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Camilla Steinum

Camilla Steinum works with textiles, ready-made objects, metal constructions, rubber and wood. At the centre of her sculptural and installation-based practice is the question of how objects and spaces generate meaning – and how that meaning slips away. Things are released from their habitual functions and interrogated for their potential to speak to bodies, power and social structures. Steinum is equally drawn to the contrast between industrial fabrication and handcraft, and to the tension between inside and outside, belonging and exclusion, control and openness. Working with her hands is an essential part of her process.

Steinum completed her BA (Visual Art Textiles) in 2009 and her MFA in 2012, both at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In 2015 she attended the Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles.

Her solo exhibitions include Soy Capitán (Berlin, 2026), Kunsthal Thy (Hurup, 2025), WIELS project space (Brussels, 2023), Soy Capitán (Berlin, 2021/22), Oppland Kunstsenter (Lillehammer, 2021), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster, 2020), Kunstverein Göttingen (2020), Soy Capitán (Berlin, 2018 and 2017) and Rod Barton (London, 2015).

Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions and biennials internationally, including KIT – Kunst im Tunnel (Düsseldorf), Kunsthall Stavanger and the 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial (Oslo). Her work is held in the Federal Art Collection of Germany.

Camilla Steinum, born 1986 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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Exhibition

Camilla Steinum • Perception Spot • Soy Capitán, Berlin

Works

Camilla Steinum, HUL, 2021, exhibition view, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway Camilla Steinum, HUL, 2021, exhibition view, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway Camilla Steinum, HUL, 2021, exhibition view, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway Camilla Steinum, Beater, 2017, bronze, 74 x 25 cm Camilla Steinum, Beater, 2017, bronze, 61 × 17 cm Camilla Steinum, strekker til, 2019, wood, pigment, wax varnish, 169 × 122 × 13.5 cm Camilla Steinum, Vulnerable Lingual III, 2018, silicone Camilla Steinum, Shit Load VI, 2015, epoxy, toilet brush, mixed media Camilla Steinum, enig slep, 2019, stained wood, 180 × 124 × 13.5 cm Camilla Steinum, HUL, 2021, exhibition view, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway Camilla Steinum, shaken trick, 2020, c-print on paper, individual pieces, 9 × 6 cm each Camilla Steinum, Minting (from series of 21), 2019, bronze and aluminum Camilla Steinum, and a Need to Belong, 2018, wood, 80 × 160 × 83 cm Camilla Steinum, logic contradicted, 2020, painted and burned wood, 72 × 389 × 18.5 cm Camilla Steinum, Embrace, 2018, textile, 51 × 51 cm Camilla Steinum, Shelf, 2018, Powder-coated metal, 200 × 100 × 30 cm Camilla Steinum, Strike (Zwillinge, from series of 12), 2020, mixed, media on paper, 21 × 30 cm Camilla Steinum, Stick 7 (from series of 7), 2019, aluminum Camilla Steinum, HUL, 2021, exhibition view, Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, Norway Camilla Steinum, Turn Elsewhere, 2017, dyed wool, forged metal spike, 100 × 200 cm Camilla Steinum, Slimy Affection, 2020, stained wood, 130 × 300 × 11 cm Camilla Steinum, The Holes, Breath in, 2020, stained wood, 80 × 80 × 80 cm Camilla Steinum, neighbourly object (from series of 24), 2020, oiled, stitched paper with foam and nature, 53 × 60 × 40 cm Camilla Steinum, Gentlemen Expect Answers, 2018, textile, 60 × 96 cm Camilla Steinum, Shit Load XIII, 2015, epoxy, toilet brush, mixed media Camilla Steinum, Shit Load XIV, 2015, epoxy, toilet brush, mixed media Camilla Steinum, Shit Load X, 2015 2015, epoxy, toilet brush, mixed media Camilla Steinum, Minting (from series of 21), 2019, bronze and aluminum Camilla Steinum, reason perfumed, 2020, textile (dyed fleece blanket, ribbon), 157 × 190 cm Camilla Steinum, Blotched Idol, 2020, stained wood, 130 × 350 × 11 cm Camilla Steinum, stretch, 2020, varnished wood, dimensions variable Camilla Steinum, Pledd og presanger binder, 2018, textile, 260 × 260 cm Camilla Steinum, Wall carpet,, untitled, 2018, wool, 170 × 220 cm Camilla Steinum, Workers Feet and Sweaty Torso, 2019, textile, metal, 40 × 50 cm Camilla Steinum, Workers Feet and Sweaty Torso, 2019 (detiail), textile, metal, 40 × 50 cm Camilla Steinum, Stained sheets, 2019, textile, 93 × 72 cm

Exhibitions
Camilla Steinum • Perception Spot • Gallery Weekend Berlin • Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2026
Camilla Steinum • Farewell Information • Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2021
Camilla Steinum • HUL • Oppland Kunstsenter, Lillehammer, 2021
Camilla Steinum • symptom, sympathy • Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 2020
Camilla Steinum • zusammen und getrennt • Kunstverein Göttingen, 2020
Camilla Steinum • TRANSACTION • Goya Curtain, Tokyo, 2019
Camilla Steinum • Craving Caring Clumsy Connection • Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2018
Camilla Steinum • Norsk Skulpturbiennale • Oslo, 2017
Camilla Steinum • Doubious Desire for Cleanliness • Rod Barton, London, 2015
Camilla Steinum • Grumset Inni Der • Soft Galleri, Oslo, 2015
Camilla Steinum • Ambiguous Container for Rational Stuff • M.I., Berlin 2015

Press

Video

Interview Camilla Steinum • Westfälischer Kunstverein 2020