OKTOBER 2023

Heidrun Rathgeb /painter / Germany
https://www.jmlondon.com

Heidrun Rathgeb was born in 1967 in southern Germany. She studied painting in London at the Slade School of Fine Art (MFA) 1996-99 and the Byam Shaw School of Art (1993-96). After a year and a half of living and painting on Dartmoor she decided to move back to southern Germany. Since 2001 she has lived with her family in a remote farmhouse close to Lake Constance and the Alps, using two studios, one for painting and one for printmaking. From her copious sketchbooks which chronicle her environment and daily life, Heidrun develops small, intimate paintings using egg tempera on gesso panels. Heidrun has been awarded several artist residencies in Scotland (Isle of Lewis), Denmark and Norway.

 

Gunhild Sannes /painter / Norway
https://www.gunhildsannes.com

In my artistic practice I work with non-figurative paintings in large format. I am
preoccupied with color nuances, color connections and the effect of colors drives and inspires me. At the same time, I relate to something more subtle, with a working method where I make myself available to the unfinished painting – in a listening position to its needs and will.

In 2021, I completed my master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, where I now live and work.

Mina Arakaki/ Visual artist /Japan
http://www.mina-arakaki.com

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.
Mina has been exhibiting her work since 2007. Inspired by experiences and discoveries she has made of her daily life and surrounding she paints her interpretation of the interplay of dark and light in urban areas at night. She pays attention to easily ignored, ordinary objects or scenes, and tries to capture both her inner appreciation of those moments, but also as a way of recording larger societal movements as well.

Mina paints not only on canvas and paper, but also utilizes empty boxes of food and other commercial containers, as well as paper bags, with the same sense of “drawing on the back of flyers” she retains from her childhood.
Recently she has also worked on wall paintings at bouldering gyms, as well as collaborations with other artists.

Roos Vogels/ Visual artist /the Netherlands
https://roosvogels.com

Roos owes her love for nature to her family, who introduced her to the diverse landscapes around the world at a very young age.
At the art academy, nature manifested itself in her work through pre-existing natural elements. Her work consists of temporary installations, sculptures, drawings and photographs, which she produces in both natural and urban settings.

SEPTEMBER 2023

Lynn Cazabon / Visual Artist / USA
Lynn Cazabon is an artist based in Baltimore, MD and is a Professor of Art at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her multimedia practice is focused on the interface between environmental and social issues, intersecting with disciplines such as ecology, botany, and psychology. Her projects are scalable, site-specific, and often involve participation of specific communities of people.

Her work has been exhibited internationally with museums and galleries in solo and group exhibitions and as public art, including at the Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland), and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand).

Agnieszka Foltyn /visual artist / Norway-Poland-New Zealand
https://cargocollective.com/agnieszkafoltyn

Mishi Foltyn an artist, curator, and writer living and working in Trondheim, Norway. Her practice is centered on the possibilities of affective relation between site and the public most frequently through large-scale drawing, site-specific installations, and performative interventions.

With a background in professional dance, she is drawn to concepts such as theatricality, participation, the movement of bodies in space, and the role of art in everyday life.
Foltyn works concurrently with theory and practice and her art takes different formats and grows from the spaces in which it is presented.
She often collaborates in art projects with her partner Per Stian Monsås.

 

Per Stian Monsås /visual artist / Norway
https://www.monsaas.com

Per Stian Monsås, born 1990 in Trondheim, has a material practice that ranges from abstract graphics to monumental installation works.
His work is based on the everyday and on his own experiences and observations. It is through the abstraction of these experiences and observations, and a focus on the properties of the material and method, that forms the basis for Monsås’ expression.
Monsås takes hold of what fascinates, and aims to share this experience with the public through their own encounter with art.
He often collaborates in art projects with his partner Agnieszka Foltyn.

 

Gunhild Sannes /painter / Norway
https://www.gunhildsannes.com

In my artistic practice I work with non-figurative paintings in large format. I am
preoccupied with color nuances, color connections and the effect of colors drives and inspires me. At the same time, I relate to something more subtle, with a working method where I make myself available to the unfinished painting – in a listening position to its needs and will.

