Åsa Dybwad Norman

Åsa Dybwad Norman (b.1984) is a textile artist and lecturer in textile art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. Based in Arvika, she explores how the knowledge of the hand and body takes place in today’s society, often by investigating historical spaces and events through archival work, interviews and design processes. Dybwad Norman’s artistry is characterized by an interest in the movement of textile materials through time and place, with a focus on their subversive potential. She often works in collective forms, such as in the ongoing research project The Willful Textile Workers. There, she and craftswoman Frida Hållander look at the historical and global effects of the Swedish textile industry.

Dybwad Norman has exhibited at, among others, Norrköping Art Museum, Art Lab Gnesta, and Eskilstuna Art Museum. In 2025, she participated in Gothenburg Art Hall’s project Field Studies. She has also participated in artist residencies at IASPIS and the Workers’ Movement’s Archives and Library, and her work is in collections at Folkets Hus and Parks, the Swedish Council for the Arts, and Konstfrämjandet.

For AIO CoLab 2026, textile artist Åsa Dybwad Norman takes as her starting point the history of women in the dairy industry in a collaboration with Årstad’s very temporary art gallery in the 100-year-old dairy building in the village of Årstad outside Falkenberg. The residency runs during the spring and culminates in three weeks of joint work with a group of young people in June and July.