About Lise Linnert
Lise Linnert is a visual artist whose practice centres on humanism and relationships. Working across media, she explores art as a catalyst for dialogue, awareness, and change. Her work follows two parallel paths: one political and social, grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration and creative workshops where participants become co-creators; the other personal, drawing on everyday life and lived experience. Her practice values process over outcome, with projects often unfolding over years or remaining open-ended.
Linnert’s work has been presented at institutions including the Women’s Museum and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico City; Juárez Contemporary, Mexico; the Rubin Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso; The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow; Musée Bernadotte, Pau; as well as Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Kunstbanken, Hå gamle prestegard, SOFT galleri, and Galleri F15 in Norway.
Curriculum vitae
Lise Bjørne Linnert
Born in 1964 in Oslo, Norway. Live and work in Oslo.
Member of:
Norske billedkunstnere (NBK)
Tegneforbundet (TF)
Norske tekstilkunstnere (NTK
Education
1999–2004 Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts MFAH, Houston, USA
1997–1999 Oslo Tverrfaglige kunstinstitutt, Oslo, Norway
1983–1984 Evanston Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ongoing and coming exhibition/workshops/presentations
2019–2023 Colors for hope and equality – yearly workshops: natural dye, protest-T-shirts, banner, performance, exhibition.
Collaboration with 4th grade at Møllergata school and Tenthaus Oslo
2019–2023 Utpust (Breathing out) – permanent installation Ullersmo prison, inmates co-creators
2022 Performance Brudd. Frihet er et lite ord – Ullersmo prison and at Trond Talks fetsival, Alvdal
2022 - 23 Pust meg fram! (Breathe me visible!) at Olavsfest 2023, presented in Nidarosdomen, Trondheim. In 2022 working with inmates in Trondheim prison as preparation
2020–2023 Mellom rommene (A Room Between the Rooms): workshops, video, online plattform. Collaboration with Gelawesh Waledkhani, organization Humans in Limbo and undocumented immigrants in Norway
2021–2023 We are the Commoners–2–year exhibition tour in UK, by Craft Space.org
2022–2024 NI EN MORE, development of sewing- and natural dye studio in Juarez and our teaching program for women exposed to violence.
2024 Stingene det tar (Stitched time) – Kunstbanken, Hamar
Selection Solo exhibitions
2021 Pust meg fram! (Breathe me visible!) - The Trinity Church in Oslo, in collaboration with ElisabethThorsen, Øyvind Jørgensen, Hege Gabrielsen, Biniam Gezai and inmates Ullersmo prison
2020 NI EN MORE – Kolbotn Garasje Galleri
2019 NI EN MORE – Performanse: Letters from Juárez, Hovedøya Kunstsal,
2019 NI EN MORE – Wear the fight, performance Mexican Embassy, Oslo
2019 Humanitarian Handicrafts: Materiality, development and fair trade at Huddersfield University, Manchester, UK
2018 NI EN MORE and STING – workshops and exhibition, Munich, Germany
2018 Desconocida Unknown – Liliput gallery, Puebla, Mexico
2017–2018 Desconocida Unknown Ukjent – Women Museum, Mexico City and UN High Commissioner Office for Human Rights, Mexico City, MX
2017 Desconocida Unknown Ukjent – dual exhibition on both sides USA/Mexico border at Rubin Center, El Paso, Texas, and Juárez Contemporary Gallery, Juárez Presence – performance at both openings w local dancer Paola Lopez
2016 Desconocida Unknown Ukjent – actions/workshops public spaces, Cd Juárez and Mexico city, collaboration with activists, help organizations and Amnesty Mexico
2016 Cruelty has a Human Heart – Hå gamle prestegard, Jæren, Norway
2014–2017 Cruelty has a Human Heart – dialog tour public spaces: Deichmanske Main library, Bjørnholt, Furuset, Drammen, Nesoddtangen library, Oslo MET, Oslo Cathedral, Moss church, Ullersmo prison, Hå refugee center and Ila high security prison
Selection group exhibitions
2020 Tenthaus for sale – Tenthaus Oslo
2019 Mind the gap – Meinblau gallery, Berlin
2019 Hanna Ryggen Triennial 2019 – Nytt land/ New Land, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustri Museum, Trondheim
2018 Protest Factory – Kunstplass 10, Oslo
2017 Sting – Nordic House, Reykjavik, Island
2016 - 2014 Silent Space – Intensified Integrities – touring exhibition: Finnish Institute, Stockholm, Gallen Kallelan Museum, Helsinki, Gallery F15, Jeløya, Meinblau Kunst und Atelier Hause, Berlin, Gallery Aurora, HIAP, Suomenlinna
2015 The Common Thread. Sexual Violence Against Women in Contemporary Art – Regional Court, Munich, DE, kurator Dr Alexandra Mackel
2015 Ich Ruf´zu dir. Cruelty, humanity and the power of art – Moss church
2014 Kunst på Vandring, 4 artists from ”1814 Revisited”, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker
2014 1814 REVISITED. The past is still present. Curator Rikke Kommisar, Akershus Kunstsenter
Assignments
2017– Co-founder of NI EN MORE, social innovation, activism and art, sewing-and dye studio in Cd. Juàrez, Mexico. Collaboration with fashion designers, activists and artists from Norway, USA, Mexico
2015–2019 Chair woman Norwegian Textile Artists (NTK)
2014–2015 Deputy chair woman, NTK
Selection presentations, lectures, workshops
2021 Presentation Trafo Kunsthall, Asker
2020 Workshop Møllegata school and Tenthaus Oslo
2020 -22 Guest lecturer KHIO, textile department, Oslo
2019 Workshops Desconocida, presentation at Nobels Peace center
2019 Workshop/presentation Hannah Ryggen Center, Ørlandet
2018 Humming, Performance at Silent Project, Finsk-norsk kulturinstitutt, Oslo
2018 NI EN MORE, workshops and presentation Taller Mexicano de Gobelinos, Guadalajara, MX, and El Paso Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas, USA
2018 Presentation, panel participant in Church and Society – Moss Arena og Jeløya church
2016 Presentation “Radicalization conference 2016", Justice departement House of Literature, Oslo
2014–2015 Series of book conversations for the book Cruelty has a human heart: Brit Bildøen, Kaja Skjerven Mollerin, Lars Elton, Lars Fr H Svendsen
2015 Heap of Apricots, performance in seminar: Grief, Trauma, Loss: The Art of Bereavement, University for Creative Arts, Epsom, UK
Selections stipend/awards
2021 Project support Bergesenstiftelsen, Scheiblers stiftelse, Freedom of speech, FFUK, Oslo Council, Norwegian Church, Jakobs legat to Pust meg fram!
2020 FORD FOUNDATION/ NALAC 2020 Cultural Award to NI EN MORE, for art and culture creating change along USA/Mexico border.
2020 Project support Vederlagsfondet to Pust meg fram! at The Trinity Church.
2020 Project support A Room Between the Rooms from Fritt ord, Vederlagsfondet, Art Council
2019 Project support from Sparebankstiftelsen to Colors for hope and equality, collaboration with Møllergata school and Tenthaus, Oslo
2019 Project support Vederlagsfondet to Breathing out, workshops in Ullersmo prison
2018–2028 10-year working grant from the Government
2017 Norwegian Craft travel support USA/ Mexico with Desconocida
2017 Project support Vederlagsfondet Desconocida and NI EN MORE
“Being attentive is allowing reality to resound in us. Attention is response: reply, rejoinder and responsibility .”
— Toril Moi, “Language and Attention”, 2013