Hanna Norrna
b. 1993 Skövde
based in Gothenburg
Hanna Norrna works with weaving as an alchemical formula and ritual gesture - an intertwining of silent knowledge and spirituality, mythology and materiality. Her practice touches how craft, passion, vulnerability, body and sanctity are connected and claims its space.
At the core of Norrna’s practice is the silkworm bombyx mori. An originally wild species, domesticated for thousands of years for human needs and productions. In the summers, she breeds silkworms in her home and follow the caterpillars' growing transformation into butterflies. She processes their cocoons into thread and dye them with symbolic plants.
Norrna’s approach to weaving is inspired by female mystics who explored relations between body and spirit through spiritual seanses and writing. Through the processes of silk breeding and weaving, she formulates and concretizes questions of metamorphosis, cyclicity, domestication and care.
MA Fine Arts in Crafts, Academy of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg
2018
BA Fine Arts in Crafts, Academy of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg
2016
Introduction to Art and Health, HDK-Valand
2022
Skrivandets förhandlingar, Konstfack, Stockholm
2020
Skrivandet som konstnärligt verktyg, Academy of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg
2020
Western Esotericism, Södertörn University Stockholm
2018
Exhibitions (solo)
Förbindelserna och skälen, Galleri KC, Gothenburg
2022
Speîra, Pannrummet - Konstepidemin, Gothenburg
2021
Bindarens skala, Omnikvariatet, Uppsala
2020
The secret unweaving of Pulse and Psyche, Doma / doma / DOMA / 土間, Gothenburg
2019
Untouchable, monumental and intimate - Textival Literature Festival, Rehabshop, Gothenburg
2019
Träsket, Kyrkan och Fästningen,
Konstfrämjandet Gotland
2026
Silk Symposium and exhibition, Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft, Gothenburg
2025
Revealing what is partly sensed, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow PL
2025
Byssus - with Maja Lund Hvidtfeldt, Officinet, Copenhagen DK
2024
Morus, Silk Museum in Soufli (PIOP) GR
2024
Ecotone, Uppsala Konstnärsklubb, Uppsala
2023
Morus - with Irini Gonou and Kleopatra Tsali, Galleri Apoteket, Roma Kungsgård, Gotland
2023
Sea silk - with Maja Lund Hvidtfeldt, North Atlantic Lighthouse, Hanstholm DK
2022
Sea Treasures, Gathenhielmska huset - Stranded Pearls - GIBCA Extended, Gothenburg
2021
Common ground, Konsthallen Lokstallet, Strömstad
2021
Craft Day, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg
2019
Rich Harvest, Spinnerei Gallery Tour, Leipzig GE
2018