Margrethe Iren Pettersen( Tromsø,1977) is a florist and has a Bachelor
from the Academy of Contemporary art in Tromsø. She is now based in Oslo, and
will attend the MA program Art and Public Space at KHiO 2016-2018. Pettersen
often use a place, a plant or an organism as her starting point in her work.
She work process-based and her project is often connected. She collect plants,
sounds and other materials, does field-recordings and interview people from different
professions(scientist, botanist, biologist). Interdisciplinary, self-organized and
collaboration is keywords for her practice. Her Sami roots and the oral
tradition of knowledge dissemination in the north is methods she brought into
her work lately.
She looks into different ways of disclosing art. Her work turns out in many different forms and medias,
from outdoor happenings, cultivation projects(hageninbetween) soundwalks (https://soundcloud.com/margrethe-pettersen )or more traditional pieces in a gallery.
She often collaborates and besides her own practice, she has been in the board of Røst AIR, SDS (sami artist union), Loftet arbeidsfelleskap(studiocollective) and made HUS FORBI around her house.