Cv; Gitte Sætre (1975)
Lives and work in Bergen
Tlf: 0047 93050078
gittesatre(at)protonmail.com
www.gittesatre.com
www.areyouready.tv
www.meisfjord-satre.com
Education:
2008-2010 Creative Curating, Bergen ART Academy
2007 Art in Public- KORO
2004-2004 University of Bergen
1999-2000 Tv-production, Copenhagen
1998-1999 BA Fine Art, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico
1996-1997 Computer Graphic. Aarhus, DK
1994-1995 Art Academy. Aarhus, DK
1990-1993 International Baccalaureate, Washington DC
Solo exhibitions:
2023 Visningsrommet USF, Forth Akt: WAR
2022 Gallery HøgStandard, Oslo www.hogstandard.com/
2022 Cosmology, Small Projects, Tromsø
2022 AreYouReady? at Rogland Kunstsenter
2016 Magic of Seven, Kunsthall 3.14. Bergen
2016 Woman Cleaning, Oslo Kunstforening. Oslo
2015 Gallery Basement. Voss
2015 The House of Foundation. Moss
2014 Woman cleaning shame, KABUSO (foajé). Øystese
2008 KunstiBadet, Alvøen
2007 Trying to be happy.Gallery Drops; Bergen
2006 Limitations GalleryOz.Bergen
2005 Gallery Trallala. Norheimsund
2004 Opera Mints, Gallery Drops.Bergen
2003 Ministry for Foreign Affairs.Copenhagen
Artistic work:
2023 Podcast 314 LIVE: Art & Politics
2023 Guest scenographer on 'De Fremmede' at Oslo Nye (dramatized by Lena Sendstad)
2015 -2023 Debate editor for Kunsthall 3.14.
2019-2021 Developed, produced and published web-TV The series Are YouReady?
2018-2022 Chairman of the Anti-King Initiative with, among other things, the Anti-War Festival 2017 Project manager Call for Change (omstillingen.no)
2012-2018 The dialogue-based art project Supper&Stories (meisfjord-satre.com)
2009-2016 Freelance curator (Kuratorsamvirket Radiator SA) 2014-16 Transnational Art Production v/ Performance series Woman Cleaning.
2012-2015 The artist group InEpic
006-2011 Project manager of Luftskipet, a mobile arena for contemporary art for Gode Sirkalr AS
2003-20079 Running the artist space KunstiBadet
Group exhibitions:
2021 Show:Agent Provocateur. At:The Empty Circle, Brooklyn,NY.Curated by Raul Zamudio
2020 Nature as Infastructure by The Winter Office, Adélaide and Atlantis within the frame of Manifesta 13 Les Paralléles du Sud.
