INSPECTION June 1-4
Mattias Harenstam
Adrian Bugge
Vegard Gundersen
Hanna Sjöstrand
Jenny Berg
Thomas Østbye
TBA (researcher)
Mattias Harenstam
Mattias Härenstam is a Swedish-Norwegian visual artist living in Oslo. He works mostly with sculpture and graphics, but also film and video art. He studied at the Bergen Academy of Fine Arts in the 90s and has since been an active artist with many exhibitions at home and abroad.
Adrian Bugge
Adrian Bugge is a Norwegian photographer with an art history background who works with long-term photographic investigations of nature, architecture and transformations of the environment.
In 2023, Adrian will release his fourth photo book, "Inngrep", which shows 57 images of human-made interventions in Norwegian nature. They were taken over a period of 16 years, and provide an insight into how modern humans have become a geological force that is changing the world.
Adrian is a member of the art organizations Forbundet Frie Photographerr (FFF) and Norske Billedkunstnere (NBK) through the district organization Billedkunstnerne i Oslo (BO).
Vegard Gundersen
Vegard Gundersen is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) Lillehammer branch. Vegard is a trained forest ecologist and has researched common forest species such as martens, but also endangered species in forests. His doctorate was about the use and management of forests around cities and towns in Norway. He has particularly researched the relationship between humans and nature in different situations, such as nature experiences, outdoor activities, tourism, children and the extent to which human activity causes disturbance to wildlife.
Hanna Sjøstrand
Hanna investigates central mythologies of modernity through conceptual processes. Her methods are diverse and are expressed through painting series that explore different painting techniques.
Pervading her work is the exploration of the potential of painting; as a language and a way of understanding the many dimensions of human perception and knowledge.
Sjøstrand also works with performance, film and installation.
Jenny Berg
Jenny Berg works with installations, sculpture, film, text and performance. She is interested in wishes that seem too big and what happens to them in an artistic process.
She grew up in northern Sweden, studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands and is now living in Malmö since 2011. Her solo exhibitions have been shown at Trollhättan Art Gallery, Örnsköldsvik Art Gallery, Ifö Center Bromölla, Galleri 21 and Molekyl Gallery in Malmö. She has also exhibited in Estonia, Denmark and Norway.
www.jennyberg.com
Thomas Østbye
is an artist, filmmaker and activist. He runs the company PlymSerafin and has made a number of films that connect cinematic reflections on documentary to current political issues.
The documentaries In Your Dreams, HUMAN, Imagining Emanuel and Out of Norway have received numerous awards at CPH:DOX, Kassel IDFF, Høstutstillingen, Kortfilmfestivalen, the Government's Human Rights Award for short film, nominated for Amanda, Gullruten and screened at HotDocs, IDFA, Sheffield and MoMA NY.
Østbye's latest work is a trilogy of observational documentaries looking at strategies in the climate struggle, parts one and two have recently been released: "Everyone has the right to" which portrays the Arctic climate lawsuit in court and "Civil Disobedience" which follows activists from Extinction Rebellion and Stop Oil Exploration.