Andrea Galiazzo

Andrea Galiazzo (b. 1983, Italy) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. His practice interweaves conceptual and narrative expressions with biographical elements, everyday trivialities, and contradictions. His work deliberately breaks from traditional heroic artist narratives, instead focusing on revealing the artist's presence and agency through carefully selected anecdotes and linguistic transpositions that serve as poetic interruptions.

He studied at IUAV University in Venice, HISK Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Ghent, and received his MA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). His multidisciplinary approach reflects an intentional resistance to specialization, choosing instead to explore the intersection of art and daily life through various media and methods.

Solo exhibitions include presentations at Trondhjem Kunstforening and the upcoming exhibition at KRAFT, Bergen (2025). His work has been shown in a duo exhibition with Marthe Ramm Fortun at Huset for Kunst & Design, Holstebro, and in group exhibitions at venues including Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo; Femtensesse, Oslo; The Autumn Exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; The Drawing Triennial 2019; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and Kristiansand Kunsthall. In 2020, Galiazzo was awarded The Norwegian Association of Art and Crafts' Student Prize.

Image 1: Twelve Months, 2023-2024, exhibition view at BO (The Association of Visual Artists Oslo), 2024. Photograph: Adrian Bugge.
Image 2: Twelve Months 2023-2024, exhibition view with AR app.
Image 3: Twelve Months 2023-2024, still from video.
Image 4: Twelve Months 2023-2024, still from video.
Image 5: Portrait of Andrea Galiazzo

Jonathan Hielkema

Jonathan Hielkema (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist from the Netherlands, based in The Hague. Working with film, publications, and installations, he explores the contradictions of "touchy" subjects like privilege, common sense, and the status quo—often by implicating himself directly.

He studied Photography at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and pursued academic growth through the MSc Media Technology program at Leiden University. In 2020, amidst global uncertainty, he finished the BKB Academy political fellowship, followed by an MFA at the Sandberg Institute's F for Fact program. Alongside his independent work, he co-founded the art collective and production house Touchy Studios.

Over the past two years, he has also tutored at Design Academy Eindhoven (MA Information Design) and KABK (IST program). His work has been shown at venues including Les Rencontres d'Arles, Rozenstraat, Foam, Swab Art Fair, and Nest, and is currently supported by the Mondriaan Fund and the Creative Industries Fund.

Video: "Europe, Who Are You?" - Initial research video on the cow as a metaphor for Europe.

Image: Portrait of Jonathan Hielkema

Adriana Berges

Adriana Berges (b. 1992, Madrid, Spain) focuses her artistic practice on landscapes and technology, with particular attention to colour and form. In parallel to her artistic work, she examines the cultural characteristics of landscapes in both art history and internet archives through her academic work as Research Fellow in the Doctoral Program in Humanities: Language and Culture at Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain.

In 2025, she completed her doctoral thesis Digital Paradises: Painting in Art History, Screens and the New Aesthetics of the Virtual Landscape, investigating the "Iconic Turn" in Western images and pictures of landscapes in visual culture.

Solo exhibitions include a presentation at PP33 in OsloMet (2024, Oslo, Norway), "Mirando al Cielo" at Habitación Número 34 (2022, Madrid, Spain), and four solo exhibitions at her representing gallery, Galería de Arte A Ciegas (2018, 2020, 2021, 2023; Madrid, Spain), among others.

Images: Adriana Berges, Auratica Fotografia d'Arte

Nouf Aljowaysir

Nouf Aljowaysir is a Saudi, New York based new media artist exploring the underlying logic of technological innovations through a personal and intimate lens. Her recent work examines artificial intelligence and our evolving relationship with algorithms. Grounded in research and experimentation, her practice navigates intimate questions with AI tools to challenge their conventional utility and uncover their capitalist motivations. She highlights how artificial intelligence, built through a lens of Western reductionism, causes erasure and an algorithmic flattening of our world and stories through data generalization and biased, limited training sets.

Nouf has exhibited projects in galleries and festivals globally, including Centre Pompidou, New Museum, Museo Tamayo, M+ Museum, CPH:DOX, Tribeca Film Festival, PAF Festival and others. Her latest film Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) premiered at IDFA and was officially released with The New York Times Op-Docs series.

