PAST RESIDENTS
Ellen Heck
Ellen Heck works as a printmaker in North Carolina. Over the past decade, through several print projects, she has explored specific questions about identity—its creation, variability, persistence and change—by combining subject matter and thematically resonant printmaking techniques.
Januario Jano
Januario Jano is an interdisciplinary visual artist, who lives and works in London, Luanda and Lisbon. He holds a MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, and his practice spans across sculpture, video, photography, textile, sound installations, and performance, and it is substantially research-based.
Cathrine Alice Liberg
Cathrine Alice Liberg is a Norwegian-Singaporean artist and printmaker working in a variety of techniques, including lithography, photogravure, cyanotype, etching and mezzotint. Her art revolves mainly around the family portrait, where she contemplates the stories that were lost through her family’s migration, and how descendants can never become reliable narrators of their ancestors’ lives.
Heehyun Joeng
Heehyun Jeong (b. 1984) was born and raised in South Korea, studied at the University of Art Braunschweig in Germany, graduating from Olav Christopher Jenssen as a master student.
Inma Herrera
Inma Herrera (1986, Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki since 2014. She has a Fine Arts Bachelor Degree and a MA in Art Creation and Research from UCM, Madrid.
Andreas Siqueland
Humanity's relation to the landscape and nature are central elements in the works of Andreas Siqueland. It is a free and open, but rhythmic, dialog he conducts with his surroundings; the forest, the mountains, the ocean. A direct presence - as close as you can get - seems fundamental. He is inside the motive, observing and looking for the essence.
Petter Buhagen
Petter Buhagen is an interdisciplinary artist who, through his practice, is concerned with human-made systems and translations of information between digital and analogue formats. By emphasizing specific aspects in our relationship to technology, his works invites reflections on topics such as intimacy and publicity, temporarity and archiving, tactility and immateriality, nature and machine.
Line Prip
At the core of Line Prip’s artistic practice is her interest in how we are affected by other people and by the context in which we are situated. Human relations are permeated with what we cannot see, and in her spatial works she is materialising the invisible mechanisms that underlie our human existence by translating them into a physical, sensual experience.
Daniel Persson
Daniel Persson (b. 1974) is a Swedish visual artist living and working in Bergen. He works primary on paper with printmaking and photography. He’s interested in the landscape that surrounds us. In the things and gadgets we identify ourselves with and the marks that we leave behind.
Patrik Berg
Patrik Berg (1982, Härnosand, Sweden) is an Oslo-based artist who works mainly with drawing and printmaking. Berg is true to the medium of print and interested in its status as a complex artistic practice rather than a method of reproduction. He combines the traditions of Albrecht Dürer and Henry Darger while addressing questions about ecology, ornament, composition and language.
Julie Ebbing
Julie Ebbing holds an MA in Art and Craft from Oslo national academy of the arts. According to Ebbing the printed picture holds a long history as a medium for social and political commentary. In todays society we are living in a constant feed of pictures which easily loose their meaning.
Emma Stibbon
Emma Stibbon is a British artist based in Bristol, UK. She works primarily on paper, depicting environments that are undergoing change or transformation. Her approach to landscape is driven by a desire to understand how human activity and the forces of nature shape our surroundings.
Giancarlo Scagila
Giancarlo Scaglia studied visual arts at the school of fine arts in Lima, this is also where he developed his career as an artist.
Scaglia's work reinterpretates armed conflicts from the 80's and 90's that took place in Peru.
Ellen Karin Mæhlum
Ellen Karin Mæhlum is a visual artist and printmaker based in Oslo. She studied at Bergen and Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Her works have been acquired by several public collections, including the National Gallery in Oslo, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway.
Karo Akpokiere
Karo Akpokiere is a child of the 80s born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. He received a diploma in Graphic Design from Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria in 2006. Akpokiere has taken part in several exhibitions locally and internationally, including his first solo exhibition 26/365: An Exhibition of Illustrated Letters at the Goethe-Institut, Lagos, Nigeria (2011) and the first Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Public Art Exhibition, Lagos (2012).
Fuki Hamada
Hamada, a printmaker, was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1972. She graduated from MFA Printmaking at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (2000).
Håvard Homstvedt
Håvard Homstvedt received his artistic education from Yale University School of Art (2003) and Rhode Island School of Design (2000). Recent exhibitions include Galleri Riis, Oslo (2014), Galeria Annarumma, Napoli (2015), Anne de Villepoix, Paris (2015), and Inman Gallery, Houston (2016). Homstvedt lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
Tiina Kivinen
Tiina Kivinen is a visual artist and printmaker based in Finland. She was the first person to receive the Queen Sonja Print Award in 2012. She has held solo exhibitions in Dalslands konstmuseum, Sweden (2016), Kunstverket galleri, Oslo (2013) and Galerie Arktika, Marktoberdorf, Germany (2011) as well as several solo exhibitions in Finland. Her work has been presented at many international group shows over the last twenty years.