Bodil Furu is an artist working with documentary filmmaking where abiding humanistic questions meet current concerns of globalization and the mediation of reality. In her film ‘we meet people who reflect upon their role and significance in the society they are part of – people with a vastness of different stories and cultural backgrounds’, presented as an ongoing study of the way in which reality is formulated and represented. Furu's work has been presented at the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014); the Lubumbashi Biennale 2013, Lubumbashi; the Democratic Republic of Congo; Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London, UK (2012); Kunsthall Oslo (2012); Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway (2012); Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany (2012); The MIT List Visual Arts Center (2010); the Festival International de Film et Video de Création, Beirut, Lebanon (2008); 'Documentary Fortnight Expanded' at MoMA, New York, NY, USA (2007); The 10th Istanbul Biennale, Turkey (2007) and the Busan Biennale (2006). Furu holds a MA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
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Torbjørn Rødland has exhibited at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA; Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; the 48th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, among others. His films have been exhibited at venues such as Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; the 2007 Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA and Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain. Project books include Andy Capp Variations (Hassla, 2011), I Want to Live Innocent (steidlMACK, 2008) and White Planet Black (steidlMACK, 2006). Upcoming solo exhibitions include Galleri Standard, Oslo (December 2011) and Air de Paris, Paris (January 2012).
Stian Ådlandsvik graduated in 2006 and holds a degree from HfBK in Hamburg and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Through an interplay of historical fact and artistic expression Stian Ådlandsvik maps up unusual connections in international trade and production systems questioning their organisational form and examining their infliction on society. He processes historical and contemporary events and objects, which he evaluates and re-contextualises in the form of drawings, photographs and sculptures. Recent exhibitions include 'Unfinished Business', Waterside Project Space, London, UK, 'The Barentz Triennale', Oslo/Tromsø, Norway/Rovaniemi, Finland/Helsinki, Finland/Murmansk, Russia/Moscow, Russia, The Drawing Biennale 2010, Moss, Norway, and 'W17', Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo with Lutz-Rainer Müller.