Oscar Qvale earned his BA degree from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB), specialising in photography. In 2012 he received his masters degree from the Oslo Academy of Fine Art. Qvale's films have been screened in art institutions and galleries in Norway such as Kunstnernes Hus and Galleri Melk, and Rencontres Internationales Paris on an international level.
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Helene Førde holds an MA in fine art from the Bergen Academy of Art and design (2014), and completed the Nordic Sound Art master program degree the same year. She is mainly working with larger installations and sculptural works, usually with sound as an integrated part of the work, and with a context– or site sensitive approach. She has an interest in exploring our perception, awareness and sensation of atmospheres, and the distinctive stories and characters of spaces. She has recently been participating in group exhibitions at Punkt Ø and Galleri F15, Moss, Norway; the Umeå Academy of Fine Art, Umeå, Sweden; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; Gallery KiT, Trondheim, Norway; Officina delle Arte, Reggio Emilia, Italy and Italienska Palatset, Växjö, Sweden. Førde has also curated two exhibitions in Reggio Emilia, Italy: `Corpo Condiviso´(2013) and `Cold Current´ (2014, an exhibition with 14 Norwegian artists in four different venues. She is the winner of the international Sonotopia Sound Art Competition 2015.
Joar Nango is an architect with a degree from NTNU in Norway and a practising artist. He works with site-specific installations and self-made publications, which explore the boundary between architecture, design and visual art. Thematically speaking, his work relates to questions of Indigenous identity, often through investigating the oppositions and contradictions in contemporary architecture. Recently, he has worked on the theme of The Modern Sámi Space through, amongst other things, a self-published zine series entitled Sámi Huksendáidda: the Fanzine, design project Sámi Shelters and the mixtape/clothing project Land & Language. He is also a founding member of the architecture collective FFB, which works with temporary installations in urban contexts. He has held several exhibitions in Canada, at 161Gallon gallery (2007) and Gallery Deluxe Gallery in Halifax (2008), at GallerySAW in Ottawa (2013) and at Western Front in Vancouver (2014). Nango’s work has also been exhibited internationally in Ukraine, Finland, China, Russia, Colombia and Bolivia. He is currently involved in setting up a network of Sami architects across Sáapmi.
Mariken Kramer was educated from The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway. She has an interest in ‘the underlying mechanisms of interpersonal encounters and relations and the role of the individual in the social groups’. Her work has been presented at Galleri BOA, Oslo, Norway; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Trondheim; Cirkulations Centralen, Malmö, Sweden and La Belleviloise, Paris, France.
Ragnhild Aamås graduated from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2012. Recent exhibitions include 'Spoken word' at Percival Space, Oslo (2012), MA exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus and Black Box Theatre, Oslo (2012), 'Hypertekstuelt Wasteland', Audiatur Biennial, Bergen (2012) and Salon#1 at INCA, Detroit, MI, USA (2011).
Marius Moldvær graduated from Bergen National Academy of the Arts, department of Photography in 2011. Together with his class from The Academy he established Gruppe-11, that have worked together on exhibitions at One Night Only and Bergen Kjøtt and also through various publications and other events. Moldvær has also exhibited at Holodeck, Oslo (2011) and published the book Real World or Places that Don't Exist together with Carl-Oskar Linné in October 2012. In 2013 he will be a part of Vestlandsutstillingen.
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.
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.
Per Bjarne Boym is a curator and art historian. He served as director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo (1996-2003). Previously, he worked as a curator for the collections of the Bergen (1994-1995) and Oslo (1995-1996) municipalities. Boym has been working as an independent curator since 2003. The exhibitions he curated at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo include 'Illuminations. Art From Two Millenniums' (2000), 'Robert Adams' (2001) and 'Shanghai Assemblage' (2003). More recent curatorial projects include 'Summer Art Bjørvika 2005', Oslo, Norway; '14 + 1 Story. Touching the Practise', Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2006); and 'Yang Fudong', KinoKino, Sandnes, Norway (2010).
Torgeir Husevaag works with science-based projects in which systematised information and game-like activity generates geographical, mental and social maps, diagrams and educational charts; visualisations of data presented through drawings, artist books and installations. Among his solo exhibitions are 'Fluxroutes', Bærum kulturhus, Sandvika, Norway, 2010; 'Inflations and expirations', Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm, Norway, 2009; 'SuperSystematic', Trafo Gallery, Asker, Norway, 2008. He has participated in several group exhibitions, 'Swap', SIM Office, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2010; 'Drawing-biennial 2008', Kunstnernes hus, Oslo, 2008; 'Contemporary Scandinavian Art', SMoCA, Scottsdale, USA, 2007; 'Schutz und scham', Gallery COMA, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Ane Graff graduated from Vestlandet Art Academy, Bergen, Norway in 2004. She has been an artist-in-residence at Platform China, Beijing, China (2010), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2009), and Berlin Mitte, Berlin (2006). Solo exhibitions include 'The Aforementioned Lack of Clarity' (2010), Landings Project Space, Vestfossen, Norway, 'Patches of Standing Water' (2010), Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, 'Fall Into Matter', STANDARD (OSLO) (2007), Oslo, Norway and 'The White Work' (2006), No. 5, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway. At the core of Graff's work is an investigation into the nature of matter. She examines the surface and structure of organic mass. The 2009 exhibition 'SLIDING' at Bethanien Künstlerhaus, Berlin, saw Graff continuing this examination into the concepts of molecular diffusion and particle decay. Graff's drawings and sculptures share a clear interest in the science of materials, the materials diffusion and drift...
Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen's artistic practice includes text, photo, film, installation and sculpture whereby the artist investigates objects and signs in relation to language, transgression, representation, transformation and loss. Recently his work has been shown at Artspeak, Vancouver, The Museum of Modern Art Aalborg and Galerie Medhi Chouakri, Berlin. The residency is supported by 03-funding*
Inger Lise Hansen is an artist and A filmmaker. She studied at the University of East London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and San Francisco Art Institute. Hansen's films have been screened and exhibited in institutions such as the National Gallery in London, Académie Libanese des Beaux-arts, in Lebanon, Galerie national du Jeu de Paume in Paris, France and Gasworks Gallery, in London, UK.
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.
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).
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.
Siri Hermansen is an artist working with a variety of media such as video and photography and whose concern is the after-effects of abrupt social, economical or political changes in society. She received her education from the Parsons School of Design, Paris, France and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. She has had solo exhibitions in a number of international venues such as the Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Tsedeka, Central House of Artists Moscow, Russia, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy and MK Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Biennale Regard Benin 2012. From 2009 to 2012 she was a Research Fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Anne-Karin Furunes is an artist and a professor in visual art. She studied art at the academies in Oslo and Trondheim, and architecture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim and at The Architectural Association in London, UK. Furunes has presented solo exhibitions at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy; Galleri K, Oslo; Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden and Barry Friedman, New York, NY, USA. She also participated in the Beijing Biennial in 2005. In June 2014 she is opening a solo exhibitio at Millesgården Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Furunes currently holds the position as professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.
Mette Tronvoll studied at The New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, USA. She has exhibited extensively on a national and international level for two decades, and her works are represented in a number of public collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden and The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo.