CV | Flaggfabrikken

Born 1980 in Bergen, Norway

Education

2003-2005 MA Photography, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway
Spring 2004 Exchange student at Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, USA
Fall 2002 Exchange student at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and
Design, Stockholm, Sweden
2000-2003 BA Photography, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway
1999-2000 Assistant to photographer Arne Persson at the Varberg Museum, Sweden
1996-1999 Media Program, Almers Gymnasium, Varberg, Sweden

Soloshows

2008 I Recognize You, kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2008 Stranger in Motherland, Arendal Kunstforening, Arendal

Groupshows

2011 Blackout, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki
2011 Stories, in Between, Gallery 3,14, Bergen

2009 Don´t judge a book by its cover, Litteraturhuset, Oslo

2008 Don´t judge a book by its cover, Gartenstudio Gallery, Berlin
2008 RYKK TILBAKE TIL START, 0047, Oslo

2007 Reiseblikk, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo
2007 Reiseblikk, Halden Kunstforening, Halden

2006 New Nordic Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
2006 Oslo Art Festival 3, No. 9 i Exil presents:
Everything Unneeded, curated by Members Club, Oslo
2006 New Nordic Photography, Photography Fair 2006, Stockholm
2006 Konstepidemin´s Day, Open Studio, Gothenburg, Sweden

2005 Showcase05, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2005 XXVII Hovedfagsutstillingen 2005, VK, Bergen

2004 Vestlandsutstillingen 2004
2004 Den Nordnorske Kunstutstilling 2004 (with Åse Løvgren)

2003 Young Bergen Artists, Videokunst og lapskaus, Kvarteret, Bergen
2003 Høstutstillingen 2003
2003 Ung 2003 i regi av Trafo.no, Galleri f15, Moss
2003 Smashing, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
2003 Subjectivity Meets Reality, Galleri 3,14, Bergen
2003 Prøverommet, Teatergarasjen, Bergen

2002 Bar + drop in video/dvd, Konstfack, Stockholm
2002 Overtüres Überwasser, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2002 Vann, Galleri Fisk, Bergen
2002 Prøverommet, Teatergarasjen, Bergen
2002 Et annet sted, Galleri Fisk, Bergen

2001 Vennligst vent, Teatergarasjen, Bergen

1999 Framtidstro, Varbergs Museum, Sverige

Curatorial projects

Curator of Flaggfabrikken Presenterer with the series Fatal Nordic Attractions, One-Night Stands, and Nordic Art Express in collaboration with Hilde Jørgensen.

Program:
2010 NORDIC ART EXPRESS
2011
Spring: Nordic Art Express video screening in the Baltic
With Mattias Härenstam (SE), Johanna Lecklin (FIN), Goodiepal (DK/FO), Jorunn Myklebust Syversen (NO), Björk Viggósdóttir (IS), Joanna Rytel (SE), Nina Lassila (FIN), Sigurdur Gudjonsson (IS), Kim Groustra (NO)
05.01- Blackout Helsinki – Curated by Juhana Moisander and Minna Suoniemi
With Flaggfabrikken members Hilde Jørgensen, Maya Økland, Kristin Tårnesvik and Heidi Nikolaisen
2010
22.10-14.11 Return of the Light and its Unbearable Brightness at KNIPSU, Bergen
With Maiju Salmenkivi (FIN), Ingrid Askeland (NO), Doris Frohnapfel (DE), Heidi Mortenson (DK)
29.09 Flaggfabrikken Presenterer 5 år with Goodiepal (DK/FO)
17.09-10.10 Blackout at KNIPSU, Bergen
With Finnish artists Heta Kuchka, Kasper Muttonen, Inka Nieminen, Aleksi Tolonen, Jaakko Rustanius, Minna Suoniemi, Juhana Moisander, Kimmo Kumela and Sari Palosaari
07.05-17.05 Return of the Light and its Unbearable Brightness – Workshop and one-night-art-event in Ilulissat Greenland
With Maiju Salmenkivi (FIN), Ingrid Askeland (NO), Doris Frohnapfel (DE), Heidi Mortenson (DK)

