EDUCATION
2018 Writing Academy/Skrivekunstakademiet, Bergen
2011 MFA - Academy of Fine Art/ Kunstakademiet, Oslo
2010 HfBK Städelschule Frankfurt (prof. Mark Leckey/Bonnie Camplin)
2009 BFA - Academy of Fine Art/ Kunstakademiet, Oslo
2008 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
2007 Medium and Material Based Art, textile department, Oslo
2006 Prosjektskolen kunstfagskole, Oslo
2005 Einar Granum kunstfagskole, Oslo
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Billedhoggerforeningen, Oslo
2019 Among / BLANT, Galleri K, Oslo
2018 Lawn / Plen, Blokk, Bergen
2018 Queue / Kø, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2016 The brain is to close to the mouth / Hjernen er for nær munnen, Podium, Oslo
Celected group EXHIBITIONS• PERFORMANCE • SCREENINGS • PUBLICATIONS
2017 Oslo Art Week - Podium, Oslo
2017 The Sculpture Park at Magasinleiren, Ski
2017 Wildlife Sculpture park, Nesodden
2017 Gjennvinningen, Kristiansand Kunsthall
2016 Chiroptera, blaring elevator stops. Dings with Christian Tony Norum and friends, Munchmuseet Oslo
2016 Munchmuseet foundation stone ceremony performance - Open letter to Oslo municipallity /Åpent brev til Oslo kommune. Initiated by and in collaboration with Marianne Heier with Kristian Tony Norum, Marthe Ramm Fortun and Morten Krogh, Oslo
2016 The Drawing Biennial / En kollektiv psykogeografisk guide til Oslo, Tegnebiennalen, Oslo
2013-16 Scenography/sculptures, tooth-retractors in Soil Girl /Jordjenta. Dance Performance by Berstad/ Helgebostad/Widgel, Black Box Theater, Oslo.
Tour 2013-2016: Ice hot/Oslo, USF/Bergen, RAS/Sandnes, Barents/Hammerfest, AG/ Trondheim, MM/Rotterdam, Aerowaves, Norwind/Berlin, Spring Forward/Barcellona, ImPulsTanz/ Wien, Euro-Scene Leipzig, TNC/ Tsjekkoslovakia
2015 VECTOR #7, Bergen issue, exhibition/publication, Galleri Entre, www.vector.bz, Bergen
2015 Handlingens Gang, Vestlandsutstillingen
2015 SonADA – Aberdeen, Scotland.
2015 Menneskeberget, Munchs atelier Ekely, Christian Tony Norum and friends, Oslo
2014 A travel letter from many places/ Reisebrev mangesteds fra, with Norum/ Bakketun, Gl-strand København
2014 Papay Gyro Nights 4th International Island Art festival, screening, Tokyo, Japan
2014 We are living on a star/ Vi lever på en stjerne, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden
2013 Constant Decay, RAKE visningsrom, Trondheim
2013 Screening: Papay Gyro Nights selected videos, The Quiet North/The horse hospital, London
2013 Screening: Papay gyro nights 3rd Interational Contemporary Art Festival, Hong Kong, Kina
2013 Screening: G! festival, Færøyene, Danmark
2013 Sandefjord kunstforening, Art Price, nomination exhibition, Sandefjord
2011 Ultima festivalen 2011, Duet for voice and tuba, Oslo
2011 When you close your eyes I disappear, Diamantenbörse,Frankfurt
2010 The Savings Bank Foundation/ Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR, Grant - exhibition, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo
2010 If you hold your hands like your feet like this, Rundgang, HfBK Stadelschule Tyskland
2009 Sympathy for the devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2009 Pool (avec), Sjokoladefabrikken, Oslo
2009 Freshness of Being, Galleri Rekord, Oslo
2008 Without a sound/ Utan ett ljud, collaboration with Ida Lennartsson, Østre Skostredet 5, Bergen
2007 Screening: Garish Barish, MAG:NET gallery Katipunanan, Manila, Filippinene
GRANTS
2019 Oslo Award - Art of the year/ Osloprisen - årets kunst 2018, Natt og Dag
2018 Working grant, BKV, 3 years
2018-20 Studio grant; Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2017 Working grant, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards stiftelse
2014-16 National Working grant, Arts Council Norway, 2 years
2013 Working grant, BKV, 1 year
2013 Nomination - Sandefjord Kunstforenings Art Award
2012 Working grant, BKH, 1 year
2011 Winner of Ragnvald & Ida Blix – Art award, Norway/Danmark
2011 Chr. Lorch Schive grant/ Chr. Lorch Schive og hustrus legat
2010 Nomination Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NORs Art award
CURATORIAL WORK
In collaboration with Andrea Bakketun: 2009-2012.
