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Format

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Format

Format was founded in 1991 and is a leading gallery for material-based art in Norway.

30/04/2026

FORMAT - Welcome to the opening Thursday 7 May at 6pm!art

15/04/2026

DARIUSZ WOJDYGA
Collector
FORMAT 12 March – 3 May 2026

Dariusz Wojdyga is a multidisciplinary artist primarily focused on jewellery art, where he seamlessly merges craftsmanship, performance, eco-activism, sustainability, and collectivism into an integrated creative practice. He works at the intersection of conceptual ideas and material-based processes, using wearable forms and collaborative projects to explore art as a tool for social engagement. He actively seeks pathways toward a sustainable artistic practice in a world where technological advancement and consumerism reduce the role of craftsmanship, overconsume energy and natural resources, and has a negative impact on the environment.

Dariusz Wojdyga (b. 1975, Trzebnica, Poland) was educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland. He has exhibited at JELO6 – Old City Hall, Nicosia, Cyprus (2025), Design Without Borders – Kiscell Museum, Budapest (2025), Contemporania – Palau Pedralbes, Barcelona (2025), Nærverk – Smykkekunst og bærbare idéer – NITJA, Lillestrøm (2025), Rivers Downfall – Art Centre Itä, The Finnish Jewellery Art Association, Lappeenranta, Finland (2025) WOW EFFECT – Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER, Legnica, Poland (2025), The Connection Corner – Munich Jewellery Week, Die Kunstgiesserei München (2025), METALLOphone, 7th International Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery and Metal Art – Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius, Lithuania (2024), International Graduate Show – Galerie MARZEE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2024) and Cosmos, Lem, Jewellery – Jewellery as a Language for Contemporary Art, XX International Baltic Jewellery Show Amber Trip, Vilnius, Lithuania (2024). Wojdyga was awarded by The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum during JELO6 Cyprus, and his work was included in the ILJ Museum’s International Contemporary Studio Jewelry Collection in Athens.

Exhibition photos: Thomas Tveter

09/04/2026

FORMAT at Market Art Fair
Magasin 9, Booth 20
24-26 April 2026

Format’s presentation at Market Art Fair 2026 consists of three well established artists within the crafts field in Norway and Sweden; textile artist Kari Dyrdal, glass artist Kirsten Vikingstad Hermansson and ceramic artist Pauliina Pöllänen. Their work varies in techniques, materials and artistic approach, and they distinguish themselves with innovative and impressive work. The carefully selected artists reflect the different tendencies within the unique and celebrated Nordic craft scene. These are artists with high quality unique pieces with a striking artistic expression.

Participation at Market Art Fair is supported by Norwegian Crafts

08/04/2026

STEEN IPSEN
Organic Shapes
FORMAT 12 March – 3 May 2026

Steen Ipsen is a sculptor where clay is his material. Throughout his career he pursued the in-depth exploration of a variety of themes with geometric shapes as a key focus. Ornaments are often present in Ipsen´s sculptures in the form of the components that constitute the whole. He works in a decorative ceramic expression that involves both form and decoration. Decoration is integrated into the form and the form itself is spatially decorative. The continual simplification requiring perfection in ex*****on which he masters with almost superhuman proficiency. The underlying constraint stands in contrast to the intuitive composition and the bright clear glaze colors add a free and easy engaging energy.

Steen Ipsen (1966, Naestved, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen. He graduated from The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design in 1990. Ipsen has built an international career and been exhibiting throughout most of the world: Gallery Dock 56, Hamburg, NeC Paris, NeC Hong Kong, Cheongju International Craft Biennale South Korea, Puls Gallery Bruxelles, Galerie Provence, Duran Mashaal Gallery, Montreal, Simard Bilodeau Gallery, Los Angeles, HB 381 Gallery, New York, Kant Galleri, København. His works are included in many public and private collections, including Victoria & Albert Museum, Houston City Collection, AZU Art Museum in Arizona, RISD Museum on Rhode Island, Louvre MAD in Paris, Museé des Sevres in Paris, Trapholt Kolding, Clay Ceramic Museum Denmark, Design Museum Denmark. The Danish Embassy in Washington and Tokyo. Danish Arts Foundation and Carlsberg Foundation, among others.

Exhibition photos: Thomas Tveter
Portrait photo: Dorte Krogh

27/03/2026

Happy Easter from FORMAT!

The gallery will be closed from 28 March.
Our current exhibitions with Tonje Plur, Steen Ipsen and Dariusz Wojdyga will open again 7 April.

Photo: Thomas Tveter

25/03/2026

TONJE PLUR
Human/Nature
FORMAT 12 March – 3 May 2026

Tonje Plur works with fashion as a phenomenon and explore clothing - in an expanded sense. She examines how clothing can function as communication, and how textiles communicate something about the present time, people, identity, and belonging. They operate as a social and symbolic system while also protecting the body from the elements. In addition, Plur is interested in how we might read signs of the future, climate policy, resource use, and economics — by looking closely at tendencies within today’s textile industry, as well as by studying fashion theory and costume history.

Based on techniques from her background in tailoring, she creates layered compositions through hand and machine knitting, sewing, felting, and appliqué. She further develops and stretches these techniques, transforming them into bodily expressions. The materials consist primarily of leftover fabrics, used garments, and elements from previous projects, though they may also include new textiles. At first sight, glitter and soft fabrics may appear decorative. Yet within the tangle of fiber blends lie numerous textile-related issues that can be traced back to the origin of the material.