In 2021, I completed my master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen, where I now live and work.

Roos Vogels/ Visual artist /the Netherlands
https://roosvogels.com

Roos owes her love for nature to her family, who introduced her to the diverse landscapes around the world at a very young age.
At the art academy, nature manifested itself in her work through pre-existing natural elements. Her work consists of temporary installations, sculptures, drawings and photographs, which she produces in both natural and urban settings.

Mina Arakaki/ Visual artist /Japan
http://www.mina-arakaki.com

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.
Mina has been exhibiting her work since 2007. Inspired by experiences and discoveries she has made of her daily life and surrounding she paints her interpretation of the interplay of dark and light in urban areas at night. She pays attention to easily ignored, ordinary objects or scenes, and tries to capture both her inner appreciation of those moments, but also as a way of recording larger societal movements as well.

Mina paints not only on canvas and paper, but also utilizes empty boxes of food and other commercial containers, as well as paper bags, with the same sense of “drawing on the back of flyers” she retains from her childhood.
Recently she has also worked on wall paintings at bouldering gyms, as well as collaborations with other artists.

AUGUST 2023

Romana Hagyo and Silke Maier-Gamauf / Visual artists /Austria
https://hagyo-maiergamauf.org

Romana Hagyo and Silke Maier-Gamauf have been working collaborating on artistic projects that focus on the relationship between space and gender* since 2014.
The projects include staged photography, spatial installations, workshops and city tours. In the years 2018 – 2021 they have exhibited at the Architekturforum Oberösterreich, the Notgalerie Vienna, the Künstlerhaus Friese Hamburg, Mz* Balthazar’s Lab Vienna, the Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana) and the Galerie Forum (Zagreb).

Ingrid Simons / Visual artist /The Netherlands
https://www.ingridsimons.com

Ingrid Simons is a multi diciplinairy visual artist working in abstracted oilpainting, graphic art, ceramic and performances. “Reoccurring themes in my work are the exploration of the borderland between figuration and abstraction, the nihility of man, and attempts to capture the grandeur and omnipotence of three-dimensions nature in two dimensions. The protagonist in most of my paintings is the immense, unpolished and unscalable natural landscape. My paintings also explore the theme of connection between man and nature, which has, to a large extend, been lost.
For me, the process of painting is a highly physical experience, a balancing act between sculpting with oilpaint and dissolving layers of paint – between assembling and dismantling emerging structures. In my work, the patterns that emerge result from this dissolution.

Mirjam van Casteren / Visual artist /the Netherlands
http://mirjamvancasteren.blogspot.com

Mirjam graduated from the art Academy in Arnhem in the Netherlands in 2001. She works as a visual arts teacher and mentor with Animation. And with Film programming and Film and video art projects.
Mirjam makes animation films, drawings and objects. Sometimes in collaboration with her sister Esther van Casteren.

Esther van Casteren / Visual artist /the Netherlands
https://www.esthervancasteren.nl

In 2012 I graduated from the art Academy in Utrecht the Netherlands.
I make animation films, drawings and installations.
They are stories I imagine. Stories that arise from visualizations, dreams and thoughts. In my work I look for a connection between that inner world and the world outside of me.

JULY 2023

Maria Hanl / visual artist / Austria
https://www.mariahanl.com

Maria Hanl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Slade School of Fine Art, London.

“Maria Hanl’s works refer to those points where our system deceives us, obscures the senses, or euphemistically veils its violent side. There, where it goes no further or tips over into the absurd, where something breaks off or bends too far, crumbles or fades – where the system ends or collapses.

The artist finds metaphorical constellations for how these processes are interwoven with our everyday life, which are able to capture or describe precisely these inexplicable states of exhaustion in a phenomenon.

Øyvind Hegg-Lunde/musician composer/ Norway
https://www.hegg-lunde.com

Øyvind Hegg-Lunde is a drummer, composer and producer living in Bergen, Norway. He has collaborated extensively with other art forms such as dance, poetry, theater, performance art and VJs. He holds a Master degree in jazz/improvised music from Griegakademiet in Bergen and Högskolan för scen och Musik in Gothenburg. 

