad, Hyperobjects,Joy Forum, KMD.
2014 Tonight, Synsmaskinen, Group performance by Frans Jacobi, live video performance by Undersentralen, Rom8, Bergen.
2013 Glipe / Scotomata, live video performance by Undersentralen, Sound Of Mu, Oslo
2013 Overlege Danielssens Rapport, Projection on Nygårdsbroen, Bergen, by artist group Doppler
2012 Scotomata, video performance by Undersentralen feat Mari Kvien Brunvoll, On the Edge of Wrong, Kristiansand
2012 Cabinet of imploding Branches, Doppler, C. Sundtsgate 55, Kulturnatt Bergen
2011 Glipe Håkonshallen 750 years. Outdoor projections curated by Bergen Centre of Electronic Arts
2011 Enduring Portrait, “Bek presents digital works /Borggården”, USF Verftet, Bergen
2010 Glipe, live video event by Sundland & Bang–Steinsvik, Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo
2010 Monstrous Little Women, live video event by Undersentralen, Black Cube, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst
2008 Enduring Portrait, public installation, AudioVisiva, Milan, curator Esterni
2007 Monstrous Little Women, Undersentralen, live video, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall, The Vj picks the DJ
2007 Monstrous Litte Women, live video performance by Undresentralen, Netmage Live Media Festival, Bologna
2006 Monstrous Little Women, live video event by Undersentralen, Young Artist Society (UKS), Oslo
2005 B4 Play Video,Art Center, Friedrichstr. Berlin, curated by Barbara Blickensdorf
2005 VideoLisboa05, Lisboa
2005 Peripheral Visions, Cork Film Centre, Cork, Ireland. Curated by Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey
2005 A Haunting, PureScreen, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2004 Momentum, Nordic festival of contemporary art, Gallery Henrik Gerner
2004 Wiz Bang, Harvestworks, NY, curated by Meg Shiffler
2004 Wiz Bang, CPA Gallery, Buffalo, curated by Meg Shiffler
2003 Zencill, Collbato, Barcelona, curated by Anne Britt Rage
2003 Nordiclive. ID Gallery, Stockholm
2003 Meeting place, curated by Truls Olin and Anna Roos. Blå Stället Culture Centre, Gothenburg, Rogaland Art Centre, Stavanger, The Cable Factor, Helsinki Former Printing House, Vilnius. The Museum Of Foreign Art, Riga Rotermanni Salt storage, Exhibition Hall, Tallinn, Art Hall, Södertälje
2002 Hear the art, Exnergasse Kunsthalle, Vienna, curated by Uwe Bressnik,
2001 Days of the Living Dead. Gallery Brandstrup, Moss
2001 MUTU , Gallery 21:26,with Hjørdis Kuraas, Helle Storvik, Oslo
2001 Desire and pursuit of the whole, Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg. Curated by Christopher Gordon
1999 Articultural show, Southbank, London, curated by Gavin Turk,
Presentations and lectures
2020 Artist talk, Kunsthall 3,14 med Eamon O`kane og Paal Rasmussen
2019 To the thinker who is not the gardener. Performance lecture, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
2918 Mors Tunge/Mother Tongue, performance lecture with Ole Christian Ellestad. Part of Synsmaskien, an artistic research project led by Frans Jacobi. Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, UIB
2017 Tertium Quid– White Crow. Public lecture, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, UIB
2016 Artist x Artist= ART2. Seminar on artist collaboration. Rom8, Bergen Academy of Art and Design
2014 Doppler Presents, Caminata Nocturna. In Conversation with artist Karl Ingar Røys.
2013 Doppler presents Public, in conversation with Tania Ruiz Guiterrez, Tag Team, Bergen.
2013 Artist talk, Looking Backwards-Recording Now, Hå Gamle Prestegård.
2011 Artist Talk, Visp Produksjonsenhet for visuell Kunst, Bergen.
2007 Artist Talk, Time Code, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna. In conversation with curators of the exhibition Alessandra Pioselli and Fabiola Naldi.
Residencies and related
2017 Kontajner, Zagreb. FutureDiversity Lab.
2017 – Kunstkvarteret, Lofoten,Norway.
Bibliography
I morgentåkedalen, Kristoffer Jul-Larsen,Kunstkritikk, 2022
Forskjøvet verdensbilde med storslåtte estetiske opplevelser, Marie Skjetting, Contemporary Art Stavanger, 2022
Magnetismens dunkleste avkroker, Trond Borgen, Stavanger Aftenblad, 2022
Kunsten å se gjennom kunsten, Trond Borgen, Stavanger Aftenblad, 7th March, 2013
Quicksilver daydreams, artist book, published by Marguerite Waknine Editions, France, 2011
Beautiful Theory killed by ugly facts, Artist Book, Undersentralen press 2009
Al Mambo si fa spazio al video con Time Code, Irene Bisi, Il Domani di Bologna, 15th nov.2007
Tempo snaturato, virtuale, Federica Mingarelli, Il Bologna, 15th nov. 2007
Time Code, I´elaborazione digitale dell`invecchiamento, Valerio Deho, corriere di Bologna 15th nov. 2007
Monsterkvinner til Italia, Kari Fauskanger, Bergens Tidene 2007
Resoconto, Netmage 07, exibart.com
Ravende gale kvinner og fornuftige menn, Ylva Halfen, Argument vol 1, 2006
Skrekkens kvinner, Børre Haugstad, VG, 2006
Helvetes kvinnfolk, Aksel Skjær Vidnes, Aftenposten, 2006
Heller film en maleri, Børre Haugstad, VG 2005
Natur i bur, Line Ulekleiv, kunstkritikk.no, 2005
Melankolsk og fremmedgjort, Trond Borgen, Stavanger Aftenblad, 2005
Habitat, Saramicol Viscardi, Exibart on paper 19, 2005
I need to know what’s going on, Alessandra Pioselli , Catalogue essay, solo exhibition, Artopia gallery, Milan 2004
Cultural mutations, Rune Olsen ,Odd Magazine, Vol 1, 2004
Det kvinnelige blikk, Liz Buer Dagens Næringsliv, 2004
Intet hørt, intet sett, Utflukt magazin, vol 3, 2004
Collections
Volda University College,
Volda, TV2, Oslo,
Gosen Skole, Stavanger
Refsnes Gods, Moss
The Norwegian Royal Family
Norwegian Cultural Council,
Jaguar Motors, Coventry
Coventry University