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ABOUT KARIN KENT

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Karin Kent

b. 1969, Fredrikstad, Norway

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Loneliness and melancholy, shame and guilt, vulnerability, and a sensitivity to life. I`m using a simple and clear idiom to identify some of these primary, basic feelings. Most of my work has sadness, vulnerability and agony in them. Sometimes I do get surprised and this seems to interest me.

A vulnerability among people and a vulnerability found in nature. A closer look at how fragile everything can be.
I examine the weight of absence,the tension of unspoken words, and the quiet space where expectations linger.

My work is an intimate reflection on what is hidden, what is lost, and what remains. A poetic meditation on emptiness as both void and presence.

 

 

Karin is a trained goldsmith and has worked in metal since 2013. She has participated in several international exhibitions in Russia, China and Germany and had a working stay (AiR) in Berlin. Membership in Norwegian Association for Craft Artists, Precious Collective and Sirius Artists Union. Karin Kent has a studio at Østfold Artsenter, Fredrikstad. Norway

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Karin also has a design line of precious jewelery for everyday use. Common to all her jewelry designs is a classic, pure and timeless elegance. They are rough and soft, at the same time, with beautiful stones such as diamonds and sapphires complementing the gold.

Most of the jewelery is cast in sand to achieve the expression Karin wants. All jewelery is handmade in the studio in Fredrikstad, Norway by Karin herself.

ARTIST BIO

KARIN KENT

b. 1969


Exhibitions:

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2025  Munich Jewellery Week, “Fertile Ground   

         Exhibition” Donner Gallery, 

         Munich Germany, March 2025

 

2025  Winter Exhibition, Østfold Bildende kunstnere, 

         Halden, Norway, (Feb.2025)

 

2021  DBC, Shape of Nature 2021, Beijing Fashion Week.          Beijing, China

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2020 9 March Project, Solyanka gallery. Moscow,Russia              (March-June Exhibition 2020)

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2020  9 March Project, Exhibition Center of St.Petersburg          Artist Union.

         St.Petersburg, Russia. (Nov. 2020)

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2020  9 March Project, Dom Bonner Gallery. Perm, Russia.          Group ex.(Sept.2020)

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2020 9 March Project, Chelyabinsk Museum of Arts           

         Chelyabinsk, Russia. (Oct. 2020)

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2019  Exhibition NOD, Not only decoration, Villa  

          Bengel, Idar-Oberstein Germany.   

           (Jun-Oct. 2019)   

 

2018 Jazz i Kunsten, Småbruksgalleriet, Sarpsborg, Norway

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2017 Hydrogenfabrikken Kunsthall, Fredrikstad, Norway

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2017 Røed Gård kunstsenter, Moss, Norway

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2015 Hydrogenfabrikken Kunsthall, Fredrikstad, Norway



Member : Norwegian Association for Craft Artists

                 Sirius Kunstnerunion, Fredrikstad 

                 PreciousCollective.Com

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Education:

 

2019 3 months AIR,  AA Collected, Berlin, Germany

2010/12 Goldsmith degree, Plus-skolen, Fredrikstad, Norway

2019 Workshop, Elisabeth Mathisen, Norway

2018  Workshop, Peter Bauhauis, Munchen, Germany

2018 Workshop, Jörg Obergfell, Idar-Oberstein, Germany

2018  Workshop, Petter Hepsø, Norway

2016/18  Atelier på Hydrogenfabrikken Kunsthall, Fredrikstad, Norway

2000/03  Artist assistant I.Løvig, Norway

1988/90  VGS, Textile, Moss, Norway

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©2020 av Karin Kent

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