He is active in a variety of bands like Building Instrument, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Electric Eye, Strings & Timpani, Susanne Abbuehl and José Gonzalez’s Junip. He has done several singel projects with amongst others Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Frode Haltli, Håkon Kornstad, Per Jørgensen, Ståle Storløkken.

He has since 2001 toured clubs and festivals all over the world, and performs on an extensive list of recordings. He has received various scholarships and awards, and been nominated two times for the Norwegian Grammy Awards and winning it one time with Erlend Apneseth Trio.

Mirjam van Casteren / Visual artist /the Netherlands
http://mirjamvancasteren.blogspot.com

Mirjam graduated from the art Academy in Arnhem in the Netherlands in 2001 .

She works as a visual arts teacher and mentor with Animation. And with Film programming and Film and video art projects.
Mirjam makes animation films, drawings and objects. Sometimes in collaboration with her sister Esther van Casteren.

Esther van Casteren / Visual artist /the Netherlands
https://www.esthervancasteren.nl

In 2012 I graduated from the art Academy in Utrecht the Netherlands.

I make animation films, drawings and installations.
They are stories I imagine. Stories that arise from visualizations, dreams and thoughts. In my work I look for a connection between that inner world and the world outside of me.

Olia Fedorova / Visual artist /Ukraine
https://www.oliafedorova.com

I work with meanings and connotations by studying the mechanics and the issues of their (trans)formation through performative intervention practices, observation, and writing.

After 24.02.2022 when Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, I had to re-focus my practice so that I could contribute to the informational and cultural resistance of my country. Writing in forms of (visual) poetry and journalism became my main art activity. I’ve been using words as a weapon, powered with the energy of love and rage, against modern Russian colonialism, imperialism and dictatorship, against oppression of all kinds, to make Ukrainian voices loud and heard. At the same time, I am searching for new means and approaches in my work with the environments: both those changed by the war forever and peaceful ones but always reminiscent about the war in my homeland.

My aim is to create such an art about the war today, so that the next generations of Ukrainian artists won’t have to do it ever again.

Laurie Lambrecht / Visual artist /USA
https://www.laurielambrecht.com

Laurie Lambrecht, a native of Bridgehampton, is a visual artist working in photography and fiber. Her work is a deft observation of the natural world, merging eye and hand in her lens and fiber-based work. Her first career as a sweater designer heightened her awareness of the tactile qualities and nuances of pattern and color found in nature. Her work especially celebrates trees: their form, subtlety, and enduring presence.

Lambrecht’s photographs are in the collection of museums including the National Gallery of Art, The Center for Creative Photography and the Parrish Art Museum. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the US and abroad. Lambrecht has been a participant at artist residencies including: The American Academy in Rome; The Watermill Center; the Rauschenberg Residency; and KH Messen in Norway.

Hagar Schuringa / visual artist and writer/ the Netherlands

https://www.hagarschuringa.nl

Hagar Schuringa (1996) is an artist and writer. In her work, which usually consists of drawings, collages and installations, she translates the objects and environment around her. She questions how we, as individuals relate to the ever-changing landscape. Meanwhile, she plays with the form and composition in which an image is situated. Her work can be seen as a continuous play of layering, deconstruction and fragmentation.

Katarzyna Pagowska /visual artist / Poland

Katarzyna Pagowska is a visual artist based in Poland; her foremost artistic fields are performative actions, installation and photography.

Katarzyna has studied Philosophy at the Warsaw University (M.A.), Sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (MFA), and Fine Art at the Falmouth College of Fine Arts, UK. She has also graduated from a post-master program on Art in the public sphere at The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She is interested in collaborative projects and has run various art workshops.

