Teknikk
Tekstil, Design, Installasjon
Artist statement
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Gjesteopphold ved Kiosken
Margaret Abeshu Leversby (born in Ethiopia 1990) is a designer and visual artist currently based in Oslo. She has graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts with a MA in Clothing design and Costume design. Her Works has previously been shown at Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Fotogalleriet, Billedkunstnere in Oslo, Kunsthallen I Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Munchmuseet & Oslo Runway. In her practice, she works with installation, still and moving images, and sartorial presentations. Her works are based on critical theory, art, and fashion in western cultural context. Her research draws thoughts from marginalized thinkers’ and radical movements that continues in opposing and questioning the socio-political realities constructed out of the four pillars of our contemporaneity: imperialism, colonialism, modernity, and capitalism. In raising significant societal-related questions to re-evaluate how we understand realities, power, narratives, ideologies, ignored knowledge, and cultures in written and unwritten forms. She draws parallels between her fragmented childhood (personal & collective) memories to the Black- and Afro-diasporan experiences from the past, present and future to further explore the relationship between the body we carry, the spirit we inherit, and the object we create. Using her experiences and fictive scenarios as a method to navigate a research-based practice.
Besøksadresse
KIOSKEN, C. Sundts gate 36
5004 Bergen
Kontakt
Telefon: 92237710
E-postadresse: margaretabeshu@gmail.com
CV
Educations
2020-2022 MA in Clothing Design & Costume Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2017-2020 BA in Art and design – Art and Design Fashion and Industry , Oslo Metropolitan University
Solo Exhibitions
2025 TBA, curator by Ifra Osman, Kunsthallen Oslo
2024 2024 TBA, Kiosken studio, Bergen
2024 Koo Yaa Baranaa, Norwegian Sculpture Association, Oslo
2022 Ubiquitous Shadow, curator Ørjan Amundsen, Gallery Hi10, Skien
Group Exhibitions
2025 Group Exhibition: TBA, curator Bjørn Hatterud, KunstSkansen, Lillestrøm
2023 Summer university: Ethiopian coffee ceremony, PAF (Performing Arts Forum), St. Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France
2023 Fashion show and Live installation: The Last Angel of History SS24, Oslo-Runway
2023 Lockout Stereotypes exhibition, curator Andreea Căpitănescu, Fiksdal Dans Stiftelse, Bucharest, Romania
2023 Group exhibition: I speak as I create, (Indoctrination and ritualized narrative), curator Dahir Hussain, Fotogalleriet Oslo
2022 Fashion show and Live installation: Hypoalgesia SS23,
Winner of the DS Fashion Talent Award show, Oslo Runway 2022
2022 Sukker (Teater), costume designer/consulting, Bergen Dramatikk festival
2022 Graduation show and exhibition, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2021 Group exhibition: Soofiyee, curator OsloCity & STRUKTURA.Time, Gallery BO-Billedkunstnere in Oslo
2020 Group exhibition: Solastalgic, curator by Lesia Vasylchenko, Seilduken, Oslo Academy of Arts
Collaboration
2024 Hammerfest Residence at Davvi – Center for Performing Arts, Hammerfest
2023 Techno sound and visual collaboration project with DJ/VJ NaNnadda, Oslo Runway + MUNCH, Oslo
2023 Showpiece jewellery design, collaborative project with David Andersen, Oslo
2022 Commission work: Costume design for Ingri Fiksdal (Holding Pattaern, kunstnernes hus), Oslo
2022 Collaborative project: Arousal by the choreographer Rina Rosenqvist, Montebello Oslo
2022 Curated an exhibition together with Admir Batlak: Exhibition for fashion-related practices in art spaces, OsloCity (Hedda Grevle Ottesen), Gallery B-O, Oslo
2021 Costume designer & performance, Collaboration with Infopsin (Podium, artist-run gallery space based in Oslo), Kunsthallen Oslo
Commissioned
2023 Poster design, Klub-Diaspora, Landmark Bergen
2022 Design & craftmanship of gloves, (Въ Руцѣ Лѣто ’38 (Year in hand) 2021, Lesia Vasylchenco, Høstutstillingen 2022, Oslo
2022 Costume consulting, Theatre play (Sukker), Linda Gathu, Bergen Dramatikkfestival 2022
2021 Costume consulting, Theatre play (Taking Root), Hamid Waheed, Prøverommet, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway
2021 Textile consulting, (Vi sees), for Jacky Jaan Yuan Kuo, Podium Oslo
2021 Design & craftmanship of gloves, (Въ Руцѣ Лѣто ’38 (Year in hand), Lesia Vasylchenco, Coast contemporary, Babel visingsrom for Kunst, Trondheim
2021 Animation & Poster design, Balama EP, Man Recordings, Berlin
Award:
DS Fashion talent Award 2022
Sold works:
2023 DKS prosjekt: KiM – ustilling om kunst, identitet og mote
Membership:
Norske Kunsthåndverkere/ The Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts
