Birk Manum Bjerkan is a designer based in Oslo. He specializes in product and furniture design, but also works with sculpture and painting, as alternative outlets for studying materials, production processes and the characteristics of objects.
birkmanumbjerkan@gmail.com
Exhibitions and press
“Best Talent Awards”, Designers Saturday 2025.
“Jeg tror på alt før jeg ser det”, Galleri Granum, October 2024.
Feature, Scandinavian MIND, September 2024.
Exhibition with NE Collective, Stockholm Furniture Fair, Greenhouse 2024.
Feature, NYTTROM, February, 2024.
Feature, SightUnseen, February 2024.
Erasmus Exhibition, Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milan, 2022.
CV
2024-2025: Visual Arts, Einar Granum School of Fine Art, Oslo.
2018-2024: M.Sc., Industrial Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
2023: Co-founding NE Collective, a collaboration with Oskar Keller.
2022-2023: Product design internship at Eker Design, Fredrikstad.
2022: Collaboration with Singulart, an online art and design gallery.
2021-2022: Erasmus exchange at the Brera Fine Arts Academy, Milan. Studying painting under Tetsuro Shimizu and sculpture under Gianni Caravaggio.
2022: Part-time studio assistant for Arianna Giorgi, an Italian artist in Milan.
2021: Summer internship, service design for Nasjonalparken Næringshage in Oppdal, Norway.
2020-2021: Design leader in Fuel Fighter, a student organization at NTNU.
2019-2020: Consultant in Designhjelpen, a student organization at NTNU.
2020: Student assistant in Aesthetics 2 and 3, for Ole Petter Wullum.
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