Norwegian Crafts is pleased to announce that Petrine Vinje is the selected grant recipient who will be an artist in residence with Laboratorio Arte AC at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico 2025.

The Craft, Art, Science, and Technology Residency is a six-week stay at Laboratorio Arte AC, located on the Monterrey Campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. The residency offers opportunities to develop artistic practices, new ideas, or production methods, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration with artists, students, and experts from various fields and faculties. Norwegian Crafts supports one artist annually to participate in the Craft, Art, Science, and Technology Residency.

«During my residency at Laboratorio Arte A.C. at Tecnológico de Monterrey, I aim to create a new series of modular, sculptural assemblages inspired by local architecture and scientific environments. This work will reflect on how new digital spheres drive rapid, future-oriented development, while other aspects of evolution are often neglected. The laboratory's focus on experimentation and critical dialogue provides an ideal framework for continuing my studies in feminist cybernetic theory, particularly the works of Katherine Hayles and Francisco Varela. This theoretical backdrop will inform the development of my 1enactive assemblages' in the city of Monterrey.»
– Petrine Vinje

Petrine Vinje

Petrine Vinje (b. 1980) is a Norwegian visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation and interdisciplinary projects, with a focus on the transient and immaterial aspects of cultural memory. Vinje’s work has been presented in a range of national and international exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at F15, Moss (2023), Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2018), the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo (2014), and in work for public space. Her commissions for KORO (Public Art Norway) include major works for institutions such as the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency.

Her artistic output also extends into publishing, and her 2018 publication Anthology – Anatomical Theatre reflects her research-based artproject, a sculptural installation with associated program she curated, featuring contributions from artists and scholars: a replica of the anatomical theatre in Uppsala (1562-64), commissioned for the Norwegian Sculpture Biennale in 2013. Vinje`s latest publication, F-U-þ-A-R-K, was produced under her newly founded publishing house, O.

Vinje holds a Cand Mag. in Fine Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), where she completed her studies at the Institute of Colour in 2005. In 2024, she concluded her PhD research project Surfacing Solids, further deepening her exploration into the material and conceptual dimensions of memory and meaning.