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Ola Brenno, Bagn.
Sitting at a table playing the langeleik.
Dressed in bunad, Valdres Folk Museum (1901).
Sitting at a table playing the langeleik.
Dressed in bunad, Valdres Folk Museum (1901).
⭌ Valk til horkluten
sculpted woolen felt
2025, Karoline Bakken Lund
Research / sculpture sketch
sculpted woolen felt
2025, Karoline Bakken Lund
Research / sculpture sketch
preliminary reserach project
HORKLUT* is an ongoing research project initiated by Karoline Bakken Lund, in close collaboration with choreographer and artist Harald Beharie, and zither players, cultural historians, and museum directors Knut and Ole Aastad Bråten from Gudbrandsdalmusea and Valdresmusea.
This preliminary project explores a performative work — a hybrid of social sculptural practice, the soundscape of the langeleik (Norwegian zither), and the social connotations of folk dance, in visual dialogue with endangered craft traditions and blind spots in folk costume traditions and untold life stories can shape our research, through both a historical and speculative approach to dressing.
Together, we search for ways of entering and staying within the social and the transformative — potentially taking shape as both an abstract being and a shared state for performers and audience. We immerse ourselves in the trance-like qualities of the langeleik sound, their resonance and vibration — even if only for a short moment.
*Horklut, horluva, or horhätta was a hood that mothers of children born outside of marriage (who were labeled as “whores”) were at times forced to wear in parts of Sweden. It signaled their social position: neither unmarried (a maiden could go bareheaded) nor respectably married (a wife typically wore a more covering headpiece). The practice disappeared during the 19th century.
⭌ I sleep so deep I’m awake
hand-drawn piece for Veronica Bruce’s book Mood Swings,
in dialogue with her writing. 2025, Karoline Bakken Lund
hand-drawn piece for Veronica Bruce’s book Mood Swings,
in dialogue with her writing. 2025, Karoline Bakken Lund
photo: Nicolas Jara
of Veronica Bruce’ writing in her book
MOOD SWINGS
2025
After a decade of sculptural and performative collaborations, Veronica and Karoline Bakken Lund met in a new medium. Karoline Bakken Lund had the honour of illustrating Bruce’ beautiful book Mood Swings.
Mood Swings is published by Knapt Forlag with support from the Arts Council Norway and NBK. The book is printed at Blekksprutn on a risograph machine in Oslo. One of the illustrations is die-cut in collaboration with “Colorama” and “Termindruck” in Berlin. Mood Swings is a development of a series of works from the exhibition On Feeling at Good Weather in Chicago, 2022 by Veronica Bruce.
Buy the book:
The book was recently presented at the book fair “Available Works” in New York and will be presented at the Oslo Art Book Fair 15-16. nov 2025
The book is available at Salgshallen galleri , norma_t_ and prismatic.pages and soon at the bookstore Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
On the occasion of the launch, the texts met video and the performance work Sonata — an artistic collaboration between Veronica Bruce and Karoline Bakken Lund in dialogue with Sanna Helena Berger’s soundscape.
The concept and sculptures are created by Veronica Bruce and Karoline Bakken Lund, with dance and choreography by Veronica Bruce. Filmed in a single take at Momarken Racetrack by Maria Hilde.
photo: Nicolas Jara
⭌ DRIB CAN COOLER
Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO)
Baseball stitched sealskin
Drib can, Energy drink,
bamboo viscose, wife beater tank top
(import export sculpture series) 2016
by Karoline Bakken Lund
Oslo National Academy of the Arts (NO)
Baseball stitched sealskin
Drib can, Energy drink,
bamboo viscose, wife beater tank top
(import export sculpture series) 2016
by Karoline Bakken Lund
Research article
Norwegian Fashion Histories*
Initiated by Charlotte Bik Bandlien, anthropologist, researcher, critic, professor of theory and methodology at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, she is interviewing Karoline Bakken Lund and looking into the post-truth, collapsonomic infused and memes based design process for the costumes and film props Bakken Lund did for and with Kristoffer Borgli’ screenplay DRIB.
Premiered at SXSW and CPH DOX, 2017
Read Borgli’ interview on DRIB in Dazed digital
*Led by researchers based at the National Museum and the Centre for Design Studies at Kristiania University College, Synne Skjulstad, Hanne Eide and Trond Klevaard, this project aims to discover histories of Norwegian fashion not yet written and to reassess those already known.