Visitors 2009

Gunvor Nervold Antonsen graduated from Bergen National Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway, in 2001. Nervold Antonsen works with cyclical patterns and ideas in nature and culture, expressed in spatial and material compositions that dwell on existential questions. Her work is based on the idea that 'an artwork, rather than being an isolated entity, fuses with nature's principles, binding together experiences of the material and immaterial, the real and the fictional world'. Using an experimental, intuitive and personal approach, she constantly seeks new forms of expression in installations and spatial compositions. Her practice involves a variety of materials and techniques, such as textile montages, wood sculptures, painting, printing, drawing, text and sound. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Spring Burial' at Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway; and 'Early Pictures' at Akershus Kunstnersenter in Lillestrøm, Norway. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, Norway; Bomuldsfabiken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway; Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway; The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; The National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway; and KODE, Bergen, Norway.

Gabriel Johann Kvendseth is an artist whose practice combines a wide range of disciplines such as sculpture, installation, text and performative situations. His work explores the nature of value and transaction, trying to break away from common conceptions regarding ritualistic, practical or economic value in objects, actions and situations. Fetiches might resonate as a term in his pieces, but fetishism should be connected to its original meaning; imbuing the ordinary with extraordinary qualities, beyond its function and intention. Kvendseth is a graduate of the Bergen National Academy of Art and Design (KHiB).

Line Ulekleiv is as a critic, writer, and editor, and currently art critic for the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. From 2005 to 2011 she served with the art critic position for the newspaper Morgenbladet. She has been editing several publications for KORO (Public Art Norway), and for the National Tourist Routes among others, Louise Bourgeois/Peter Zumthor (Vardø, 2011), Mark Dion (Aurlandsfjellet, 2011) and Fischli & Weiss (Valdresflya/Hyde Park, 2011). Since 2010 Ulekleiv has been teaching at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and recently she was awarded a one year working grant for Norwegian critics. She is a regular contributor to the magazines Kunstkritikk and Billedkunst.

Ellef Prestsæter is a researcher and a freelance writer and curator. Prestsæter works at the University of Oslo and he is a regular contributor to the Norwegian newspaper and magazines Klassekampen, Vinduet and Kunstkritikk. He is the editor of the publication project Rett Kopi (most recent publication include The Invention of the Bright Day by José de Almada Negreiros, translated from Portuguese into Norwegian). Prestsæter is the director and curator of the exhibition project 'The Gutenberg Galaxy at Blaker' and co-founder of the Scandinavian Institute of Contemporary Comparative Vandalism (currently on display at the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark).

Kristin Tårnesvik is a graduate of the Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB). Tårnesvik works with different media such as photography, text, installation and performances. She held solo exhibitions at Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway and Sami Artcenter, Karasjok, Norway (2010); Galleri Huuto, Helsinki, Finland (2008) and Tromsø Kulturhus, Tromsø (2007). Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo and Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Saman Kamyab holds a BA and MA from the Bergen National Academy of Arts. He has exhibited in various institutions such as Podium, Oslo; Wiels Contemporary Arts Centre, Project room, Brussels; Louise Dany, Oslo; Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö; Landings Projects, Vestfossen.

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard is a graduate of the Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden. Aasgaard’s work is concerned with humor is and its social functions in its development as a political experience in relation to art. Her work has been exhibited in Penang, Malaysia; Kristiansand, Norway; Oslo, Norway; Malmö, Sweden and Arendal, Norway.

Runa Carlsen was educated at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, NY, USA. Carlsen works with a variety of media such as video, photography, text and sound-installations, where she combines documentary and autobiographic material to investigate the relation between personal and collective memory within a socio-political contexts and its history. Recently, she held solo exhibitions at Fotogalleriet, Oslo and at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her latest video‐work was presented within The Spring Exhibition 2013 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. Together with Unni Gjertsen she initiated a Reading group at Kunstnernes hus in 2011. Their recent collaboration called The Corner Office is a platform whose intention is to create a nomadic vessel using inter-disciplinary, dialogic approaches to contemporary issues to operate in art spaces, universities and the corporate arena.

Unni Gjertsen is a visual artist working with subjects relating to history and memory. She studied at Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts and University of Oslo. In Gjertsen's silk-screen series Creative History (2003-04) tabloid statements were presented in a seductive form, telling a story of success for ten women intellectuals and artists. She mixed facts, lies and possible truths addressing a relationship between truth and wanting to believe. She employed a similar strategy in The Mai Zetterling-Project (2005), which focused on the historiography on the Swedish filmmaker. Unni Gjertsen's most recent solo exhibitions are Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Gdansk (2007) and Konsthall C Stockholm (2005). Group shows include Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek/Belgium, Henie-Onstad Art Centre Norway and Rauma Biennale Finland in 2008, MuHKA Antwerp and IASPIS Stockholm in 2007, and Göteborgs Konsthall (2006).

Johanne Nordby Wernø is a writer and curator currently working as a critic for the daily paper Dagbladet and for Artforum. A freelance writer since 2000, she has contributed to publications such as Vinduet, Morgenbladet, Klassekampen, Billedkunst, D2 (Dagens Næringsliv), Kunstkritikk, and many more, and to various anthologies. She serves on the board of Kunstkritikk, the Nordic art review. In 2009, she graduated with an MFA in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice fromKonstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. She also holds a BA in Aesthetical Studies from the University of Oslo. Her recent curatorial projects include Tori Wrånes at Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm; ’Pica Pica’ (Per-Oskar Leu, Ebba Bohlin, Kaia Hugin) at Entree, Bergen; and the group exhibition ’Rom for stein og hjort’ co-curated with Karolin Tampere, which travelled to five cities in Norway throughout 2011.

FRANK is an Oslo based platform run by the Norwegian artists Liv Bugge (b. 1974 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) and Sille Storihle (b. 1985 in Tromsø, Norway, lives and works in Oslo and Berlin), established to nurture art and critical discourse revolving around gender issues, desire, and sexuality. Since April 2012, FRANK has developed a practice where Bugge and Storihle functions as hosts, curators, and editors. The platform started as a salon, and now operates in different locations and with various co-curators. The work they do with FRANK is intertwined with their individual artistic practices, and aims at building community while creating discussions that address hegemonic structures in society. FRANK has realised projects in conjunction with institutions in Oslo such as Kunstnernes Hus (2012); UKS (2013); Kunsthall Oslo (2014) and ONE Archives (2014) in Los Angeles. The platform has worked with artists, writers and critics such as Katarina Bonnevier, Gerd Brantenberg, Mathias Danbolt, Marie Høeg, Klara Lidén, Roee Rosen and Wu Tsang.

Jon Benjamin Tallerås graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo in 2011. Tallerås works with a variety of media such as photography, video, sculpture, performance and text. Tallerås investigates urban space, exploring hidden and often non-used areas of the city. Using found materials to create sculptures and making transient performances that claim the accidental gaps and spaces formed on the margins of functional architecture. Parallel with his artistic practice, Tallerås is one of the initiators and curators of the project space One Night Only Gallery. His recent exhibitions include ‘Acting On a Tip’ at Grünerløkka Kunsthall, Oslo; ‘The Strange Fête (End)’ at Malmøgata Fine Arts Project Space, Oslo; ‘Word Perfect 2.0’ at No Place, Oslo; ‘Read Me’ at Kurant Visningsrom, Bergen; ‘Terskel’ at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo and ‘Lediggang og omkringdriven’ (Vagrancy and Idleness) at Kunsthall Oslo.

Narve Hovdenakk graduated from Trondheim National Academy of the Arts and received his MFA from Malmö Art Academy in Malmö, Sweden. His video works analyzing the emotional, male role have attracted particular attention. Through his video installations and re-staging Hovdenakk deals with issues such as identity, deception and challenging the representation of masculinity. Hovdenakk has had several solo exhibitions in Norway and has participated in many national and international group shows. His recent exhibitions include ‘Desire’ Stenersenmuseet-Kunstmuseene Bergen (2012); ‘MEN’ at Galleri F15, Moss (2011); ‘Re-criminalized’ at Trondheim Kunstmuseum avd Gråmølna (2010); ‘What will the future bring?’ at Grimmuseum, Berlin (2010); ‘Godesses’ at The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo (2010); Glasgow International Art Festival, Glasgow (2008); and Nice & Fit Showroom, Berlin (2007). He also participated in the 1st Athens Biennale, ‘Destroy Athens’ in Greece (2007).

