PAST RESIDENTS
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.
Montaser Abdel Mawjood Hassan
Based in Trondheim, Montaser Hassan is an Egyptian poet and author. Hassan has published several poertry collections, among them Thamat Ashiaa lan yogrebha (2012) and Huroob wa Haza'em (2004). His Poems have been published all over the world ranging from Dubai Cultural to Mina Magazine.
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.
Harald Bøckman
After working at the University of Oslo as a researcher on China at the Centre for Development and the Environment, Harald Bøckman (born 1945) has, until recently, been a senior guest researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Cristina Lucas
Based in Madrid, Spain, Cristina Lucas is an artist interested in mechanisms of power. She analyses principal political and economic structures, dissecting them in order to reveal the contradictions between official history, reality, and collective memory.
Alena Kazlova
Alena Kazlova (Anka Upala) is a Belarusian writer and translator of literature from English, Finnish and Swedish. She is a member of the Belarusian PEN Centre and a member of the Union of Belarusian Writers where she also coordinated the work of the writing school.
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.
Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg
Benedicte was born in Oslo, 1972. She debuted in 2010 with the novel Ingen skal høre hvor stille det er. With her debut she was exclaimed as the debutant of the year in Aftenposten, Norways largest newspaper. Since then she has published several novels.
Hans-Olav Thyvold
Hans-Olav Thyvold was born in 1959 and has published several nonfiction books and worked as a journalist, radio and tv host. In 2017 he published his first work of fiction “Snille hunder kommer ikke til sydpolen” which deals with the fate of the 100 or so dogs that Roald Amundsen brought with him to the south pole.
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.
Sille Storihle
Sille Storihle (b. 1985, Tromsø) is an artist living in Berlin and Oslo and working with moving images and text. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and an Master in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts. Her central areas of interest include gender politics, nationalism and history.
Mette Henriette
Mette Henriette is a Sámi-Norwegian interdisciplinary composer, saxophonist and performing artist whose work has shown around the world. In 2017, she premiered the solo performance ‘In Between’ at documenta14, a piece reflecting on nomadic lifestyles which took place inside Athens Concert Hall.
Oswaldo Maciá
Oswaldo Maciá is a Colombian artist based in London, he works primarily with sound and smell. Maciá grew up in Cartagena de Indias where he attended the school of fine arts. He has later studied at Llotja school in Barcelona as well as Guildhall and Goldsmith's College in London. His olfactory-acoustic sculptures have been exhibited all over the world and is held by Tate among other international collections.
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.
Juni Dahr
The actress Juni Dahr founded Visions Theatre in 1988. Dahr has worked with medieval themes, Henrik Ibsen’s drama and modern experimental theatre throughout her career. Through her many female roles in classical drama and the one-woman performances produced by Visions Theatre, she has contributed to a renewal of how female characters are portrayed in Norwegian theatre.
Lars Paalgard
Lars Paalgard studied at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway (1978–82) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1983–85). He has participated in exhibitions in Norway and abroad, and his works feature in public collections such as those of the Arts Council Norway and Trondheim Municipality. Paalgard was one of the initiators of G.U.N (Galleri Uten Navn / Unnamed Gallery) and Sound Of Mu in Oslo.
Oddvar I.N. Daren
Oddvar I.N. Daren is an artist who works across genres with paintings, objects, sculptures and land art. He trained at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway (1977–81) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1982–84). He has held solo exhibitions at Bodø Kunstforening, Norway (2015); Trondheims Kunstforening, Trondheim (2013); Galleri F15, Moss, Norway (1986) and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Bærum, Norway (1985).
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).
Easterine Kire
Easterine Kire, born in 1959 in Nagaland, north-east India, she has a PhD in English literature from Pune University, India.
Kire’s first book of poetry (Kelhoukevira,1982) was the first book of English poetry to be published by a Naga. In 2003, she also published the first novel by a Naga writer in English, A Naga village remembered (Ura Academy).