Resident
Tough Guy Mountain is an ongoing project focusing on the glories, trials, and absurdity of late capitalism. As an artist collective of over a dozen members, TGM creates presentations of capitalist aesthetic and consumer culture. TGM creates narrative performances where the collective plays a fantastical corporation that treats abstract concepts like Art and Post-Capitalism as its clients.
Through observation, research and interpretation of historical material, Nina Torp examines how our gaze creates and communicates culture and memories. A key issue in her work is how the past exists/takes place in the present time, and how it is communicated and used through history. The starting point for her projects is often a cultural artifact, an art historical subject or a cultural phenomenon. She presents projects in large installations consisting of prints on fibre-board, video, objects, photographic series and wallpaper.
Nina Torp is educated at the Royal College of Art in London, Kent Institute of Art & Design in Maidstone and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in Norway, UK, The Netherlands, Iceland, Japan and Germany. From 2015 until 2018 she is collaborating with archaeologists and scientists at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo where she examines mechanisms for how cultural history is written.
Magnus Tomt (b.1994, Norway) is an artist based in Tromsø, primarily working with appropriation within an interdisciplinary practice. He is currently taking his BFA at Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art.
His current work is concerned with the indecisiveness of contemporary art. He focuses on progress, value and autonomy as sites for material self-reflection and conceptual exploration. Tomt has exhibited at: Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø; Sortland Kunstforening, Sortland; Alta Kunstforening, Alta; Meieriet, Leknes among others.
Image 1. Cats Don’t Like Dead People, 2019
Image 2. I Guess I’ll See You In My Dreams, 2018
Image 3. Untitled (I Feel Alive), 2018
Image 4. Only Reactionaries Have Plans After The Revolution, 2019
Neja Tomšič (1982) is a visual artist, poet, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice merges drawing, photography, poetry, and performance. By uncovering overlooked and often hidden stories from history, she aims to rethink dominant historical narratives, research into particularities, and create situations where new understandings of the present can be formed. She approaches histories as maps of starting points and links. Performative elements in her projects explore possible projections of history into the subjective present of individual visitors.
Her project Tea for Five: Opium Clippers, a performative essay in the form of a Chinese tea ceremony, has toured 11 countries and was performed more than 55 times. Her artist book Opium Clippers was awarded as best Slovenian artist book in 2017/2018 and the best book design in the category Book as Object at the Slovenian Book Fair. She is a member a Nonument Group, an art collective that maps, archives and intervenes in forgotten, abandoned or demolished 20th century monuments, public spaces and buildings, that have undergone a change in meaning.
Neja also works as a curator and producer and is a co-founder of MoTA (Museum of Transitory Art), a Ljubljana-based research and production platform devoted to transitory art. She lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Image 1: Tea for Five: Opium Clippers, Glej Theatre, September 2018, photo: Jaka Babnik
Image 2: Tea for Five: Opium Clippers, Azores Fringe Festival, Pico Island, July 2018, photo: Neja Tomšič
Image 3: Opium Clippers artist book, photo: Jaka Babnik
Image 4: Nonument Group: From Nowhere to Noplace, The Pioneer Railway, May 2019, photo DK
Rooted in a lineage of painters of phenomena and things, itinerant sketchers and landscapists, Michele Tocca’s depictions elicit questions on the direct relationship between painting and the physical world with all the paradoxes implied in sur-le-vif perceptive, ruminative and imaginative dynamics.
Born in 1983 (Subiaco, Rome), Tocca is based in Rome, Italy. He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and independent spaces, among which: 1/9unosunove gallery, Rome (2018); Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese (2018); Francesco Pantaleone Gallery, Palermo (2015); Musei di Villa Torlonia, Rome (2015); Fuoricampo Gallery, Siena-Bruxelles (2015-2014); FLAG ART Foundation, New York (2014); Studiolo Project, Milan (2014); Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania Pallanza, (2013); MARCA, Catanzaro (2011); CIAC, Genazzano, Rome (2010); the Moscow Biennale, Moscow (2010); the Prague Biennale, Prague (2009); Otto Zoo Gallery Milan (2008).
