Artist in Residence at IDDIS

A living, ongoing artwork in the printing workshop at IDDIS

Almost a year ago, artist Anna Ihle began spending time in the printing workshop on the second floor of IDDIS Norwegian Museum of Printing. Her time in the workshop forms part of the social artwork The Typographer, in which she takes on the role of a trainee typographer. Working alongside former printing professionals from the Friends of the Norwegian Museum of Printing, she is learning hand typesetting with movable type, as well as about a working life from a different era.

Alongside the technical work, she listens to anecdotes about working life in another time and acquires an understanding of the unique significance of the typographers’ profession from a historical perspective. Polish writer and curator Zofia Małysa-Janczy is following the project through texts accompanying the type that Anna Ihle sets.

In February 2027, documentation of the artwork will be presented in an exhibition at IDDIS.

For more information about the artwork The Typographer, the artist can be contacted directly by email at contact@annaihle.com 

About Anna Ihle

Anna Ihle is an artist based in Stavanger, where she has her studio at TOU in the eastern part of the city. She holds a master’s degree from Konstfack in Stockholm and has participated in programmes at Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Ihle has held solo exhibitions including Therapeutic Coverage at La Box ENSA Bourges and Tied Up at Fotogalleriet. She has participated in group exhibitions including Thank You For My Work at Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków, To Break Up With Forms at Nitja in Lillestrøm, and Jeg kaller det kunst at the National Museum; What We Share in the Nordic Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia; and Precarious: On the Aesthetics and Ethics of New Labour at Arbetets Museum. Together with Addoley Dzegede, she also presented The Real Show at CAC Brétigny.