2020 Future DiverCities, Bergen Kjøtt
2020 Are You Ready? Bergen Electronic Scenter (BEK), Bergen
2020 Åpen Kunsthall, Oslo Kunsthall
2019 Nordic Contemporary Art Center. Xiamen,China
2019 On Movement, Guramayne Art Center, Addis Ababa
2018 Represented at the Fair Cosmoscov by the Gallery SUNDERØ
2017 Center for Future Art. Stavanger. Norway
2017 Galleri Blaker Skanse. Oslo
2017 Visningsrommet USF.Bergen-Norway
2016 Acts of Sedition I, WhiteBox. New York.
2016 INFERNO; Pristine Galerie. Monterrey,Mexico
2016 Kunstgarasjen.Bergen
2015 Beautiful Lies. Warszawa
2015 Videonale. Alvøen
2015 Komunitas Salihara,Jakarta. Indonesia
2015 B.C Gallery.Collateral Kochi Biennale.India
2014 Gallery Svend ́s Library.Copenhagen
2014 XX1 Gallery. Warsaw
2014 Lapidariet. Copenhagen
2014 'Divorced', Bomuldsfabriken. Arendal
2014 Sky & Fjords (Himmel og Fjord).Hardanger
2014 Annual juried exhibition (Vestlandsutstillingen)
2013 Odds "pop up" exhibition, Gallery Trykk:Trykk. Bergen
2013 'I have a pussy, what ́s your problem, Gallery KNIPSU. Bergen
2013 In which the smallest gesture Becomes epic. Gallery Bergslien
2013 In which the smallest gesture Becomes epic. Gallery Voss
2013 Gallery VOX, 30 x 30.Bergen
2012 Banksmidja.Voss
2009 Salon. Alvøen
2008 400 meters arts.Voss
2008 Science Week.Bergen
2006 Gallery Griff.Oslo
2005 GalleryAl.Oslo
2000 Gallery Wendelbo.Bergen
1999 Universidad de las Americas. Mexico
1996 Aarhus Convention House. Aarhus
1992 Norwegian female artists. Norwegian Embassy. Washington DC
1991 Smithsonian Institute. Washington DC
Performance:
2023 Woman Cleaning Pollution, Tunis ( # 15 )
2223 Plato's Symposium, Logen teater
2022 The commission for the good solutions, The National Theater in Bergen
2022 Global Army of Cleaners, Global Coastline Rebellion ( # 14 )
2022 Woman Cleaning Salmon industry; Do you give a Shit? ( # 13 )
2021 Kunstnernes hus, Oslo
2021 Voices of Pythia, Copenhagen
2020 Yesterday and today the energy in the cosmos is extremely intensive (especially yesterday) to the point that it’s affecting our physical body, so. The Latent City, Bergen Kjøtt.
2020 Eu Parlament, Are You Ready, Brussel. corona canceled
2019 Woman Cleaning Westminsiter Magistrates Court, London ( # 12 )
2019 Woman Cleaning for a New Beginning, Belmarsh Prison, London ( # 11 )
2019 'Are You Ready?'A prolog, PAB-OPEN, Hotell Terminus
2019 Let us think'.was following the exhibition WeAreMillions.org and was performed during the different venues in: Berlin, Genova, Leipzig, Belgrade, Frankfurt, and Oslo.
2019 Dj Roles&Positions, Rødt (Fest For Folk Flest) and at HKS
2019 Operasjon X, A Performance About Music, Bergen
2019 Woman Cleaning Imperialism, Ethiopia ( # 10 )
2019 Are you Ready? Guramayne Art Center, Addis Ababa
2018 Krigsteateret Trident Juncture, The National Theater( DNS),Bergen
2018 History Will Be Kind To Me, for I Intend to Perform It, Stockholm. Curated by Hiroko Tsuchimoto. PALS Festival 7.-9.9.2018
2018 Green Hijab Movement. The Freedom Room: Symposium on Socially Engaged Arts Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen / Festspillene i Bergen
2017 Green Hijab Movement at KODE I/Voices
2017 Plastic-Parade, public space before the Parliamentary election
2017 New Worlds; B-open at Kunsthall 3.14 Bergen
2017 Woman Cleaning Growth, A walk of penance from Oslo to Stavanger ( # 9 )
2016 Woman Cleaning F-35, Bergen Kunsthall ( # 8 )
2016 Whitebox, New York
2016 Woman Cleaning Law & Order, Korskirken i Bergen ( # 7 )
2016 The choir of Magic of Seven, Kunsthall 3.14. Bergen
2016 Troubled Water, collaborative work at Kunsthall 3.14.Bergen
2015 Analogue Hacking, Public Space.Bergen
2015 Woman Cleaning Weapon Industry, London ( # 8 )
2015 Woman Cleaning Final Destination, Indonesia ( # 7 )
2015 Woman Cleaning together with man. Voll II. India ( # 6 )
2014 Woman Cleaning European History. Poland ( # 5 )
2014 Woman cleaning National Identity. Denmark ( # 4 )
2014 Woman cleaning National Identity. Norway ( # 3)
2014 Woman cleaning shame. Norway ( # 2 )
2014 Woman cleaning tanks. Israel ( # 1 )
Dialog-based art:
