Kajsa Dahlberg

Kajsa Dahlberg is a visual artist living in Oslo. She received her MFA at the Art Academy in Malmö 1998-2003 and was a studio fellow at the Whitney Program in New York in 2007-08. Dahlberg’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Parra & Romero in Madrid, and Lunds Konsthall. Her contributions to museums and biennials include works for Moderna Museet Stockholm, Malmö Art Museum, 8 Bienal do Mercosul, Manifesta 8, and GIBCA 2019.

Dahlberg is currently undertaking a PhD at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. This practice-based research is investigating film as an apparatus intertwined with nonhuman modes of life - specifically looking at the role of macro-algae in the history of photography. Hence, this research is engaged in thinking of (mechanical) reproduction as something that is not simply mechanical, nor exclusively the product of human decisions, but that is also, in part, the product of the activity of agents other than ourselves. Dahlberg further engages in the work of Danish playwright Ulla Ryum, exploring non-linear modes of storytelling as a way to decenter humanist perceptions of temporality. Here, the (camera)lens, rather than being the threshold between that which is registered and that which is not, becomes a device to engage a reciprocal relationship with the world.

Image 1: Installation shot from GIBCA, 2019.
Photographed by Hendrik Zeitler

Image 2: ‘The Spiral Dramaturgy’, 2019.
Film still.

Image 3: ‘Silent Spring’, 2022.
Film still, 16 mm film developed with macro-algae.

Image 4: ‘Silent Spring’, 2022.
Film still, 16 mm film developed with macro-algae.

Miriam Döring

Miriam Döring (*1993, Germany, based in Berlin) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores spaces beyond and along the porous boundary of bio-politically permeated bodies, their receptivity and incorporation of external influences. With a somatic approach she is searching for possibilities of turning vulnerability and overexposure into empowerment, speculating on bodies' potential of world-sensing, -making, and being-intertwined.

Miriam Döring is studying Fine Arts / Sculpture in Class Prof. Monica Bonvicini (UdK Berlin) since 2017, following the studies of Art and Its Mediation (BA) at the University of Paderborn. Her studies are preceded by years of training in artistic and contemporary dance, which is elementary for her body thinking in practice. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Germany, among others at Museum für Fotografie Berlin (2018) as well as in several publications. In addition to her own artistic practice, she is gaining experience in curatorial practice, artistic direction and production.

Miriam Döring’s participation at PRAKSIS is supported by Goethe-Institut Norwegen

Image 1: ‘Weathering’ (ongoing), 2022. Gravure print, acrylic massaged into cardboard. 30x42cm

Image 2: ‘Dis-channelled/container’, 2021. C-print of wax-object. 42x60cm

Image 3: ‘Stimulus / TPSMS (Triggerpoint-Self-Massage-Stick)’, 2021-2022. Object: casted polyurethane rubber, referring to public architecture around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. RLX-exercises stills.

Image 4: ‘ASM (abdominal self massage)’, 2020. Video still 4:08min.

Annike Flo

Annike Flo works cross-disciplinary between art, scenography and costume. Her practice looks into producing work based around our relationship to other beings, giving up space, and decentering the human. Her projects are often inspired by research, materials and methods from both the humanities and life sciences and she often collaborates with researchers and practitioners from other fields such as biology and ecology.

Annike has recently exhibited at Galleri Format, Meta.Morf and Atelier Nord, and ran Norwegian BioArt Arena, a new project by Vitenparken Ås, from 2018 to 2021. As a scenographer and costume designer she has worked with Punch Drunk, Secret Cinema, Another and Love magazines, MiuMiu and more. Annike holds a MA in scenography at Norwegian Theatre Academy, and a BA in Costume for Performance at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

Images 1, 2: ‘Cocreat:e:ures’, 2018. Scenographic piece, at Vitenparken Ås. Photographed by Annike Flo

Image 3: ‘s h i f t’, 2020. Detail, FAEN group exhibition at gallery Kit. Part of the Meta.Morf festival, Trondheim.

Sive Hamilton Helle

Sive Hamilton Helle (b. 1989 Oslo) is a filmmaker and visual artist based between Gothenburg and Oslo. She holds an MFA in Film from HDK-Valand and a BA in Film from London College of Communication. Hamilton Helle’s work deals with landscapes that are marked by colonialism and (hidden) industrial activity.

Teaser from her short film ‘Skog (Forest)’:

https://vimeo.com/677710474

All images: ‘Skog (Forest)’, 2020. Stills from short film.

Eli Maria Lundgaard

Eli Maria Lundgaard (b. 1989, Norway) holds a master in fine art from Malmö Art Academy (2018) and is currently based in Oslo, Norway. Her work has been presented at The Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists (2016 and 2018), the onboard program at The Antarctic Biennale (2017), as well as at several exhibitions and screenings in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In 2019 she was nominated for Future Generation Art Prize, and has through this exhibited at Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev and in Venice.

Recent solo exhibitions include UKS in Oslo (2020), Delfi in Malmö (2020), Marabouparken Konsthall in Sundbyberg (2021) and NNKS in Svolvær (2022). Later this year, she will participate in the opening exhibition of the National Museum in Norway, amongst others.

