fiol
← WorkCase study 03

Kunstsilo

Kristiansand, Norway—2024–2026—Silk twill, silk & cotton jersey
The place

A 1935 grain silo on the Kristiansand waterfront, now home to the Tangen Collection.

The Tangen Collection — one of the great holdings of Nordic modernism — inside the concrete cylinders of a 1935 grain silo. The building is as much the identity as the art. Fiol works from both: collection works in silk, a signature drawn from the architecture.

01The American Fear
The American Dream silk scarf — a pop-art face in blue, red and cream on a powder-blue ground, shown draped
The American Dream silk scarf worn loosely at the neck over a white shirt
The full American Dream silk scarf held up — the complete pop-art print, blue ground, the face and red border
Corner detail of The American Dream silk scarf — the "KUNSTSILO" label and hand-rolled edge on a pale blue ground
The American Dream silk scarf folded to show the face motif on a powder-blue ground

Per Kleiva — The American Fear. A face, a gaze, a red outline: graphic, immediate, unmistakably pop art.

A fragment of the painting fills the scarf. Up close it reads as colour and form; folded, the face reassembles. The translation is the painting at the scale of something worn.

02Johs Rian
The Johs Rian silk scarf — bold abstract colourblocks in yellow, purple, blue and pink, shown draped
The Johs Rian scarf held up outdoors, showing the full yellow and purple abstract field
The Johs Rian scarf folded, showing the purple and blue colourblock composition
Corner detail of the Johs Rian scarf — yellow ground with blue and pink hand-rolled edge

Johs Rian (1925–2011) — paintings about the weight of colour fields, the way blue changes when yellow sits beside it.

Fiol took one of those compositions — yellow, purple, blue, pink — and printed it on silk. The field relationships stay the same; what changes is the material that holds them.

03Signature
The Kunstsilo Signature silk scarf in olive green — the silo’s ring geometry across the ground, with an orange hand-rolled edge
Corner detail of the Signature scarf in black — white silo-ring pattern and yellow hand-rolled edge, "KUNSTSILO" label
The Signature scarf in black, fully draped — white concentric ring motif across the ground, yellow border
Corner detail of the Signature scarf in olive green — the ring motif and a contrasting orange rolled edge
The Signature scarf in black, folded flat — a grid of white rings on black silk, yellow border

To enter Kunstsilo is to stand inside a cathedral of concrete, the silo's rings revealing themselves overhead.

Fiol drew the Kunstsilo Signature from that geometry — a single mark made to travel across every product, scale and colour.

04Signature Bandana
The Kunstsilo Signature Bandana in navy — two-sided silk, one face solid, one a fine dot repeat, with a cream rolled edge
Corner detail of the Signature Bandana — the fine dot-pattern face with "KUNSTSILO" label and cream rolled edge
The Signature Bandana folded to show both faces: solid black and the navy dot-pattern
The Signature Bandana in a second colourway — soft rose on one face, deep plum dot-pattern on the other

The Signature Bandana carries the Kunstsilo identity into an everyday format.

Two faces: one solid, one a fine repeat of the mark across a smaller field. Both sides are made to show — worn as a headband, folded into a breast pocket, or tied at the wrist.

05T-shirts
A man and a woman wearing Kunstsilo T-shirts — a black tee with a vivid figurative print and a white tee with an abstract geometric composition, both from the Tangen Collection
Back view of a model wearing a black Kunstsilo T-shirt — an expressive figurative print in blue and red from the Tangen Collection on the back panel
Two models wearing the same white Kunstsilo T-shirt — an Asger Jorn-style expressionist face in yellow, red and green, with the artist’s name below
Back view of a man in a black Kunstsilo T-shirt — “Stories from the Tangen Collection” printed in white across the back, with a full artist listing and the Kunstsilo mark
A white Kunstsilo T-shirt on a hanger — an abstract composition in muted blue, grey and rust tones from the Tangen Collection

The Signature at everyday scale — the same mark, a different material.

The Signature on cotton — the same geometry on a ground that moves differently than silk.

Quality cotton, cut and printed. A garment made to carry the standard of the accessories.

06Poppy
The Poppy silk scarf — a large-scale poppy in pale pink on coral, with a red outline, cream border and hand-rolled edge
The Poppy scarf folded, showing the flower’s form against the coral ground
Corner of the Poppy scarf — cream border and the coral ground, Kunstsilo label

A flower from the collection, reimagined by Fiol.

A single poppy fills the scarf — pink on coral, traced in red. Large enough that it stops being decoration and becomes a composition. The cream border frames it like a painting.

07Carlstedt - Stillife
The Carlstedt Stillife silk scarf — Stina Carlstedt’s Nordic modernist still life in orange, lavender and green, draped with the "b.j.carlstedt." signature visible
The Carlstedt Stillife scarf draped in soft folds — the silk’s sheen catching the painting’s rich palette
Corner detail of the Carlstedt Stillife scarf — the lavender border and warm amber ground
The Carlstedt Stillife scarf folded to reveal the piano-keys detail and "b.j.carlstedt." signature

Birger Carlstedt (1907–1975) — Still Life from the Tangen Collection. A quiet arrangement of objects in amber, lavender and green. A composition that rewards attention.

Its muted Nordic palette, its composed stillness — expressed in silk. A composition made to be looked at slowly, now something you wear.

08Gunnar Gundersen
The Gunnar Gundersen silk scarf — Gundersen’s abstract in bold colourblocks of purple, yellow, teal and sand, with a red border
The Gundersen scarf worn as a headband — the bright colourblocks framing the face
The Gundersen scarf worn loosely around the collar, showing the corner colours
Corner detail of the Gundersen scarf showing the Kunstsilo label and hand-rolled edge
The Gundersen scarf folded flat — the full colourblock composition in purple, yellow and teal

Gunnar S. Gundersen (1921–1983) — primary colours in separate fields, compositions that hold their weight without touching.

Fiol took one of those compositions — purple, yellow, teal, pink — and translated it to silk. Each block of colour holds the same weight it held on canvas; what changes is the material, and the light that moves across it.