10lw Shells, Kirsten Wagle/Astrid Lovaas, linen & cotton, 4" x 14.5" x 9.75", 1986, $4,200
3lw Order, Kirsten Wagle/Astrid Lovaas, paint, wood, nylon stockings, 13.25" x 14.25"; 34cm x 36cm, 1999, $1,200
4lw Winter, Fornebu, Kirsten Wagle/Astrid Lovaas, rainware, nylon stockings, 45" x 45"; 115cm x 115cm, 1999, $5,200
Selected collections and exhibition venues:
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway (solo exhibition; permanent collection); 4th Nordic Textile Triennial; Museum of Applied Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Art and Industry, Bergen, Norway (The West Coast and solo exhibition); Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; Textile Musuem, Tilburg, the Netherlands (Flexible I); Szombathely, Hungary (6th International Biennial of Miniature Textiles); Malmø, Sweden (Nordic Forms); Bergen, Norway (Kryss-Crossing Borders); Norwegian National Opera, Oslo (facade project); Tournai, Belgium (International Textile Triennial); North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (A Scandinavian Sensibility); National Museum, Oslo, Norway (Design and Craft, 1905-2005); Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (Nordic Cool, Hot Women Designers). Recipient: Annual Grants, Norwegian Government – since 1997.
Statement:
Our work is based on total cooperation. There are many strong precedents for such artistic collaboration; the French architect Le Corbusier, for example, worked with his cousin for a period of time. He said: “Two people who understand each other can do as much as five people on their own".
Kirsten Wagle/Astrid Lovaas
