Kari Steihaug (1962, Oslo) is an artist with studio at Hovedøya in the Oslo Fjord. She was educated at the National College of Art and Design (SHKS) in Oslo and the National College of Applied Art and Design in Bergen, as well as Manchester Metropolitan University. In 1997 she made her debut at the Annual Autumn Exhibition in Oslo and has since exhibited extensively in Norway and abroad. She has had solo exhibitions at Dropsfabrikken in Trondheim, Henie Onstad Art Center in Bærum, KODE in Bergen, SOFT galleri and Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo and Luleå Konsthall, among others, and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Lillehammer Art Museum, Bomuldsfabriken (Arendal), Haugar kunstmuseum (Tønsberg), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt), VII Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art (Uruguay), the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (Ohio), and at the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. In addition, she has received commissions from KORO—Public Art Norway, for the Kongsvinger Library, and more. Steihaug has also served on numerous committees and juries. She gives lectures and workshops regularly and was engaged from 2011–14 as adj. professor in textile art at HDK-Valand Academy of art and design in Gothenburg. For her work she had been awarded several grants and prizes and has been the recipient of the national guaranteed income grant for artists since 2006. Her works have been included in important collections, such as the National Museum in Oslo, KODE in Bergen, Lillehammer Art Museum, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø, the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Trondheim and the City of Oslo Art Collection. Steihaug is portrayed in the NRK series Kunsten å leve: [...] In 2011 she published the book Arkiv: De ufullendte / Archive: The unfinished ones.

13 Foreword Kari Steihaug 21 Banderole to Kari Steihaug Monica Aasprong 75 The Time it Takes Anne Karin Jortveit 107 The Threads in a Work of Love Kjetil Røed 129 Archive: The Unfinished Ones Kari Steihaug 159 Each Garment Holds a Memory Interview by Ingvill Henmo 171 The Weight and the Thread & Tuft Aasne Linnestå 187 The Importance of Presence Cecilie Skeide and Halvor Nordby 225 Appendix