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# Mari Bjørge

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- [](https://www.maribjorge.com/) - Ceramic artist (MNK) and object conservator (NKF-N), who lives and works in Oslo. Specialised in casting techniques, plaster, porcelain and ceramic materials. Her practice stems from a passion for different crafts, materials, techniques, and manual processes of manufacture.
- [Jubileumsutstilling](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/on-view/jubileumsutstilling/) - The work Untitled (2022), a slipcasted porcelain bathtub with blue stain and clear glaze, was shown in Jubileumsutstilling at Salgshallen galleri October-November 2025. Jubileumsutstilling was a members’ exhibition for NK Oslo, organized at the to mark the 50th anniversary of the Norwegian Association for Craft Artists.
- [About](https://www.maribjorge.com/about-me/) - Welcome to my site! I'm a ceramic artist MNK¹ and object conservator NKF-N² who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. I specialise in casting techniques, plaster, porcelain and ceramic materials. I got my fine arts education in the ceramics department at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts and graduated there with a BFA in
- [On view](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/on-view/) - Upcoming / current exhibitions: ... Past exhibitions:
- [Årsutstillingen 2025](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/on-view/arsutstillingen-2025/) - The work Echo, womb (2024) was shown in Årsutstillingen 2025 in Lillehammer Art Museum. An annual peer‑reviewed exhibition organized by the Norwegian Association for Craft Artists, the 2025 edition was co‑produced with Lillehammer Art Museum and marked the 50th anniversary of the association. Echo, womb (2024) is a vase form in cast, glazed terracotta. The
- [Ceramics](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/) - Artist statement - I find great joy in the act of making. I’m greatly fascinated by materials, their properties and how they perform when one tries to process them into form. When aiming to control a liquid on its way to becoming a solid and set shape, the material sometimes leaves visible traces of its
- [Blue & White](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/functional/blue-white/) - More content coming...
- [Functional](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/functional/) - Functional ware and wearable items:
- [Spikket](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/functional/spikket/) - Content coming...
- [Pawse, 2023](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/functional/pawse/) - Tiny vase. Slipcasted terracotta, transparent glaze inside.
- [Kintsukuroi, 2015](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/functional/kintsugi-2015/) - Porcelain pots inspired by Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing with gold. The pots are fired multiple times to intentionally create cracks in an overlying layer of porcelain slip. The underlying glazed surface revealed is decorated with gold or mother of pearl luster before a last firing cycle in the kiln.
- [Contact](https://www.maribjorge.com/contact/) - Feel free to contact me for sales, conservation requests or future project collaborations. You can reach me at post@maribjorge.com, or by filling out the form below.
- [Mosaikk, Sigurd Winge](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/ceramics/mosaikk/) - Mosaikk (1955) is a monumental ceramic frieze by Sigurd Winge (1909-1970), made during the years 1948 to 1956. The frieze is mounted directly on the tall masonry wall in the grand foyer at Oslo Handelsgymnasium. After an incident with leakage from the ceiling above the frieze, a conservation treatment was carried out in 2019. This
- [Blue Letters, Tulla Elieson](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/ceramics/blue-letters-tulla-elieson/) - This ceramic piece by Tulla Elieson (1950-2023) was shown in her last solo exhibition at Galleri Semmingsen in 2017. The work of art is made from a single piece of glazed and high-fired porcelain clay and measures 110 x 112 centimeters. Since 2001, Elieson had her studio in the factory Norsk Teknisk Porselen in Fredrikstad,
- [Ceramics](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/ceramics/)
- [Texts & Research](https://www.maribjorge.com/texts-research/) - The conservation of St. Hallvard - a monumental bronze sculpture group at Oslo City Hall Oslo City Hall celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2025. The sculpture group St. Hallvard (1950) is part of the building's original public art program, which was completed before the City Hall opened on the 15th of May 1950. The work
- [Virvel, 2021 - open edition](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/functional/virvel-2021-open-edition/) - The earring series Virvel are made of reclaimed porcelain slip, translucent glaze with gold luster decor and silver studs.