Image 1: In Lorenzetti's (the turret under storm), 2014, oil on canvas, 40x35 cm
Image 2: De Valenciennes's Pollen, 2017, oil on canvas, 100x85 cm.Photo: Sebastiano Luciano
Image 3: Early dripping (Pastificio Cerere), 2018, oil on canvas, 71x65 cm. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano
Image 4: Belvedere (Lojacono through sunglasses), 2018, oil on canvas, 45x20 cm. Photo: Sebastiano Luciano
Anaclara Talento is an visual artist, researcher, teacher. She has a bachelor and Master of Arts – Plastic and Visual Arts (Uruguayan University of the Republic – UdelaR. National School of Fine Arts Institute – IENBA, 2007 – 2013) and a Master in Fine Arts (MFA) (Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU. Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts – KiT, 2017 – 2019). Talento is a Member of Uruguay’s Contemporary Art Foundation (FAC) since 2007, the Artistic Research Society (SAR) since 2017, Norske Billedkunstnere since 2018 and Unge Kunstneres Samfund since 2019.
Talento’s work revolves around five main projects: EMH: An Essay on Motherland History (2009 – 2015), Pink Mist (2013 – 2015), Letters to Sebastian, a memory rehearsal: (re) script – (re) stage – (re) enact (2014 – 2021), Love in another language (2019 – 2022) and the Latin American Office of Contemporary Art and Political Subversion (OLAC SP) (2020 – 2025).
Her work is part of private collections in Argentina, Norway, the USA, and Uruguay. She has exhibited individually for the Spanish Cultural Center (CCE Montevideo, Uruguay), at the Engelman – Ost Collection (Montevideo, Uruguay), at Galleri KiT (Trondheim, Norway) and at Galleri Blunk (Trondheim, Norway), and has participated in collective shows in Uruguay, Latin America, Norway, Germany, Argentina, France, USA, Spain, among others.
She has published a book titled Niebla Rosada (Pink Mist), a collection of narratives. (First edition: November 2013, Gatoblanco publishing house) and several papers and thesis in Uruguay and Norway. Talento lives and works in Trondheim, Norway.
Image 1: Emotions without limit vol 1, audio set recorded with Google Translator / female voice in Spanish. Sent through WhatsApp to a random database. Montevideo, Uruguay (2019)
Image 2: The conquest of you, Installation / site-specific, Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, Trondheim, Norway (2019)
Image 3: The things that were and the things that were almost, Performatic action, shown at Performance Fest, Galleri KiT, Trondheim, Norway (2017). Curated by Chris Hansen (Norway). Shown at Performance Cycle, CME Subte, Uruguay (2018). Curated by Rulfo Alvarez (Uruguay). Second Acquisition Prize at 49 Montevideo Visual Arts Award, CME Subte, Uruguay (2019). Jury: Valeria González (Argentina), Fernando Gaspar (Chile) and Enrique Badaró (Uruguay)
Image 4: Nice, clever and devastating, Installation / site-specific, shown at Switch, Galleri KiT, Trondheim, Norway (2018)
Djibril Sall (b. 1994) is a performer, choreographer, and writer based in New York City and Berlin. Originally born in Dakar, Senegal and emigrating to Memphis, TN at five years old, their work is informed by their life as a first-generation queer migrant and their experience with adolescent cancer. Even after they started life in America, West Africa never left their household; the steaming spices of mafé, Islam, and Pulaar ensured that they were strongly exposed to Senegalese sensibilities. However, being black in America has a way of complicating identities so that new, divergent cultures are formed in perpetually discordant rhythms. Through their work, Djibril hopes to complicate the idea of a singular narrative that is prescribed to the African diaspora.
They received their BA in Dance from Wesleyan University with a focus on Performance Studies, Queer Studies, and Critical Race Studies. They are an avid student on the production of trauma and the habits that facilitate its continued existence as intergenerational trauma. At the moment they are concerned with how the path to utopia for many communities living on the margins is rooted in closing deep wounds and navigating the ruptures that arise in the process of healing these traumas. The access word into their current project is “chemotherapy,” a rumination about understanding at a young age that one day they will die and how this knowledge has affected their life in terms of priorities and life philosophy.
They have worked with organizations serving the needs of underrepresented communities such as Girls Inc. of NYC and BUFU (By Us For Us). Additionally, they have presented talks at The New School in New York City, Sophiensaele in Berlin, and Dansens Hus in Oslo. In 2019, they received the danceWEB Scholarship in Vienna.
