Kari Dyrdal / Jon Arne Mogstad / Jeremy Welsh

16.05 – 30.08.26 
Kari Dyrdal/ Jon Arne Mogstad/ Jeremy Welsh

Through video, textiles, and painting, the artists reflect on how water behaves and captures the shifting qualities of light.

A shared feature among the artists in the exhibition is their interest in the reflections on the water’s surface:
Kari Dyrdal’s tapestries are carefully planned depictions of the swirling nanoseconds of water, translated into motifs in warp and weft – a visual balancing act made possible by the digital weavery technique.
Jeremy Welsh observes water in its various forms—such as mist, rain, fjord, glacier, and snow—and how it flows through the camera lens and the electronic signals of the video screen.
Jon Arne Mogstad has a deep engagement with how hand and eye are able to fix these rapid shifts onto the canvas using pigment and oil.

Kari Dyrdal (b. 1952) is a nestor of Norwegian textile art. She has her education from Bergen Kunsthandverkskole in 1977 and Croydon College of Art and Technology in London in 1978. Kari Dyrdal is known for her many commissions for public buildings; The University of Bergen, Sædalen New Church and Sentralbadet Stagehouse Bergen. She is represented in the National Museum, KODE, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum and also abroad in Boston Museum of Fine Art and Latvia Museum of Fine Art. In recent years, Dyrdal has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Format (Oslo), Almgren’s Sidenveveri, (Stockholm), Oseana Art and Culture Center (Os) and Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall (Arendal).

Jon Arne Mogstad (b.1950) graduated from Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole in 1978, and Statens Kunstakademi in 1982, Oslo.
He lives and works in Surnadal, where he runs the art center Surnadal billag. Recent solo exhibitions include the Jugendstilsenteret and KUBE, Ålesund (2027), Bomuldsfabriken, Arendal (2026) and Galleri TID, Mandal, w/ Cecilie Nissen (2024).
Mogstad has carried out several art projects for public spaces, including Telenor, Orkdal VGS and St. Olavs Hospital, (Trondheim) and Halden Prison with Jeremy Welsh, and is represented in Tangensamlingen at Kunstsilo (Kristiansand), KUBE (Ålesund), Åbo Kunstmuseum (Finland), Mark Rothko Art Center (Daugavpils, Latvia), Kiasma and the Finnish National Gallery (Helsinki) and the National Museum (Oslo).

Jeremy Welsh (b. 1954) Gateshead UK. Educated at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic School of Art & Design and Goldsmiths College, University of London. During the 80’s worked as project manager at London Video Arts and subsequently artistic director, The Film & Video Umbrella, London. Resident in Norway since 1990. Former professor at Trondheim Academy of Art and Bergen Academy of Art. Active as artist and curator since the late 1970’s. Since 2000 he has worked closely with several Norwegian contemporary musicians and composers. His works are in several collections including The National Museum and Trondheim Art. Museum. 

Photo: Kari Dyrdal – Acid Sea/ Gult hav