Image 1: Nouf Aljowaysir

Image 2: Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?), 2022

Niels Munk Plum

Niels Munk Plum (b. 1992, he/him) is a Danish visual artist currently living and working in Copenhagen. His practice stages the body and language in performance-based explorations of participation and the horizontalisation of art. Through his performative and material work, Plum interrogates the concept of artistic and institutional “expertise” and has staged ambitious multimedia interventions in museums, art academies, public spaces, and artist-run venues.

He holds a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art (2020) and was the recipient of the FKDS studio grant at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo (2020–21). In 2022, he obtained his MFA from Malmö Art Academy. His graduate exhibition, RIGID ROOM, later travelled to Stockholm as part of Konstväxlingar, an ongoing presentation of public art in a city metro station. That same year, he was one of three artists commissioned to present a new performance as part of the opening exhibition Jeg kaller det kunst at the National Museum in Oslo, where he presented () New Loop ().

Plum has also staged performances and works at institutions such as Lars (Lisboa), Podium (Oslo), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo), and Rundetårn (Copenhagen). He has produced several artist zines and publications. In autumn 2024, he was one of four residents at the prestigious Art Hub Copenhagen residency programme.

Image 1: Hosting/performing in the exhibition “RIGID ROOM” Niels Munk Plum (2022) KHM2, Malmö

Image 2: Conversation as a part of the tour A NEW LOOP 2, Niels Munk Plum (2022) The National Museum, Oslo

Image 3: Opening performance in EASY FORM HARD, Niels Munk Plum (2024) Galleri REDAN, Malmö

Mia Wennerstrand

Mia Wennerstrand is an artist from Helsinki, Finland. Her works for the stage currently focus on Cold War histories and political rhetoric.

Image 1: Mia Wennerstrand at Mad House Helsinki, 2025. Photo: Elis Hannikainen

Image 2-4: From Mia Wennerstrand: Empty Stage (Helsinki City Theatre 2024). A solo performance that revolved around family, theatre, and empire through songs and improvised monologues. Photo by Eero Yli-Vakkuri

Image 5: NATO Diary, Alkovi Gallery 2023-2024
A one-year solo exhibition by Mia Wennerstrand.
New texts were added either as prints or written directly on the window throughout the year.

The project included memes for Alkovi’s Instagram account.

All images by Mia Wennerstrand

Iga Śśćk

Iga Śśćk stages anti-linear, iconoclastic collages made of meticulously layered errors and confused erotics. Their work usually takes the form of performances set within intricate installations where props, costumes, and sound constantly mutate in use and fidget with gender expressions. In various states of fuzziness, their practice remains invariably grounded in body movement. Their choreographic approach is driven by a desire to communicate through nonlinearity and incompleteness, believing in the insurgent potential of spasmatic attention within the dancing body.

They are a graduate of the Art Praxis MA program at the Dutch Art Institute. Iga has exhibited and performed at venues including Centrale Fies in Dro, Biquini Wax EPS in Mexico City, WHOISPOLA in Warsaw, New Fears in Berlin, Tanz im August Festival in Berlin, the National Museum in Szczecin, BWA Wrocław Główny, La Châtaigneraie Cwac in Liège, Hotdock in Bratislava, Alpha Nova in Berlin, and Radialsystem in Berlin.

Image 1: Iga Śśćk performing

Video: Photogenic Property Triplet - Video: Iga Śśćk, camera: Baha Görkem Yalım for the DAI

Harold Offeh

Artist Harold Offeh works in various media, including performance, video, photography, social arts practice and pedagogy. His work explores the concepts and questions that are raised by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. Humour plays an important role in his playful yet biting performative excavations of identity within historical and contemporary cultural tropes. He has exhibited widely at venues in the UK and internationally, including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Turf Projects, London, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Wysing Art Centre, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, MAC VAL, France, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark and Art Tower Mito, Japan.

Offeh studied Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton and MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art. In 2020 he completed a practice-based PhD at Leeds Beckett University, in which he explored the activation of Black Album covers through durational performance. He lives in Cambridge and is currently Senior Tutor in Fine Art MFA at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University and Tutor in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London. In 2019, he was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, the most substantial award of its kind in the UK.

