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.
Visitors 2010
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.