MAY/JUNE 2023

Courtney Kersten / writer/ USA

https://www.courtneykersten.com

Courtney Kersten is an essayist, educator, and author of Daughter in Retrograde (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Courtney’s essays can be seen or are forthcoming from Prairie Schooner, River Teeth, The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Her essays have been awarded the Bellingham Review’s 2018 Annie Dillard Award in Nonfiction, the Southern Indiana Review’s 2019 Mary C. Mohr Award in Nonfiction, Crazyhorse’s 2022 Nonfiction Award, and been listed as “notable” in the 2020 and 2021 Best American Essays series. Her work has also garnered her a Fulbright Fellowship to Riga, Latvia, and residencies with KH Messen in Ålvik, Norway, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho and her Ph.D. in Literature with an emphasis in Creative/Critical Writing and Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, and a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

Susanne Lund Pangrazio / visual artist/ Sweden

https://susannelundpangrazio.com

Susanne Lund Pangrazio is a visual artist born in Värmland; currently living and working in Stockholm. She holds an MFA from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Scotland and has shown work in Sweden and internationally. In her practice she is interested in exploring the vague boundaries between memories and fantasies, and her work often ruminates on the transient.

Cheryl Leonard /composer/ performer / USA

https://allwaysnorth.com

Cheryl Leonard is a San Francisco-based composer, performer, field recordist, and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Her projects cultivate stones, wood, water, ice, sand, shells, feathers, and bones as musical instruments, and often feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales. Leonard is fascinated by the subtle textures and intricacies of sounds, especially very quiet phenomena. She uses microphones to uncover and explore micro-aural worlds within her sound sources, and develops compositions that highlight the unique voices she discovers. Structurally and thematically, her creations often reflect on natural phenomena and processes. Her recent work focuses on environmental issues, especially climate change in the polar regions and California and the extinction of species.

Reto Steiner / visual artist / Switzerland

Reto Steiner (°1978, Frutigen, Switzerland) makes sculptures, drawings and installations. Through a radically singular approach that is nevertheless inscribed in the contemporary debate, Steiner makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing. His sculptures bear strong political references. The possibility or the dream of the annulment of a (historically or socially) fixed identity is a constant focal point. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, he uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and political issues. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.

APRIL 2023

Aurora Noreña – Mexico – visual artist

https://www.auroranorena.com Aurora studied Architecture at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) and the MD in Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), both in Mexico City. She has curated several exhibitions and taught workshops, conferences and courses in Mexico City and in different states in Mexico, besides giving sculpture classes and research degree seminars, at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda, of the National Institute of Fine Arts (2001-2008), and on Contemporary Art History at Sor Juana University (1996-1998), Autonomous Metropolitan University (1994-1996) and Jumex Foundation (2003). In 2010 she began to develop a vast production with the horizon as a thematic axis; however, throughout time, what was first a theme, became a creative strategy that allows her to explore other issues such as: memory, new notions of landscape and the expatriation of cultural heritage.

Frank Åsnes – Norway – sculpture

https://www.frankaasnes.com About the artworks made of coloured paper: After finishing my art-education in 1990, I started working with sculpture. The first sculptures were made in clay and ceramics, the latest in cardboard and coloured clothespins. The artworks that I started to develop in 2016  and which I now present in Coloured Paper does not so easily fit into the category of sculpture. So I would like to say something about how they arose and evolved. I wanted to work more directly with colours, and try to aply more abstraction into my work. Based on this vague ideas I started making some two-dimensional images. As a material I chose to use a serie of coloured paper: Mi Teintes from Canson. I had used this earlier when making drawings and sketches for sculptures. Cardboard, glue, knife and ruler I had also used a lot when making my  previous works, so the choice felt natrually.

Yvette Lardinois – The Netherlands/Norway – ceramics/paper https://www.yvettelardinois.com

Yvette Lardinois graduated cum laude in 1988 from the ceramic design department of the art academy (now AKV St. Joost) in Den Bosch. The sculptors Cornelius Rogge, Pjotr Müller and the ceramist Johan van Loon are her teachers, among others. That year her artistry starts. Lardinois designs ceramics, both autonomous objects that can be placed freely in space and more functional objects, in particular bowls. Her work stands out for its surprising use of colour, original shapes and an abstract visual language. The robust or subtly designed ceramic objects have angular, crooked and tilted contours. Lardinois exhibits at various exhibitions and her work is purchased by museums, companies and individuals.

