INGEBORG TYSSE: NECKWREATH
EXHIBITION
14.11.2025 - 10.01.2026
Opening: 14.11.2025 KL 18:00
Intimate artist talk: 15.11.2025 kl 14:00
For our last exhibition this year, we’ve invited artist Ingeborg Tysse, with whom we’ve begun a longer-term collaboration. Earlier this year, we presented her work at Ceramic Brussels—the newly established contemporary ceramics fair—alongside Eirik Falckner and Ali Gallefoss. This exhibition marks the next chapter in our ongoing dialogue, which will continue with a presentation at Kabuso in September 2026.
In her solo exhibition NECKWREATH, Tysse explores the delicate threshold between support and constraint. Through sculpture, drawing, and textile, she reconfigures garments such as the liturgical ruff and the corset into new sculptural work, regarding them as prosthetic extensions of both inner and outer structures. The clerical collar– the ruff– is said to symbolize the division between head and body, between sense and sensibility, and can be read as an instrument of dualistic worldview.
The exhibition’s title merges neck and wreath: a circular form that can signify both devotion and suffocation, celebration and control, marking where thought meets flesh. Her research and material practice weave together traditional meticulous craftmanship with rough, experimental techniques and intuitive sketching. Drawing from both personal experience and historical research, Tysse expands on her interest in physical and psychological boundaries- – between the wild and tamed, human and animal, the natural and constructed.
She re-evaluates, distort and animates found objects and materials, which are not passive but active participants, each carrying histories and emotional resonances. In this exhibition, feathers from local birds wreath and adorn the found, extending her broader exploration of ecology and environmentalism, where acts of making become gestures of care and conservation.
In NECKWREATH, boundaries dissolve, opening new realms where the human, the animal, and the monstrous intertwine. Instruments, theatrical costumes, and a scenographic carpet – drawing on Tysse´s experience with costume design and theatre – coalesce into a staged yet absurd chamber, highlighting the fragile line between sense and sensibility.
Ingeborg Tysse (b.1992, Stavanger) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She holds an MFA from Bergen Art Academy (2024) and a BFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Iceland University of the Arts. Her multimedia practice shapes as sculpture, installation, digital weaving, costume, and video. Tysse’s work engages with personal narratives, contemporary and historical myths, crafts, and environmentalism, hovering between reality and fiction. She investigates prostheses as material extensions of space and time– connections between old and new, synthetic and organic, natural and constructed. Through rearranging, inverting functions, and caring for reclaimed materials, her practice reflects an enduring interest in the unwanted, on both individual and collective level. Recent solo exhibitions include CHIMED, Ditroit Dream, Milano IT (2025), WILD WATCH, Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo NO (2025), Phantom Gut, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca SP (2024), SKRØMT, Hordaland Kunstsenter NO (2023).
This exhibitioni is kindly supported by Norsk kulturrådet, Bergen Kommune, Vestland fylkeskommune and Norske kunsthåndverkere.