Tadeo Nedala

Tadeo Nedala’s work ranges across architectural design, product design and graphic design. He graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Design with Honours at Uganda Martyrs University in 2019. He is currently a product designer at Baraza Design Village in Uganda where he provides detailed drawings and illustrations for interior furniture pieces.

Alongside his professional work, Tadeo is undertaking a Master of Architecture at Uganda Martyrs University. He enjoys the physicality of architecture and is interested in the process of emphasizing architectural details to form objects. Previous work has included contributing to the design of a temporary Mobile Money Kiosk in Kampala, Uganda. The work explored existing kiosks to better understand the use of space, materiality and character of business. This exploration resulted in the redesign, fabrication and installation of a new mobile money kiosk for a mobile money vendor.

Ibrahim Mufti Pradityo

Ibrahim Mufti Pradityo graduated in 2020 from University of Stavanger with a master’s degree in city planning and urban design. His thesis, investigated how urban areas could be developed to better facilitate families with young children.

He currently works as an urban planner at Nomad planning office, and advocates for socially sustainable cities. In his professional practice, he works with citizen participation processes in combination with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and qualitative analysis methods.

Image 1: Participatory planning in the historical neighbourhood of Vaterland in Fredrikstad, Norway

Image 2: Mural unveiling, “children’s dream city”. Photo: Mad Arkitekter

Image 3: Mapping the walkability of Skien, Norway

​Tanja Thorjussen

Tanja Thorjussen (b. 1970) is an artist living in Oslo (NO). Her artistic medium spans between drawing, sculpture, performance and art in public space. Through speculative research her artistic practice revolves around how ancient art can inform the present.

At the upcoming exhibition at Archeological Museum – University of Stavanger (NO) in 2023 she is making artworks about historical objects from the collection, speculating on its meaning through artistic methodology such as drawing and intuitive listening.

Her current artistic focus is on the mystic and spiritual in nature and bodies of water, hydrofeminism, and the science embedded in indigenous knowledge and ancient mythology. Thorjussen holds a BFA from KHIB in Bergen (NO) and Parsons The New School in New York (USA) and is educated as curator from Telemark University. She is the initiator of LOCUS since 2006 and PAO - Performance Art Oslo since 2012 and from 2019 she is elected chairwoman of Tegnerforbundet (The Norwegian Drawing Association)

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), the 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 Statens kunstutstilling in Oslo, Dubai International Film Festival, and London Palestinian film festival. In 2017, he produced the interactive installation WALL-1 in collaboration with Emanuel Sviden. WALL has been exhibited in various places, including; Podium Gallery, Oslo, 2017; Tabaklera, Spain; 2 Theaterhaus; Jena, Germany, 2018; Westfalischer Kunstvrein, Munster, Germany, 2019. Public Art Norway (KORO) permanently installed the work at the University College of Western Norway. You're going to miss me when I'm gone, artwork projection on the City Hall wall 2020. The film, Into My lungs was screened at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo in 2022.

Images 1-4: still images from the film ‘Into my lungs’, 2022.

Motaz Al Habbash

Motaz Al Habbash works as an artist, producer and curator. Born in Palestine, he has been based in Norway since 2014. As an artist he primarily works with video, and aas an organiser he has been involved with large projects such as the mentor program Her og der - which supports newly arrived artists in Norway - and the artistic programme It's hard to be an Arab. In 2021, Al habbash curated the the exhibition Absent Presence at Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, and his video work “Stolen Well” was shown at Trafo Kunsthall.

Diala Brisley

Diala Brisly is a Syrian artist whose artistic practice spans a variety of media, including animation, painting, conceptual art, illustration, comic books and murals. Social justice and freedom are reoccurring themes in her work which often highlights the educational situation of Syrian children, and refugees in general. Stemming from her own experiences, recent work explores themes of well-being and psychological issues, such as post trauma.

Image 1: It’s a baby girl, Lifejacket series

Image 2: Leave us

Image 3: Integration, Survival mode series

Yamile Calderón

Yamile Calderón is an artist born in Colombia who now lives in Oslo. She studied photography at Bergen National Academy of Arts. She was awarded The Art Photography Prize by The Norwegian Association for Fine Art Photographers for her work Accidentally I got a GoPro. She is currently exhibiting Oslo Stories at Carl Berner Project room. She has recently published her second photo book, Narcos & Homes which documents property of Colombian drug traffickers that has been confiscated by the government.

Calderon's work is inspired by her childhood memories and explores interrelationships between experience, memory, and social and cultural context. By approaching the documentary genre from a subjective perspective, she uses visual and narrative strategies to explore interpretations of reality.

Calderón has participated in various collective exhibitions and has presented her work internationally in Pingyao, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Kiel and New York. In Oslo her work has been presented at Oslo Kunstforerning, Kunstnernes Hus, Galleri BOA, Noplace, Fotogalleriet, and Galleri Brandstrup.

Tania Cañas

Tania Cañas is an artist-researcher based on unceded Kulin Territory. Her practice looks at the relationship between ‘art making’ and ‘community making’ in the context of community- led methodologies at the intersection of performance, decoloniality, borders and displacement.

Her socially engaged practice creates dynamic community-led creative platforms as sites of collaboration, modalities of resistance as well as ways to rethink processes and re-cast institutions. Tania's unique practice develops creative processes that foreground voices as authors of their collective experience, actively reshaping the conditions of creative possibility within communities-rather than treating communities as sources of data for academic commentary.

She is the artistic director at Arts Gen, a community arts and health organisation, and leads the Performance and Community Engagement as well as the Social Practice courses at the Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2021.

Image 1: ‘ten things to consider’, 2016.

Image 2 & 3: “Unwelcome Mats”, 2015.

Jad El Khoury

Jad is an architect and visual artist. He holds an MA in architecture from the Lebanese University and a MFA in art and public space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. His work has been shown internationally and he has received awards including the Institute of Public Art Award and the Arte Laguna Prize for Urban Art and Land art.

Jad writes, ”After studying architecture in Beirut, I have worked with traces of war in Lebanon, where I grew up. I am part of the first post civil war (1975-1990) generation. To me, transforming accidental monuments of bitterness in the city into choreographed installations dancing with the wind was a necessity. It is my method to poetically rebel against religious sectarianism and suffering.

My practice intertwines reality with fiction, facts with uncertainty, architecture with art, memory with forgetfulness. From illustrating repetitive meditative patterns with ink on paper, to temporary installations with architectural materials on contemporary ruins, the methods, research and mediums I work with are constantly being metamorphosed depending on the contexts and situations I encounter.”

Iman Jabrah

Iman Jabrah is a Palestinian American multidisciplinary artist currently located in Cincinnati, OH. She is a recipient of the full scholarship from China Scholarship Council, currently pursuing masters in Fine Art at China Academy of Art with a previous BFA in New Media Art from Northern Kentucky University. In early 2022, Jabrah received the Artswave’s Truth and Reconciliation grant to sponsor Amid exhibition during her curator-in-residence at Wave Pool gallery; Amid exhibition showcases artworks at the Cincinnati Art Museum by ten Palestinian women and queer artists from the West Bank and diaspora. Her latest exhibition was part of Women of Crypto Art in collaboration with DoinGud for the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Most recently, Jabrah is set to exhibit with the Professional Artistic Research (PAR-) Projects at Studeō PAR-, in July 2022 at Cincinnati, OH. Many of Iman’s initiative projects aim toward community; to build collaborative cultures and to continue to increase exposure to displaced Palestinian artists through shared exhibitions, residencies, and collective projects.

Image 1: Protest. Sculpture, 2022.

Image 2: drop. Sculpture, 2022.

Image 3: Woman. Sculpture Photography, 2021.

Image 4: Make America Great Again. Sculpture, photography & digital art, 2021.

