About
Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg was born in 1984 in Tromsø, where he lives and works.
Grundvåg is educated from the Academy of Arts in Tromsø and is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at UMAK, Tromsø and KMD, Bergen.
Through various sculptural techniques and process-based projects, Grundvåg explores a non-human architecture.
Material experimentation, bio-mimetics and traditional knowledge are included as elements in the practice, with the coastal landscape of Northern Norway as a frame of reference.
kaare.grundvaag@gmail.com
CV
Education
2023 - Ph.d. artistic research, UiT and UIB.
2010 - 2015 BA and MA in fine art, Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, UiT.
Exhibitions
2024
(upcoming) Hosting lands, Ebeltoft, Danmark
2023
(upcoming) DNB Stipendustilling, Oslo Kunstforening
I … Seagulls, Tromsø Kunstforening
Lecture, Snow Moon, Bioregion Institute, Bergen
2022
Dilemma, Nordover, Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Lecture, Symposium LAND, FUNGI, ROTTENNESS, AND THE FUTURE OF SOILS, NOBA, Ås
2021
Solo exhibition, Grunnarbeid, curator: Arne Skaug Olsen, Entrée, Bergen, Norway
Are We Human, Galleri Format, Oslo
Lecture, Planet Matters, Vienna biennale/Kunsthalle Wien
The Ocean, Bergen Kunsthall
Hildring, Tromsø Kunstforening
Filmscreening, Get Wet, Vienna biennale/Kunsthalle Wien
Public work, Wave, Tromsøbadet, Tromsø.
Gruppeutstilling, Stimuli I, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum
2020
Solo exhibition, Earthworks, Kurant, Tromsø
Creating New Practices of Sustainability - Cross Sectorial Creativity in the Era of Climate Change, organisert av Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2019
Autumn Exhibition, Oslo
Kelp Conference, LIAF, curator: Annette Wolfsberger, Svolvær
LIAF, curatorer: Hilde Methi, Neal Cahoon, Karolin Tampere og Toril Østby Haaland, Svolvær
TANG, Barents Spektakel, host: Pikene på Broen, Kurator Ingrid Valan, Kirkenes
Meat the Future - A.K.T Pforzheim, curator: Janusz Czech, Pforzheim, Tyskland
2018
Institutt for Natur og Kunst, Festspillene i Nord Norge, Galleri Nord Norge, curator: Hanne Hammer Stien, Harstad
Stone age sci-fi, Performance lecture, Arctic Art Forum, kurator: Mei Szetu, Arkhangelsk, Russia.
2017
Algal Bloom, Exhibition at Træna Museum, curator: Marit Bertheussen, Træna
Algal Jam at European Everything - Performance v/Devils Apron in Joar Nango´s work at
Documenta 14. Kassel, Germany
AiR Barents Video Program, Media Center Vykhod, v/Devils Apron. curator: Cornelius Stiefenhofer og Sergey Terentev. Petrozavodsk, Russia
Filmscreening «Echo of Delai Film», Word Order, St. Petersburg
Devil´s Apron, Skippergata 12B, Temporal exhibition site during TIFF, Tromsø
AiR Barents video program, Center for Contemporary Art in Arkhangelsk, Russia
4th International Activist Documentary Festival ‘Delai Film’, v/Devils Apron,
curator: Nadia Degtyareva. Moscow, Russia
Strange Love International Time Based Arts Festival, v/Devils Apron, curator: Terry Smith & David Gryn. Folkestone, England
2016
Young Arctic Artist - Galleri Napa, v/Devils Apron, curator: Pilvi Keto-LeBlanc. Rovaniemi, Finland
Grants
2022
Home residence, SNN Samfunnsløftet.
Working grant, SKS.
2021
Working grant, SKS.
Prosjekt support, Arts Council Norway.
Prosjekt support, Bergen municipality
Home residence, SNN Samfunnsløftet.
Travel support Tromsø og Finnmark county.
2020
Working grant, NBK.
2019
Prosjekt support, NBK.
2018
Working grant young artist, SKS.
Project support, NBK.
2017
Travel support, Troms county/ AIR Barents
Project support, Nordnorsk kunstnersenter (NNKS)
Grant for newly educated artist, SKS.
Project support, NBK
Project support, Sparebankstiftelsen
2011 - 2016 Board member, Tromsø Kunstforening.
2011 - 2014 Board member, Kurant Visningsrom.
2019 - 2021 Board member, KIT (Kunstnerne i Tromsø)
2019 - 2021 Board member, Kurant Visningsrom.
2019 - 2023 deputy council representant, Kunstnernes hus council, appointed by UKS.
2020 - 2024 Board member, NNKS. (Leader of the board from 2022)
2020 - 2024 Deputy board member, Faculty board, UMAK, UIT.