- [Conservation](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/) - The field of conservation aims to preserve items and collections of significant cultural, aesthetic, historic and scientific value for the benefit of present and future generations. A conservator works to safeguard our tangible cultural heritage, with training, skills and specialized knowledge on materials and their chemical and physical deterioration phenomenas. Our field of work embraces
- [Metals](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/metals/)
- [Odd Tandberg, 1975](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/metals/odd-tandberg-1975/) - This sculpture (untitled) was created by the Norwegian artist Odd Tandberg (1924-2017) in 1975 and is situated in the sculpture park outside The Henie Onstad Kunstsenter at Høvikodden, Norway. The sculpture was presumably first produced for the sculpture festival at Konstsalongen Samlaren in Stockholm 1972. It is an outdoor painted sculpture constructed of zinc galvanized
- [Tutekanne, Herrebøe Fajansefabrikk](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/ceramics/tutekanne-herreboe-fajansefabrikk/) - Herrebøe Fajansefabrikk
- [Schweigaard](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/metals/schweigaard/) - Julius Middlethun’s portrait statue of Anton Martin Swcheigaard (1882) is one of two monumental bronze sculptures situated outside the University Aula in Oslo. Accompanying it is P. A. Munch created by Stinius Fredriksen in 1931-33. The two bronze monuments are in the University of Oslo’s art collection and were both subject to an extensive conservation
- [Bronzed plaster sculpture](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/plaster/bronzed-plaster-sculpture/) - This bronzed plaster sculpture was made in 1914 by Øystein Vesaas (1883-1969). Vesaas was a painter, woodcarver, sculptor, folklorist and author from Vinje, Telemark. He is most known for his trilogy Rosemaaling i Telemark - an elaborate description of the rose-painting tradition in his home county. He received the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research
- [Plaster Casts](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/plaster/)
- [Sculpture](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/sculpture/)
- [Soft Expressions](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/on-view/soft-expressions/) - Apple House Gallery, Guldagergaard/Denmark, 2011.
- [Boudoir](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/on-view/boudoir/) - Boudoir is a collection of porcelain serving forms where all items are unique. The forms are inspired by a lady's boudoir to underline the sensuality and luxury of fine desserts. The collection was made by hand in the manufacturing premises at Porsgrund Porselænsfabrik. The work was shown as part of the group exhibitions Serving Forms
- [Dyppet i stein, hugget i vann](https://www.maribjorge.com/ceramics/on-view/dyppet-i-stein-hugget-i-vann/) - Soaked in Stone, Chiseled in Water Porcelain sculptures, varying dimensions. Exhibited as interventions in the mineral collection display cabinets at the Museum of Natural History in Bergen. Part of the group exhibition Naturally in 2009.
- [Giardiniera](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/ceramics/giardiniera/) - This object is an Italian giardiniera (a flower planter), of tin glazed earthenware with maiolica décor. The object is in the Akershus Castle collection and was acquired as a gift from the Thaulow sisters during the fin de siècle period. It has a rich figurative décor that was a common trait of the istoriato style
- [Fibula](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/metals/fibula/) - This is a small copper alloy artifact, that was found with a metal detector in 2017. The object is now in the archaeological collections at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo. The oblong fitting has remains of a fastening mechanism and is most probably a bird shaped fibula brooch. Items of this sort commonly
- [Sitting Man and Woman, Their Foreheads Touching](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/plaster/sitting-man-and-woman-their-foreheads-touching/) - Gustav Vigeland’s Sitting Man and Woman, Their Foreheads Touching (1916) is the original plaster model for one of the first sculptures carved in Iddefjord-granite for the Monolith Plateau in the Vigeland Park. The plaster sculpture has an uneven patina with areas of hard contrasts between dark and light surfaces, and several old retouches to the
- [Venus of Milo](https://www.maribjorge.com/conservation/plaster/venus-of-milo/) - This is a small plaster cast in patinated plaster mounted on a wooden base. As a Venus of Milo copy, this little head sculpture stems from the late heydays of plaster cast reproductions; it was most likely produces by the foundry Gebr. Micheli in Berlin in the early 1900s. The Micheli plaster casting workshop was

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