FIVE THOUSAND GENERATIONS OF BIRDS took place August 10 to 12, 2012. Fitjar Islands consists of 381 islands, islets and reefs. Selected artists were invited to participate in the exhibition where they developed site specific and temporary works based on workshops and collaborative research related to the phenomenology of islands. The artists were given their own island where they produced and exhibited their projects.
Contributing artists:
Aipotu (NO), Serina Erfjord (NO), Marla Hlady (CA), Idan Hayosh (IL), Sigmund Skaar (NO), Julien Berthier (FR) , FoCS (NO), Johanna Malinowska (PL), Siri Schippers Skaar (NO), Miks Mitrevics (LV), Ann Cathrin November Høibo (NO), Axel Linderholm (SE), Mercedes Muhleisen og Øyvind Aspen (NO), Roman Signer (CH), Tori Wrånes (NO) og Kunstverein st. Pauli (DE).
Kjersti Solbakken (press), Adriana Alves (producer), Jonas Ib Jensen (technician), Lene Tufteland (coordinator), Hanne Sætre Thunestvedt (economy), Anna Mikkola and Bjørnar Pedersen (designers). The project is supported by KORO, Norwegian Art Council, Young artists society, Fitjar municipality and Hordlaland county council.
WWW.FTGOFBIRDS.NET
REVIEWS / TEXT
2019 Desperasjon og preposisjon, Line Ulekleiv, Klassekampen
2019 Creative Endgame, Zofia Cielatkowska, Nordic Art Review/ Kunstkritikk
2018 Folkedans for viderekomne. Kunstkritikk, Stian Gabrielsen
2018 Når nettene blir lange, Kunstnerforbundet, Klassekampen, Tommy Olsson
2017 Omdannelse, resirkulering og remix på Kristiansand Kunsthall, v/Fædrelandsvennen
2016 Hjernen er for nær munnen, nominert til årets utstilling i klassekampen v/Line Ulekleiv
2016 Fra fot til hånd, Hjernen er for nær munnen - Podium Oslo, Klassekampen, Line Ulekleiv
2015 Går fra handlinger til ord, Vestlandsutstillingen 2015, Tommy Olsson, Klassekampen
2014 22 Juli igjen og igjen, Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk
2014 Etter det utenkelige, Tommy Olsson, Morgenbladet
2014 Vi lever på en stjerne, Mona Pahle Bjerke, NRK
2013 Heslighet som frigjøring, Hedda Fredly, Scenekunst
2013 Dørstokkmila, Gustav Svihus Borgersen, Billedkunst.
2012 Utgivelse: An Epitaph for the World We are Leaving Behind Percival Space
2012 Five thousand generations of birds: Regine Debatty, we-make-money-not-art.
2012 Grundig utforsking av holmen som sted, Sigrun Åsebø, Billedkunst
2012 Vestlandets kraft, Nicolai Strøm Olsen, Kunstforum
2012 Omgivelsens Makt, Stian Gabrielsen, Kunstkritikk
BOARDS • LECTURES/TEACHING • OTHER
2019 - 21 Board member, Kunstnernes Hus
2017 - 19 Jury committee, Oslo municipality Atelier-grants/ tildelingsutvalg for kommunale atelieer.
2015 - 19 Council member / Rådet, Kunstnernes Hus
2016 - 17 Deputy Chair, jury-member, Young Artists’ Society (UKS)
2013 - Ongoing, TV and Media Executive, BONO (Norwegian visual artists copyright society)
2013 - Ongoing, Tutor at: The National Academy of Arts, Oslo, Elvebakken vgs, Einar Granum, Prosjektskolen, Bergen School of Art.
2013 - 14 Programme Coordinator, Master's in fine art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, substitute for Leander Djønne