Bart Nijboer – The Netherlands  http://www.bartnijboer.nl/

Bart Nijboer (1990) is involved in kinetic sculptures and moving installations. His objects could be called a “constructive translation of nature”. Nijboer is fascinated by his experience of the world around him, in which he translates processes, materials and relationships into the images and installations he makes. The fragile cohesion from which forms can originate and acquire their own character is captured in the moving constructions. The works seem to slow down time and to remain in a constant process between growth and decay.

Irit Abramovic – Israel – photography, video

Irit is photographing since childhood and worked in darkrooms years before Lightroom was launched. Nature beauty and what the light does to it is her main inspiration. As glider pilot she was watching earth from above for years, until drone era emerged and enables me to capture and share the beauty of the birds’ eye view.

Irit´s photographs were published in magazines (such as Soaring Society of America, National Geographic Israel), and have been selected and presented in exhibitions (such as 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 Israeli nature photography in Eretz Israel Museum Tel-Aviv).

Huang Chih Hua – Taiwan  – drawings, painting, installation https://www.paperbleats.com/about-1

Born in Yilan, Taiwan in 1993, Huang, Chih Hua graduated from Chung Yuan Christian University, Bachelor of Architecture, and University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands, Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design, Scenography. She practices multiple art forms such as drawings, painting, installation, story-telling, and lecture-performances with a particular interest in the narrative of space. HUANG considers art should provide people a sense of lightness which gives new meaning to the heaviness of life. “I view our universe structured by systems. In order to better perceive the complex world, I seek a way of understanding through scenography. The independent events in our ordinary life, are being examined and revalued in my works.” By practicing in visual arts and theatre-making, she is seeking connections with people in both independent and interdependent contexts.

MARCH 2023

March 2023

Adi T. Hoffman – Israel – painting

www.adihoffman.com

Adi lives and creates in Tel Aviv.  A Multidisciplinary artist focused on painting, drawing, collage and digital art. Adi graduated from the San Francisco Studio School of Drawing, Painting, Photography & Mixed Media in San Francisco California. She draws inspiration from diverse experiences and living environments that challenges the routine. as well as from art history. Having a background in architectural design, She is drawn to creating immersive experiences through multilayered three-dimensional structures that detach from the walls and create a space to move in.

Irit Abramovic – Israel – photography, video

Irit is photographing since childhood and worked in darkrooms years before Lightroom was launched. Nature beauty and what the light does to it is her main inspiration. As glider pilot she was watching earth from above for years, until drone era emerged and enables me to capture and share the beauty of the birds’ eye view.

Irit´s photographs were published in magazines (such as Soaring Society of America, National Geographic Israel), and have been selected and presented in exhibitions (such as 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 Israeli nature photography in Eretz Israel Museum Tel-Aviv). 

Sarit Krupka Weingarten – Israel/USA – photography https://www.saritkrupka.com

Sarit is a photographer born in  in Israel, raised in New Jersey and lived a few years in Seattle, Washington. She creates art through the medium of digital photography and videography. Sarit spent a good part of the past 20 years traveling internationally, designing in the exhibition world, photographing places and people in India, Singapore, Korea, United States, Europe. Huang Chih Hua – Taiwan  – drawings, painting, installation https://www.paperbleats.com/about-1 Born in Yilan, Taiwan in 1993, Huang, Chih Hua graduated from Chung Yuan Christian University, Bachelor of Architecture, and University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands, Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design, Scenography. She practices multiple art forms such as drawings, painting, installation, story-telling, and lecture-performances with a particular interest in the narrative of space. HUANG considers art should provide people a sense of lightness which gives new meaning to the heaviness of life. “I view our universe structured by systems. In order to better perceive the complex world, I seek a way of understanding through scenography. The independent events in our ordinary life, are being examined and revalued in my works.” By practicing in visual arts and theatre-making, she is seeking connections with people in both independent and interdependent contexts.

