ABOUT


Amanda Vesthardt (b. 1993, Denmark) is a multidisciplinary/visual artist, with a focus on textile and fiber art. Coming from a background in fashion, she often explores various facets of textile waste and our relationship to objects. Over the past few years, she has become very interested in the relationship between our bodies and the textiles we wear. She has been exploring these notions through installation artworks and textiles within space. The concept of “costumes for the space” is a series of projects in which she researches and experiments with different themes such as our emotional connection to objects, tactile experiences, and storytelling through non-verbal communication like dance and performance. These projects are often executed in collaboration with other artists or designers to implement new perspectives.

Most of Amanda’s work is based on the arts and crafts of textiles, involving various techniques such as knitting, tufting, sewing, embroidery, and patchwork. Handcrafting artworks and experimenting with new approaches are constant threads that run through all her works.




Photo: Magnus Gulliksen



CONTACT

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




PRESS/PUBLICATIONS

Prague Quadrennial 2023 Catalogue



WORK EXPERIENCE

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

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

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

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

Artist, group project ”Connecting Wool” research, KHiO and Tama Art University, March- 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 - September 2019

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

Internship, Gøje Rostrup, January - April 2018

Internship, Nicholas Nybro, June - August 2017

Volunteer Aros27 Ambassador, Aros Art Museum
2013-2015




EXHIBITIONS

24 Hemmeligheder, group exhibition, ZeBu theatre, November-December 2024

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