Image 1: Harold Offeh. Photo: Alex O'Brien

Image 2-3: BODIES IN MOTION – Dance and Resistance, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden. 2022

Victoria Duffee

Victoria Duffee (b. 1988, NYC) lives and works in Oslo. Her studio practice incorporates textiles, jewelry, and objects that straddle and challenge conventional boundaries between art and craft to explore collective relationships to identity, gender, and memory. Through processes of weaving, painting, and casting materials, she seeks to establish a profound connection between the feminine domains of attire and the home, as these are the aesthetic objects entwined in our everyday lives and collective memory.

She was educated at the School of Visual Arts (2007-2010) in New York and the University of the Arts in Oslo (2016-2018). In recent years, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Oslo, New York, and Los Angeles, and had solo exhibitions at Salgshallen Gallery and Buer Gallery in Oslo. She has exhibited at institutional venues such as the Chart Art Fair with Kunsthall Oslo and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, contributing a work to Anna Daniel's "A Gift From A Woman."

Other projects include the art criticism magazine "Vi Ser På Kunst," which she founded with art historian Andreas Breivik in 2016. In 2020, she created "Kunsteventyr," a web series promoted through Black Box Teater, aimed at teaching art history in a DIY manner for children stuck at home during the pandemic.

Image 1: Wiggle Sword (attached to Anna Daniel’s piece, En Gave Fra En Kvinne) 2021

Image 2: Phallus and Portal pendants with Love ring from the pajamas series, 2019. Photo: Marcus McDonald

Image 3: Zinna Pendant and accompanying publication. Cast silver, 2023

Rudolf Kangwa

Rudolf Kangwa is a Zambian lapidary based in Lusaka, Zambia. He is a first generation gemstone cutter with over 15 years of practice and founder of Rudolf’s Gems, a socially oriented company. The mission of Rudolf’s Gems is to add value to the community by contributing to poverty reduction and job creation through educational programs that create awareness around how to process and add value to locally mined gemstones.

Melissa Schwarz

Melissa Schwarz is a German interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher, based in London.

Her research and practice is mainly concerned with topics around ecology, environments and speculative futures. As such she examines socio-political narratives, nature concepts and multiverse theories. She creates work which uses different media for her poetic storytelling, from more traditional mediums to 3D.

Melissa is also an Associate Lecturer at The University of the Arts London, teaching on MA Interaction Design at LCC as well as in the Department of Critical and Historical Studies at LCF.  She is also an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London on MA Design Expanded Practice.

Image 1-2: Renders, part of óbyggð (‘uninhabited’) - multimedia installation, 2022.

Image 3: Installation shot ‘Post Wilderness’, multimedia installation, 2021. Photo: Margherita Allievi.

Image 4: Screengrab of ‘Wild Wired!’ - site specific interactive game, 2023. 

Erin Sexton

Erin Sexton (b. 1982) is a Canadian artist and radio amateur based in a dome in the forest near Oslo. Her sculptures and installations involve found objects, hidden forces, sci-fi narratives, everyday materials, and MacGyver-esque techniques. She holds a MFA in Contemporary Art from the Bergen Art Academy and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Concordia University in Montreal. Psychedelic and emancipatory, her work explores alternate paradigms, strange topologies, soft apocalyptics, and metaphysical technologies. She tries to dissolve boundaries and subvert hierarchies, often using absurdist humour as a tactic.

Sexton’s collaborative practice is focused on community empowerment and developing creative resistance strategies. In these times of global uprising against colonial power structures and exploitative resource extraction, helping to shift narratives and mobilize in solidarity are essential.

Image 1: Low battery (nye måner), video still, 2023

Image 2: Pentadomen, 2024

Image 3: Psychic Technology, digital collage, 2021

Image 4: Redneck hot tub, 2024

Bwalya Bwalya

Bwalya is Chief Operations Officer of Rudolf’s Gems. Her interest towards jewellery started from learning about birthstones whilst pursing her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Winnipeg in Canada. A fervent Zambian jewellery collector prior to establishing Rudolf’s Gems with husband Rudolf she would often travel back home and select one or two pieces of jewelry.

She is invested in researching the role of luxury brands in giving back to society and supporting social causes and communities at source. Most importantly how they address the environmental and social impact of their activities.

