ARVESTOFF is an exhibition that shows the starting point, working process and works that costume designers Berit Haltvik With and Jenny Hilmo Teig have designed and created for various theatre performances, stage performances and works created in their own exploratory processes. The works that are put together in the exhibition are mostly made with inherited, reused or surplus textiles. Some are inherited because the garment "wanted to be ours", other things because the donor wanted to get rid of it or died. These textiles carry within them both the desired and the "useless". That which never becomes anything, but which for one reason or another could never be thrown away. ARVESTOFF shows what this can become, what it has become and what it has been.

Jenny Hilmo Teig (1984) has a BA in Costume for the Performing Arts from the London College of Fashion and has worked freelance with costume design. She has designed and produced costumes for theatre, film/television, opera, dance and stage costumes from Kirkenes to Porsgrunn and has a workshop at Teateratelier at Nyhavna. Her artistic practice revolves around recycling, the use of unconventional materials, the processing of textures and dyeing/patination. In 2012 and 2022 she received the Norwegian State Work Grant and in 2022 she was nominated for the Amanda Prize for best costume for the feature film Alle hater Johan.

Berit Haltvik With (1982) is a freelance costume designer based at Teateratelier in Trondheim. She has a master's degree in costume design from 2008, (Bournemouth, UK) and has designed and produced costumes for various projects within theatre, dance, clowning and TV/short films since 2005. The focus of her work is exploring the aesthetic communication potential of costume. She has also given several courses in costume and redesign. In 2017 she was the county artist of Sør-Trøndelag and she received the state work grant in 2023 and 2024.

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition on Saturday, March 1st at 12 noon. There will be light refreshments.

The exhibition can be seen every Saturday in March from 12 noon to 2 pm, except for March 8th when it will be open from 1 pm to 4 pm. The Feminist House is also open every Wednesday between 10 am and 2 pm, welcome to see the exhibition then too.