Kirsty Kross

Kirsty Kross holds a Bachelors Degree in Art History from the University of Queensland and a Masters of Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts.

Her work has been featured in Bedfellows at Tate Modern London, The Partisan Cafe at The Bergen Assembly, Østlandsutstillingen, ONO and PINK CUBE in Oslo as well as in Berlin at Parkhaus Projekts, Galerie Crystal Ball and Galerie Walden.  From 2000-2010 Kirsty Kross was a co-creator and performer in the music/performance group, Team Plastique and performed extensively across Europe and Australia at clubs and events such as Glastonbury, Kunstsalon Berlin and the closing party of the 2006 Berlin Biennale.

Kirsty Kross’ work combines performance, drawing, music and installation and deals with thehuman condition questioning appropriate adult behaviour and the relationship between the artist, artwork and audience. Her recent work deals with the attention economy, global economic and social changes as well as impending ecological doom. Kirsty Kross moved to Oslo in 2015 and is a board member of Performance Art Oslo.

Photographs by (from top to bottom) Miguel Lope, Thor Brødreskift, Zane Cerpina

Kjetil Detroit Kristensen

Kjetil Detroit Kristensen (b.1981) is an artist based in Oslo, Norway. He is currently occupied with his ongoing contemporary post-studio practice, interest for self-initiated venues, performative strategies, site (and situation) specific projects, pseudonyms, monochromes and polar bears. And also a belief that public art and democracy somewhat are the same, since the one thing cannot function without the other.

Kristensen is founder of the artist-run laboratory for art & public space Detroit Kunsthalle and co-founder of the organisation and collective September Split. He co-founded the collaborative curatorial platform and professional skateboard-art-team Contemporary Cruise Crew as well as the artist-run studio space VORTA at Lokomotivverkstedet in Middelalderparken, Oslo.

Kristensen holds a BA from the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art (2011) and a MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2018). He has exhibited at Nebbelux, Fredrikstad; Gallery SØ, Copenhagen; Trinosophes, Detroit; Studio17, Stavanger; space 4235, Genova; The NY Art Book Fair, New York; MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Haikou; Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger; Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø; Akademirommet - Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Kurant Visningsrom, Tromsø; Occupy Landscape, Stavanger; Dronning Sonja KunstStall at The Royal Palace, Oslo and Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Harstad among others.

Sarah Kazmi

Sarah Kazmi (b.1990 Karachi) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher. Through the lens of food as an artistic medium, she uses anthropological and participatory action research (PAR) to disseminate her practice, her double life between occupations of two, bartender/artist; investigating socio-political change within personal and community-based rituals. Her practice incorporates texts, audio, live readings, installations and image-based works to explore circulation processes of food as strategy for communication and knowledge production, its significance in our everyday life, beyond a consumption culture. Her most recent and ongoing work O.K.R.A (Oslo Kitchen Radio Archive) is a long-term research-based duo project with landscape architect Miles Hamaker; using audio-visual methods to document the increasing gentrification and the inevitable encroachment on the existing communities of central east Oslo.

Kazmi recently graduated with an MFA in Art and Public Space at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She has been selected as a fellow at RAW Académie Session 8 entitled Tour de Table. She has worked as a research trainee for HUMAN Documentary Film Festival 2020 and has also participated at Food Art Film Festival at the Jan Van Eyck Academie. She lives and works in Oslo, Norway.

Kazmi participated in Residency 17, Climata, which was developed with Lasse-Marc Riek and the Goethe Institut.

Maren Dagny Juell

Maren Dagny Juell is an Oslo based artist working with moving image and installation. Her subjects are alienated, filled with doubt and with a yearning for control and personal development. Maren is interested in the borders of subjectivity and individual autonomy. This is approached with narrative text often collected from online forums and tutorials. The works seeks to embody an investigation into the reality of appearances, surfaces and definition of visual space aided by technology.

Maren studied in London and has an MA from Chelsea College of Art. Recently exhibitions has been at Stavanger Art Museum and Papay Gyro Nights (Orkney and Hong Kong) amongst others. She won an award for video at BEERS contemporary (London) in 2013 and was included in Lights On Norwegian Contemporary Art at the Astrup Fearnely Museum in Oslo in 2008.

www.marenjk.net

Video: Maren Dagny Juell, Tutorial#6: It’s our ability to create stylish meals that separates us from the animals (Bear Grylls)

Tutorial#6 refers to instructional videos by survivalists. Three men meet and have a conversation made up by fragmented quotations collected from instructional tutorial videos and on-line forums about survival. During the meeting, they all make a flower out of gaffer tape, zip-ties and para-cord. 

