Contemporary paintress. Born 1969. Lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
Educated at Nydalen Art School in visual arts. Previously completed courses in watercolour painting, porcelain painting and photography.
Welcome, I am Mona.
Unstable forms and inner landscapes
Painting and drawing between abstraction and psychological space
My work moves between painting and drawing, focusing on psychological and sensory states through processes of transformation, layering and improvisation. The images develop intuitively, shifting between abstraction and figuration.
Recent works revolve around morphological forms situated between organism, landscape, body and memory. Fragements from dreams, bodily sensation, and experiences of tension are transformed into unstable visual structures that evoke both vulnerability and unease.
Drawing is approached as an immediate and intuitive process where figures emerge through continuous line movements and spontaneous gestures. In painting I work through layering, displacement and gradual transformation, allowing forms to appear, dissolve and reorganize over time.
I see painting and drawing as spaces where forms remain open, unstable and unresolved that invites to multiple readings and psychological resonance.
Exhibitions
Gallery Nyksund brygge, Nyksund (June 29th – August 18th 2025). Attending group exhibition with figurative paintings with motif from Lofoten and Vesterålen.
Gallery OMK, Oslo (June 21st – 29th 2025). Solo exhibition. The exhibition includes paintings from the series “Symphony”, “Timeless Motion” and “Eternal Interaction”. It also included works in watercolours and ink from the series “When the world quivers”.
A14 studios, Oslo (March 27 th – April 6 th 2025). Group exhibition. Attending with paintings in acrylics on canvas from the series “Surroundings”.
Galleri OMK, Oslo
(November 9 th – November 17 th, 2024)
Group exhibition. Attending with paintings in acrylics on canvas from the series “Symphony”.
Galleri Minneparken, Oslo
(August 10 th – September 1 st, 2024)
Group exhibition. Attending with paintings in acrylics on canvas from the series “Symphony”.
Galleri Minneparken, Oslo
(June 10 th – June 12 th, 2023)
Group exhibition. Attending with paintings in acrylics on canvas from the series “Climes”.
Galleri Minneparken, Oslo
(May 13 th – May 15 th, 2022)
Group exhibition. Attending with collages for the series “Spring collection”.
Galleri M15, Oslo
(June 10 th – June 13 th, 2021)
Group exhibition. Attended with the project “Lines”. Acrylics on board and sketchbook. Both presented sculptural. Lines also included one acrylic painting on canvas.
Nydalen art school, Oslo
(December 2020)
Digital student exhibition due to the ongoing corona pandemic. Attended with four self portraits in acrylics on canvas.
Nydalen art school, Oslo
(December 2019)
Student exhibition. Attended with two landscape paintings. Acrylics on canvas and paper.
Nydalen art school, Oslo
(June 2019)
Student exhibition. Attended with three acrylic paintings on canvas.
Mona Bjørnstad 