Visitors 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...

Trude Schjelderup Iversen is an art critic, editor and curator. She has been the Director of UKS (Young Artists Society) 2001-2005, where she curated several exhibitions. She has contributed to Frame, Le Monde Diplomatique, Kontour, Morgenbladet, Billedkunst and Kunstkritikk.no in addition to various catalogues and books such asLights on (2008) Astrup Fearnley Museet and The New Administrations of Aesthetics (co-editor, Torpedo Press, 2007). Schjelderup Iversen has been a Curator in Residence at Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2008/2009, lecturing on Contemporary Art Theory. She is currently pursuing a PhD on art as critique, entitled The Aesthetic Argument, at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo.

Terje Nicolaisen received his education at the Academy of Fine Art (KHIB), Bergen, Norway, and the Academy of Fine Art (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. He has since exhibited extensively in Norway and abroad. Among his recent exhibitions are 'Starving Artist Super Star' (2011), Archive Books, Berlin, Germany; 'Paperwork' (2011), Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvik, Norway; 'Young Melancolic Society' (2011) Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway; 'Tegneklubben' (2010), Grimm Museum, Berlin; 'The mind of this death is unrelentingly awake' (2009), Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Oslo; 'Museo De Pasatiempo Enlargement' (2010), Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo; 'Drawingbiennale' (2010), Momentum Kunsthall, Moss, Norway; 'Books, Texts and Drawing' (2008), Galleri Riis, Oslo; 'Bokaktig' (2006), Fotogalleriet, Oslo; 'Stilleben/Rakett' (2005), Projekt 0047, Berlin, Germany and 'Tegneklubben' (2005), Bergen Kunsthall/No.5, Bergen. The reader 'Supplementary Notes 1994 - 2011 On Selected Proposals 1995 - 2005' was published in connection with 'Paperwork' at the Henie Onstad Art Centre.

Helge Hiram Jensen works with participatory art, action research, anarchitecture and media activism. He is now following a four-year plan for fertilizing the further growth of transnational lines of communication between experiments in sustainable living. The spinal cord of this work is an action research project on participatory sewerage design in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. "Out of place" will be the concept for artists working in an interdisciplinary planning machine together with end users, designers, engineers, ethnographers, health workers and local authorities. The input: exchange on relevant experiences worldwide. The output: an anthology, an exhibition shown in relevant cities, and a concrete infrastructure for self-help.

Trond Hugo Haugen works mainly with black and white drawings and books. He uses a low-key, absurd and poetic tone to show our need to travel to parallel worlds; be it into the world fantasy or into our body - and how we lose ourselves in time. Haugen has published three books, Det Kjedelige Kunstverket (The Boring Work Of Art) 2002; Lack Of Soul, 2003; and, most recently, Book D from 2005. Today, his publishing house noCUBE established to publish his own works, works mainly with other artists. Haugen also runs Stavanger2018.no, an ongoing project discussing the long-term effects and future opportunities for artists in the region after the celebration of Stavanger as the European Capital of Culture in 2008. He has three upcoming solo exhibitions in Sweden: This May Take Several Minutes at Gallery Pictura, Lund, 2006 and solo shows at Gallery Mors Mössa, Gothenburg, and Gallery Ping Pong, Malmö, both in 2007.