KNIPSU is both an artist-run space based in Bergen, Norway, and a mobile platform, producing exhibitions, events, screenings, concerts, workshops and publications. KNIPSU set out to provide an interdisciplinary meeting point for creative exchange and dialogue between artists across national borders. It is run within the framework of collaboration and DIY by Hilde Jørgensen, Kristin Tårnesvik and Maya Økland since August 2010.

Hans Kristian Borchgrevink Hansen is a visual artist whose concern is to map specific geographical areas, by making use of materials and discoveries collected from the street. Debris from the pavement and found objects become an image of the city's visual undercurrents and with their indeterminate and abstract forms are reminiscent of diminished modernist sculptures. Borchgrevink Hansen holds an MA from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB) and a BA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO).

Marit K. Flåtter graduated from Bergen National Academy, dep. of Fine Art in 2005. She works within a social discursive art practice in which the non-linear and cognitive bi-effects of texts and 'forced' reflection is a performative medium. Since 2010 Flåtter has been working as writer editor in the editorial staff at the artdiscourse initiative and knowledge distributor Trondheimkunsthall.com. Her recently curated projects include the ongoing text series 'Artistic Compromises in Public Space', for readers of the website, with contribution from, among others, Dag Wiersholm, Niels Henriksen and Simon Harvey.

Victoria Pihl Lind graduated with an MA degree from the Academy of fine art in Oslo in 2008, and a BA from Chelsea College of art in London. Lind works with a variety of media such as video, text, photography and performance and her recent production investigates the performative and text-image relation in video and performance. Recent group shows include, 'HOLOGHOST, Performance in Radom city', National Center for Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland, and 'Endring og stillstand – Hagen som materiale og motiv i kunsten' at Galleri F15, Moss, Norway. In 2009 and 2010, Lind co-edited the issues Dreampolitics (1-2, 2009) and On Contemporary art / Om Samtidskunst (1-2, 2010) of UKS-Forum Magazine for Contemporary Art.

Natalie Hope O'Donnells educational background includes a BA in Modern History and Politics from the University of Oxford and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London. She will defend her PhD, entitled Space as Curatorial Practice, at the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) in 2015. Previous curatorial projects include the comprehensive retrospective of Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner at MK Gallery (2012) and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (2013); an exhibition of Norwegian film and video art of the 1990s at Atopia in Oslo (2013); and the 'First Supper Symposium' with Pussy Riot, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti in Oslo (2014). Hope O'Donnell chairs the Norwegian Association of Curators, and is the Curator/Project Leader for the Munch Museum's Off-site Projects (2016-2019). She retains an interest in curating as a spatial practice, feminist and queer performative practices, and the exhibition as an historical and cultural text.

Kristina Kvalvik studied film and fine art in Norway, Sweden and Canada, and completed her MFA from Malmö Art Academy (SE) in 2008. Kvalvik's work deals with matters relating to surveillance, the inexplicable, and the threatening. In her video installations, Kvalvik examines the limitations of sight and our ability to interpret what we see. Kvalvik has exhibited her work internationally including Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg; LOOP Film Festival, Barcelona; Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; GalleriBOX, Akureyri; Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos; Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Parkingallery, Tehran; Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås; Høstutstillingen Kuntnernes Hus, Oslo and Abandoned Gallery, Malmö.

Anne Guro Larsmon was educated at Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Konstfack in Stockholm. A playful exchange of ideas and concepts is at the core of her practice, which involves drawing, painting, collage and sculpture. Larsmon is exploring structure, systems and materiality whilst negotiating these elements with narrative, expressionism and intuition. Her work often deals with traces in some way. They represent the process of remembering, repeating and working through past events, atmospheres and influences. This process is heavily influenced by Larsmon's upbringing in the woods, a place for mythologies, rituals and solitude. Recent group shows includes 'We are the world', Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago; 'Tempo som tanke - byrom som skisse', Telemark Kunstnersenter, Skien; and 'Post Puberty' (in collaboration with Emma Wright), Podium, Oslo. She was recently awarded an artist studio residency by the Arts Council of Oslo at Rådmannsgården.

