Kristine Sandøy

Kristine Sandøy (b. 1981) lives at Veitvet and is originally from Vigra.

Sandøy works within a modernist tradition with mobile forms, where the elasticity, gravity, balance, and physical laws of materials are explored to create movement in sculpture. Her artistic practice is driven by curiosity about how form, physics, and energy can meet.

She is also intrigued by transforming materials that have already had a life and function. Through the use of readymades and recycled materials, she examines how the traces and memories within a material hold their own energy, which can be reactivated in the moving form of sculpture.  Sandøy works in a variety of materials, including metal, concrete, readymades, and textiles. After completing her Master’s degree in Art (Metal) at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2011, she has exhibited widely, carried out large-scale public art projects, and collaborated with groups such as Verdensteatret and Den Kulturelle Skolesekken. She was awarded the Anders Jahre Prize for Young Artists in 2011, was festival artist at Molde International Jazz Festival in 2024, and in 2025 received a three-year working grant from the Norwegian Crafts Council Fund.

Today, she also works as a blacksmith in the metal workshop at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, while further developing her own artistic research. Her goal is to share movement, balance, and wonder with the public, and to contribute to positivity in society through the presentation of moving sculptures.

“Det er der inne” (It Is Inside)

The sculpture Det er der inne is a mobile sculpture built from parts of a brown lampshade, covered in tights and welded together in steel. It is balanced on a concrete base, held in equilibrium by two stones clamped into metal. In the meeting between the fragile and the heavy, the organic and the industrial, the sculpture opens up for multiple associations. It speaks of moving through fear, finding balance between unrest and strength, and a search for what is true.

Connection to Groruddalen
I live in Groruddalen, my children have grown up here, and I feel closely connected to this place. I recently moved into a studio on the 6th floor of Romsås Centre.

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