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NOW Showing at NITJA
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Now showing at GEILO
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Vågsbunnen Stemmer, 2025
A site-specific art project that invites the local community to listen, speak, and co-create new narratives about Bergen’s historic center. Through painitng it explores the neighborhood as a social, political, and sensorial space in transition.
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When the World is on Fire, carry water, 2025
acrylic on fiber-sement 250 cm x 60 cm
Civildefence: ACT 1-2-3-4-5, 2017-2024
A long-term project exploring war and peace as cultural and psychological constructs. Across five acts – spanning theatre, street art, performative friezes, and collective participation – civil society is activated as a counterforce to militarization and growing insecurity. The project weaves together history and the present by highlighting mythological figures, political structures, and individual voices. Together, the five acts form an artistic reflection on how a culture of peace can take shape in the public sphere.
A peace frieze painted over 15 meters and placed between Oslo City Hall and Nobel Peace Prize Center, 2024 . More
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Transformation Cards, 2025 An artistic tool created by Frans Jacobi and Gitte Sætre to spark dialogue, imagination, and collective reflection. Each card proposes a shift in perspective—philosophical, emotional, or practical—inviting participants to explore alternative ways of thinking about crisis, change, and community. Used in workshops, performances, or informal gatherings, the deck functions as both a game and a method, breaking habitual patterns of conversation and opening space for new forms of knowledge and shared visions of the future. The deck of cards has been part of the process of working with the TV series Are You Ready? |
AreYouReady? /Web-TV Series, 2019-2020
A performative web-TV series by Frans Jacobi and Gitte Sætre that stages urgent political and existential questions through satire, poetry, and collective reflection. Mixing fiction and reality, the project transforms news headlines and crises into theatrical episodes that provoke debate and unsettle established narratives. With humor and sincerity, AreYouReady? creates a critical counter-public, inviting audiences to reflect on the fragility of democracy, the climate emergency, and the possibility of change. Seven episodes are to be found here: www.areyouready.tv/
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Work or leisure?, 2025
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Woman Cleaning, 2014-
A journey that began in 2014, one that I have pursued for a decade. As a practitioner of the ancient technologies of the ritual act of cleaning,
I embarked on a series of performances under the banner of "Woman Cleaning" which traces back to a trip to Jerusalem and waking up in a Jehovah's Witnesses apartment in the old city (dont ask me why?). I woke up with an idea of engaging in geopolitical cleaning, a symbolic new start amidst the weight of centuries of war, shame, and endless violance.
The inaugural performance took place in the vast desert, where I encountered an Israeli tank with a simple white cleaning rag.
Since then, I have cleaned diverse locations and situations examining our alienation and our ability to coexist with the knowledge of tragedy.
The survival mechanisms we construct, are the defence systems that shield us from the harsh realities of life. Are we unwittingly corrupted by the very act of growing up, navigating through violence and lived experiences?
18 performances is documented with video-stills here
Magic of Seven (2016)
A seven channel video installation as a gateway to peace ( mounted in a circle with associated speakers)
The work shows seven women from each continent on separate screens cut synchronously between them and scenes from various wars. They go against each other and meet in a global network for the provision of conflict resolution without lethal means from the arms industry. Magic of Seven is both poetic and monumental in its form. The work leaves the audience with an aesthetic and physical experience of the banalities and senseless atrocities of war. And substantiates via his own language what it requires of mobilization to dismantle our culture of war. Magic of Seven has only been shown on the occasion of Sætre's solo exhibition at Kunsthall 3.14 in 2016. More info here
Soups&Stories 2012-2017
A participatory project by Katrine Meisfjord and Gitte Sætre. Rooted in the simple act of sharing a meal, the project invites people to gather around soup as a way to exchange stories, traditions, and perspectives. By blending nourishment with narrative, it creates an intimate arena for dialogue across cultural, social, and generational boundaries. Soups & Stories turns hospitality into an artistic gesture, showing how everyday rituals can open space for connection, empathy, and community-building. The project traveled to Iran, Russia and Palestine. More info: www.meisfjord-satre.com/
Grren Hijab Movement, 2015
Scenography, 2023
The Strangers by Albert Camus. Staged at the Theater Oslo Nye and part of Heddadagene, Oslo 2023
Luftskipet/The Zeppelin (2006-2011)
A site-specific, movable art space designed by MMW Architects. Created for the periphery ( municipalities west for Bergen) to bring contemporary art into landscapes and communities outside the cultural centers.
Its lightweight and flexible design allows it to land in diverse environments—urban edges, rural spaces, and in-between zones—transforming each site into a temporary arena for dialogue, imagination, and encounter.
Initiated and run by Gitte Sætre. Her MA- project.