Marianne Zamecznik is a curator. She studied at the curating program at Konstfack in Stockholm from 2000 to 2002. In 2002 she co-founded Simon Says together with Stina Högkvist, with the aim of realising various art-projects, events, exhibitions and publications. Zamecznik simultaneously held a position as a curator and producer at Filmform, the Swedish video art distribution archive, from 2002 to 2004. Since February 2007, Zamecznik has been the program director of 0047 in Oslo, where she has presented projects and solo exhibitions with, most recently, Hans Thorsen, Marte Johnslien, Saskia Holmkvist and Josefine Lyche. Her curated projects include 'The space between us - Introducing the work of Stanislaw Zamecznik' (0047), 'Vodou' (0047 and Gallery 54, Gothenburg), 'Soft Spot' (0047), 'MUTE' (Bastard, Oslo and Tromsø Kunstforening), 'Untrue Stories' (Media Art Farm CCCD, Tibilisi) and 'Bokaktig' (Fotogalleriet). She has worked as an art critic in Kunstkritikk.no, Konsten.se and Billedkunst, and has been an editor for a number of publications and catalogues.

Stian Eide Kluge He is a graduate from the National Academy of Art and Design, Oslo and School of Visual Arts, Department for Film in New York. His work has recently been shown at Kunstnerforbundet, Galleri Erik Steen, 0047, Galleri Trafo and Galerei Gabriel Rolt. In 2010 he founded 1857 with Steffen Håndlykken, an artist-run space in Oslo devoted to producing new projects by international artists.

Ferocitas Lions is an artist duo consisting of Filippa Barkman and Johannes Høie. The duo works with drawing, installation, graphic and editorial formats such as publications and artist books. During their stay in Berlin, the artists will be organizing and producing a new publication, focused on artists working in the figurative and narrative field of contemporary drawing, across the borders and generations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geir Haraldseth is the director of Rogaland Kunstsenter. Haraldseth holds a BA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College. Previous positions include curator at the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. Haraldseth has contributed to several journals and magazines including the Exhibitionist, Kunstkritikk, Acne Paper, and Landings Journal. His work as an independent curator focuses on the links between art and the luxury goods market and he has curated shows at GucciVuitton, Miami; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Landings Project Space, Vestfossen; the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo; Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger; Teatro de Arena, Sao Paulo; and Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm. He published 'Great! I've written something stupid' in
2012, featuring a selection of his curated projects and writings, published by Torpedo Press. Upcoming publications include Collective Good, Collaborative Efforts and Luxury Face.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Lars Laumann is an artist. He draws his inspiration from the outskirts of popular culture in the form of found texts, images and objects. By sampling and re-editing, he creates collages, books or videos. Mixing different media and techniques to create idiosyncratic worlds, the results are, at times, absurd and unsettling revelations of our collective modern mythologies. Recently his work has been shown at White Columns, Foxy Productions and MoMA in New York, USA; 5th Berlin Biennial in Berlin, Germany and in the summer of 2009 he will present new works at Trænafestivalen on the Island of Træna in North of Norway.

Rakett is a collaboration between the artists/curators Åse Løvgren (b.1975 in Bodø, Norway, lives and works in Bergen, Norway) and Karolin Tampere (b.1978 in Tallin, Estonia, lives and works in Bergen) focusing on creating temporary platforms for collaborative, interdisciplinary productions. Implicitly and explicitly, their projects touch on a range of questions around (co)authorship, (im)material or ephemeral production, the role of the artist and the curator, and the potential of mobile and changeable platforms in the infrastructure for art.

Arve Rød is an artist and critic. Although inspired by the works of conceptual artists, Arve Rød does not describe his work as conceptual. The artist chooses the words "institutional evaluation" or "negotiation". He has exhibited at Galleri F15, Moss, Norway (2006), UKS Biennial, Oslo, Norway (2004) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2004). In 2004, he was the Co-editor of the Norwegian Art Yearbook. As a freelance critic, he was written for Kunstkritikk.no, Billedkunst, Morgenbladet, Flash Art International, Klassekampen and currently writes art reviews for the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.

Helga-Marie Nordby is Director of the Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing in Tromsø, Norway. Nordby has an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths College and in Art History from the University of Oslo. From 2005-09 she was Director of UKS (Young Artists Society) in Oslo. Nordby has curated a number of exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Together with AK Dolven and Maaretta Jaukkuri, she is curating Lofoten International Art Festival 2010 (LIAF).