Olivia Berkowicz

Olivia Berkowicz is a curator and editor based in Stockholm. She works at the intersection of critical visuality studies, contemporary art theory and psychoanalysis. This manifests in work exploring geopolitics and human geography. Her previous studies include an MA in Curatorial Studies and a BA in History of Art, at Stockholm University and Goldsmiths College, University of London respectively. For the former, she completed a thesis titled Ecologies of Care and Intimacy – Curatorial Practices in the Capitalocene. The work sought to explore curatorial methodologies of intimacy, relatedness and non-capitalist modes of production.

Recently she worked at Sörmlands Museum where she co-curated Mending a Broken World, a retrospective exhibition on the Hungarian-Swedish artist Lenke Rothman, with contributions by contemporary artists Alina Chaiderov and Gery Georgieva. She is one of the founders of Ferrara Residency, an international residency program in Ferrara, Italy. Since 2017, artists and researchers have been invited to explore forms of togetherness while reflecting on means of precarious and affective labour under capitalist conditions.

Image 1. Sensory Futures: Consciousness razing (2018), Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm. Photo: Emmeli Person

Image 2. Lenke Rothman & Alina Chaiderov - Mending a Broken World (2018-2019), Sörmlands Museum, Nyköping. Curated with Joanna Nordin. Photo: Valdemar Asp

Image 3. A Fluid Haze, Ferrara Residency (2018), Ferrara. Untitled degraded painting by Ruth Angel Edwards. Photo: Andrea Bighi

Image 4. Who Cares? Ferrara Residency (2017), Ferrara. Photo: Karolina Mikeskova

Anton Benois

Anton Benois (b.1979 Moscow, USSR) is a Norway-based Australian artist whose work collects found, made and commissioned objects within environments that trouble their worth. Benois' practice-based artistic research explores themes of provenance and dispossession, the ritualisation of the everyday and the universality of dissociative flows in the digital age. 

Benois graduated from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NTNU) in May 2019. He has exhibited at Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna, Small Projects (Tromsø, NO), Kudos Gallery (Sydney, AU) and First Draft Gallery (Sydney, AU) with both individual and collaborative projects. His MFA graduate work will be shown as part of Statens Kunstutstilling Høstutstillingen in Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, NO) in 2019. 

Image 1: 'Distant Relatives,' 2019, Trondheim Kunstmuseum Gråmølna (Trondheim, NO) materials: commissioned oil painting, 3D printed frame, bench, sound. Image Credit: Lili Zanetta

Image 2: ‘Come Inside Me,’ 2018, Tromsø, Norway. Site-specific installation using 57 recycled radios and fm transmitters in northern Norways oldest wooden kiosk. 

Image 3: ‘On a Clear Day you can see into Forever’ 2018, Video Still

Beatrice Alvestad Lopez

Oslo based artist, Beatrice Alvestad Lopez works across mediums including painting, installation and performance. She is co-founder of the independent press; Inner Space, which publishes books of art and poetry. The publication Colour will be part of CICA museum exhibition entitled; Colour 2019 taking place in August. She holds a BA from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan including an exchange at the Pratt Institute, New York. Solo exhibitions include Ritual Lines at Art Licks festival, London and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including White Space gallery, House of Foundation and SiM gallery. Her ongoing interest in nature led her to be part of the programme Arts Territory Exchange, a collaborative correspondence project based on ecology and topographies. In May 2019 Beatrice participated at the SiM residency in Iceland with her project Glitch, working environmentally along the coast of Reykjavik.

She writes texts/journals of her encounters and experiences of place that contextualise them within broader socio-political and environmental concerns. A recent example is her project on water - having participated in an artist’s residency organised by An Lanntair on a sailboat in the Hebrides, Scotland.

Ayman Alazraq

Ayman Alazraq makes films, photos, and mixed media artworks. His short film The Passport was screened at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin (Italy), Cologne International Video Art Festival (Germany), among other places. His video and photography installation You From Now On Are Not Yourself was screened in venues in Spain, Norway, Denmark, and the Gaza Strip. In 2015 Alazraq’s short film Oslo Syndrome was presented in the autumn exhibition in Oslo, Dubai International Film Festival and London Palestinian film festival. His collaborative work with Emanuel Svedin was shown at Svedin has been exhibited at Galleri Podium in Oslo and Theaterhaus Jena in Germany in 2017. Alazraq and Svedin were awarded a permanent public art installation at Høgskolen på Vestlandet, which was inaugurated in 2018.