Visitors 2013

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.