World without us

Masha Ryskin and Serge Marchetta – USA drawing, writing, printmaking, installations, video Masha Ryskin is a Russian-born immigrant artist. She received an academic art education in painting in Moscow, Soviet Union, followed by a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Ryskin uses a variety of media, including drawing and painting, printmaking, and installation. Her work is concerned with landscape and its elements as a metaphor for a sense of place, memory, history, and passage of time. For the past eleven years, Ryskin has collaborated with Montreal artist Serge Marchetta. Their collaborative practice stems from investigations of memory, a sense of place, and displacement. Together, they have been invited to a number of International artist residencies and have exhibited their work internationally. https://masharyskin.com Serge Marchetta https://www.sergemarchetta.com/portfolio.html After 18 years of service at Post Canada, Serge Marchetta quits in 1993 and starts a new career as an art visual artist. Graduate from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995, Marchetta has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, in the Province of Québec, Europe and United States. He participated in residencies in Europe and United States. He was the curator of few important exhibitions and the director of the non-profit organization, C2S Arts et Événements from 2005. He is also a grant recipient from the Fondation Ténot, France, Ragdale Foundation, USA, and Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec. His works are part of public and private collections. In parallel with his individual practice, he collaborates with the American artist Masha Ryskin since 2011.

Dominik Fleischmann – Germany/Finland Photography http://www.mysilentkingdom.com/ Dominik is a lens-based visual artist and writer. His work circles around the idea that there’s beauty in everything that’s broken and in the strength to endure. Over the last few years he has focused on the creation of photographic series about the unity of human and non-human animals and the struggle and misunderstanding guarding this way. He draws his inspiration from nature writers, poetry, social and environmental activism. Dominik´s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Germany (Listros Gallery Berlin) and Finland (e.g. Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte) and numerous group shows across Europe such as the Nordic Light Festival of Photography (Norway 2020) and Circulation(s) – European young photography festival at Centquatre-Paris (France 2022).

February 2023

Kathleen McDowall and Robert Curgenven – Australia / Ireland Writing/photography/performance and Sound/Music & video Kathleen McDowall’s work embraces the abstract and the physical in equal measures and in a very concrete approach. She has undertaken solo physical performances including Performance Art Oslo as well as residencies in Forte Marghera (Venice) and Oxford Art Factory (Sydney). In 2019 she collaborated on international festival performances with Robert Curgenven on their live light and sound performance, AGENESIS. In her professional career during the past 20 years McDowall has worked as a speech and language therapist in community and clinical settings in Australia, UK & Ireland. She is currently writing her first novel for young adults . David Jensen -Kathleen-McDowall Robert Curgenven is an Ireland-based, Australian-born artist producing albums, performances and installations. His work emphasizes physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture. Spanning pipe organ to turntables, custom-made dubplates and oscillators as well as video he has produced works and installations for National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Poland (Krakow), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Transmediale (Berlin) and National Sculpture Factory (Ireland) and the National Film and Sound Archive (Australia). He has presented live performances at festivals including Sydney Festival (Sydney Town Hall), Maerzmusik (Kraftwerk Berlin), TodaysArt (The Hague), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) and Cork Midsummer. Curgenven is an associate composer with the Contemporary Music Centre (Ireland) and since 2008 has been a guest lecturer in music and sound at Universities, Conservatoriums and tertiary institutions internationally. https://www.recordedfields.net Bronzelands Bronzelands Dominik Fleischmann – Germany/Finland Photography http://www.mysilentkingdom.com/ Dominik is a lens-based visual artist and writer. His work circles around the idea that there’s beauty in everything that’s broken and in the strength to endure. Over the last few years he has focused on the creation of photographic series about the unity of human and non-human animals and the struggle and misunderstanding guarding this way. He draws his inspiration from nature writers, poetry, social and environmental activism. Dominik´s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Germany (Listros Gallery Berlin) and Finland (e.g. Valokuvakeskus Nykyaika, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte) and numerous group shows across Europe such as the Nordic Light Festival of Photography (Norway 2020) and Circulation(s) – European young photography festival at Centquatre-Paris (France 2022). The scent of Flowers The touch of Soil 2022 Aleksandra Szlęk – Poland Visual artist Aleksandra graduated with honors from the High School of Fine Arts in Dąbrowa Górnicza. A double graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Multiple scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Winner of many competitions and participant in numerous exhibitions. Her main areas of interest are graphics and illustration and in topics related to melancholy, passing and daily routine. While observing everyday life and boredom, she tries to catch “triggers” that provoke reflection and then become an intriguing art theme. She often works at the intersection of design and art. Franzisca Siegrist – Spain/Norway Visual artist perfromance http://www.franzisca-siegrist.com/ Franzisca was born in Switzerland, raised in Spain (Canary Islands), lives mostly in Oslo, Norway and works internationally. She has a Masters in Fine Art from the University of La Laguna (2008) and the Polytechnic University in Valencia (2010) where she studied performance art with spanish teacher and artist Bartolomé Ferrando. She works with objects, installations and performance art. She is also co-founder and chair of the artist run initiative PAO – Performance Art Oslo (Norway) and has shown her work in several European countries, in Asia and USA.

