Residency 28, Your Pleasure, Our Pain - The ethics of luxury sets out to research into, and raise awareness of, the urgent issues surrounding the luxury industry through the loupe of the lapidary.

Residency 27, Party as Form, invites a multidisciplinary group of thinkers and makers to explore the craft of social gathering.

Residency 26, Bricking it – An Urgent Situation 2024, will explore the technology, history, aesthetics and potentials of brick as a sustainable medium. It is a continuation of PRAKSIS’s ongoing project An Urgent Situation - which pursues positive change in the travel industry.

During residency 25 Dataton Dialogues, artists Tris Vonna-Michell and Henrik Follesø Egeland are working in response to the artistic footprint of Vonna-Michell’s father, Ed Vonna-Michell (1950-2020). The residency draws on the history of self-organised art in order to push notions of authorship and forge new ways of working with archival, image and sound materials.

Residency 24, Held, invites a multidisciplinary group of artists and others to explore touch as a creative, time-based medium.

An Urgent Situation proposes that architects and creatives can play an important role in rethinking tourism; by acting with care and concern, they can propel critical changes in the industry’s infrastructure. This project will test this proposal in theory and practice. It will ask what the futures of tourism might be, and how creative people can help transform the often negative relationships between the tourist industry, tourists themselves, and the communities and places that form popular travel destinations.

This residency invites a multidisciplinary group of artists, scientists, and others to explore concepts and constructs of intelligence. The residencies will intersect with the University of Oslo’s Research Council of Norway-funded research project, Historicizing Intelligence: an enquiry into the deep effects of intelligence testing from World War I to the present.

This residency seeks to create a space for exploration and community between artists whose creative practices interact with their experiences of conflict and oppression. It is underpinned by PRIO’s ongoing research project INSPIRE which investigates creative practice and activism in contexts of war.

Artist Kajsa Dahlberg’s proposes a process of collective research into relationships between body and environment, through an investigation of the impact of chemicals and toxins on human and non-human bodies.

Residency 19 brings together a group of seven curators aged between 18-21 to 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.

Residency 18 Perfection / Speculation addresses connotations and ethics of genetic technologies. It is developed with artist and designer Adam Peacock and curator Danai Papadimitriou and held in collaboration with The Vigeland Museum and Karmaklubb*.

Developed with Lasse-Marc Riek, Goethe Institut Norway and Notam, residency 17, Climata: Capturing Change at a Time of Ecological Crisis explores sound and ecological change.

Residency 16, Live or Buy intends to re-think ecologies of consumption in intimate, personal and physical ways. It has been developed with Nina Sarnelle, Ida Falck and HAiKw/.

Developed with artist Syowia Kyambi and Oslo Kunstforening with support from Goethe Institut Norway, Carrying Histories will explore personal and cultural histories through process and discussion.

For Now that’s what I call an artist’s residency! art writer, Artforum contributor and PRAKSIS co-founder Rachel Withers challenges anyone who’d like to spend a month with PRAKSIS in Oslo, developing their art practice to send us the most ingenious, original and practical month-long work plan you can cook up. This residency is designed to support Wither’s investigation into the theory and practice of artists’ residencies.

Taking Hold – The Double Bridge will explore and question the ways that solidarity, competition and antagonism find physical expression in social relationships. Performance for camera will be used as a means to test the unspoken rules of public bodily contact: for instance, in greetings, dancing, or contact sports. The residency has been developed with Phoebe Davies and Kunstnernes Hus.

PRAKSIS and Fellesverkstedet are pleased to invite German sculptor Gereon Krebber to develop a residency focusing on an ambitious large scale work as a means to facilitate conversations on monumentality and ephemerality, improvisation and scale; the protocols of sculpture, art and cultural manifestations in the public realm.

Residents will have the rare opportunity to explore the potential of Guttormsgaard's Archive - the extensive and eclectic archive of the artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard. Working alongside curator Elvira Dyangani Ose, the group will investigate the potential of the archive as a starting point for narrative – potentially both historical and fictional.

Developed with artist Iz Öztat (Turkey), publisher Torpedo and publishing studio Eller med a, the residency explores the ways collectives can use publishing as an integral part of their artistic practice: articulating artistic imaginaries, shaping communities and proposing alternative value systems and political horizons.

Will be held in collaboration with UKS and The Moving Museum, The Artist Entrepreneur has been developed with Jeremy Bailey and looks to collectively define new manifestos for artists working in this era of increased uncertainty.

A Global State of Pareidolia will involve cross-disciplinary dialogue with local scientists, researchers and others in the exploration of issues of perception and narrative. It has been developed with Lindsay Seers and Fotogalleriet.

Smadar Dreyfus has been invited together with Kunstnernes Hus to develop Cultural Mistranslations. This interdisciplinary residency will explore the potential of translation and mistranslation in the context of displacement (of objects, sounds, ideas, as well as of people).

Eliza Naranjo Morse and Ivan Liotchev of International Collaborative Drawing Project will lead In Time, We Too Will Become Ancestors.... Partners included: Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Sami Center For Contemporary Art (SDG) and Samisk hus i Oslo.

PRAKSIS joins with Oslo Pilot to host Belfast-based film maker and musician Seamus Harahan as its summer 2016 lead artist. Throughout the Mucker Mate residency the group will explore sound, movement and environment across Oslo in both public and private space.

Held in partnership with PNEK, Atelier Nord, and Notam and developed with British collaborative duo, David Blandy and Larry Achiamong, New Technology and the Post-human will bring together a multidisciplinary community of international and Oslo based participants at varying career stages to explore and discuss issues of identity in contemporary culture.