Brit Dyrnes

Brit Dyrnes is known as a high-ranking ceramicist, with a long-standing influence in her field. Through an experimental approach she has explored the many possibilities of clay, and in doing so she has employed a great number of artistic expressions. Her art is often presented through installations or performative actions.

Several of the accessed works were a part of the installation Tilstand (“Condition”), which was presented in Kunsthall Trondheim in 2019. The series consisted of approximately 50 ceramic objects, placed on a long table. Tilstand marked a fulcrum in Dyrnes’ art, where she among other things returned to the starting point of her own artistic creation. In recent years, she has continued this work with the question “What do I carry with me?”. The premiss is a physical and psychological emersion in her own work. This investigative attitude will come to view in her exhibition in KUBE.

Brit Dyrnes was educated at Kunstskolen in Trondheim (1972), Trondheim Academy of Arts (1974–76 and 1977–78), and Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart (1978–79). After completing her education, she started her own workshop in Esslingen, in West-Germany in 1979–82. She then moved to Trondheim where she worked as a ceramicist and artist from 1982 to 2018. Between 2018 and 2019 she established herself as a ceramicist in Surnadal with Kvenna Art Workshop as her arena and studio.