I am interested in the possibilities of my body and observe its relationship with time and space. I use both cutsom made and mundane, everyday objects to create pieces where the objects are taken out of their regular context and given a new meaning. The range of topics I deal with can vary, however there is always a connection to my own every day life and how I experience society. As a result, my works often bridge absurdity and poetry. Sophie D´Henin – France Illustrator – Graphic design – painting Sophie is an illustrator working often with monotypes. Working with monotypes allows her to explore notions of isolation, magnitude and melancholy in an almost abstract way, so that the journal becomes a record not only of the landscapes and scenes encountered, but also of the impressions the traveler carries with them long after leaving.

January 2023

Nele Brökelmann – Germany Artist, writer and researcher http://nelebrokelmann.com/index.html Nele Brökelmann is an artist, writer and researcher. Deeply intrigued by the human need for structures of meaning, the perpetual search for and fabrication of meaning are recurring themes in her practice. These human made structures, and mental and worldly concepts create (physical) borders and either/or thinking which Brökelmann continuously seeks to challenge by playing with the experiences and concepts of distance, repetition and parallelity. This finds its form in diverse media such as performative installations, situations and actions, writing and video. Brökelmann exercises creating space for ambiguity, wandering in thought, and approaching the beings in and of our environments otherwise. Sophie D´Henin – France Illustrator – Graphic design – painting Sophie is an illustrator working often with monotypes. Working with monotypes allows her to explore notions of isolation, magnitude and melancholy in an almost abstract way, so that the journal becomes a record not only of the landscapes and scenes encountered, but also of the impressions the traveler carries with them long after leaving.

Ingebjørg Berg Holm – Norway Writer Ingebjørg Berg Holm (1980) is a Norwegian crime writer, blogger and social debater, living in Bergen. She has a master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen.

She made her debut in 2015 with the book Stjerner over, mørke under. The book received good reviews in the press, including dice roll five in Dagbladet In 2016, her debut novel was nominated for the Riverton prize, and won the Maurits Hansen – prize Nytt blod. She won the latter award on the grounds that “Ingebjørg Berg Holm’s debut novel is a silent and multifaceted historical crime where the literary quality almost overshadows the classic murder mystery”. In 2018, the novel Barefoot over the ice came out, a standalone continuation of Stjerner over, mörke under.

Franzisca Siegrist – Spain/Norway Visual artist perfromance http://www.franzisca-siegrist.com/ Franzisca was born in Switzerland, raised in Spain (Canary Islands), lives mostly in Oslo, Norway and works internationally. She has a Masters in Fine Art from the University of La Laguna (2008) and the Polytechnic University in Valencia (2010) where she studied performance art with spanish teacher and artist Bartolomé Ferrando. She works with objects, installations and performance art. She is also co-founder and chair of the artist run initiative PAO – Performance Art Oslo (Norway) and has shown her work in several European countries, in Asia and USA.

I am interested in the possibilities of my body and observe its relationship with time and space. I use both cutsom made and mundane, everyday objects to create pieces where the objects are taken out of their regular context and given a new meaning. The range of topics I deal with can vary, however there is always a connection to my own every day life and how I experience society. As a result, my works often bridge absurdity and poetry.