Hanna Sjöstrand

Hanna Sjöstrand is an artist born in Karlskoga, Sweden in 1978, now living in Oslo. She works within the field of painting with a complementary praxis in performance, theatre and film. Her work often combines an understanding of Chinese philosophy accumulated through years of internal martial art training with contemporary western discourse. This manifests in a painting praxis where traditional materials and expressions are brought into conceptual processes in order to investigate metaphysical framing of reality. 

She holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy since 2009 and has just received a two year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden. She also received a one year working grant from Konstärsnämnden in 2014. In 2013 she received the Ellen Trotzig grant. Recent public events include: 2019: Mellan dig och mig, Ystad konstmuseum. 2018: PaintedGalleri Gerlesborg, Gudenes FeltLNM Oslo, The Field, Elastic Gallery Stockholm. 2017:Time med et tre, Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, The Encounter of Bodies, Ystad Konstmuseum, Arne Næss- Gjenuppstandelsen - the Ecosofi F sect,Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, Bli Arne Næss, KHIO, Oslo. Sjöstrandis represented in a number of private collections. Her work is also represented at Malmö Museum and Statens kulturråd. In 2017 she is working as a head teacher at Gerlesborgsskolan i Bohuslän. 

Helle Siljeholm

Helle Siljeholm is a choreographer, performer and visual artist, based in Oslo. She holds a BA (hons) from London Contemporary Dance School in 2003. In 2016 she graduated with an MA in Visual Arts from the Oslo Academy of Art (KHiO).

Her artistic practice involves film, installation, choreography and performance. She has exhibited, performed and produced projects in theatres, galleries, and site-specific contexts in Norway as well as in the UK, Germany, Nordic Countries, Middle East, Asia, USA and East Africa. Siljeholm is a recipient of Ibsen Scholarship award (2011), a 3 year grant for younger artists from Norwegian Arts Council (2014) and Hans Christian Osterø´s memory award (2015), received together with colleague Sara Christophersen focusing on a 3 year project for dance in Palestine.

In 2017 she has exhibited/presented work in Fotogalleriet (Nordic Anthology), Black Box Theatre (Oslo), Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, Golan heights, Jugenstilsenteret KUBE (Ålesund) and Høstscena (Ålesund). In 2018 she will be amongst other create a new work co-produced by Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim), a pre- project for Munchmuseet on the Move (Oslo) and a solo show for Akershus Kunstsenter (Lillestrøm).

Image 1: Noder om stein og andre sosiale landskap Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE og Høstscena, Ålesund, Norway 2017 (photo by Marius Simensen and Helle Siljeholm)

Image 2, 3: Detail from exhibition: Looking at chemicals. Fotogalleriet, Oslo 2017. (both photos by Istvan Virag)

Ina Maria Shikongo

Ina-Maria Shikongo was born in Kalulu Angola and grew up in the former GDR until 1990.  She attended primary school and high school in Windhoek. She completed a 3 year degree course in Fashion Design in France at Lycée Sévigné de Tourcoing in 2005.

Since her return in 2005, she has developed a project called Fusion, where she teaches basic introduction to fashion design at grass roots level around Namibia. There is a need for more culturally diverse programs throughout Namibia. By training the grassroots on design methods, one could help establish a Namibian Cultural Identity.

Her interest in Permaculture started in 2010 and reemerged in 2015, with the creation of Eloolo Permaculture Initiative, together with Donovan Wagner and Stephan Eins. A permaculture system was created at the Van Ryhn Primary School and in 2017 they registered Eloolo Permaculture Initiative as an NGO.

Today Eloolo is working in partnership with the World Future Council and the City of Windhoek at Farm Okukukuna in implementing a community garden with local trainees from Goreagab extension 3.

Eloolo and Tosco have created Clean Travel; a carbon offsetting programme where trees get planted at schools and shelters around Windhoek.

Shikongo’s participation in Live or Buy is supported by The National Arts Council of Namibia.

