Developed with Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art
and artist Stine Marie Jacobsen
Stine Marie Jacobsen, ‘Group-Think’ for Manifesta Biennial, 2020
Residency Dates: April - June 2021
In early summer 2021, a group of six curators aged between 19-22 will work with artist Stine Marie Jacobsen (DK/DE) and staff from PRAKSIS and Nitja to refine and realise their vision for an exhibition at the new Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Spring 2022.
Building on relationships that PRAKSIS and Nitja have already established with young people in the Oslo and Lillestrøm communities, this residency departs from PRAKSIS’s usual open call model. Future Voices Now and the resulting 2022 exhibition form part of both organisations’ long-term project to integrate young people into their core activities and create programmes that give young adults a voice in the culture field.
The young curators participating are: Haawa Abdirahman Abdille, Fatima Hadouchi, Vera Moi, Sara Mreihil, Henrik Stiansen and Emanuel Waal.
About Stine Marie Jacobsen
Conceptual artist Stine Marie Jacobsen uses participation, collaboration, active listening, conflict analysis and dialogue as tools in her development of participatory projects. Taking themes such as language, gender, violence, death, taboo, anonymity and psychology, the artist creates experimental, performative works that promote critical thinking and propose new ways of looking at important topics, such as ethics, identity, control, fear and trust.
Jacobsen’s long-term participatory projects include Direct Approach, in which people retell from memory the most violent film scene they have watched and choose to play either victim, perpetrator or bystander in a reenactment. In Law Shifters the artist used film to focus on legal systems: working in collaboration with lawyers, she organised law-writing workshops for refugees, immigrants and other citizens, and invited them to construct their own proposals for new laws and legal reforms.
Her work has been showcased in 2018 at Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen and Flat Time House in London, and in 2016 at Galerie Wedding in Berlin. Between 2012 and 2015, she exhibited work at Overgaden’s Department of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Galway Arts Center, Ireland, District Berlin and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Selected group shows include the Manifesta Biennial 2020 in Marseille, the Momentum Biennales of 2013 and 2019 in Moss, Norway, Latvia’s 2018 Riga Biennial and Finland’s 2013 Turku Biennale. Between 2009 and 2017, she participated in events at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, and the 10th OPEN International Performance Festival in Beijing, China.
About Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art
Previously known as Akershus Kunstsenter, Nitja It is a public art centre in Lillestrøm, 20km east of Oslo. Established by artists in 1976, it is today one of Norway’s most prominent county-funded art centres. Nitja’s different departments present, mediate and debate contemporary art through a diverse programme of exhibitions and parallel activities, including festivals and youth, health and social projects.
This project is supported by Viken fylkeskommune and Arts Council Norway.