2024 Femte akt: STATEN, Oslo
2022 Antiwar-Initiative, Bergen
2022 Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger
2017 Samspill # III, Meteor Festival (discursive program of BIT Teatergarasjen)
2017 B-open, Laboratory of restructuring II,Kunsthall 3.14. Bergen
2017 Laboratory of restructuring I, Public library of Bergen
2016 Soups&Stories dialoge at the Peoples Museum in Birzeit. Palestina
2016 Soups&Stories dialoge at Artic Artforum. Arkhangelsk/Russia
2016 Demonstration/visual statement against rape, Public square in Bergen.
2016 The legitimacy of insisting to be. Kunsthall 3.14.Bergen
2015 What if global warming isn’t a crisis?. Kunsthall 3.14.Bergen
(Soups&Stores is guesthouse partner with Kunsthall)
2015 The Treehuggers Dialogue part III at Kunsthall 3.14.
A collaboration with Radio Hopes And Dreams, and Clay-Sculpture-and-Bread-Community.
2015 The Treehuggers Dialogue part II at Kunsthall 3.14.Bergen. Part of the exhibition "MOTHER TONGUE"
Turkish Contemporary Art. A VISUAL JOURNEY INSIDE HERITAGE, GENDER, POLITICS & WAR.
A collaboration with Radio Hopes And Dreams, and Clay-Sculpture-and-Bread-Community
2015 The Treehuggers Dialogue part I at the Kunsthall 3.14.Bergen in Bergen. Part of Alfredo Jaar’s 22 Women exhibit and Vandana Shiva’s visit to gallery
2015 A four days extended performance program during the Agalaus Festival at Voss
2014 Performance at Festplassen during the Cultural Night in Bergen. A collaboration with 54 different people living in the city marking the number of rapes reported in the city so fare that year.
2014 Buss performance based upon personal stories from the Soups&Storie group performed by 4 actors
A collaboration with Bergen art assosiation(B-open)
2013 Dialogue with Berith Furu at the new Library at Voss
A collaboration with the municipal of Voss2013 Performance dialogue with the Salhus theater group telling personal stories from 5 immigrants living in Bergen. Performed in a tent during the Cultural days in Åsane. A collaboration with United Nation association Norway
2013 Establishes in January a fixed group of women; Tonje Cecilie Indrøy, Shahnaz Amin Haaq, Torill Inversen Wanevik, Rita Agdal og Mekdes W Shbeta.
2013 PopUp dialogue performances on public transportation
calloboration with artist duo from Indonesia; Tita Salin and Irwan Ahmet
2012 Dialogue with Ali Watti and Susi Law staged in The Music Pavillion in Bergen.
A collaboration with United Nation association Norway
2012 Dialogue with Synnøve Kvamme and Susi Law staged in a tent in a city park during Cultural Night of Bergen. A collaboration with Bergen art association (B-open)
2012 Performance dialogue with Arild Brakstad in our studio in Bergen. A collaboration with Bergen art association (B-open)
Curatorial work:
2021 Things are ok when they are ok, Kunsthall 3,14
2020 The Anti-Terror Tour.Peter Voss-Knude, Kunsthall 3,14
2019 WeAreMillions.org/bergen
2019 Valeria Montti Colque "The Lonesome Dreamer" Kunsthall 314
2018 'To clean up in old sinns', Performance Art Bergen
2016 The Prisoner at War; Paintings and Poems, Edinburgh
2015 The Curators Choice, Bergen
2015-2016 Neda Tavallaee, Iran
2014 Bjørg Taranger, Norway
2014 Carl Martin Hansen, Norway
2010 SUBWAY-SUND. Artist: Kirsti von Hoegee
2008 "The earth will remember us for our deeds." Mountain Fortress 2011 Re: tro " Artist: Jan Nyberg
2008 'Increase the quality of life in your community',Bergen
2007 'The grip', the new city of Straume, Bergen
2007 'Filter' by Bo Magnus. Worked together with Marit Aarre
2006-07 Contemporary Video Gathering. Bergen
