Stephanie Florence

Stephanie Florence is a neurodiverse artist and curator originally from amiskwacîwâskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their artwork is primarily based in collage and collaboration, borrowing from sculptural objects, installations, performative gestures, explorative painting, and photographic means. Currently, Florence is conducting exploratory research on interspecies citizenship, and how living bodies become a commodity for colonial-capitalist culture. Specifically, they are producing collaborative artwork with the flora, fauna, micro-organisms, and humans in the colonized-city landscape, with an intent to understand and communicate with beings that have been devalued by consumer-capitalist culture and extraction economies. 

They hold an MFA from University of Waterloo, a BFA from the University of Lethbridge, and a Diploma in Fine Art from MacEwan University. Florence is grateful for the support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, and Pat the Dog in researching and producing artworks. For more information visit: www.stephanieflorence.weebly.com

Elise Hoebeke

Elise Hoebeke is a contemporary jewellery artist living in Belgium. She holds a Masters degree in Visual Arts – Jewellery Context from Sint Lucas Antwerp, where she currently a lecturer in Fine Art Jewellery. Before finding her way into contemporary jewellery, Elise obtained a BA of Interior Design at LUCA School of Arts Gent (BE). As a jewellery artist she is interested in a world where space, life, object and jewellery come together.

Elise was a participant in the second An Urgent Situation residency and has since been an insightful contributor to podcasts, publications and network conversations. Inspired by the project research and mix of global cultures the project involves, Elise’s practice engages with the relationships people have to materials and their histories.

Don Lawrence Architect AS

Don Lawrence Arkitekt is an award winning architect, based in Oslo, Norway. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the Cooper Union in New York City and a Master in Architecture from the Arkitektur og Designhøgskolen in Oslo, Norway. In 2013 he established Don Lawrence Arkitekt AS which focuses on projects bordering between art and architecture’s potential for developing place. For more information visit: www.don-lawrence.com

Lawrence is one of the original project initiators, and has been involved in each stage of the project so far.

Dr. Hyungyu Park

Dr. Hyungyu Park is Associate Professor in Tourism at Middlesex University, UK. She has helped position heritage tourism as a significant interdisciplinary research area. She has advised on policy for bodies including Unesco and the Korean government. She has contributed to the development of new knowledge through publications in key journals (including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Current Issues in Tourism, and Academy of Management Learning & Education) and the sole-authored Routledge monograph Heritage Tourism (2014), which now features as a core text for heritage and tourism programmes worldwide. Her research interests include heritage tourism, identity and social memory, critical tourism pedagogy, sustainable heritage tourism, and the exploration of heritage and the arts in relation to peacebuilding, wellbeing, climate change discussions and urban cultures. Park’s work focuses on heritage tourism’s potential to create narratives and experiences that help foster reconciliation and resilience, via the individual making of meaning.

Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre

Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (LuCAC) is an art foundation in Zambia dedicated to advancing contemporary art and research into Zambian arts and culture. Comprising a gallery, library and artist residency, the LuCAC aims to facilitate and promote the production of new arts and cultural knowledge. For more information visit: www.lusakacontemporary.co.zm

LuCAC engaged with phase one of the An Urgent Situation project and immediately recognised the relevance of the topic to its own location of Zambia. LuCAC reached out to the partners, asking to share knowledge and collaborate - hoping to develop a project path at LuCAC highlighting the situation and issues in Africa. This demonstrates the relevance and impact of the project so far. With this new partner the project increases its reach, global relevance and solidarity. LuCAC will work in dialogue with the project partners to develop its own programme and contribute to furthering the project. It will contribute to the publication and host a publication launch.

Sepatokimin

Sepatokimin is an initiative to empower marginalised communities in Indonesia—building Human, Social, Intellectual, and Financial Capacity—through creative economy development. It provides the research, training, and mentoring needed by the community to make and manage their craft production with high value-added activities.

Sepatokimin is also a platform where empowered communities can promote their stories and refined products to meet the bigger market in the creative industry, such as local brands/manufacturers or other initiatives.
For more information visit: www.sepatokimin.com

Samong Haven

Samong Haven is a future-focused centre for culture and learning located in Sumberkima, North West, Bali that aims to offer a socially responsible tourist destination with culture, community and conservation at its core. Samong Haven’s programming facilitates exchange and learning for local and international participants; supporting capacity building in its neighbourhood, while offering insights into the rich cultural heritage and natural environment on its doorstep. For more information visit: https://www.samonghaven.com/

The programme and site of Samong Haven has been developed in response to earlier stages of the Globus funded project An Urgent Situation. Its multi-function space will soon be complimented by the completion of accommodation for up to 16 residents. From early 2025, people living nearby will be able to drop in for classes, workshops, and other community organised activities.

La Maraña

La Maraña is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes imagination and participatory design as tools to foster the sustainable development of communities in Puerto Rico. For more information visit: www.lamarana.org

Tourism is a key aspect of the governmental development of Puerto Rico. La Maraña are working on several community projects aiming to achieve sustainable, community orientated situations. These range from working with farmers to develop income outside of harvesting season, to supporting fishing communities that have been relocated following the destruction of their homes and businesses during Hurricane Maria (2017) and are now expected to allow for tourism in order to be able to return.

PRAKSIS

PRAKSIS is a transnational arts and culture catalyst based in Oslo, Norway. The organisation focuses on urgent issues of our time. It is dedicated to inclusivity and seek to inspire and support artistic creation, bringing new creative networks and communities into being.

PRAKSIS places peer-to-peer dialogue at the heart of its approach. Developing projects respond to the needs and concerns of creators, art professionals and socially-oriented organisations across borders and disciplines. Since 2016 they have worked with over 80 collaborating partners from autonomous activist networks to long-established national cultural institutions in and beyond Norway. PRAKSIS aims to demystify cultural production. Their public programming offers insight into creative processes and debates, seeking to enable the widest possible engagement with creative practice.

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