Anne Knutsen
I MELLOM
The Window Room
26.02.–12.04.2026
Anne Knutsen works with flatwoven textiles in a minimalist formal language. By exploring the possibilities of thread and weave, she seeks to give the woven surface immaterial qualities.
Throughout her artistic practice, Knutsen has worked in large formats, creating conditions in which fleeting and unstable effects emerge depending on the angle of the light and the viewer’s position in the room.
In recent years, Knutsen has focused on weaving colour in itself. Unlike painting, where colour lies on the surface, while in weaving the colour is the materiality itself. A woven textile is inherently three-dimensional, and the woven colour is built up thread by thread. The quality of the yarn and the weave structure determine how the colour appears.
I MELLOM (‘In Between’) is a series of small-scale textiles. All the works are woven with linen threads in the same two tonal values of yellow and blue, using the same weaving technique. The subtle variations within the series arise from how the threads are blended, and how these combinations are organised and distributed through the weave. Through small shifts, concentrations, and in transitions and breaks between yellow and blue, the woven colour is moved.
Anne Knutsen (b. 1956, Bergen) lives and works in Ski and Tistedal. She received her diploma from the National College of Art and Design in 1987, where alongside her own artistic practice she was Associate Professor in textile art from 1998 to 2018. In 2024 she exhibited at the art associations in Kongsberg and Verdens Ende, Tjøme. Knutsen has also exhibited at Soft galleri, Kunstnerforbundet, Trondheim Art Museum, and RAM galleri. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Norway and internationally, including the Autumn Exhibition, The Annual Exhibition, and Contextile 2022, Portugal. Her works are included in the collections of the National Museum of Norway, National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum), and Statens Konstråd, Sverige. Knutsen has also done several public art commissions, including works for the upper secondary schools of Byåsen and Molde.