The Collective Subject of History
Kim Svensson (1995, Sweden) lives and works in Oslo where he currently studies Fine Art at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. His works incorporates personal experiences, literary and historical references to engage with the subjects of representation and language. Often using the intricate image-text relationship as a conceptual framework, to convey narratives and/or scenarios in the minds of the encounters. He works with installation, photography, publishing and does occasional readings.
Stephanie 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
Amina Sahan is an artist with Iraqi and Norwegian background, based in Oslo, Norway. She is educated as an art teacher (Bachelorś Program Specialized Teacher Training in Design, Arts and Crafts, Masterś Program in Visual and Performing Arts: Art and Design Education at Oslo and Akershus University College) and has worked both as a teacher and an artist in the last 4 years.
Sahan is inspired by ongoing debates concerning multiculturalism, diversity and freedom of speech. Working primarily with painting, but also drawing and mixed media, her work concentrates on contrasts in both the content it depicts and its materiality.
In 2016 she wrote her Master thesis in Arts and Design Education on the relationship multicultural youth in Oslo have with visual art. She has developed this topic throughout her artistic career and as an activist, using exhibitions, lectures and the media. Her intention is to make art available in public space, and relatable to the multicultural youth of Oslo.
Sahan has exhibited in various arenas in Norway, Sweden and New York. Both in galleries and urban spaces.
Anna Sofie Mathiasen (b. 1995, Copenhagen) lives and works in Oslo. She holds a BFA from the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo (2018), where she will complete her master studies in 2020. Working with mixed media installations, writing, analogue and digital, photography, film and animation, she investigates and mediates archives, which she collects and assembles from her surroundings and personal sphere.
By processing and presenting the material continuously using a variety of methods Mathiasenn produces images and narratives that explore different ideas and relations she has about, and with, the material. Mathiasen has exhibited at RAM Galleri, Akershus Kunstsenter, and Akademirommet.
Image 1, 2: Exhibition at RAM Galleri; Vi mødes i mørket og giver hånd, 2018.
Photos by Istvan Virag
Image 3, 4: Stills from film Excavation, 2018. Cinematographer Vegard Landsverk
Elvira Dyangani Ose is Director of The Showroom, London. She is currently affiliated to the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths and the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada. Until November 2018, she will serve as Creative Time Senior Curator. Recently she was part of the curatorial team of the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement 2016, and was curator of the eighth edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, GIBCA 2015.
Previously, Dyangani Ose served as Curator International Art at Tate Modern (2011 – 2014), Curator at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, as Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha, Lubumbashi Biennial (2013), and as Guest Curator of the triennial SUD, Salon Urbain de Douala (2010). Dyangani Ose has published and lectured on modern and contemporary African art and has contributed to art journals such as Nka and Atlántica.
Juan Covelli is an artist living and working in London. His work has focused on new materialities generated by the digital era; in particular, on the dynamics and approaches of the physical within the digital world. In the last few years, he has been exploring the relationship between technology, heritage, archaeology and digital colonialism. In his execution, he employs photography, video, 3D printing, coding, and data streaming, where data manipulation of the image is used to produce installations, as well as web-based works.
Recent shows include: How to dust the surface (2018) Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Warrington, UK; Life 2.0 The wrong Biennale (2017) Online; Neixcuitilamatl (2017) ADM Galería, México City, México; Connecting Columns (2017) Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India; Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2016) Moscow, Russia.
Lara Ögel (born in Izmir, 1987) is an artist based in Istanbul. In her practice she uses a variety of mediums from collage to video. Her works develop from individual and universal concerns and take form through subtle, emotional, site and context aware installations.
Recent solo shows include; İmtidad, Galata Greek School Open Library, Istanbul (2018), Come Back! All is Forgiven, Protocinema, Paris (2016), The Happy Average, Öktem&Aykut, Istanbul (2014). Selected group shows; Restless Monuments, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul (2018), Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents, Athens (2017), Past, in Each of its Moments be Citable, DEPO, Istanbul (2016).
Image 1: Come Back! All is Forgiven, Installation view, Protocinema, Paris, 2016
Image 2: baba!, installation view from Restless Monuments, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, 2018
Image 3, 4: houses were rooms, I had forgotten (variation II), Driftwood, or how we surface through currents, Athens, 2017
