Elasticity
Rebecca 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 MoreStephanie von Spreter is a freelance curator based in Oslo. She has served as the director of Fotogalleriet, Oslo, between 2011 and May 2018. In this position she has curated a large number of exhibitions and seminars with a focus on contemporary camera-based art. In her position she also initiated international collaborations with partner institutions in the Nordic and other European countries and set up a special educational programme with a focus on photography. Von Spreter is the co-founder/co-owner of the first exhibition guide for contemporary art in Oslo, U.F.O. (ufoguide.no).
Before moving to Norway, Stephanie von Spreter served as project manager for various large exhibitions and projects, including the 4th and 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. She was assistant curator at the 50. Biennale di Venezia (The Structure of Survival) and curatorial assistant at Documenta11 in Kassel.
Images: Installation documentation from a selection of exhibitions curated by Stephanie Von Spreter
Marte Aas (b. 1966, NO) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Oslo. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. Different subjects of interest are realised in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives.
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