Kristoffer Martensen
Ali series , 2021
Works & Productions
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Ali series , 2021
What's left , 2021
an old dyke in the flesh who is an emblem for the rest/Tissue , 2025/2024
Metal, leather, wool, viscose, PVC vinyl, denim, fake leather, workwear nylon, teddy faux fur, raincoat PVC, flannel, /Hand dyed viscose, quilt batting, polypropylene rope, grommets, carabiners
The little things , 2025
Suspended installation with woven coil sculptures made from upcycled fabrics and yarn
Group of Cool S , 2024
Hand-cut porcelain tiles in the shape of a ‘cool S’ (S found on a concrete wall in Bergen) moulded in-situ on local manhole covers located between the Art Academy and Festplassen and self-glazed with talc from the moulding process along with local clay, dirt and stones directly transferred from the manhole covers
Vårnatt VIII, Vårnatt I-V og Vårnatt VI-VII , 2024
Love Letter Series (Tiny Tears; Flying Monkeys; Lion's Den; It feels ages ago already; The Ostrich; just a piece of meat; I'm tired of picking up your slack; Gregarious nature; wolves in sheep's skin; I've got to find her; Mother've love after Saturn's feast of babies; El diablo en el ojo , 2024
A meadow in the sky / Sunrocks / It’s not a stage , 2023
Textiles, Mixed media, Installation
Embodiment , 2024
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The Grave Project (in collaboration with Jess Miley) , 2021
The Yes Weekend , 2021
Touch tank , 2025
Installation with hand-built ceramic sculpture, glass aquarium, lab-grown and wild algae, aquarium stones, grow light, water, aquatic plant fertilizer
Mother, land and Motherland , 2021
HEAVEN AND HELL IN ROOTS THEY ARE LONG , 2024
You know this isn't going to end well because every time I feel good, I think it's going to last forever / Call something into existence , 2023
Installation
A line with a mind of its own , 2024-2025
Veggmaleri, monotrykk på bomull, koldnålstrykk, silketrykk og monotrykk på papir, lasergraverte kryssfinerrammer
Soaker , 2024
Landing , 2024
The Sky is the Most Beautiful at Week Eleven, fragment 1–3, 2025 , 2025
Sculpture with sound, manganese slag glaze on raku crank and mixed clay, Performative reading
Lodd (Skjule og beskytte; Søvnens lekkasjer; Anima mundi; Anamnesis; Hvile) , 2024-2025
Dye and discharge on cotton
Leaning, bracing , 2021
Psykisk syge æg (Mental Eggs) / Omsorg og Begær (Care and Lust) / Spor efter en situation med en blæksprutte I & II (Traces of a situation with an octopus I & II) , 2023
Video, Installation
Becoming Different With Every Repetition , 2022
Visual Arts, Sculpture, Weaving, Textiles
Jevndøgn , 2025
Handwoven digital damask composed of silk, wool, cotton, alchemilla (from Sandviken, Bergen), common reed (from Tvedestrand and Nesodden), toninia lichen (from an islet outside Tvedestrand), dyers weld (from the Isle of Wight, UK), walnut (from Vienna)
ANIMALS , 2021
The Bjerknes Experiment , 2021
Our roots , 2024
Touched by Air , 2021
shoulders, genderfucked sweat & a fairy's tail og We Do This'Til We Free Us , 2024
Victory/Forever rain/A little blink/The flash/Resillience/Nkezuura (I traced my way) , 2023-2025
Dye, paint, and discharge on viscose, Silk, Cotton
To Dance Simultaneously - Everything Hangs by a Thin Thread og Expensive Habits - In Contract with Yourself , 2024
how we scare each other into hate , 2021
Structures of Support / Mallea- ble Bodies / Leaning Exercise 2-4 , 2022
Performance, Textiles
The Clearing , 2021
The Water Ensemble / Cover Me From Head To Toe Copper and silk , 2022
Installation, Sculpture, Painting
Rest is History & History is Now (Performance) , 2024
Welcome / Growing together / We have nothing to hide / Untitled (360 Rocking Horse) , 2023
Plywood, Wood, Metal
night ride, castle with moat, after 8, stones and sticks, habits/night ride/castle with moat/after 8/stones and sticks , 2025
Mixed media, Oil, acrylic, egg tempera, oil stick and solid marker on canvas.