2005 'Bergen X'. Gallery 3.14. Bergen
Producer:
2022 A world struggling for a new equilibrium
2019-2022 AreYouReady.tv
2019 wearemillions.org/bergen.https://vimeo.com/356786439
2017 Call for Change, Kunsthall 3.14
2011 Still Life, Hammerfest
2010 "Library". Artist: Woojung Chun/Curator: James Putnam
2006-2011 Luftskipet
Art consultant:
2016 Vadmyra and Storetveit kindergarden, Bergen
2014 Sparebanken, Jonsvollkvartalet, Bergen 2012 Arena USF, Bergen
2011 DNV, Molde
2008 Ulset retirement home, Bergen
Workshops/seminars:
2022 Agenda: The Natural State of the Art: Art, Nature and Ecology; KIO
2021 Climate Conference, KMD
2020 The second chapter, Kunsthall 3,14
2019 Safety for Whom? Belgin, Bergen Assembly
2019 Mobilization workshop with the peace arctivist David Hartsough, Kunsthall 3.14
2019 Dialogue with artcollective ALT GÅR BRA, Public Libray
2019 Patching up, Addis Ababa University Fine Arts and Design
2018 Cost Contemporary
2017 Green Hijab Movement at PechaKucha vol 9, World road championship 2017’s culture programme
2017 Mobilisation workshop at the Hardanger Academy for Peace, Klima and Development
2017 INTERPLAY, Kunsthall 3.14 (Eritrean Women Union)
2016 Artic Artforum, Arkhangelsk
2016 Art and Activism seminar, produced together with Trap.no and OK.no
2016 A Nation on Freud´s Couch, discursive workshop with the Iranian artist Amir Hossein Bayani, Mehrdad Afari and Brazilian artist Adriana Alves
2015 Media Impact Festival, Moskva
2015 Mirroring Oil (Oljespeil), Stiftelsen 3,14 and DNB, Bergen
2015 Feminism and challenges, a Scandinavian encounter with modern India. Kerala
2013 Dialog based art, The Literature House in Bergen
2013 Epic, workshop for secondary school classes in Hardanger
2013 Power to change, B-open reading circle
2012 Guerrilla Gathering. Copenhagen
2011 Guerrilla Gathering. Evanger
2010 Development of public space. Sund
2011-2013 Development and implementation of professional development workshop "Guerrilla gathering" 2011 Survival strategies of MA students at the Art Academy in Bergen.
2007 Symposium. Artistic methode. Bergen
2008 Literature and Media in War, Per Christian Magnus and Runo Isaksen. Fjell
2005 Workshop "Somewhere among us". KunstiBadet
Publications:
2023 Catalogue, Civil Defence Act 1-4
2023 BGO/CPH papers; in conversation with Sergei Prokovfiev
2022 Fri, intelligent og manipulert. essay i kulturtidskrift PLNTY 2/2022
2021 article in Nordlys
an imaginative text to International Women's league for Peace and Freedom
2019 'When we act, we create reality', the news paper NYTID
2019 Bergen-Cophenhagen papers, first edition 2019
2017 Landscape&Acting; Nørrekjær Biennalen
2017 'The 7th floor'; publication by Performance art Bergen
2016 Unrest series, interviewing the French writer Nathalie Quintane
2015 Clean yourself, Weapon-industry. Ny Tid. Desember 2015 (17.12-15.1).NR 29
2015 B-post, on dialoge based art
2015 Fanfare 5,5
2014 Artist book, Copenhagen
2013 Text contributions to the book Odds, Bergen
2013 Art news 'in which the smallest gesture become epic'
2013 Exhibition catalogue 'in which the smallest gesture become epic' 2010 Art news on The Zeppelin (Luftskipet)
2009 Art news. Mountain Fortress.
2008 Text contributions. Exhibition catalogue Excentrum, Kabuso
Grants:
2023 Municipality of Bergen
2023 Norwegian Peace Fund
2023 Antiwar-Initiative
2022 Art Council Norway
2021 The City of Bergen
2021 BEK/Eu-Horizon program
2019-2021 Norwegian Art Council
2020 Fond for Lyd og Bilde
2018 5 years of State-Grant (Statens Arbeidsstipend)