Kim Svensson (1995, Sweden) lives and works in Oslo where he currently studies Fine Art at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. His works incorporates personal experiences, literary and historical references to engage with the subjects of representation and language. Often using the intricate image-text relationship as a conceptual framework, to convey narratives and/or scenarios in the minds of the encounters. He works with installation, photography, publishing and does occasional readings.
Elly Stormer Vadseth (USA/NO, b 1993) is a multi-media artist, researcher and educator currently based on a peninsula in the Oslo Fjord and in Boston, USA. Employing embodied research methods and technology, she makes work that seek to imagine, speculatively establish and animate connections within human and more than human ecology(s). Rooted in the body, she works with a range of media including performance, contemporary dance, video, installation, sound and photography. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
Recent Exhibitions/ screenings/Projects include Spectra festival ( 2019 SCT), Laboratory For Aesthetics and Ecology, M/Others and Future Humans, (2019-, DK), Henie Onstad Contemporary Art Center (2019, NO), Factory Light, (2019, NO), Difrazioni (2019,IT), Adelson Gallery, Boston (2019,USA), The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2019, USA), Mountain Time Arts, Bozeman Montana ( 2018) and Open Out Festival in Tromsø (2018,NO). In 2018/2019 she was awarded a Tufts Institute on the Environment Research Fellowship from Tufts University and a Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship in Media Arts at School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Stormer Vadseth participated in Residency 17, Climata developed with Lasse-Marc Riek and the Goethe Institut.
Laura Stinger works in the realm of research, sculpture, video and performance. Their work stages open structures for exploring relational ethics, queer embodiment, and challenging notions of fixed identities within capitalism. In their most recent project, Entheos Cul-De-Sac, sculpture "gardens" and a performance score were used to model non-transactional object-human interactions and self-organizing communities in nature, creating rhizomatic narrative structures.
Laura has presented work at Dixon Place (NYC); PS122 (NYC); New Museum (NYC); Pieter Space (Los Angeles); and Coaxial Gallery (Los Angeles) among others.
Image 1, Still from Lines Lining, a cable access show (2019)
Image 2, Performance documentation of wrist modification from Doula for the Darkness, Los Angeles (2019)
Image 3, Members (2019) glazed ceramic
Image 4, Still from live web performance, unnatural history, Los Angeles (2016)
Ruben Steinum (b. 1984, Oslo, Norway) is an artist and co-founder of the digital art sales platform Atelier. Steinum graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo in 2011. In his artistic practice, he works with object-based sculpture, drawing and photography. His interest in pop and everyday culture comes to light through the use of commercial objects, appropriation of brands and in the relationship between the artwork and the title. He is currently working towards an exhibitions at Elephant Kunsthall in Lillehammer and at a sculpture park at Nesodden. He has exhibited at Tidens Krav (Oslo), Arts Incubator at Washington Park (Chicago), Kunsthall Oslo, Podium (Oslo), Rogaland Art Center (Stavanger) and RAKE (Trondheim).
Steinum is chairman of the Young Artists Society (UKS) and board member of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK).
Image 1: Texas Sweet Chai Latte (Pour Femme) How good can you feel?™ Yogi Tea. Photo: Ruben Steinum
Image 2: Treat Yourself. Sodastream Taittinger, Sodastream Möet & Chandon, Sodastream Veuve Clicquot, Sodastream Laurent Perrier. Photo: Ruben Steinum
Image 3: Freak on a Leash. Photo: Jon Benjamin Tallerås. Project in collaboration with Marianne Hurum
Stephanie von Spreter is a freelance curator based in Oslo. She has served as the director of Fotogalleriet, Oslo, between 2011 and May 2018. In this position she has curated a large number of exhibitions and seminars with a focus on contemporary camera-based art. In her position she also initiated international collaborations with partner institutions in the Nordic and other European countries and set up a special educational programme with a focus on photography. Von Spreter is the co-founder/co-owner of the first exhibition guide for contemporary art in Oslo, U.F.O. (ufoguide.no).
Before moving to Norway, Stephanie von Spreter served as project manager for various large exhibitions and projects, including the 4th and 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. She was assistant curator at the 50. Biennale di Venezia (The Structure of Survival) and curatorial assistant at Documenta11 in Kassel.
Images: Installation documentation from a selection of exhibitions curated by Stephanie Von Spreter
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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.
