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Tove Kommedal is a Stavanger-based artist who works with materials, including sculpture, installation, drawing and textile processes. She debuted at the Vestlandsutstillingen in 2004 and is a member of NBK, UKS, NBF and NBKR.
Her work explores vulnerability, community and cultural-historical layers, often through reused materials as carriers of time, traces and human activity. Kommedal's method is meditative and tactile, where repetition, presence and sensation form the basis for works that arise in the interaction between material, place and theme.
She has had solo exhibitions at KRAFT Bergen, Veksle viewing room Haugesund and Hå gamle prestegard (2025), and participated in a number of group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Høstutstillingen (2024), Nordisk Salong, Charlottenborg and Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition. She has received a number of grants and project grants, and has been invited to artistic interventions in public spaces, including Ballast (2018), Find Your Eyes #4 (USA) and Echo at Stavanger Art Museum (2014).
Notes that didn't come with it
stay at Velferden and participation in Departure / Landfill in 2023
dialogue with professor of geosciences at the University of Oslo, Helge Hellevang
conversations about research processes and knowledge production,
what happens along the way
unfinished formulations, intuitive connections, doubts, emotional reactions and ethical considerations in the face of climate, risk and long-term consequences
selection, structure and omissions.
informal and often invisible thought processes
climate anxiety, professional unrest and responsibility
structural experiences
slow, material-based practice
contemporary knowledge work
language, physical presence and
sensation
keep room open
not
cannot be streamlined or completed.
thinking
translating science into art
a private space for thought and contemplation,
framework for dialogue.