Elisabeth Byre is an independent curator. She has been the curator of the independent gallery spaces Projekt 0047 in Berlin (2005-06) and 0047, Oslo. Recent exhibitions include 'Lessons in the Art of Falling - Photographs of Norwegian Performance and Process Art 1966-2009', curated with Jonas Ekeberg at Preus Museum, Horten; 'Storyteller - Organizing Time and Space', at 0047, Oslo; and 'Ghost in the Machine', curated with Susanne Ø. Sæther at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Together, they have recently established the curatorial platform Sæther&Byre. Byre is an alumn from CuratorLab, a postgraduate curatorial program at Konstfack, Stockholm, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of Copenhagen. She is currently working as director of the BFA program at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, and as a consultant for KORO/Public Art Norway.
Visitors 2010
Eline Mugaas is a graduate from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Face of young man half in shadow’ Galleri Riis, Oslo (2010); ‘Skin flick’, Galleri Riis (2008) and 'Some Cities', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2007). She has participated in exhibitions such as 'Cities ReImagined', MoCAV, Novi Sad, Serbia (2010); 'Fake Snow', Galleri Riis, Oslo (2008); 'Recent History of Norwegian Photography', Stenersen Museet, Oslo (2007); 'Syntetische Natur', Kunstraum D-21 Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (2007) and ‘Likheter & Forskjeller / Similarities & Differences, New Norwegian Photography’, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway (2005). Together with Elise Storsveen, she is publishing the Zine ALBUM#. Until 14 May 2012, ALBUM# 1-5 is presented at the Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA, as part of the exhibition ‘Millenium Magazines’.