Shweta Sharma

Shweta Sharma a.k.a Betty (b.1988, IND) is a fashion editor and costumier based in Mumbai. She holds a bachelors degree in Fashion Communication from National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai. She has styled for various television networks like TLC, MTV and Discovery Networks and designed costumes and characters for movies and ad films. Using styling and costume design as a way of story-telling and cultural gate-keeping, she has collaborated with publications including; Vogue India, Femina and Harper’s Bazaar on fashion features and editorials.

She has been working on a sartorial and spatial documentation series - meeting women through Instagram and travelling to Liguria, Berlin, New York, Oakland, and London. In 2017, after doing a  Contemporary Fine Arts Intensive course at Central Saint Martins London, she developed a photographic series with a women’s Cricket ball as a starting point. She teaches Advanced Fashion Styling to undergraduate students of Fashion Communication at NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology, India).

Image 1: 'Victoria' for Jade. Styling and Photo by Shweta Sharma
Image 2: 'Warrior Woman' an fashion feature for Harper's Bazaar India. Photo by Aneev Rao, courtery Harper's Bazaar India
Image 3: 'Ophelia' for Vogue India, Sep 2016. A costume design project to create a costume for a modern day Shakespeare heroine. Image Courtesy : Vogue India
Image 4: Shweta Sharma for NorBlack NorWhite from 'Holi Jouvert' Series. Image Courtesy: NorBlack NorWhite

Sayed Sattar Hasan

Sayed Sattar Hasan is a British born artist and Goldsmiths, MA, graduate (2009) currently based in Oslo, Norway. Hasan uses a variety of mediums from lens-based media to sculptural installation, and describes himself as a process- based artist.

His practice explores notions of tradition, heritage and belonging and how they are continually subject to change. Hasan often produces autobiographical narratives, based on his relationships with people, places and belief systems, and looks to express the fragility, humour and complexity of everyday life in his work. Influenced by his mixed-race identity, Hasan likes to negotiate tensions drawn by cultural and historical lines by embracing identity as a hybrid condition and expressing himself in unorthodox ways.

Hasan has had solo shows at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, UK (2017), New Art Exchange, UK (2016) and NN Contemporary, UK (2015)., and his work has appeared in international art and photography festivals such as 2nd Changjiang, Video and Photography Biennale, China (2017), EM Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

He has produced several public installations; Southbank Centre, London, UK (Alchemy, 2017) and Heathrow Terminal 5 (2012) and participated on international artist residency programmes at the National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan (2014) and The Baltic residency exchange program between the UK and South Korea (2018).

Images from 'My Granddad's Car', a collaborative project by Sayed Sattar Hasan and Karl Ohiri (2016).

Patricia Sandonis

Patricia Sandonis is a conceptual artist based in Berlin. She studied fine arts in the Complutense University UCM, Madrid (2007) where she received an exchange scholarship for the FH for design in Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany. A scholarship from the sculpture Park at Universal Museum Joanneum was the starting point of her interest for art in the public realm - now present in most of her works. She holds a Master in Art in Context from the UdK University in Berlin (2014).

Her artistic works has been shown in art institutions including Patio Herreriano Museum, Valladolid in Spain, Palazzo Ducale in Genova, SBK in Berlin, Heidelberger Kunstverein and Salzamnt in Linz. In 2016 she was invited to Villa Massimo in Rome, for a residency where she started the visual research for the artistic work she currently producing which relates to the question of how the unilateral narration of history can influence the perception of places that could be differently perceived if history would have included missing elements. Sandonis views her work as research on visual mechanisms to use on the development of the next generation monuments that will influence the collective memory of the future.

Sandonis's participation in residency eleven, Monumental—Temporal has been made possible due to kind support from the Embassy of Spain.

Line Sanne

Line Sanne graduated from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, with a BA(Hons) in Spatial Design, and holds an MA in Nonfiction Writing from Høgskolen i Sørøst-Norge. Sanne has worked as a set designer, visual merchandiser, and installation artist at music festivals, Slottsfjell festivalen and Øya. She is now working on writing a biography about a former refugee and actress, Sara Baban.

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Job Sánchez

Job Sánchez is an artist from Mexico City who is presently without a fixed address. His post-disciplinary practice addresses power structures. As a consequence of being a migrant, his current work inclines towards collaboration with communities to activate cultural exchange. 

In reaction to a lack of exhibition spaces, he is coordinating sudden ambitions, an online project which operates as an exhibition platform for emerging artists.

 www.suddenambitions.com

Amina Sahan

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.

Ella Heidi Sand

Ella Heidi Sand (b. 1957) studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, graduating in 1984, with further studies at the State University of New York, USA. She has participated in exhibitions both in Norway and abroad, and has held several solo exhibitions. She is a member of the art collective The Archive.

Sand has coordinated a number of jewelry exhibitions abroad, and has had several assignments as an art consultant for KORO (Public Art Norway). For 7 years she was the director of RAM gallery in Oslo. From 2006 -2013 she was a professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo (KHiO) where she was Head of the Department for Metalwork and Jewellery.

Permanent collections include: The Norwegian Council of Culture, The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SKMU Art Museum Kristiansand, The Museum of Applied Art in Oslo, Vestlandske Museum of Applied Art in Bergen and Nordenfjeldske Museum of Applied Art in Trondheim.

Image 1: Displacement. Necklace; brass, nylon thread. Photo by Sveinung Bråthen

Image 2: Who Cares. Necklace; silver, copper, plastic covered steel, nylon thread. Photo by Elsie-Ann Hochlin

Image 3: Empty Diamonds. Necklaces; silver, nylon thread. Photo by Øyvind Suul

Image 4: Powder Necklace; woman facial soft cotton sponge powder puff pads, copper. Photo by Elsie-Ann Hochlin

Hanneline Røgeberg

Hanneline Røgeberg is a painter born in Oslo, Norway and holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale. Her work has been featured in group and solo exhibits in institutions such as the Whitney Museum; the MIT List Center; the Aldrich Museum; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; the Inside-Out Art Museum Beijing, China; the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, and Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in Norway. Recent and upcoming solo exhibits include Thomas Erben Gallery, New York and Galleri Riis in Oslo.

She has received an Ingram-Merrill award, a WESTAF/NEA grant, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Anonymous-Was-A-Woman award and an OCA grant, in addition to numerous residencies.

She is a professor at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and has previously held positions at Cooper Union, University of Washington and Yale University. She was a visiting artist at Skowhegan in 2009, and is a graduate critic at Yale School of Art in the spring of 2019.

She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Oslo, Norway.

Image 1: ‘National Sins: The hole’, 2014

Image 2: Installation shots from ‘Off the Bone’ solo exhibit at Blackston gallery, 2015

Image 3: ‘Rebound Extrovert’, 2013

Image 4: ‘Rebound Introvert’, 2013

Maija Rudovska

Maija Rudovska’s practice is shaped by independent curation, research, art criticism and writing. The focus of her work has been inter-mediation and stimulation of relationships between different spaces, contexts and institutions. Finding a voice from/in the marginalized spaces that in her practice often rooted from the post-Soviet context, she pays particular attention to the in-between space seeking alternative ways of learning and sharing knowledge in the art realm today.

For the last 6 years Rudovska together with Juste Kostikovaite have been running the network platform Blind Carbon Copy that focuses on network building models, alternative education and work strategies between curators, artists and other practitioners. One of the priorities has been the learning, looking for the ways to teach each other as a sort of curatorial strategy. Engaging by creating a lively networking system and structures of self-organization (refusing to being attached to a certain power structure), the platform serves as a place from where to act and to find a voice. http://blindcarboncopy.org/

Rudovska have worked extensively in the Baltic-Nordic region, as well as internationally. Close collaborations include: Contemporary Art Centre (LV), Moderna Museet (SE), Rupert (LT), Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius (LT), The Living Art Museum (IS), HIAP (FI), among many others.

Image 1: The Primal Shelter is the Site for Primal Fears (2016). Exhibition view. Photo: Vigfús Birgisson, courtesy The Living Art Museum.