2009 ONE-NIGHT STANDS
10-11.12.09 Why are artists poor? Seminar w/ Hans Abbing (NL), REKO (SWE), Eivind Slettemeås (NO), Dag Solhjell (NO), Isabel Reiß (S), Catherine Hug (A) in collaboration with BKFH
03.10.09 Part Art Part(y) Festival, Planningtorock (DE), FM Belfast (IS), Monica Winther(NO), Nils Bech(NO), Pitchtuner(DE) and Heidi Mortenson (DK) in collaboration with Ira Ira
03.09.09 All the possibilities, performance by Tori Wrånes (NO)

2008-2009 FATAL NORDIC ATTRACTIONS
07.05.09 Faded Love Songs, videoperformance by Aurora Emilie Sandlilje (NO)
02.04.09 HOLY WATER, Flaggfabrikken´s artist-in-residency Susanna Majuri and live concert by Lau Nau (FIN)
05.03.09 Identity in the Making, Greenlandic filmmaker Laila Hansen´s film Inuk City Woman Blues and live concert by The Ghost from Faroe Islands
04.12.08 You Can Take the Artist Out of Iceland but You Can´t Take Iceland Out of the Artist, Icelandic video art screening curated by the Icelandic Love Corporation and live concert by FM Belfast (IS)
14.11.08 PLACED, booklaunch Verena Winkelmann (NO)
06.11.08 Helsinki Special, art talk by researcher Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger and independent curator Aura Seikkula about Finnish photography (FIN)
02.10.08 Copenhagen Do It Yourself, fanzine stand by Telefon Til Chefen and
street art by Gadegalleiret.dk (DK)
11.09.08 The Swedish Rose, performance by Joanna Rytel (SWE)

Published

2009 Cover photo on an anthology of gender studies called ”Norske Seksualiterer”
(Norwegian Sexualities). Edited by Wencke Mühleisen and Åse Røthing.
ISBN 9788202292386

2007 The Meaning of Sex, Edited by Christel Sverre and Wencke Mühleisen
Maya Økland and Jan Freuchen: Tableau #1-4, p. 97-104
ISBN 9788253029849

2007 Langford´s Basic Photography, 8th edition
Chapter 8: Organizing the picture, page350
ISBN 0240520351

2002 Heartbeat (a music fanzine)

2001 Historien och Framtiden i Halland, Varbergs Museum Yearbook 1999-2000
Hallänningar om framtiden, porträtt och texter s. 47-66
ISBN 9189570014

Residencies

2009 Kunstwerke in Berlin by Office for Comtemporary Art Norway
2006 Nordic AiR, NIFCA, Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden

Grants

2010 Kulturkontakt Nord – Langvarig nettverksstøtte til Nordic Art Express
2009 Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2009 Norwgian Arts Council on behalf of Flaggfabrikken Presenterer
2009 Bergen Kommune on behalf of Flaggfabrikken Presenterer
2008 Bergen Kommunes utstillingsstøtte
2008 Kulturkontakt Nord –Kortvarig nettverksstøtte til Fatal Nordic Attractions
2008 Kulturkontakt Nord -Mobilitetsstøtte
2008 Bergen Kommunes prosjektstøtte
2008 Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2007 Norsk Kulturråd –Utstillingsstøtte til kunstnere i etableringsfasen
2006 Bergen Kommunes Etableringsstipend
2006 Office for Contemporary Art Norway
2006 Bergen Kommunes Prosjektstøtte
2006 Sleipnir Travelgrant
2006 Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Stiftelsen
2005 Bergen Kommunes Prosjektstøtte
2005 Norsk Fotografisk Fond
2003 Trafo.no
2002 Trafo.no

Memberships

FFF, UKS, KIK

Boardmember

2007-2010 Forbundet Frie Fotografer

Misc

I also dj and book concerts for the nightclub concept and creative collective called Return of the Pony / a.k.a. Mabel Tobine together with graphic designer Åsta Lindemann. Please see www.myspace.com/returnofthepony for more info.