Untamable , 2025
Metal barrel, iron particles, 1979 cigarette butts, surgical tools, clay, performance at opening reception with music by Ryan Nejatian
Where have all the flowers gone Young girls have picked them everyone , 2022
Installation, Textiles
Dacia Thong Jewelery , 2024
Get down on it - Joy and pain , 2021
An Installation of paintings: My Body is Not Here With Me, Lone Star, Shy but Curious, Use to be red, Into the Substrate, Deep Crypt Affection, Transmission Lines and Porcelain Beads , 2022
Installation, Painting
Either / Or , 2021
Forgive me on a Friday , 2024
The Slow Decay of Wood , 2024 – ongoing
Seven logs of spruce inoculated on 03.07.24 with mycelium from five species of wood-decay fungi (Trametes versicolor, Gloeophyllum trabeum, Fomitopsis pinicola, Armillaria gallica, Armillaria borealis), steel, acrylic glass, concrete, ratchet straps, wire, hygrometer
Memory knot , 2024
Manual Machine/Goodbye Ulriken/Welcome to Heavenly Kingdom , 2025
Performing flag (digital print on textile)/Interactive sculpture in silicone and metal/Goodbye Ulriken, 2025/Free merchandise (digitally printed postcard), wood, silicone
Uten tittel , 2025
BPM , 2024
Anatomy of Restlessness , 2021
Vernissage , 2024
Dwelling Place & The Studio , 2024
Echo Lilium & Echomorphia , 2024
Det som var rett, er nå foldet over. Brettene skal knake. Hender skjelver, sort under neglene , 2023
Print, Textiles
Flower Moon, Green Shadow, Hot Pocket og Morning After , 2024
love, lust & coincidence (for those without the words) og barrier , 2024
Intill erinring , 2024
Perfect state/Twenty-nine folded textiles , 2025/2023-2025
Concrete (B20), iron, tar/, Re-worked textiles with cod liver oil and tar, two-year process in the outdoor studio. First aid kits.
Eb-moll/Miradouro/...og ut av tynn olja steig ei eldgammal ånd , 2024-2025
Oil on huntonit
Untitled from the project Metamorphosis , 2021
Ticklings/Witnessing a yawn or sexual activity , 2025
performance, Wall, potatoes, disco sausage
You just pretend to be human , 2021
In the corner of my eye , 2024
The Darkness and Deep , 2021
Overgivelsen , 2021
You Are My Northern Lights / It’s not a stage (collab) , 2023
Performance, Installation, Video
ARBEJD-S-TITEL , 2021
The Vessel , 2024
My Lies are Crawling on the Floor , 2024
big move , 2024
FIRST FLUSH (Homage Günther Förg + Barnett Newman + Agnes Martin + Sol Lewitte + Sean Scully + Helen Frankenthaler (Yves Klein + Hilma af Klint) , 2023
Mixed media
Tractatus in Motion , 2024
I never knew how to write , 2024
I carry my mother, her influences and their mothers’ / Stack of Chinas , 2023
Porcelain, Installation, Sculpture
Improvise, adapt, overcome , 2021
Om jag går riktigt långsamt känner jag min själ , 2021
In Memory of Paradise , 2024
FOURTH WALL / SHADOWMIRROR , 2021
The Vampy Villains / Handwoven digital jacquards /Q4R3C0R<3 / Title: It’s not a stage , 2023
Performance, Textiles, Weaving
Interstitium , 2025
Objects from Bergen Kunsthall storage (folding patio chairs and tables, cases of toilet paper, cases of paper towels, plastic bags containing clothes/fabric, wooden crates, lamp, sandwich boards, soap dispensers, outdoor mat, cardboard boxes and tubes, rubber carpet and other objects), plastic drop
Practicing life , 2021
Once and Once Again , 2024
Night Walk , 2021
All my girls Come back to me! , 2024
Encyclopedia of life forms and other phenomena in the Internet , 2021
Mellanvärld , 2021
Når viltet er skutt (When the game is shot) , 2023-2025
Digital inkjet prints from 120 mm scanned negatives
Palm trees in the snow , 2024
Det ulmer under overflaten (It Smolders Beneath the Surface) , 2024
Unforeseen Changes Unforeseen Changes II , 2021