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 performance artist who often uses characters and stories to create indelible moments for cerebral and visceral experiences. Jordan’s characters each represent a facet of herself and act as a tool to playfully disguise herself and to uniquely connect with guests. Much of Jordan's work is about audience engagement, bringing participants as close to the work as possible – creating moments, tasks, and prompts allowing the opportunity to engage with the performer, as well as with fellow audience members.

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. 

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.

Vibeke Frost Andersen

Vibeke Frost Andersen recently graduated from The National Academy of The Arts in Oslo with a MFA in Art and Public Space. She also holds a BA(Hons) in Graphic Communication from University of Wales Institute Cardiff, a Norwegian post-graduate diploma in education and has completed university courses in art history, sculpture and photography in Norway and the UK. Frost Andersen has run a local design practice for several years, and has participated in art projects and - exhibitions both locally, nationally and internationally. She lectures on a variety of art-related topics, and has developed syllabi and administered new educational opportunities within the arts in Norway.

How does places acquire meaning? What is it that gives us a sense of belonging? Through her practice, Frost Andersen seeks to respond to these questions through an investigation of edge lands, voids and forgotten space. Considering economic, social and political structures governing the appearance and perception of landscape, both physical and mental, her research projects asks if it is possible to see, represent and understand some of the larger forces shaping our time. Frost Andersen works mainly in the media of photography, installation and social interference. By engaging with a site and people connected to it, the work evolves along a path of enquiry and possible outcomes.

The works are executed in a mix of low key materials and digital technology, alternating mediums by how they are related to the underlying idea and how it sits in the public sphere. By which medium is information about a specific topic usually mediated an accessed? What are the common ways of representing a specific theme, and what are the potentialities and limitations of those technologies and techniques? By working with material in this way, Frost Andersen explores the possibility of generating other perspectives with a new local public. The works follow each other, with discoveries made in one project forming the basis for the next.

In this way Frost Andersens practice connects to the overarching problem influencing most of her work: That late capitalism brings with it a sense of totalisation implacably at work everywhere, and that our lives are ruled by abstractions of such immense vastness, invisibility and complexity that they can only be understood parts at a time - if at all.

Angelica Falkeling

Angelica Falkeling lives and works in Rotterdam, NL. They graduated with a BFA from Malmö Art Academy and the International Academy of Art Palestine in 2014 and with an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute in 2017. They received the Swedish Art Grants Committee one year working grant in 2017 and the Mondriaan Fonds Stipend for Emerging Artists in 2018. They make site-specific installations and work with exhibition formats that include live performance, textile, sculpture, moving image, and text-based works. They are concerned about the economic and ecological aspects of artistic production from a queer, feminist, and intersectional point of view. In the scale of the domestic, their persona often appears as a queer instigator, tailor, and storyteller who experiment with different textile craft techniques passed on through cross-generational dialogues, humor and geological time. Their work departs from and within the body. They respond to sites via material recycling and social relations. In their collaborative work, they think through emotional adaptation in relation to the social. They are also trained as a seamstress and regularly create costume designs and take on sewing commissions for other artists such as; Rana Hamadeh, Katherine MacBride, Pilar Mata Dupont, Evelyn Taocheng Wang and Katarina Zdjelar.

They currently working on a chapter based exhibition together with Selma Sjöstedt and Sara Lindeborg at Signal | center for contemporary art in Malmö. Their work has recently been part of The Hoodie at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Emotional Channel at Rib in Rotterdam, OC, L.A The Car Show: Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung a self-organized RV touring exhibition in California, USA, A tip’s felt dance at Available & The Rat in Rotterdam, Gift Economy at Pracownia Portretu Gallery in Łódź, Poland, tongue break inhaling at CCA Glasgow, Scotland, and Teaser, Tormentors, and the Infinite Dog at CAC Brétigny in Paris, France. Since 2018 they are also one of the facilitators of the queer art and community space Tender Center Rotterdam.

Falkeling’s participation in the residency Live or Buy is supported by CBK (Center for Visual Art) Rotterdam.

Rina Eide Løvaasen

Rina Eide Løvaasen’s (Porsgrunn, 1988) work combines astrology, mythology, archaeology, occult biology, pop culture and science fiction to predict the future by resuscitating the past and allegorically point to the mistakes we made to cause the anthropocene. Løvaasen received her MFA from the Malmö Art Academy in 2015 and is based in Malmö and Kragerø. The following year she received the Ellen Trotzig fund from Malmö Art Museum and Malmö Stad.

In 2017 she had a solo show at Galleri CC, Malmö, and was most recently represented at Brusfabrikken, Kragerø. Previous solos exhibitions include: KHM, Malmö; Galleri Blunk, Trondheim; and artmade gallery, Copenhagen. Two person shows include: ArtSafari, Bucharest and Makeriet, Malmö. Her work has also been shown at venues including: the Malmö Art Museum, Prague Quadrennial, and Liljevalchs Art Hall, Stockholm.

Esra Duzen Sandemose

Esra Duzen (1983) is originally from Istanbul, Turkey and lives in Oslo. After more than a decade of working in the insurance sector in Istanbul and London, she decided to study art and moved to Oslo to dedicate herself to becoming an artist full time. She currently studies Fine Arts at The Oslo National Academy of Art (KHIO).

Esra's passion in art comes from her strong belief in people and change. She incorporates themes of enlightenment and rebellion against oppression of all forms in her art. Her practice involves installation, painting and drawing. She is currently expanding her work to include digital and analogue animation.