The work was initially made for an exhibition related to the tapestry weaver Frida Hansen (1855-1931) and also includes sculptures. Juell was interested in the gender roles assigned to textile craft and the purpose of these activities (craft clubs- craft as therapy). Her project is a fictional account of themale dominated culture of survivalist preparing for the apocalypse.

Clara J:son Borg

Clara J:son Borg (1986) is an artist from Sweden, based in Rotterdam (NL). She graduated in 2016 from The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, with an MA in Fine Art.

The attention of her works and research is directed towards staged situations where verbal language and bodily movement find themselves interacting. By setting up and enacting these staged situations (mainly executed through video and performance) her aim is to provoke moments where verbal and physical communications methods fit loosely to one another. She understands this looseness as a way of storytelling, but also as an invitation to observe different elements of interpersonal relationships, social choreographies, knowledge hierarchies and bodily relation to physical space and images. 

Sarah Jury

Sarah Jury is a writer, games designer and curator based in London. Sarah has edited publications and co-curated events on feminist digital practices at ICA, the Barbican and Res, London. Sarah has written live action role plays that rethink societal structures either directly, or in abstract non-verbal form for Science Gallery London, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, Tate Exchange, Liverpool and [Space], London and has lectured on themes of role-play and participatory practice at Birkbeck, London and Yale, USA. Sarah is part of Keep it Complex, a feminist collective that confronts political issues through creative ideas and action.

Image credit: 'Challenging Structures' Live action role play by Sarah Jury and Bez Shahriari for Science Gallery London, Feb 2020. Illustration by Rachel Sale. 

Ayesha Jordan

Ayesha Jordan is a multidisciplinary performer and creator based in Oslo, Norway, and a 2024-2025 Princeton Hodder Fellow. Her research is based in applied permaculture studies, regenerative community/ecosystem formation and adaptation, event curation, heritage, and how these can be explored through performance, and inform performance methodologies. 

Ayesha's artistic pursuits extend beyond conventional boundaries, intentionally amplifying marginalized voices, especially from the global majority and disenfranchised communities. Her work encompasses themes such as ritual-making, multigenerational knowledge and exploration, archives, legacy, and collaborative and cooperative modes of production.

Some of her previous performance events include Shasta Geaux Pop, Come See My Double D's, Enter & Exit: Playing House, Enter & Exit: Family Reunion, Inter 1-to-1, and In the Tube. Other works include video projects Living Room Dance Breaks, Drunk & Famous, as well as a host of other songs and videos. Jordan has been seen as an actor in the Broadway production of Eclipsed by Danai Gurira and directed by Liesl Tommy, Home by Geoff Sobelle, Failure Sandwich and Ludic Proxy, by Aya Ogawa, Platonov: Or the Disinherited by Jay Scheib, and Stairway to Stardom and Harold I Hate You by Cakeface. She has also been featured in video work and photography by visual artist Carrie Mae Weems.

1. Ayesha Jordan. Photo By Alice Tomola.

2-4. Ayesha Jordan - Process

5. Cecilio From Geaux to Greaux

6. Ayesha at TekstLab. Photo: Darja Olsevskaja

7-11. Shasta Geaux Pop

Maria Jonsson

Using sculpture, installation, and performance, Maria Jonsson's practice investigates ways in which art can create social spaces. Different strategies and methods help facilitate processes that are both artistic and interpersonal. Her art is either based on, or inspired by human relations and there social context.

Jonsson is born in Colombia, raised in Sweden, and currently based between Bergen and Oslo. She holds an MFA from the KMD, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design 2016.

Tze Yeung Ho

Tze Yeung Ho (b. 1992) is a Norwegian composer.

Tze Yeung's music is created at the crossroads of understanding, reflecting his multilingual upbringing. His works explore the territories of speech, translation in language, dramaturgy and poetics. Working with Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric and Chinese poetry and prose, his music treads on the fragile landscapes of (mis)communication through (un)spoken words. Close collaboration with living writers, storytellers and word-based artists is integral to his practice. His creations usually result in some form of music theatre.

https://www.tzeyeungho.com/

Image: Det här är ögonblicket, 2023, with writer Heidi von Wright. Photo: Dante Thelestam.

