Visitors 2014

Jessica MacMillan (b. 1987, New Hampshire, USA) is an artist and amateur astronomer based in Oslo, Norway. Through kinetic sculpture, light, installation, and 3D animation, MacMillan’s work investigates concepts in astronomy and planetary science, and the relationship between our everyday lived experience and the astronomical timescales and structures of the cosmos. MacMillan holds an MFA in fine arts from the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, a BFA in sculpture and art history from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, and has studied astronomy through at Arizona State University.

Recent projects include the solo exhibition ‘The World Before Eyes’ at K4 Galleri, Oslo (2023); ‘Time Line', a large-scale outdoor light installation in Svalbard (2021); and the solo exhibition 'Everyday Moons' at BOA Galleri in Oslo (2021). Previously, she has held residencies at Artica Svalbard in Longyearbyen (2021); ÖRES: Örö Island Residency Program, Finland (2019); the NBK Ny-Ålesund research station residency, Svalbard (2019); and at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2017).

Tori Wrånes is a vocalist and artist and has a transmedial artistic practice, which unfolds as performance, sculptures, videos or installations. Her use of sounds, musical instruments, costumes, props, architecture, and sculptures deforms her appearance and creates new rituals and dreamlike constellations. Choreography with sound might be a good way to describe her work, be it solo or with multiple performers, like opera-singers on bikes, musicians in a chairlift, or a singing rock.

Recent solo shows are BIG WATER at Accelerator, Stockholm, (2022), Mussel Tears at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles (2022), GARDEN of LEFTHAND, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö (2022), HANDMADE ACOUSTICS (2018) at Ujazdowski Castle for Contemporary Art in Warszawa; Tori Wrånes at Göteborg Konstmuseum (2019); Hot Pocket (2017) at Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Ancient Baby (2017), Kunsthal Charlottenborg Denmark; FLUTE WARRIORS (2017), w/Red Comunitaria Trans, Bogotà, Colombia; DRASTIC PANTS (2016), Carl Freedman Gallery London. Commissioned performances are STONE and SINGER (2014), 19Th Biennale of Sydney (2014); YES NIX (2013), PERFORMA 13 New York; NAAM YAI (2018), Thailand Biennale. WHEN YOU THINK YOU KNOW ME YOU HAVE TO RETHINK in collaboration with Ayodeji Adewale Yaro, Lagos Biennalen, Nigeria. She has shown at Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka; Dhaka Art Seminars, Dhaka Bangladesh; CCA Lagos, Nigeria; The Eccentrics, Sculpture Center, New York. In the winter of 2019 Wrånes developed an underwater performance in the Arctic called Sub Adventure, a commission for the ILIOS festival.

Wrånes is represented by Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate and Shulamit Nazarian Gallery Los Angeles.

Agata Magdalena Sulikowska (b.1982 in Namyslow, Poland, lives and works in Tromsø, Norway) is a visual artist and a graduate of the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lodz, Poland. Her practice in figurative paintings shows people in their often confusing states of life and emotion; with joy and sorrow, pride, fear, disappointment and hope. The subject matter of her paintings between 2008 and 2019, oscillate between thematics such as friendship, music, pleasure and everyday life of various people in their social and cultural environment, with these works being inspired by her past bicycle trips around the world. Since 2019, and the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, her works have transitioned into symbolic and surrealistic scenarios, using her own stream of consciousness. Currently, she is making reproduction and reinterpretations of paintings of known masters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, emphasizing and reflecting on how this historical experience is passed (consciously or unconsciously) to the next generation and how it influences cultural identity, the nationality of the group, the individuals and herself.

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Untitled’,Harstad Kunstforening, Norway; ‘Entangled Realities’, AG18 Urban Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria; ‘Art in Public Space’, Konstdax Gatugalleri, Stockholm, Sweden; ‘Festival Experiment – Out of Cycle Province 18’, Art Center Baszta, Zbaszyn, Poland, and participation in the symposium ‘Mark Rothko 2022’, Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia.