ABOUT

Amanda Vesthardt (DK) brings to the table a unique perspective on costuming the space, creating universes of light, music, texture and colour that are as at home on the body as surrounding it. As a artist Amanda work across multiple disciplines from their origins in fashion and costume to performance, ceramics, installation art and all possible fibre crafts.

Amanda is currently based in Berlin as a part of the Fresh A.I.R. Residency, Funded by Stiftung Berliner Leben. The residency is for 12 month and will focus on textile installations and reused materials and will be exhibithed at Urban Nation Gallery in November 2024. 


Photo: Magnus Gulliksen



CONTACT

contact@amandavesthardt.com
+45 61 60 95 10
@amandavesthardt




PRESS/PUBLICATIONS

Prague Quadrennial 2023 Catalogue



WORK EXPERIENCE

(Ongoing) Fresh A.I.R. Residency, Project supported by Stiftung Berliner Leben (Berlin, Germany), 2024

Costume Design, Loop for Chriz Nypan (Oslo, Norway), February 2024

Guest speaker, Fashion Research Symposium 2023, National museum, (Oslo, Norge), September 2023

Workshop with Lydia May Hann, National Museum of Norway (Oslo, Norway), September 2023

Costume Design, The way in is the way out for Chriz Nypan(Oslo, Norway), February 2023

Costume Design, Clepsydra for Victoria Wælgaard (Oslo, Norway), April 2022

Designer, Capsule collection designed and produced with Tinna Bigum in collaboration with the Salvation Army Secondhand, September 2020 - July 2021

Designer and owner, Bitchcraft Accessories, May 2020 - Ongoing

Set Designer/Visual Artist, Horse Inside Out for Wunderlan, October 2019-January 2020

Internship, Stine Goya, June 2019-September 2019

Costume Assistant and Tailor on the production of "Tryll"CPH Operafestival
Maj 2018-August 2018

Internship, Gøje Rostrup, January 2018-April 2018

Internship, Nicholas Nybro, June 2017-August 2017

Volunteer Aros27 Ambassador, Aros Art Museum
2013-2015




EXHIBITIONS

Connection Wool, group exhibition, International Fashion Research library (Oslo, Norway), September 2023

Daisy, group exhibition, Pop-Up Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark), August 2023

Axiom, exhibiting at Prague Quadrenrial (Prague, Czech Repulic), June 2023

Shepherds’s Bridge, commisioned work in collaboration with Lydia May Hann, National museum of Norway (Oslo, Norway) May-September 2023

The Bathroom//Water in Motion, Performance, KHiO (Oslo, Norway), May 2023

Water standing still, solo exhibition, KHiO (Oslo, Norway), April 2023

Connecting Wool, group exhibition at the Norwegian Embassy (Tokyo, Japan), March 2023

Horse Inside Out, artistic work for Wunderland, Reykjavik Art museum (Reykjavik, Iceland), November 2022

Axiom, solo exhibition, KHiO (Oslo, Norway), October 2022

Axiom(research), group exhibition, International Fashion Research library (Oslo, Norway), June 2021

Axiom, group exhibition, Collective Illusion Festival, KHiO (Oslo, Norway), May 2022

Horse Inside Out, artistic work for Wunderland, Art Center Ahjo (Joensuu, Finland), September 2021

White Shirts, group exhibition, Carpark Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark), June 2021

Daisy, group exhibition, Output (Aarhus, Denmark), June 2021

Horse Inside Out, artistic work for Wunderland, Aros Art Museum (Aarhus, Denmark), Januar 2020

The bride, the turtle and the jellyfish, group exhibition, Finders keepers (Copenhagen, Denmark), November 2018

ACHIVEMENTS/GRANTS

Granted Stipend for newly graduated students from Arts and Culture Norway 2023

Supported financially during her master studies at KHiO 2021-2023:

Nordea fonden, Le KLint fonden, the reiersenske fond and the ingwesenske fond

Nominated for DesignTalent 2017 Danish Entrepreneurship Award, November 2017  

Nominated for Best Sustainable Design, Finders Keepers x Yume Sustainablility, November 2018



EDUCATION

Master in Fashion and Costume Design
Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
2021-2023

Bachelor in Fashion Design, Designschool Kolding
2015 - 2018

Bachelor exchange in Fashion Design, Icelandic Acadamy of Arts
january 2017 - May 2017

Fashion and Textile
The Scandinavian Design College
January 2015 - June 2015