Nicholas John Jones is an artist and curator based in Oslo, Norway. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of PRAKSIS, a non-profit organisation dedicated to art, research, and learning that brings awareness and positive change to contemporary issues. His curatorial practice champions interdisciplinary and transnational dialogue, fostering creative knowledge and communities by connecting artists, thinkers, and institutions across borders and disciplines. At PRAKSIS, he has collaborated with a diverse range of artists and institutional partners to develop numerous residencies, exhibitions, events, and publications addressing social, ecological, and cultural concerns, such as the research programmes: Understanding Intelligence (in collaboration with Ageliki Lefkaditou and the University of Oslo) and An Urgent Situation – Rethinking tourism through art, architecture and community (with Samong Haven and Don Lawrence).
Read MoreGendai is a collective run by Petrina Ng and Marsya Maharani. They are also part of the Collective Collective, a larger network of majority-racialized arts collectives to explore sharing of labour and resources to increase each other’s capacity.
Gendai / Collective Collective (CoCo) is a collective-run organization founded in 2000 to support Japanese artists in diaspora in Tkaronto/Toronto. As an experimental endeavor of succession planning, when the former leadership wanted to retire: They held an open call to give the organization away. In its current iteration, Petrina and Marsya focus on network-building and systems change work that was led by racialized arts practitioners.
Read MoreSince 2021, Giovanna Esposito Yussif is the artistic director of the Museum of Impossible Forms. MIF is a cultural center and the coming together of communities of art and cultural workers working to build anti colonial, anti patriarchal, and non-fascist commitments and futures.
It is located in East Helsinki.
Read MoreFarbod Fakharzadeh is an artworker and curator based in Finland. He is interested in art’s potential in shaping what is yet to come, and his work deals with notions of work, curatorial, hospitality, regenerative agency, collective dreaming, and political imaginaries. Farbod currently works as the director of Arte ry, Titanik gallery and Titanik A.i.R residency in Turku, Finland.
Read MoreSepake Angiama’s praxis stems from radical pedagogies, black feminist thought, rethinking human/non–human relations rooted in how we might reimagine and inhabit the world otherwise. She is the artistic director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva), dedicated to developing artistic research, embodied practices, collective study, publishing and community led commissioning that reflects on the social and political impact of globalisation. She has previously held positions at Tate Modern, Manifesta and documenta. Her current research and thinking stems from an interest in spatial justice, speculative thinking and intentional communities grounded in radical imagination towards creating ecologies of care, empathy and kindness.
Read MoreSophie is an artist invested in power, belonging and futures. The artistic practice overcome the boundary of organizational and pedagogical structures, engaging people to think-act together about self-directed ways of coming into relation with each other. The works are influenced by personal and shared experiences of cultural difference, coloniality, race and gender.
Read MorePatricia Carolina (MX) is an artist and organizer based in Oslo. She works primarily with video, text and textile. Intricately weaving together ideas on language, progress and loss, her practice follows the relation between water infrastructures, vulnerability and displacement, from a flooded village in northern Mexico to a water sanitation plant by Oslo fjord.
Read MoreRebecca Jane Arthur (1984, Edinburgh) is a visual artist working predominantly with the moving image and writing. Her works often transpire as experimental films, and her interest lies in how personal stories depict a socio-political context and history, giving particular attention to class politics, education and women’s experiences.
Read MoreIcaro Lopez de Mesa Moyano, also known as, Nene del Solar is a Colombian sound-media artist, musician and educator interested in creating instruments based on digital-electronic infrastructures for performing arts. In his artistic PhD Icaro researches the agency of gold used in electronic microchips and connectors, proposing music-sound instruments and performance as alternatives to reflect about environmental damage and ecosystem imbalance that gold mining and extraction has caused in territories around the global south. Thus, Icaro's interest in Elasticity arose from the research on the mining communities and bodies that stretch, resist and fight against gold and metal mining.
Read MoreÅsa Båve (1988) is an artist and filmmaker based in Oslo and Gothenburg. She recently completed an MFA at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and holds a BFA in Photography from HDK-Valand. She works with installation, sculpture, performance, and video. Her work revolves around vulnerability, interdependence, and care from a feminist perspective, often through the lens of maintenance work. In recent years, she has focused on soap as a material in flux, as a way to approach investigating how the material can embody leakage, fragility and change.
Read MoreMalin Bülow works at the intersection of textile, sculpture, and choreography, creating monumental, site-specific performance installations where body, textile, and architecture form an interconnected spatial system. The elasticity and transparency of the textile membrane serve as both material foundation and conceptual force — a medium for exploring the relationship between strength and vulnerability, structure and dissolution.
Read MoreMalin Bülow works at the intersection of textile, sculpture, and choreography, creating monumental, site-specific performance installations where body, textile, and architecture form an interconnected spatial system. The elasticity and transparency of the textile membrane serve as both material foundation and conceptual force — a medium for exploring the relationship between strength and vulnerability, structure and dissolution.
Read MoreMai Hofstad Gunnes is a visual artist living and working in Oslo. Hofstad Gunnes works primarily with film and video installation. She often employs collective workshops and staged performative situations to explore collective memory and processes of knowledge production. Her film Spin, Measure, Cut (2023) connects the act of weaving with genetics and reflect on recent discussions on biotechnology, bioethics and how emerging technologies are reshaping our understanding of what it means to be human.
Read MoreFelicia Hedman is a Swedish dance and circus artist based in Helsinki. She has been educated in Italy, France, Portugal, and Sweden, developing a practice rooted in circus, contemporary dance, and acrobatics. Felicia’s work investigates the meeting point between these disciplines, exploring the comical, the unexpected, and the playful qualities of circus alongside the raw, instinctive expressivity of dance.
Read MorePRAKSIS is an Oslo-based transnational arts and culture catalyst that fosters inclusive, cross-disciplinary collaboration and public dialogue on urgent social and creative issues through residencies, partnerships, open programming and publishing.
Read MoreSamong Haven is a developing centre for culture and learning in Northwest Bali, envisioned as a socially responsible destination rooted in community, culture, and conservation.
Read MoreKORO (Public Art Norway) is the national agency for public art, producing and promoting artworks in public spaces across Norway and supporting community-based projects through initiatives such as LOK.
Read MoreEline Benjaminsen (1992, NO) makes camera based follow-the-money narratives combining video, print- and publication making. Her works are attempts at observing the always weird, often violent and mostly invisible spaces where market fundamentalism, financialisation and ecological crisis meet.
Read MoreBelén Santillán is an Ecuadorian artist and educator based in Oslo. Her work moves through the intersections of art and critical pedagogy, imagining how institutions might open spaces for creative expression and collective learning.
Read MoreDanny Butt is Senior Lecturer at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and a member of the art collective Local Time. His work focuses on artistic research and interdisciplinary practice. He is the author of Artistic Research in the Future Academy.
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