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.
Visitors 2011
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.
Marie Nerland is an independent curator and artist based in Bergen, Norway. She is the founder of Volt, a long-term curatorial initiative that commissions and presents new projects by contemporary artists. Past projects have taken the form of exhibitions, time-based media, sound art, performances, as well as publications, lectures, seminars, workshops and reading circles, all taking place in a wide variety of different locations and in public realm. With Volt she has commissioned art projects by artists such as Erick Beltrán, Mette Edvardsen, Every Ocean Hughes, Rabih Mroué, Signe Lidén, Maia Urstad, and many others. Upcoming projects are with among others Xaviera Simmons, Kiluanji Kia Henda and Daisuke Kosugi.
She is the editor of The Imaginary Reader (Volt, 2016), the anthology 25 (BIT Teatergarasjen, 2010) and Ferdsskriveren (BIT Teatergarasjen, 2003), co-editor of four issues of
the Norwegian Art Yearbook (Pax Forlag, 2010-2013), and co-editor of 3t, a Norwegian journal of contemporary performing arts (1997-2007). She has studied political science, comparative literature, and holds a master degree in theatre studies from the University of Bergen and an MA-level degree in curatorial practice from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Since 1999 she has been working as an artist in different collaborative performance-based projects.
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.