Visitors 2021

Agatha Wara is a Bolivian-American artist living and working in Oslo. She studied at the Center for Curatorial Studies in New York, USA and the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway. Her work is largely founded in language and draws inspiration from philosophical notions of “the self”. These questions are elaborated in the exhibition space through texts, installations, and performances. Wara treats her own biography, clothing, and objects from her life as material to play with, as a way to dispel (but also celebrate) ever-forming notions of a self. This conflict is reflected in her 2018 text titled “The Hungry Woman” about a woman who lives in Bolivia and has 11 mouths covering her entire body. In keeping with an expansive practice Wara has presented projects for a variety of institutions and contexts. Some of these include Podium, UKS MINIBAR, Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Soppen Performance Festival, Lofoten International Art Fair, all in Norway. As well as CHART Art fair (Copenhagen), Pure Fyction Art Book Fair (Frankfurt), NADA Art Fair (NY), Red Bull Studios (NY), Dismagazine.com (NY), Art Basel (Miami), and Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami). Wara is the editor of an eponymous magazine titled Agatha, and is currently writing a column for Kunstkritikk,no titled Den aktuelle aktualiteten/The Actually Actual. In 2021 she will publish her debut novel as part of the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum in Oslo.