There is nothing more complicated than explaining in words something as beautiful and emotional as the experience of a completely normal natural phenomenon.
The interpersonal encounters and seemingly everyday rituals found in the landscape of cooking, serving, and sharing meals are the lifeblood of the practice. By producing functional objects for serving food, Krogstad aims to spread a sense of well-being and cultural heritage to private homes and restaurant spaces.
Krogstad’s work takes a somewhat unconventional approach to the ceramic object, where form does not always play the leading role. Surfaces, color combinations, and an interest in something atmospheric are what inspire the aesthetic expression of the objects.
It is the application techniques and combinations of various glazes and expressions that drive the work forward, and perhaps it is Anette's childhood dream of becoming a painter that sets this focus and working method.
In her works, the plate serves as a canvas and foundation for the message of the art
Expressing, through glazes, the various layers of impressions that natural phenomena and our presence in them can provide us with, is what my work seeks to accomplish.
Works, commissions and exhibitions
Anette Krogstad (b. 1984, Jevnaker) is an Oslo-based artist and ceramicist.
She holds an MA in Medium- and Material-Based Art and Ceramics from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2014), a BA in Product Design from OsloMet (2011), and a two-year art education from Kunstskolen in Bergen (2006).
Krogstad’s works have been commissioned by numerous renowned restaurants, including FAN (Oslo), Schlägergården (Oslo), Hot Shop (Oslo), Hyde (Oslo), Varemottaket (Oslo), EFF EFF (Oslo), Under (Lindesnes), Lysverket (Bergen) and Noma (Copenhagen).
Since 2014, she has also completed an extensive list of private commissions, with some examples featured in the "archive" section of her portfolio. Her works can be purchased thru announced online «drops», the yearly summer workshop sale in her studio in Oslo or thru commissions. The shop Norway Designs in Oslo is also distributing two other styles of Krogstad
She has exhibited extensively in Norway and internationally, including at:
ODF X Scenario og Klubb1, Oslo (2023)
Håndverk+: Transformasjon, Galleri Format, Oslo (2022)
ODF X Sorgenfri gallery, Oslo (2022)
«OS!O», private adress, curator Mathilde R. Carbel (2022)
Nitjas Kunstlounge, Ninja senter for samtidskunst, Lillestrøm (2022)
Artist Supermarket, Sorgenfri (2021)
KOPP, QB Gallery (2021)
En Verden Et Landskap, Galleri Format (2020)
Bordsetting 2 og 3, Pyton Site (2020)
Fra Objekt til Subjekt, Akershus Kunstsenter (2019)
Crossovers, Adorno London Design Fair (2019)
Bornholms Museum (2019)
Norwegian Presence, Milan (2018)
Structure, Nordische Botschaften - Felleshus, Berlin (2017)
Pottery is Back, Kunstnerforbundet (2016)
Krogstad’s works have been acquired by Nasjonalmuseet (The National Museum of Norway) and Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (The National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design).
