BIO
Stine Gonsholt (b.1973), is a Norwegian visual artist based in Skien, Norway. Through video, photography, sound and text-based installations, her practice examines how global structures, economic, ecological and political, shape local environments identities, and social narratives. Her work frequently takes its point of departure in specific locations and the practice is grounded in close observation and long-term engagement with place, combining documentary impulses with poetic and conceptual strategies.
Changes within local communities as a consequence of global transformation, is a main point of interest. How such processes leave their mark on the landscapes and alters our understanding of a place. In her ongoing project, a local river is used to investigate the connection of the local landscape to processes of change, how the status of the place changes and global connections emerge in such processes. Through geology, archeology and a potentially existing diversity of species, the history of the river is told. The material it leaves behind on its journey through the landscape, in the past, present and future, is also our history.
Stine Gonsholt was awarded the Telemark County award 2025 and she received a 3- year working grant (Arts Council Norway). Her work is presented internationally and acquired by amongst others: The Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Journalists Association, University of Stavanger and DKS Vestfold and Telemark County.
Selected exhibitions 2025; EcoEchos, Correios, Centro Cultural Rio de Janeiro /BR, 2024; To follow a path, Telemark Art centre, 2023: Fotogalleriet, Oslo, 2022; I Call It Art, The National Museum in Oslo, SLUICE LISBON - Territory, Barreiro (PT), Kunsthuset KABUSO, Øystese, The Universal Machine, Bergen Kunsthall/ Landmark/BEK, Bergen (NO) 2021; Hands and feet... and Entangled Landscape at Spriten Kunsthall, Skien (In collaboration with Åse Løvgren, Neal Cahoon and Skift. Land), 2020; The Valley, Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, The Artists Exhibition (133.) The Artists´House, Oslo, The second Chapter, Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, Østlandsutstillingen, Kunstbanken Hedemark kunstsenter and 2019: 36.KASSEL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, KulturBahnhof Kassel (DE) with Åse Løvgren.
2020: The film "Brutal Simplifiers" was awarded The Relief Fund for Visual Artists (BKH) Award. 2014: The project "Corridors" (Spriten Publishing) was awarded The Telemark County Footprint Award. In this project, Gonsholt documented the impact of newly developed infrastructure, along the "Trans West-African Transport Corridor", a transport network which crosses and connects West-Africa with the rest of the world. 2003: Gonsholt's first documentary film "Mission Mongolia" received The BKH Award and was shown on the public broadcaster in Norway (NRK), 2004 and 05. Gonsholt has held residencies (selection) at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik i Berlin, Citè International des Arts, Paris, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts and SIM - The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik.