Käte-Elin Madsen

Kate Madsen is coordinator for the bachelor’s programme at the Department of Design. Since 2007, she has been an assistant professor in drawing at the Department of Design, KHiB. Madsen has from 1988, been working as an art teacher at various educational institutions, including subjects such as drawing, painting, graphics and digital media design.

Kate Madsen has a Diploma in graphics/intaglio printing from the National College of Art and Design, Bergen, Dept. of Graphic Design and Illustration (5 years). She has a visual arts degree from the West Norway Academy of Art (Vestlandets Kunstakademi, 4 years), in addition to a Practical Pedagogical Education for vocational teachers (PPU, 1 year) from Bergen University College. Kate Madsen has participated in many exhibitions, including the Western Norway Exhibition (Vestlandsutstillingen), the National Autumn Exhibition in Oslo (Høstutstillingen). 

In her artistic development work, the focus is on drawing as material and expression. In her processes, she works with improvisation and intuitive drawing and preferably with the same approach tried out in series to investigate whether it is possible to bring about a change, a shift, a new understanding and a new visuality of what was the starting point. Drawing is often combined with graphic printing methods and in this new hybrid expressions arise.