Shaun Borstrock

Dr. Shaun Borstrock is the Head of Knowledge Exchange and Research at Ravensbourne University London, where he focuses on design-led innovation, emphasising the intrinsic role of design in decision making. He fosters multi and trans-disciplinary collaboration globally, working with institutions, industry partners, and the wider community. In addition to his academic role, Dr. Borstrock is an independent consultant to luxury brands and associations worldwide, including Unity PR, Ford, John Lewis, Gucci, and others. He is a renowned keynote speaker on luxury branding, fashion, consumerism, and brand strategies at events worldwide.

Dr. Borstrock's research delves into the evolving concept of luxury in the context of technology and its impact on handcrafted products. He has been instrumental in the development of Modeclix, the world’s first fully customizable 3D printed textile, which has received numerous international 3D print award nominations. Furthermore, he is the Editor of Luxury Studies; The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal and co-author of Crafting Luxury published by Intellect books. He also hosts the "In Pursuit of Luxury" podcast and serves as a Visiting Professor in the Koppleman School of Business at Brooklyn College in New York.

With over 20 years of experience in the creative industries, Shaun is always seeking exciting multidisciplinary knowledge exchange and research opportunities. His work and expertise have made a significant impact on the fields of design, luxury branding, and fashion, both in academia and in the industry.

Image 1: Portrait

Image 2: Cover for In Pursuit of Luxury

Image 3: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal

Video: Modeclix

Béatrice Sylvie

Béatrice Sylvie has years of experience working with high-end fashion and jewellery, with a focus on innovation and sustainability. She is currently studying for an MBA in Jewellery from Haute École de Joaillerie in Paris, while working as a Production Project Assistant at Atelier Aurouet de Mervelec. Beatrice previously spent six years at Christian Dior Couture, specializing in luxury customer experience and leading sustainable and digital projects. Her background in fashion and luxury has given her a comprehensive understanding of the area. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Literature and English Civilization and a Master's in American Literature from the University of Paris.

Image 1: Portrait of Béatrice Sylvie

Image 2-3: Engagement towards environment and sustainability with Dior collaborators

Fergus Tibbs

Fergus Tibbs is an artist, DJ, and cultural producer originally from Glasgow, Scotland, now based in Bergen, Norway. He holds an MFA from the Art Academy Bergen and a BA (Hons) from DJCAD, Dundee.

Fergus’ projects are usually cross-disciplinary and collaborative, incorporating ideas and practices from people of different backgrounds. Central to his work is oral communication and human interaction, often creating situations that encourage conversations and public dialogue. His previous projects include club nights, radio stations, a swimming club, parties, exhibitions, pubs, and workshops.

For the past ten years, he has been DJing and organising parties and club nights in Bergen and across Scotland. He is the co-organiser and resident DJ of the club night ‘Keep it Dark’ at Østre, Bergen. He uses this regular party as a test site for different clubbing ideas, often playing with the physical space as well as light, sound, temperature, and volume.

Hosting has become a key part of Fergus’ work, providing a way to initiate interactions and gatherings. His ongoing project, ‘Hosting Infrastructure,’ plays with the physical architecture involved in gathering human bodies. He creates structures and environments that serve as a substrate for public events, where people can sit, gather, eat, perform, dance, or talk. His approach is fun, silly, and welcoming whilst always trying to be accessible, drawing in people with a broad range of perspectives.

Image 1: Hosting Infrastructure (Acid Re-Work), 2023, Østre, Bergen

Image 2: Hosting Infrastructure (Acid Re-Work), 2023, Østre, Bergen.

Image 3: Hosting Infrastructure (Dub Version), 2023, Visningsrommet USF (Meteor Festival), Bergen

Image 4: Air Conditions radio broadcast W/ Freya coursey, Liis Ring and Pernille Meidell, Live on Vers Libre and Seyðisfjörður community radio, 2022, Ekko Festival
Image credit Ekko festival

'Tope Ajayi

'Tope Ajayi is a multi-disciplinary artist and a cultural curator born in Ibadan, Nigeria. He was raised in a household teeming with members from Generation X and the Millennial era. Growing up amidst their cultural nuances, even though he is from Generation Z, provided him a unique blend of influences that shaped his artistic inclinations. This backdrop – complemented by his pianist/DJ uncle, a broadcaster aunt, an art-loving granddad, and a high-school teaching mom – laid the foundation for his creative journey.