2017 One year working-grant, Norwegian Art Council (Vederlagsfondet)
2016 One year working-grant, Norwegian Art Council (Vederlagsfondet)
2016 OCA, Norwegian Art Council, Fond for lyd og bilde, the commune of Bergen.
2015 Statens Diverse-stipend, OCA, NBK, Bergen commune, Norske Embassy India
2014 OCA, Office of contemporary art
2014 Vederlagsfondet/ Norwegian Council
2014 Bergen kommune, HFK, Kulturløftet (Soups&Stories)
2014 The Danish Art Council, catalogue production
2013 Freedom of Expression/HFK/Sparebanken and the municipality of Voss/Eidfjord/Bergen 2012 Bergen municipality/Hfk/VISP/Nordic Culture center
2011 The City of Bergen/Voss/HFK and BKK (Radiator)
2011 Koro (regarding the Osa project and Still life)
2010 Norwegian Council (Luftskipet)
2010 KORO(Luftskipet)
2009 Norwegian Council(Luftskipet)
2009 Establishment Grants Bergen municipality 2008 Bergen municipality
2008 Norwegian Council
2008 Hordaland County Council 2007 Hordaland County Council 2007 The city of Bergen
2006 Fund for Sound and Image 2005 Bergen Council
Residencies:
2023 Paris
2010 Dale in Sundfjord
2019-2020 Bergen Electronic center
Acquisitions by public institutions:
Bergens Tidende, 2014
Bergen municipality in 2005 and 2012
Copenhagen Foreign Affairs, 2002
Discussed in media:
21.04.2023 Art Review Bergens Tidene
20.02.2022 Forfatternesklimaaksjon
9.02.2022 Haugesunds avis
8.02.2022 Hardangerfolkeblad
26.12.2021.Review online art magazine, HAKAPIK
10.09.2021 Studvest
15.07.2021 Klassekampen, Driter i fjorden/intervju.
2021 https://kunsten.nu/journal/er-du-klar-til-at-give-slip/
2021 https://www.areyouready.tv/2021/05/14/susanne-christensen-writes-about-are-you-read/
nr 1 2021 Billedkunst, page 21-29
2021 https://spartakus.no/2019/10/26/the-cleaning-woman-gitte-saetre/
August 2019 Bergens tidene, Tv2, M24, BA, Ny Tid, NBK, Aftenposten, Steigan, NorskPen. Link to all: https://wearemillions.org/bergen/
10.03.2019 Designpodcast
22.01.2019 Sodere TV; Addis Ababa
21.01.2019 Walta TV, Ethiopia
16.12.2018 Hva er du redd for, Bergens Tidene
20.09.2017 Tv2; 2017 performative hacking of the Road World Championship
13.09.2017 Kunstkritikk (http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/det-tamme-kor/)
08.09.2017 Bergens Tidene (https://www.nrk.no/hordaland/kan-performance-kunst-fa-flere-til-a-stemme_-1.13678012)
01.09.2017 Bergens Tidene; reportasje
01.09 2017 Bergens Arbeiderblad. Reportasje
12.06.2017 NRK P2; Kulturnytt. Interview
19.10.2016 PAPER Magazine; New York(http://www.papermag.com/11-art-shows-opening-this-week-2054431887.html)
15.10.2016 Bergens Tidene; Reportasje
6.10.2016 NRK P2; Kulturnytt interview
8.09.2016 NRK P2; Anmeldelse av Mona Pahle Bjerke (https://radio.nrk.no/serie/kulturhuset-hovedsending#t=1m16s )
19.01.2015 Kochi Chronicle, India
12.01.2015 Moss avisen
15.12.2014 https://www.trineross.com/smertefri-skilsmisse/
24.11.2014 Bergens Tidene. Reportasje
13.11.2014 Klassekampen. Kultur&Medier
24.10.2014 Klassekampen. Anmeldelse av Tommy Olson
24.06.2014 NRK. P2. Nyheter
24.062014 TV2.Debatt (http://www.tv2.no/2014/06/25/nyheter/turisme/5741984)
25.06 2014 Bergens Tidene. Reportasje
27.01.2014 Anmeldelse av Signe Hodne i Stavanger Aftenblad
03.02.2012 Billedkunst (http://www.billedkunstmag.no/node/2286)
08.04.2011 NRK (https://www.nrk.no/hordaland/strid-om-luftskip-i-sund-1.7587399)
28.05.2010 Dag og Tid.
27.04.2010 Vest Nytt
Member of:
NBK/BKFH