Image 2: Society Acts - Version 2. After Moderna Exhibition 2014 (2015). Exhibition view. Photo: Ansis Starks, courtesy kim? Contemporary Art Centre

Image 3: Image of Blind Carbon Copy website, design by Nerijus Rimkus

Mallika Roy

Mallika Roy (b. 1991, Chicago, USA) is a diasporic artist who facilitates open sites of creative education. Her guiding belief is that alternative communications for, amongst, and on behalf of dispossessed and alienated peoples can serve to disrupt and re-imagine the political economy. She synthesizes critical theory, art, ethnographies, and other research and presents them in publicly accessible forms like websites, graphic design, fashion and adornment, curriculum, workshops, and social media.

Mallika’s framework for understanding social change has been primarily informed by her BA in International Studies and Urban Studies from the University of Michigan, the Center for Political Education’s community course on Marxist thought, Movement Generation’s A Just Transition Zine, and her upbringing in Eastern philosophy. Her work is constantly challenged and reinvigorated by the youth she has partnered with in Detroit and San Francisco since 2012.

Aleyda Rocha

Based in Mexico, Aleyda Rocha's practice is focuses on data ethnography, social impact design and educational technology. She is interested in how to understand, think about, and interact with data - particularly, how we can make data experiences that are aesthetic, tangible and consider all of our senses.

Rocha graduated from Monterrey Center for Higher Learning of Design’s Digital Art Program. She currently researching how safety policies and violent events influence gender identity and garment in Mexico. The project traces how, from the post-revolution war, the identity of Mexican men have been dictated by the constant state of ferocity.

She is a founding member of RevoltosasMX – a non-profit dedicated to generate speeches and narratives that challenge the existing power dynamics at workplace in order to push forward gender equality in Mexico.

Identifying as a curious wanderer, Rocha has navigated industries including technology, advertising and public sector innovation. She spent two years as Creative Program Manager at Google, developing groundbreaking digital projects in Latin America with the goal of leveraging the power of technology for both users and brands.

Catriona Robertson

Catriona Robertson is a sculptor based in London. She holds a BAFA (Hons) from Central Saint Martins, London (2010) and forthcoming MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London (2019). Catriona also works as a Technician in 3D fabrication at Central Saint Martins, London teaching students at Foundation, BA and MA level.

The making and un-making process is an integral part of her sculpture, working with constructive materials and some found objects to create sculptural assemblages that have an architectural resemblance with a raw sense of formation. Drawing from the in-between moment that may be overlooked at first glance, her work evokes performativity in a solid form; the potential state in which there is an element of chance or possible destruction. Her sculptures create an opposition of material and surface – forming tension and fragility, whilst questioning the permanence of the material against traditional sculptural practices.

Catriona was recently artist-in-residence at the Merz Barn, Elterwater, UK and co-ordinated a summer residency programme for Royal College of Art Students in July 2018. In 2015 she was awarded the REFRESH grant by Central Saint Martins for an artist residency in Onishi, Japan at Shiro Oni Studio, as well as artist-in-residence at Liebig 12, Berlin from December 2011-February 2012.

Catriona has exhibited at: the Merz Barn, Elterwater, England, (July 2018), the Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art Kensington, London, (June 2018), ‘WIP Show’ at the Sculpture Building, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London (January 2018), and at the Futuro House, SafeHouse London (February 2016) and Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross London (January 2016). As well as international exhibitions at the Galeri Mejan, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm (August 2016), the Futuro House, exhibition during artist residency in Onishi, Shiro Oni studios Gunma prefecture at the civic Centre, Onishi, Japan (July-August 2015) and was further selected for the ‘Kanna Art Festival’ selected Shiro Oni artists, Fujioka Gunma prefecture, Japan (September 2015).

Image 1. Connected – 2016. Exhibition at SafeHouse, Peckham, London.

Image 2. Un-Monument 2018 , Royal College of Art Battersea, London. Concrete, steel, resin, polyurethane, plywood, plaster, acrylic.  50 x 70 x 410 cm.

Image 3. Moulded 2017, Concrete, plaster, thistle, plywood. 78 x 42 x 30 cm.

Image 4. Merzsaüle 2018, Merz Barn Elterwater, Langdale England. On show until October 2018.  Concrete, slate, slate clay, plaster, plywood, found objects (steel, newspaper, rope, card, plastics).

