Steinar Haga Kristensen studied at the National Academy of Art, Oslo, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien and at Sydney College of Art. Haga Kristensen’s work seeks to unveil the positive lingual potentiality inherent in an exuberant modernity. By perverting contemporary superfluity and redundancy on a poetic and satiric quest to localise today’s heroic embodiments, he stages theatricalised spectatorship and manneristic sculptural repetition. He is also one of the founding members of the artist group D.O.R. whose most recent works include the ongoing performance, Gallery D.O.R. in Brussels. Haga Kristensen has been engaged in artistic production at Etablissement d'en face projects, Brussels, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Gallery Rod Bianco, Oslo, The Danish Pavilion at the 54th International Art Biennial in Venice, Witte de With in Rotterdam, Dortmund Bodega in Oslo, Gallery Niklas Belenius in Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Artin Roskilde, and UKS in Oslo, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen and Gallery D.O.R. in Brussels.
Visitors 2012
Victor Mutelekesha works with recurrent issues pertaining to the human condition, which he confronts through different perspectives and mediums. In particular, the artist focuses on the displacement of the human, which is generated by repressive manipulation and the increasingly visible social and environmental breakdown of cultures permeated by war and death. His work emphasises symbols, emblems and prejudices that are calling to be urgently analysed in the perspective of a real, ongoing and irreversible process of cultural contamination. Mutelekesha received his MA from the National Academy of Art in Oslo in 2007. He has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the International Culture Centre and Museum in Oslo, the Gallery Palazzo Tito in Venice and the Henry Tayaly Art Centre in Lusaka, among others. Previous group exhibitions include the 10th Havana Biennial, Videoholica in Varna, Bulgaria and Galleri Fisk in Bergen.