Image 1: ‘A Home for Occupants’, 2020. HD video, 17.23 min, loop.

In front: Pssst, 2020. Installation view, UKS, Oslo, 2020.

Photographed by Vegard Kleven

Image 2: ‘Barbarian’, 2019. HD video, 12.09 min, loop. Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, 2018.

Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre @ 2019.

Photographed by Maksym Bilousov.

Image 3: ‘Disappearing Act’, 2018. 16mm film transferred to HD video, 04.32 min, loop. Installation view, Gallery KHM2, Malmö, 2018.

Photographed by Jenny Ekholm.

Image 4: ‘«I»s’, 2020. Window foil with holes (reflective/mirroring from the outside and transparent black from inside).

‘Pest’, 2020. Carved holes and charcoal.

‘Pssst’, 2020. Ceramics (250 of 1000 psc. glazed).

‘Ooooo’, 2020. Ceramics and sound.
Installation view, UKS, Oslo, 2020. Photographed by Vegard Kleven.

malatsion

malatsion (b. 1974) is a visual artist living in Frankfurt (DE). She graduated in 1998 in art history, archaeology and archaeozoology at the University of Poitiers (FR) and 2003 in fine arts at the University of Strasbourg (FR). Having worked as an archaeozoologist before turning to arts studies, she was interested in environmental problems created by civilizations in ancient times.

The degradation of ecosystems and of our own bodies remains at the centre of her artistic practice in connection with life sciences, therapeutic approaches and ecology. Her work finds its expression in installations that stage sculptures, drawings, photographs and props in a fictitious narration and place which mix realism and fantasy.

More information at: www.malatsion.de

malatsion’s participation at PRAKSIS is supported by Goethe-Institut Norwegen

Image 1: ‘Genese/genesen’, 2016-2017. Treatment sheet for ID_015PL at stage 5.

Image 2: ‘Genesis of my hybridization’, 2019. Implant ID_023MR.

Image 3: ‘Healing processes. Holobionts’, 2021

Image 4: ‘Genese/genesen’, 2016-2017.

Olha Marusyn

Olha Marusyn is an artist and researcher based in Lviv, Ukraine. Currently she works with choreography, text, performance and filmmaking. Her main interests lay in interaction environments modeling, dance as aesthetics of change, body as a landscape, and also language, gravity and questions of verticality.

Olha is a cofounder and active resident of soma.majsternia – a self-organised community and independent DIY-space for body and music in Lviv, Ukraine.

Images 1, 2: Performative work
Image 3: Film still short film

Lexie Owen

Lexie Owen (b 1982, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores notions of the collective, structures of support and the organizational potential of being with. Using artistic, curatorial and textual methods her projects seek to create space for intimacies in unexpected ways, investigate the material conditions that surround collective acts, and find unconventional expressions of agency within the gestures and social forms that make up everyday life.

Owen is currently based in Oslo and holds a MFA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Image 1: ‘Small Comfort’, 2021. 12hr23 looping SD video. Video Still

Image 2: ‘Friction is what keeps us together. Friction is what moves us forward.’ Still from in process video work

Image 3: ‘Bodies (mineral | water)’, 2022. 4m looping HD video. Video Still

Rebekka Sæter

Rebekka Sæter is a movement-based artist and environmental educator from Oslo, Norway. She graduated with an MA in Transcultural European Outdoor Studies in 2014. She has studied Choreography at Dartington College of Arts and Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) and Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is the Artistic Director of the interdisciplinary art project ghosting Glacier and has worked as a guide and environmental educator across Scandinavia. 

rebekkasaeter.com 

Both images photographed by Linnea Syversen

Pia Aimée Tordly

Pia Aimée Tordly (NO) is an interdisciplinary social scientist, writer and activist currently undertaking an MA in Health and Social Care at University of Southeastern Norway (USN). Drawing on her own lived experiences, Pia uses fiction and non-fiction to share research into environmental disability.

Ylva Westerlund

Ylva Westerlund (b. 1975, Husum) is an artist working with speculative thinking of the future connected to first-hand experience of field excursions in nature and society. Westerlund holds a Master of Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy (1998-2003).

Her work has been shown at venues like the 9th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moss, Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, The Latvian Center of Contemporary Art in Riga, The Museum of Sketches in Lund, The Center Red in Moscow, Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm and Centro Cultural Montehermoso Vitoria-Gasteiz. Westerlund was a resident of the IASPIS programme in Stockholm (2007-2008) and at the Residency programme Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2011-2012)

Westerlund’s participation in residency 21, Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads was supported by Konstnärsnämnden.

Image 1: ‘In the childhood of pulp’, 2021, wash drawing print on fabric, hanging on a clothes line.

Image 2: ‘My mother was a fish/ Re plant’, 2021, charcoal on board.

Image 3: ‘Memorandum from an ongoing spillage’, 2021. Graphite drawing on paper.

Image 4: ‘Sulfate 3000’, graphic novel.