Belić, Westerlund and Müller

Working collectivly Belić, Westerlund and Müller work with structures of relationships and varying forms of acts of imitation. They develop performative works through a process of learning from internet sources. 

Maria Gordana Belić received her BA in Fine Arts from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway and her MA degree in Fine Arts from Valand Academy of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her practice uses inter-biographical stories, meetings or events which become magnetic mantras, where companions, nervous technique or collaborations modify the narrative. Things are repeated, looped and multiplied through various formats. She is fascinated by structures around support and what it means to struggle with personal problems in pubic.

Per Westerlund works with animation depicting sensational bliss using Windows Paint. While the angular shapes of the medium resist painterliness he uses the movement of the images and coloring to create impassioned effects. Recurring motives include naked skin, wind and sun light, and images sometimes paraphrase stereotypes from the romantic era. The rhythmic feature of the animations has recently led him to work with music videos. He graduated from Oslo Academy of Fine Art in 2013.

Daniela Müller studied Media Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts and Fine Arts at the Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Norway, completing her MA in Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2013. From 2012-15 she curated the ad-hoc gallery “One Night Only Zurich”. Müller's practice employs acts of appropriation to examine the purposeful conditions of language. She copies, loops and recontextualises mundane material, such as commercial signs, leaked pictures, spam mails and prophecies, leading toe moving images, installations and collaborations.

Vika Adutova

Vika Adutova's artistic practice is rooted in the research of language and perception. Vika uses video, sound, drawing, and sculpture, working primarily with the subject of the affect of time on human and non-human life, and language as the tool of description.

Born in Tashkent and previously based in New York, Adutova is currently living and studying in Oslo, and is an MFA candidate from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts due to graduate in 2018.

Eva Funk

Eva Funk is an Austrian artist and writer based in Berlin. She was educated at the Berlin University of the Arts and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her recent practice makes use of repetitive motifs across different contexts, building up large scale installations with performative interventions in the investigation of relationships between objects, language and spirit often in relation to notions of failure.

Funk works with physical bodies (of people and objects), as well as writing. She has self-published artist writings under rotato press, and is interested in the book as an alternative to the exhibition. Funk has exhibited and performed in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland and Canada.

Araiz Mesanza

Araiz Mesanza is an artist and illustrator whose work is mainly developed through drawings. She holds an MFA in Fine Art from the Basque University (Bilbao, Spain) and specialized in illustration at Escola Massana (Barcelona, Spain).

Mesanza has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2009 and in 2011 she co-founded Ediciones Armadillo, an artist collective and publishing outlet releasing an annual collaborative illustration fanzine and other projects. Having relocated to Oslo in autumn of 2016 (currently working from VORTA atelier at Middelalderparken), Mesanza's recent work has largely focused on producing "introspective landscapes" that explore her relationship with her new surroundings.

Tyler Matthew Oyer

Called an "interdisciplinary gospel immortalist" by Kembra Pfahler of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Tyler Matthew Oyer is an artist, writer, organizer, and educator based in Los Angeles. By researching diverse modalities of activism (ACT UP, queer theatre, Brechtian theatre, surrealism, underground cabaret, and punk) his performance works generate an intergenerational dialogue around politics, seeking new ways of articulating the connection between various systems of oppression from the past to the present in an attempt to grapple with our collective political future.

Oyer has performed at MoMA PS1, REDCAT, The Getty Museum, dOCUMENTA (13), Hammer Museum, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Munch Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bergen Kunstall, Rogaland Kunstsenter, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, High Desert Test Sites, Highways Performance Space, Human Resources LA, Silencio Paris, MIX NYC, and the Orange County Museum of Art. He has written works of performance including CALLING ALL DIVAS, GONE FOR GOLD, Shimmy Shake Earthquake, La Bola Negra, and 100 Years of Noise: Beyoncé is ready to receive you now. Oyer is the founder of tir journal, an online platform for queer, feminist, and underrepresented voices. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2012 and has offered workshops and lectures at CalArts, Bard College, Occidental College, University of Southern California Santa Barbara, Penn State University, Southern Exposure, and Grand Central Art Center. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.