Tonje Plur (b. 1985, Oslo) lives and works in Oslo. She holds a craftsman certificate in dress and costume tailoring and a Master’s degree in Fashion and Clothing Design from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Plur has had solo exhibitions at institutions including Galleri Nord-Norge in Harstad, Sámi Dáiddaguovddáš in Karasjok, Søgne gamle prestegård, Gyldenpris Kunsthall in Bergen, and Galleri Salhus at the Textile Industry Museum in Bergen. Her works have been acquired by the National Museum of Norway and the Equinor Art Programme.

The exhibition is supported by Arts and Culture Norway.

Exhibition photos: Thomas Tveter
Portrait photo: Jannik Abel / NBK

19/03/2026

TONJE PLUR, STEEN IPSEN, DARIUSZ WOJDYGA
FORMAT 12 MARCH - 3 MAY 2026

Photos: Thomas Tveter

05/03/2026

FORMAT - Welcome to the opening Thursday 12 March at 6pm!

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11/02/2026

VERONICA CHEANN
A Disquieting Landscape
15 January – 8 March 2026

In this exhibition, Cheann presents a body of work inspired by the enduring allure of Metaphysical art—an artistic pursuit that sought to reveal a reality beyond the physical by transforming the familiar into the mysterious and quietly unsettling. Drawing from a movement marked by illogical juxtapositions, stillness, and disorienting spatial constructions; she reinterprets these perceptions through jewelry, sculpture, and installation.

The jewelry, sculpture, and installation operate at the threshold between the intimate and the architectural. The rings, conceived as wearable sculptures, invite the wearer to use them as viewfinders, framing fragments of the surrounding environment. As such, they become instruments for looking, mediating perception and drawing the exterior world inward. By viewing landscapes through these objects, the wearer encounters a reframed reality in which the metaphysical subtly inflects the everyday. Through this interplay of scale, object, body, and environment, Veronica invites visitors to reconsider how perception shapes the terrain of experience.

Veronica Cheann (1976, Hong Kong) is based at Nesodden, Norway, and received her bachelor degree in material based art in KHIO. She has several solo exhibitions in Norway, and has taken part in Årsutstillingen and exhibition at Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art. Cheanns work was acquired by Trondheim kommune in 2024. She has also exhibited during Munich Jewellery Week, Galerie Mazeel in the Netherlands, and Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibitions. Beside her art practice, Cheann is also a trained landscape designer and architect and worked in these fields for over 16 years.

This exhibition is supported by Arts Council Norway.

Photos: Thomas Tveter

04/02/2026

Vi er med på Oslo Art Weekend 2026!

Helgen 28.–31. mai forvandles Oslo til en festival for samtidskunst - og du er invitert!!

Oslo Art Weekend er tilbake, enda større enn før. Vi går sammen med over 50 kunstarenaer fra alle byens kanter, og tar over Oslo med et fire dagers, fullspekket festivalprogram. Bli med på tidenes feiring av Oslos kunstscene!

Se listen over alle deltakende steder på osloartweekend.no.
Fullt program lanseres i mars.

Save the date: 28.–31. mai!

04/02/2026

LINE ANDA DALMAR
Losing Landscape
15 January – 8 March 2026

In the exhibition Losing Landscape, Dalmar has worked with the impact of Sitka spruce on the Norwegian landscape. Through fieldwork in logging areas along the coast of Western Norway and Mid-Norway, she has examined how the Norwegian cultural landscape has changed since small-scale and subsistence farming was phased out in the 1950s. Grassland was planted with fast-growing Sitka spruce, and the landscape changed both in appearance and character. When natural forests were transformed into so-called production forests, clear-cutting became a consequence.

Through photographic works, Dalmar shows the visual consequences in the landscape following the introduction of Sitka spruce. Using Sitka spruce sourced from a clear-cut area in Trøndelag, she explores the wood material itself in several sculptural works.

Line Anda Dalmar (1983, Stavanger) is based in Trondheim and works across various materials and media, including photography, sculpture, sound, video and drawing. Her work is rooted in reflections on memory and the ways we experience, remember, and register the world around us. Dalmar works site-sensitively, and her projects usually originate from field studies. She has exhibited at Rogaland Art Centre, Stavanger Art Museum, Preus Museum, RAM Galleri, Tegnerforbundet, Spriten Kunsthall, and the art associations of Trondheim, Kongsberg, and Levanger. Her work has been acquired by Preus Museum, and she has completed public art commissions for Sviland School and Stord Upper Secondary School. Dalmar holds a master’s degree from Konstfack in Stockholm and a bachelor’s degree from Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen.

The exhibition is supported by: Arts and Culture Norway, the Municipality of Trondheim, the Norwegian Visual Artists’ Remuneration Fund, the Relief Fund for Visual Artist, and the Norwegian Art Centres.

Exhibiton Photos: Thomas Tveter
Detail Photo: Monica Takvam

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Tirsdag	12:00 - 17:00
Onsdag	12:00 - 17:00
Torsdag	12:00 - 17:00
Fredag	12:00 - 17:00
Lørdag	12:00 - 16:00
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