2024

Amber Ablett

I have a social and research-based practice using sound, video and workshops where I use my experiences as a woman with a Trinidadian-Irish-and-British background living in Norway to open up discussion relating to belonging, home and identity. There are different layers of audience participation in my work, from intimate gatherings where co-creation and reciprocity are possible, to sound, video and text installations, which share or extend personal or closed research. I am interested in the spatiality of sound and how it can create communal spaces, to listen, learn and think together; sound in my work is a tool to document and extend.

Gerard Ortin Casetllvi

Gerard Ortín Castellví is an artist, film curator, filmmaker and researcher from Barcelona, based in London. After completing an MFA at Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam), he finished an MA in Artists’ Film and Moving Image at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is currently doing a PhD. He is a mentor at UCL Creative Documentary by Practice MFA.

Unni Gjertsen

Unni Gjertsen is a visual artist, filmmaker and writer based in Oslo. How we perceive geography and history, is a recurrent interest explored through her work. She often employs an ecological- as well as a feminist perspective in her practice.

Hans Edward Hammonds

Hans Edward Hammonds is a Norwegian and New Zealand artist, with a Master of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts (University of Auckland) in New Zealand. In recent years, Hammonds has a multi disciplinary practice but works mainly sculpture, installation and participatory/relational projects. His work is playfull and he explores ways of collaborating, interaction, and interplay. Hammonds believe these are relevant and important themes to work with in the current social and political climate we live in today.

Iselin Linstad Hauge

At the core of my work is the complex relationship between humans and animals, and how aesthetic preferences influence which animal species are sought after, preserved, and valued.
Iselin Linstad Hauge lives in the forest north of Oslo, and works with film, text, photography and performance. She holds an MFA in film from HDK Valand, the University of Gothenburg, a BFA in fine arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and has studied acting at the European Film College in Denmark.

Johanne Hestvold

Johanne Hestvold is an artist and sculptor, based in Oslo. Through her practice she reworks familiar objects and materials into new shapes in order to challenge the ways we approach our familiar environments. She uses different materials, such as mycelium composite, a material where mycel (the root-like structure of a fungus) grows around hemp fibres, magnetic foils and iron powder, pieces of energy infrastructure and mass-produces consumer goods. Her sculptures evolves in dialog with and in relation to their surroundings.

Lars Holdhus

Lars Holdhus (Fusa, Norway) is a Norwegian artist and food forest worker who runs Good Praxis with Juha van ’t Zelfde and Arnau Sala Saez. Good Praxis is an art education for climate justice that celebrates successful models of resistance and regeneration through workshops, assemblies, and club nights.

Kvae & Bark

Kvae & Bark is an artist duo consisting of Karoline Sætre and Øyvind Novak Jenssen, who work and reside in Trysil. The duo explores their surroundings through foraging and processing of natures produce, goods and materials. Their projects take the form of sensuous installations with a wide range of materials, as well as performative gestures including taste, smell, sound and site-specific narratives.

Nayara Leite

Nayara Leite performed the commissioned work Will we ever feel safe again? (Have we ever felt safe at all?) on top of the Silo at Vippetangen in Oslo for Art on Food/Coast Contemporarys eight edition.

Nayara Leite (b. 1989) is a Brazilian artist and writer based in Bergen, Norway. She works across text, performance, analogue photography, film and installation. Through autobiographical narrative, political news, archival material and letters to close friends, she produces a portrayal of the reality in which the LGBTQ+ community lives in Brazil and in Norway.

Helle Mellemstrand

Helle Mellenmstrand is a textile artist based in Stavanger. I am looking for textiles and forms that convey shared memories and experiences, be it current political events or universal themes such as anxiety, loss, joy, death, the sea and love.

Stéphanie Sagot

Love, earth, ocean, cosmos
Artist, teacher – researcher at university, lover of the earth and the ocean, daughter and granddaughter of oyster farmers, I am committed to the tenderness and care that we can give to these elements, in situated practices connecting other lovers of life. By infiltrating reality to the test of domination, I investigate subjects relating to ecofeminism, the peasantry and agricultural policies.

Lars Sandås

The common denominator in much of my work is my interest for “invisible stories”. By focusing on phenomena, problems and historical events I feel we – as a society – need to pay more attention to, I illuminate underexposed parts of reality. In the pieces Små monumenter / Small monuments (KORO, 2019), In Ruins (2018) and Narkoatlas / Drugatlas – Oslo (2016), I comment on societal and political themes like outsiderness, distribution of wealth, injustice and violence, all of which are common themes in my art. My last project Deep fried World (2024) thematizes how over consumption characterizes most aspects of our society, and how consumption contributes to destroying the basis of our lives.

Pawel Stypula and Dep. Artment

I explore the essence of The Dep.artment in Tøyen, Oslo.
Since 2019, this former home and studio of Ole Sjølie (1923–2015) has been evolving into a manifestation of future living, that is guided by my multidisciplinary experience and collective support. The place where I live transforms into a residency, pop-up gallery and research space where positive future scenarios are tested and developed on site. Here, biology blends with art, and technology. While taking care of Sjølie’s legacy, I’m envisioning a "dialogue of the past with the future.

Agnete Tangrand

Agnete Tangrand is an artist and chef based in Lofoten in the North of Norway / Sápmi.
She works with textile that are assembled from found textiles and embroydery. Her working method is an intuitive method that springs from feelings and a quest to progress and develop personally.

Nikhil Vetukattil

Nikhil Vettukattil (IN/UK/NO) is an artist living and working in Oslo. Vettukattil studied at Central St. Martins in London and the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London. They are part of the Institute for Scene Experiments.

Sveinung Rudjord Unneland

Sveinung Rudjord Unneland is an independent artist living in Bergen. His is founder of the artist run gallery Joy Forum (2018-2022) and co-found of the studio collective the unfinished institution (2022-). Unneland finished his Ph.D. in artistic research at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music, and Design, University of Bergen in autumn 2023. The project Urgent Affairs, Strange Empathy examined structural and architectural changes in art education, parallel with that it explored how to establish autonomous spaces and participatory practices within the institutional context as such.

Ragnhild Aamås

In my work you’ll see sculpture, text, collage and sound. I have established a way of working and a body of work that particularly looks at the effects of language and the capture of the writing system. I base myself on poor, commercial and found materials. Since I developed «Echo Cleans the Mirror Sore» for Kunsthall Stavanger over their archive in 2015, I have worked with institutional archives on several occasions. Latest in a series of sonic microessays for Kunstnerforbundet in 2023. I’m attracted to an investigative form that branches into and interweaves written and visual materials.