Dag Nordbrenden is an artist working with photography and, more recently, video. His work explores different concepts and genres of photography. He recently published the artist book Rub with Ashes, which is an eclectic collection of singular images of recent years. Nordbrenden is educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and the University of Derby in the UK. His recent solo exhibitions include Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm, Sweden; Galerie Opdahl, Berlin, Germany; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; and Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia. His recent group exhibitions include Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, France; Preus Museum, Horten, Norway; Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY, USA; National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany and NoPlace, Oslo.
Visitors 2008
Marthe Thorshaug. She graduated from the Art Academy in Oslo in 2003. Her first solo exhibition in Norway was Comancheria at Fotogalleriet in Oslo spring 2007. She is currently working on the manuscript for a film project entitled The Legend of Ygg, a Norse Thriller.
Ane Hjort Guttu is interested in the inherent ideology of images, non-figurative form as representation of political issues and the fine line between art and everyday objects. Her projects investigate and question representation strategies and power structures through analytical essays, image collections, formalist sculptures or staged photography.
Marte Johnslien is an artist that works with photography, installations and book projects. Her work is of an analytical nature, and derives from research and investigations of historical matters. Since undertaking a fellowship in Zambia in 2006, her work has been influenced by post-colonialism and tropical modernism in architecture. Marte Johnslien is currently working on her second book on the topic; Expo Asmara, due in October, 2008. In 2007, she produced the site-specific sculptureNorske Svik, which was a reconstruction of the illegal political action against the company Norske Skog's nameboard, upon the closing of the local paper mill in Skien, Norway. Recent exhibitions include Lights On: Bastard Presents: Monumento Mori(2008), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway and Synthetic Nature(2007) Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, Germany. The artist is currently participating in the exhibition Bookish at the Glucksman Gallery in Cork, Ireland and holing solo show at 0047, Oslo, Norway.
Andreas Siqueland is an artist. Together with Andreas Kjellesvik they constitute aiPotu. The duo works with site-specific projects, which are often of a collaborative nature, crossing over traditional boundaries for artistic practice. From November, 2007 to June, 2008, Andreas Siqueland was a resident at Pavilion Residency Program at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Recent exhibitions includePavillon 7, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France and Tegnebiennalen 2008, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, and 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.