Martina Petrelli

Martina Petrelli is an artist, designer and curator: Italian by blood, Canadian by birth, British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, Palestinian, Swiss and Tunisian because of her life journey. Her higher education includes a MA degree from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, a BA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, an international Baccaleureate of philosophy, language and literature, and the participation to the study course Psychology of Language at the Universitetet i Tromsø.

She has exhibited and worked for several cultural platforms internationally and across Europe, and is now engaged at Fotogalleriet in Oslo as Project Coordinator for the upcoming anniversary exhibitions, publications and public archives. Her artistic practice approaches art and design as revelatory of reasons and of the absurd, as a study and reutilisation of images and structures that script given realities, juxtaposing ways of reading and of seeing.

Images: Ongoing Artistic Research

Julia Parks

Julia Parks received her undergraduate degree from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2015 and through an exchange programme studied photography and printmaking at Kyoto Seika University, Japan in 2013. She has exhibited in both England and Japan including; All Work and No Play, The People's History Museum, Manchester (2016), and 5 under 30, The Daniel Blau Gallery, London (2015).

Her practice encompasses film, animation and photography, often using series of photographs and projected 16mm film. Parks explores the methodologies of 20th century filmmakers and photographers, often reenacting historical artworks in the attempt to re-imagine and experience being in the moment of their production. More recently, she has been documenting the process of a sheep farm being sold on the Solway coast of Cumbria.

www.juliaparks.co.uk

Gabrielle Paré

Gabrielle Paré is a Canadian-born artist, living and working in Oslo, Norway. She completed her BFA at the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2011, and her MFA at the Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo in 2017.

Her practice is wide-ranging: from paper-based works, to audio-visual installations, to creative writing. At the core of all works is the desire to challenge the borders of identity with the uncanny, the uncomfortable and the hybrid body. Paré uses her own body performatively as a site for the exploration of culture, filiation, and personal mythology. 

Lara Ögel

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

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 Oslo-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores notions of the collective, structures of support and the organisational potential of being with. Using artistic, curatorial and textual methods, her projects seek to create unexpected space for intimacies, 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: Installation view of Dissident Publics (2023) at ROM, photo Bui Quy Son

Image 2: Installation view of Dissident Publics (2023) at ROM, photo Bui Quy Son

Image 3: In process image of Pillowfort (2024) photo Lexie Owen

Image 4: Installation view of The Mall Users Research Association (2020-2022), NITJA, photo Lexie Owen

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.

Jonathan Armour

Jonathan Armour is a trans-media artist who is fascinated by the human body, the person within and the skin which mediates between us. His practice which revolves around instinctive exploration and scientific experimentation often touches upon age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and body adjustments. Born in Coleraine (NI), a first degree in engineering steered his early career into IT and business, but life-events provoked a Foundation Course in Art in 2012-3 which led straight to an MA in Fine Art from 2013-15, marking the birth of his creative career.

Armour often works collaboratively with his subjects to explore aspects of them which usually confront aspects of himself. Invoking a range of media across drawing and oil painting, digitisation, direct body work to time-based digital work, he brings an off-piste approach to examining the human condition. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA.

Trinley Dorje

Trinley Dorje is a Toronto-based mixed-media artist. Her artworks are visual, anthropological explorations of the human experience which are inspired by her previous work in anthropology and her current career in healthcare. She intends her art to encourage discussion around racial, gender, and sexual biases and provide an opportunity for reflection into the importance of humans taking responsibility for their place on the Earth. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe. She has been featured on CBC Arts: Exhibitionists television series and published in magazines, medical journals and on book covers. Her artworks are included in the permanent collections of Toronto General Hospital, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, and The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

Saleh Kashefi

Saleh Kashefi (born Tehran, 1999) is an Iranian filmmaker. He has made 12 short films which have been included in over 100 film festivals around the world and have won 26 awards. His first feature film, Mammad, is one of six projects selected by Cannes Film Festival's Cinefondation Residence.

Kashefi writes; “Being judged by others is a big issue in Iran and I have made many films on this topic. The human body and its significant place in society has always fascinated me—especially as I come from a country where we always hide our bodies and are ashamed of them.”

LAB

Louis Alderson-Bythell is an artist working under the name LAB. LAB engages with the relationships between human and non-human ecologies, genetics and biological technology, environmental observation through deep time, bio-politics, and the interplay between stability and plasticity in ecological systems. These areas are used as lenses to explore, interrogate and showcase the poetry and interdependence in more-than-human systems and to build critical narratives around them.

LAB works with living matter, and has previously worked with Costume, Performance Art, 3D Scanning and digital fabrication technologies, having exhibited in group shows at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Spring Exhibition (2020) at Art Night London (2018), Rotterdam Art Week (2018) and Fashion Clash Festival (2019) with Schuit Collections and at MOMA NY for the Biodesign challenge (2017).

Erika Stöckel

Erika Stöckel (SE) holds an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Her work has been shown Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Galleri MAP, Oslo, Galleri Nos, Stockholm, and Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg among others. She writes about her practice:

“My thought process is rooted in the physicality of my own body - at the pool, in the mirror or in bed. In previous work swimming pool changing rooms have been a dominant inspiration. Thoughts take form in ceramic sculptures often presented together in installations. My aims are to question the mainstream notion of beauty, and to empower bodies generally considered non-normative. Through my ongoing work I am researching structural mechanisms behind the oppressed body, starting from the practice of eugenics on Sami people in the 1930’s, and facial recognition technology in use today.”