In these two exhibitions at SKOG, Live Skaar Skogesal and Hanna Roloff meet in textile discovering earth tones, whispers and a nature free of and formed by humans. Vernissage on Thursday 5 March at 18:00h.
TERRÄNG by Hanna Roloff
At SKOG, Hanna Roloff presents her latest series of collage paintings, TERRÄNG. The works are constructed from painted and hand-sewn canvas pieces, where shapes, surfaces, and colors form a pictorial composition that seeks both balance and friction. Roloff explores contrasts between the intuitive and sensory on one hand, and the formal and structured on the other. Through a mix of muted and more high-frequency earth tones, the painterly expression moves between playful yet controlled brushstrokes and more organic traces of paint, where the pigment seeps through the canvas so that the reverse side becomes the front.
With the title TERRÄNG, Roloff points to a cartographic and nature-oriented approach to the images. Shapes, color fields, and fragments can evoke traces, landscapes, and movements across terrain. From the works’ origins as paper collages to their final form as collage paintings, Roloff has explored and worked on the compositions from different angles—much like turning a map to find direction and new perspectives within a landscape. By cutting up and fragmenting the canvases, and then sewing them back together with needle and thread, the working process becomes a reflection on our own ability to find new connections within a fragmented landscape.
Do you hear the forest whisper by Live Skaar Skogesal
Do you hear the forest whisper
Do not cut me down, for I tremble
Do not cut me down, for I bleed
Do not cut me down, for I sting
In fairytales, the forest can speak. The trees can tell you where it is safe to walk and when it is wise to hide. Through tapestry, Live Skaar Skogesal explores in this exhibition how nature can offer refuge and rest. Like the fairytale, textile techniques are passed down through generations. By using traditional craftsmanship, she wishes to create a world where nature and its creatures live free from human destruction.
Artist Biographies:
Live Skaar Skogesal (b. 1998) is a Norwegian visual artist educated at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design and the Bergen Art School. She works with tapestry, combining historical plant-dyeing techniques with handweaving on an upright loom. Her works explore how nature, religion, and historical events shape our identity and culture, while preserving knowledge that might otherwise be lost. She has exhibited at the Høstutstillingen (The Autumn Exhibition), Østlandsutstillingen (The Eastern Norway Exhibition), Buskerud Kunstsenter, KODE in Bergen, and in the international project Second Skin at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland.
Live Skaar Skogesal
Hanna Roloff (b. 1985, Sweden) focuses her artistic practice on image compositions created as canvas collages, moving freely between textile and painterly traditions and experimentation. Roloff graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in 2017 from the department of textile art, and has since lived and worked in Oslo.
Her recent solo exhibitions include KÖSK (2024), Telemark Kunstsenter (2023), SOFT Galleri (2022), and LNM – The Norwegian Association of Painters (2020). Roloff’s practice encompasses exhibitions and public art commissions, as well as professional and arts policy engagements.
Hanna Roloff