Nastassja Nefjodov

Nastassja Nefjodov is a German-Russian lens-based artist living in the Netherlands. She graduated (with honor) from the Fotoacademie Amsterdam in 2021. Currently she is a participant in FOTODOK's Talent Development Program: Lighthouse and  the Graduate Mentoring Scheme 2021 from Redeye: The Photography Network. Nefjodov is also an active member of the online educational community and platform Work Show Grow School.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at festival Encontros da Imagem in Braga, Portugal (2021), Neue Schule für Fotografie Gallery in Berlin, Germany (2020) and  Rotterdam Photo, The Netherlands (2019). Her book My grandfathers, the war and I won the EI Photobook Award 2020 and her book Into the blue was shortlisted for EI Photobook Award 2021. She has contributed to publications including Mini Albums East Central (2021), United, Work Show Grow Publication (2021) and home is... of Julia Borissova (2020).

Her practice stems from her family stories which relate to ruptures in European history. She focus on the emotional impact, rather than factual, theoretical, or political aspects. Through her art, she wants to invite people to rethink history from a personal perspective of what it does to a person, to families. Not only in the present but across generations, as a second, often neglected layer of war stories.

The entry point of her projects is often the family archive, her and her family members memories which she then reflects on in combination with her own imagery and words. Another central element of her exploration is the immersion into the places of the past using the camera both to find traces of the stories and documenting emotions and reflections of the now.

The results of her projects often turn into three dimensional objects/installations allowing the viewer to experience the multilayered stories by stepping into, immerse themselves within Nefjodov’s world and therewith feel encouraged to connect to and to tell their own stories.

Image 1: From the book „Meine Großväter der Krieg und ich“ 2020

Image 2: Book: „Meine Großväter der Krieg und ich“ Foto by @the_bookphotographer

Image 3: Untitled, from the work „Ins Blaue hinein“, 2021

Daria Pugachova

Daria Pugachova is an artist, performer and art-activist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied architecture at Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture. From 2013–2019 she played drums in the female trio Panivalkova. After musicians split up Daria dived into a field of contemporary art. 

In her projects, Daria uses participatory practices to unite a community and integrate art into daily life. She works with performance, video and artivism. Her artistic approach lies in the presence of the artist and direct interaction with the audience in public space. Her work explores history of place to awaken memories with the community, and to visualize its possible future. “By performing in public places, I connect with all kinds of people” says Daria, “Some of them may never attend exhibitions. So art should step out of galleries and become a part of everyday life, thereby changing it”.

Daria received the Golden Aesop Grand Prix at Gabrovo Biennial of Contemporary Art for the work ’Stones’ and the project Dasha+Zhanar. In 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Daria left Kyiv and to continue her artistic practice in Europe.

Khalid Shatta

Khalid Shatta’s work is inspired by modernist painting, but also by the art of ancient civilizations and by the culture of his birthplace, Sudan.

Shatta says: “I’m inspired by painters such as Hussein Gamaan, Kerry James Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Klee and photographers like Malick Sidibé, Seydou Keïta and Gordon Parks. Ancient Sudanese history is another significant inspiration. Being of Nuba descent, I believe in trying to uncover the cultural heritage we lost under Islamic conquest and European colonialism.

I am currently exploring a theme I call the migration of the soul – the sensation of being out of place. We live in a time where many people feel a disconnection from their own bodies and existence. I make use of ancient Kemetic and Cushitic symbols from the historical kingdoms of the Nile valley civilisations. I believe that everything is connected through our shared history, even in this chaotic state of migration.”

Yanina Zaichanka

Yanina Zaichanka is a Belarusian artist, currently studying for a BFA at the Oslo National Academy of Arts. Prior to moving to Oslo, she had been actively involved in the contemporary art scene in Minsk. In 2018-2019, she studied Contemporary Art and Drama at the European College of Liberal Arts, Belarus. Her work has been shown at two solo exhibitions – Freedom (of Speech) from the Unbearable at Pradmova Festival of Intellectual Literature in 2020, and Being a Woman at ECLAB in 2019. She has contributed to group shows, including CIAHLITSY - an exhibition of “queer art” - and Halasy - an exhibition of art de-stigmatizing people with mental health conditions.

Image 1: The Inhuman Face of War, 2022

Image 2: Still Counting, 2021-

Image 3: My Family’s Paths, 2020-

Image 4: Illustration for Paval Lubetsky’s essay Leviathan-2020: When They Are Eager to Make Sacrifice, But Are Sacrificing Others For Some Reason, 2020

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Kajsa Dahlberg

Kajsa Dahlberg is a visual artist living in Oslo. She received her MFA at the Art Academy in Malmö 1998-2003 and was a studio fellow at the Whitney Program in New York in 2007-08. Dahlberg’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Parra & Romero in Madrid, and Lunds Konsthall. Her contributions to museums and biennials include works for Moderna Museet Stockholm, Malmö Art Museum, 8 Bienal do Mercosul, Manifesta 8, and GIBCA 2019.

Dahlberg is currently undertaking a PhD at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. This practice-based research is investigating film as an apparatus intertwined with nonhuman modes of life - specifically looking at the role of macro-algae in the history of photography. Hence, this research is engaged in thinking of (mechanical) reproduction as something that is not simply mechanical, nor exclusively the product of human decisions, but that is also, in part, the product of the activity of agents other than ourselves. Dahlberg further engages in the work of Danish playwright Ulla Ryum, exploring non-linear modes of storytelling as a way to decenter humanist perceptions of temporality. Here, the (camera)lens, rather than being the threshold between that which is registered and that which is not, becomes a device to engage a reciprocal relationship with the world.

Image 1: Installation shot from GIBCA, 2019.
Photographed by Hendrik Zeitler

Image 2: ‘The Spiral Dramaturgy’, 2019.
Film still.

Image 3: ‘Silent Spring’, 2022.
Film still, 16 mm film developed with macro-algae.

Image 4: ‘Silent Spring’, 2022.
Film still, 16 mm film developed with macro-algae.

Miriam Döring

Miriam Döring (*1993, Germany, based in Berlin) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores spaces beyond and along the porous boundary of bio-politically permeated bodies, their receptivity and incorporation of external influences. With a somatic approach she is searching for possibilities of turning vulnerability and overexposure into empowerment, speculating on bodies' potential of world-sensing, -making, and being-intertwined.

Miriam Döring is studying Fine Arts / Sculpture in Class Prof. Monica Bonvicini (UdK Berlin) since 2017, following the studies of Art and Its Mediation (BA) at the University of Paderborn. Her studies are preceded by years of training in artistic and contemporary dance, which is elementary for her body thinking in practice. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Germany, among others at Museum für Fotografie Berlin (2018) as well as in several publications. In addition to her own artistic practice, she is gaining experience in curatorial practice, artistic direction and production.

Miriam Döring’s participation at PRAKSIS is supported by Goethe-Institut Norwegen

Image 1: ‘Weathering’ (ongoing), 2022. Gravure print, acrylic massaged into cardboard. 30x42cm

Image 2: ‘Dis-channelled/container’, 2021. C-print of wax-object. 42x60cm

Image 3: ‘Stimulus / TPSMS (Triggerpoint-Self-Massage-Stick)’, 2021-2022. Object: casted polyurethane rubber, referring to public architecture around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. RLX-exercises stills.

Image 4: ‘ASM (abdominal self massage)’, 2020. Video still 4:08min.

Annike Flo

Annike Flo works cross-disciplinary between art, scenography and costume. Her practice looks into producing work based around our relationship to other beings, giving up space, and decentering the human. Her projects are often inspired by research, materials and methods from both the humanities and life sciences and she often collaborates with researchers and practitioners from other fields such as biology and ecology.

Annike has recently exhibited at Galleri Format, Meta.Morf and Atelier Nord, and ran Norwegian BioArt Arena, a new project by Vitenparken Ås, from 2018 to 2021. As a scenographer and costume designer she has worked with Punch Drunk, Secret Cinema, Another and Love magazines, MiuMiu and more. Annike holds a MA in scenography at Norwegian Theatre Academy, and a BA in Costume for Performance at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

Images 1, 2: ‘Cocreat:e:ures’, 2018. Scenographic piece, at Vitenparken Ås. Photographed by Annike Flo

Image 3: ‘s h i f t’, 2020. Detail, FAEN group exhibition at gallery Kit. Part of the Meta.Morf festival, Trondheim.

Sive Hamilton Helle

Sive Hamilton Helle (b. 1989 Oslo) is a filmmaker and visual artist based between Gothenburg and Oslo. She holds an MFA in Film from HDK-Valand and a BA in Film from London College of Communication. Hamilton Helle’s work deals with landscapes that are marked by colonialism and (hidden) industrial activity.

Teaser from her short film ‘Skog (Forest)’:

https://vimeo.com/677710474

All images: ‘Skog (Forest)’, 2020. Stills from short film.

Eli Maria Lundgaard

Eli Maria Lundgaard (b. 1989, Norway) holds a master in fine art from Malmö Art Academy (2018) and is currently based in Oslo, Norway. Her work has been presented at The Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists (2016 and 2018), the onboard program at The Antarctic Biennale (2017), as well as at several exhibitions and screenings in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In 2019 she was nominated for Future Generation Art Prize, and has through this exhibited at Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev and in Venice.

Recent solo exhibitions include UKS in Oslo (2020), Delfi in Malmö (2020), Marabouparken Konsthall in Sundbyberg (2021) and NNKS in Svolvær (2022). Later this year, she will participate in the opening exhibition of the National Museum in Norway, amongst others.

Image 1: ‘A Home for Occupants’, 2020. HD video, 17.23 min, loop.

In front: Pssst, 2020. Installation view, UKS, Oslo, 2020.

Photographed by Vegard Kleven

Image 2: ‘Barbarian’, 2019. HD video, 12.09 min, loop. Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, 2018.

Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre @ 2019.

Photographed by Maksym Bilousov.

Image 3: ‘Disappearing Act’, 2018. 16mm film transferred to HD video, 04.32 min, loop. Installation view, Gallery KHM2, Malmö, 2018.

Photographed by Jenny Ekholm.

Image 4: ‘«I»s’, 2020. Window foil with holes (reflective/mirroring from the outside and transparent black from inside).

‘Pest’, 2020. Carved holes and charcoal.

‘Pssst’, 2020. Ceramics (250 of 1000 psc. glazed).

‘Ooooo’, 2020. Ceramics and sound.
Installation view, UKS, Oslo, 2020. Photographed by Vegard Kleven.

malatsion

malatsion (b. 1974) is a visual artist living in Frankfurt (DE). She graduated in 1998 in art history, archaeology and archaeozoology at the University of Poitiers (FR) and 2003 in fine arts at the University of Strasbourg (FR). Having worked as an archaeozoologist before turning to arts studies, she was interested in environmental problems created by civilizations in ancient times.

The degradation of ecosystems and of our own bodies remains at the centre of her artistic practice in connection with life sciences, therapeutic approaches and ecology. Her work finds its expression in installations that stage sculptures, drawings, photographs and props in a fictitious narration and place which mix realism and fantasy.

More information at: www.malatsion.de

malatsion’s participation at PRAKSIS is supported by Goethe-Institut Norwegen

Image 1: ‘Genese/genesen’, 2016-2017. Treatment sheet for ID_015PL at stage 5.

Image 2: ‘Genesis of my hybridization’, 2019. Implant ID_023MR.

Image 3: ‘Healing processes. Holobionts’, 2021

Image 4: ‘Genese/genesen’, 2016-2017.