Visitors 2009

Prerna Bishnoi is an artist, filmmaker and researcher whose practice is at the co-influence of filmmaking, performativity, study and spatial production. She is concerned with the conditions of work and play and works with strategies of creating, organizing and mobilising communities and struggles of commoning in agonistic public spaces, from a position of critical intimacy (Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason), towards actively re-imagining existing systemic relations. She makes films, writes texts, tells stories, makes sound pieces, games and facilitates group-based engagements, often in collaboration.

Ina Hagen (b.1989, NO) is an artist and writer living and working in Oslo. In her artistic practice, spanning text and printed matter, digital media, collective work, communal making practices, and pedagogical forms, Hagen constructs platforms and performative situations of collective, critical reflection. In recent projects she has been focusing on the normalisation of Norwegian energy colonialism through industry self-presentation.

Hagen has exhibited at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2023), Bergen Kunsthall (2021), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (2021), the Nordic Biennale MOMENTUM, Moss (2019), Index—The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2019), Altan (2021), Coast Contemporary, Trondheim/Bergen (2018), INCA Seattle, USA (2016), among others. She has previously been awarded international research residencies at IASPIS, Stockholm (2019-20), Capacete, Rio de Janeiro (2018), BAR Project, Barcelona (2017), and Quartier 21, Museums Quartier, Vienna (2014).

Hagen co-initiated the discursive platform and exhibition venue Louise Dany in Oslo (2016-2020), and has since 2016 intermittently contributed to the Nordic art journal, Kunstkritikk. With Louise Dany she focussed on collective explorations of critical-, feminist-, and postcolonial theory, radical pedagogy, and the artistic process as a mode of citizenship. As a writer, she was selected for the Astrup Fearnley ‘Next Generation of Norwegian Contemporary Art: Sun and Spring in January’ in 2018, and the ‘Another Gaze x Open City Docs New Critics Workshop’ in 2022.

Alongside her studio practice, Hagen has been dedicated to issues of artists’ working and living conditions, most notably through political influence work as a board member of the young artist’s union, national membership organisation, and institution for contemporary art, UKS (Young Artist’s Society) (2017-2023), and as a founding member of Kunstnerboligforeningen (The Artists’ Housing Association).

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.

Olga Robayo's works and projects deal with issues of migration, appropriation and marginality in the urban space. Robayo was educated at Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá and Statens Kunstakademi, Oslo where she completed her MFA. Since 2005 she has worked with the artist group El Parche (with Herman Mbamba and Marius Wang) and has realized diverse installation projects that seek to make room for perceiving and understanding different aesthetic and political experiences. Their work have been presented at W139, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Al-Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine; UKS and Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway. Since 2009, Robayo has been running El Parche Artist Residency-Bogotá together with Marius Wang.

Anders Smebye's work involves satire, regressions and misreadings to comment on cultural decay and decadence. Oddities and deities are scrutinized, often ending up as dysfunctional representations with a discharged symbolism. His main focus has recently been on text, textile and sculpture. Smebye is educated at Chelsea College of Art, London; Universität der Kunste, Berlin and the Royal Academy of Art, Oslo, where he graduated in 2004. He has in the last years made himself noticed through his work with the projectspace Bastard, and as the curator of 'Provins - Ulf Aminde and Bruno Nagel' at UKS, 'Robert Smithson' at Fotogalleriet (co-curated with Lina Viste Grønli), and 'Monumento Mori' at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Devolution', UKS, Oslo; 'Devolutionaries', Tät, Berlin, Germany and 'The White on the Summit Is Not Snow, but Volcanic Ash or Dust', Landings Projectspace, Vestfossen, Norway. Group exhibitions include 'Excavations', Sure Shore, Malibu State Beach, California, USA; 'Exfiltration I - XII', Snowball Editions, Market, Stockholm, Sweden; 'The Agony and the Exstacy' (with Martin Skauen), GrimMuseum, Berlin, Germany; 'Strips and Steel', Office of Contemporary Anarchy, Podium, Oslo and 'Fulgura Frango', Høvikodden Live, (with Nils Bech), Henie Onstad, Oslo. He is currently working on a project, Mission Creep, for NoInput Books (ed. James Hoff).

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.