Bianca Hlywa

Bianca Hlywa (CA) is an interdisciplinary artist based in London, UK. She uses various materials (especially SCOBY-Symbiotic Culture Of Bacterial Yeast) to discuss steadfast distinctions presented within culture: between life and non-life, the synthetic and organic, and the good and bad. 

Bianca holds an MA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University. She was awarded a second place prize from a juried exhibition at the Barbican Arts Group Trust in London (2018), and recognised as an artist with Exceptional Talent from the Arts Council for a UK Visa in 2019. Bianca looks forward to upcoming solo shows at Verticale Arts Centre in Quebec (2020) and LOA Gallery in London (2020).  

Karoline Hjorth

Karoline Hjorth (b. 1980) is a Norwegian photographer, artist and writer with a journalism and tall-ship sailing background. She completed her BA Photographic Arts and MA International Journalism from the University of Westminster (London) in 2009. Hjorth's artistic practice explores the space between staged photography, documentary and text.

Her photographic work has received the Deloitte Award at the National Portrait Gallery (London) and her first book Mormormonologene (Eng. The Mormor Monologues) was published in 2011 (Forlaget Press). She is currently working on three books to be published in 2017; Eyes as Big as Plates (with Riitta Ikonen (FI)), Billett Merket (Eng. Personals, Forlaget Press) and Time is a ship that never casts anchor (Hjorth / Ikonen / Mesén). Her recent works have been exhibited at NADA Miami, Pioneer Works (NYC), Fotogalleriet (Oslo), Greenland National Museum, Norwegian National Museum (DKS) and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki), amongst others. 

http://karolinehjorth.com/
https://eyesasbigasplates.com/

Bianca Hisse

Bianca Hisse (b. 1994) is a Brazilian artist based in Tromsø, Norway. Her practice traverses performance and visual arts, exploring dislocations within social systems, collaborative circuits or interdependent arrangements, and often looking on how relational structures can be affected, sustained or destroyed by its own dynamics.

Hisse has presented work at Centro Cultural São Paulo; OC Oswald de Andrade; Casa Líquida (São Paulo, Brasil); Kulta Scenekunsthus; Galleri Snerk (Tromsø, Norway); Frystiklefinn Theater, Iceland; and others. Bianca holds a BA in Body Arts from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and is currently taking her MA in Contemporary Art at Kunstakademiet i Tromsø.

Jasmine Hinks

Jasmine Hinks (1989) is a British curator and writer based in Stockholm, where she is currently completing her MA in Curating Art at Stockholm University. Hinks’ practice investigates the relations between artwork, context and audience. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, her projects unpack and re-think curatorial approaches, with a specific interest in spatial and textual framing. Ongoing research focuses on the affordances of public space – and the public sphere – within the expanded art field and in a broader social context.

In 2016, Hinks presented the curatorial project Codified Environments: Renderings of Public Space at Färgfabriken, Stockholm. The exhibition featured works by filmmaker Lucia Pagano and artist Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, and constructed an extended platform for dialogue around notions of public and private. Her curatorial approach has grown out of her experience working alongside artists in self-organised platforms in her native Scotland.

Johnny Herbert

Johnny Herbert studied music composition in U.K and Germany before studying art in Norway. He is co-founding editor of Grafters’ Quarterly, a free newspaper publication series. Johnny also works as a writer and copyeditor. He is presently a PhD candidate on the Curatorial/Knowledge research programme within the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, London.

Ina Hagen

Ina Hagen (b.1989, NO) is an artist and writer based in Oslo. She holds a BFA from the National Academy of Art, Oslo (2014). Her work constantly shifts the roles of artist, curator, assistant and collaborator in dealing with the mediation of art as artistic practice.

Hagen has exhibited at: INCA, Seattle (Solo); Tidens Krav, Oslo; Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Podium, Oslo; Kurant Visningsrom, Tromsø; Quartier 21, Museums Quartier, Vienna, among others. She was awarded a one year studio grant at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo in 2015, as well as being artist-in-residence at BAR Project, Barcelona from March to May, 2017.

Currently she writes for the Scandinavian online art journal kunstkritikk.no, and is vice-president of the board of UKS (Young Artist’s Society). Since July 2016, Hagen has been running the not-for-profit space Louise Dany together with artist Daisuke Kosugi from their home, studio and adjacent store-front.
 