Banu Çiçek Tülü

Dr. Banu Çiçek Tülü (Turkey/Germany) is a sound artist, music producer, DJ and researcher with a background in design theory. She develops her ideas and research by using sound as a primary medium and sonic methodologies. Her practice-based artistic approach involves participation, social design, ecology, feminist and queer theory which uses artistic, cultural and political imagination as tools for social change. The process of the artistic production is crucial and it is mostly presented as multi-channel video and sound installations, sculptural elements, textile, various objects, and light. She believes in the political possibilities of sound and music, and utilizes both as an empowerment tool for different communities and minority groups.

Banu’s debut album TranSoundScapes which is released by Berlin based label Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound has been awarded for the the top albums of 2022 by one of the biggest music magazines DJ MAG. She is a fellow of the Namibia Program organized by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart/Germany. Banu has a monthly residency in Refuge Worldwide Radio in Berlin. She is currently lecturer in Sound Studies and Sonic Acts Master program Berlin University of the Arts. Her upcoming solo exhibition will be shown in GAK Bremen, where she continues to question the German health care system in relation to female body, migration, pain, grief and healing. 

Image 1: Sonic Body Map, 2020, multi-channel sound installation, Feminist Housing (Her)Stories for the Future II at Alpha Nova Gallery Futura, Berlin

Image 2: Pink Noise, 2023. Sound installation. Solo Exhibition at Galerie im Turm, Berlin

Image 3: Pink Noise, 2023. Sound installation. Solo Exhibition at Galerie im Turm, Berlin

Image 4: Sonic Activation, 2021 Performance in Public Space at GossipGossipGossip, Berlin
Credit Victoria Tomaschko

Video:  Pink Noise, 2023. Sound Installation. Solo Exhibition at Galerie im Turm, Berlin

Tor Lukasik-Foss

Tor Lukasik-Foss is an artist whose work explores the nuances of social anxiety disorder, a condition he personally identifies with. His artistic practice, spanning over two decades, delves into the complexities of social interaction, examining themes of isolation, connection, and performance.

Lukasik-Foss's visual art often centers on creating physical and metaphorical barriers between performers and their audiences, exploring the simultaneous desire for connection and disconnection. His work also extends to examining the impact of public signage on urban and natural spaces, as well as investigating the social behavior of crows, animals known for their ambiguous position between solitary and communal living.

In addition to visual art, Lukasik-Foss is a songwriter and storyteller who explores themes of anxiety and social awkwardness in his work. His music, performed under the pseudonym 'tiny bill cody,' can be found in several released collections.

Lukasik-Foss's artistic practice is rooted in Hamilton, Ontario, where he lives with his family. His work has been exhibited across Canada and the U.S., both individually and as part of the artist collective TH&B. His artistic contributions have been recognized and supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Hamilton Region Arts Council.

Image 1: Dress Rehearsal (2014) – Tor Lukasik-Foss. Reclaimed wood, Plexiglas, sail maker’s cloth, audio and video. A trio of performance boxes designed to capture the shadows of performers caught in the state of intimate preparation

Image 2-3: I Am Not A Psychic, 2015

Image 3: AQUAVECCHIO / WINDOW ADDRESSING (2022) Reclaimed Furniture, mirror, chalkboard, ephemera

Matilda Moors

Matilda Moors is an artist and educator working with sculpture, writing, and installation. Her work addresses the relationship between cuteness and violence by drawing connections between the physical stresses and abnormalities of cartoon or monstrous bodies and ideas of abjection and difficulty associated with historical feminist and queer artwork. Blending the raw aesthetic of fandom with the polished veneer of animation.

Moors has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally at galleries and institutions including; Somerset House (London), The Horse Hospital (London), Scai the Bathhouse (Tokyo), The Royal Standard (Liverpool), Supercollider (Blackpool), and Strange Cargo (Folkestone). Her writing has appeared in Garageland Magazine and Monstrous Flesh Journal and she is the recipient of the Eaton Fund Grant, the Tokyo Geidai residency and the Mara Lopf Print Prize. She was a founding member of School of the Damned (an alternative MA course) and co-ran artist-led project space SAUNA.

Image 1: Another Body Story, 2019, dual channel audio, 8 min, 17 sec. Performance by Vanessa Borrini. Sound editing by Christian Pollard.

Image 2: Unsocialised Skin, Dragged, 2022, digital print, routed MDF, Variable (505 x 222cm approx.)

Image 3: Sans Sinew, Sans Savour, 2023, latex, fixings, 160 x 240cm