Knut Åsdam is a filmmaker, installation artist, sculptor, photographer, writer and professor. He studied at Maui Community College, Hawaii; University of Oslo; Goldsmiths College, London; Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht; and at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York.
The main interest of Åsdam’s work is a concern for contemporary society and its psychological and material effects, and the toll of every day life; e.g. how individuals construct and negotiate their identity in reaction to the rules and organizations of contemporary society. He investigates the usage and perception of public urban spaces, including their structures of political power and authority. Åsdam´s work has been shown at Tate Modern, London; Bergen Kunsthall; Tate Britain, London; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; Venice Biennial; Kunsthalle Bern; Istanbul Biennial; FRAC Bourgogne; MACRO, Rome; Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Manifesta7; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; P.S.1 MOMA, New York; and Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris among others. Upcoming exhibitions and projects includes two feature film projects on contemporary Europe. Åsdam’s writing, mostly on the politics of space and gender have been published widely.
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Marte Danielsen Jølbo is an independent curator and writer. She is co-founder of Another Space, a project space for art and architecture based in Copenhagen and Oslo. Jølbo is also co-founder and editor of the web journal Contemporary Art Stavanger, and is the author and editor of several art publications. She has contributed essays to publications by the Munch Museum, Norwegian Textile Artists and the Norwegian Art Yearbook, amongst others. Jølbo holds an MA in Modern Culture and Cultural Communication from the University of Copenhagen, and a BA in Comparative Literature. Recent curatorial projects include the Another Space projects 'Permanent Construction' at Open Source Gallery, New York; 'Vertical Displacement' at Insitu, Berlin and 'Unflatten' at Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, as well as '(re)remember study Kansas City', a collaboration with the performance company Findlay//Sandsmark at Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City.