Image 1, 2: Ina Hagen, Round Robin Reveries: Gathering for the Other Magic Fountain, Barcelona (2017), Montjuïc, Barcelona. Photo: Christina Inocencio

Image 3: Apichaya Wanthiang, Ban # 1 Practice Models (2016). Two day workshop at Louise Dany, Oslo. As part of the group exhibition Roaming curated by UKS (The Young Artist’s Association). Photo: Margit Selsjord

Image 4: Sondra Perry, Resident Evil Seminar, 2016. Seminar at Louise Dany, Oslo. Image courtesy of the artist and Louise Dany, Oslo

Anne Haaning

Anne Haaning's practice revolves around an interest in digital ontology and myth and usually employs CG animation and video installation. She is currently a research fellow with The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. Her work has been shown internationally in among other venues: The Jerwood Space, London, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, the Islandic Biennial: Sequences Vll, CPH:DOX, Kurtzfilmtage Winterhur, Nottingham Contemporary, FACT, Liverpool, CCA, Glasgow International and Jeune Creation, Paris. She was shortlisted for the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards and won the Solo Prize at the Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg Kunsthal in 2014.

Through animated, fleeting and disintegrating images Haaning's work seeks to convey the impermanence of matter and identity in a digital context; she considers the digital as something comparably fluid, infectious and viral as the bacteria that literally enters the human body to breed and subsequently migrate from person to person through bodily fluids. This notion of a digital flow is linked to her interest in ancient myth and its often conspicuously fluid perception of the connections between people, creatures, times and places; the spirit is far from bound by the body and its physical circumstances. In Haaning's work myth is employed as a parallel to the conditions that were introduced with the emergence of the digital world.

Looking at the employment, performance and meaning of technology through a mythical perspective, she tries to unmask, or perhaps re-mask, some of the structures the digital imposes on us. She explores and comments on how production and circulation locks us in a loop of unpaid digital labor, violated privacy, continued human de-skilling, post factual manipulation and other potential traits of Digital Colonialism.

Tiril Guttorm

Tiril Guttorm lives in Oslo. Having graduated from the Norwegian School of Photography in Trondheim (2013), she now studies Film Arts at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Through her work Guttorm explores personal family relations using digital photography; most of her family and relatives live in the area surrounding Karasjok in north of Norway. She is currently expanding her work to include moving image as well as still photography.

http://tirilguttorm.com/

Olga Grotova

Olga Grotova (b. 1986, Saint-Petersburg) is an artist based in London. Grotova takes family history, landscapes and experience of displacement as starting points for multi-layered paintings, videos and performances. Her multidisciplinary practice connects repressed narratives to ecosystems through the contemporary female body, movement, text and mark making. The paintings are made using traces of studio debris and plants with cameraless photographic processes. In Grotova’s installations ambivalent historical and political material is re-established and re-articulated in the present.

Grotova graduated from MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2016. Previous exhibitions include: Centrala (Birmingham), 2019; Mimosa House (London), 2018; Osnova (Moscow) and others.

Rodrigo Ghattas

Rodrigo Ghattas (b.1989) is a Peruvian-Palestinian artist and cultural producer. His practice travels between a range of different media; site-responsive installations, social sculpture, creative writing, daily performativity and art intervention. Artistic concerns involve perception of public space and connections between temporality and social discovery, new visions of the unfamiliar within everyday settings.

He holds a BFA in Sculpture from PUCP (Peru) and is a current MFA Art and Public Space candidate at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, Norway. Ghattas is the founder and director of Machaqmara Center for the Arts (MQA) which he has been running since 2014. Additionally he has been working as OSLO PILOT artistic collaborator since 2016 . His work has been exhibited in Thailand, Peru, USA, Norway, China and Italy.

Harriet Foyster

Harriet Foyster (b. 1992, UK) is an artist and writer based in Amsterdam, NL. She gained her BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 2015, where she was also the recipient of the Acme Studio Award. She received her MA in Critical Studies at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, in 2019.

Harriet’s practice is strongly rooted in research revolving broadly around ways that material circumstance and ideology converge to construct, reinforce and perpetuate behavioural patterns that strengthen the neoliberal agenda, and how the logics of private property are central to contemporary subjectivity production.

Her works and texts have been shared at PEER, London; fanfare; Amsterdam, Jupiter Woods, London; De Appel, Amsterdam; the 26th Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, and Ambit Magazine, among others.