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Gitte Sætre is an artist working with dialogue-based art, performance, photography, video, and sound. Sætre's oeuvre deals with current and relevant issues, such as climate change, neoliberal patterns, and cultural radicalism; how do we think? Her body of work is characterized by the weight of contemporary society yet opens room for humor and quiet reflection. Her work investigates roles and positions through generations, related to philosophical questions like forgiveness, guilt, and freedom within the immediate family sphere and into the sphere of national and international politics. Currently, she is working on a production called " The Civil Defense Project' in Norwegian Sivilforsvaret.
The project started in 2017 and has up til now 5 act presented in public space at this point and one is planned to happen in the Spring of 2024 in Oslo.
During Covid Lockdown, she produced, together with her partner Frans Jacobi, the hybrid web-tv series Are You Ready in seven episodes. Are You Ready? was a part of the Nature as Infrastructure, a virtual program curated by the Copenhagen-based artist collective The Winter Office (TWO). Organized within the frame of Manifesta 13.
Gitte Sætre ever-ongoing project Woman Cleaning has been shown internationally in several locations over the years. A series of video-performative penance where she washes places and/or objects. Sætre has constructed a figure that diligently washes and tries to create harmony and gain control or understanding of the world. The project is strongly linked to her as a person, a Norwegian female born in 1975. A generation that thought everything was possible. The project is within the sphere of national and international politics and touches upon rituals with religious connotations, feminism, humor, and hopes and dreams.
Before she started on this extensive cleaning project, her work was related very much to women and the private sphere through a project called Mother Dust (Morstøv). In this project, she collected dorm rabbits (hybelkaniner) from her house and used it as her artistic methodology. Photographing a small mass of dust as a series of work. House dust comprises hairs, fibers of cloths, crumbs, mold, mites, and bacteria. Waste is derived from the very essence of daily life and its symbols of our existence, as if it were the intimate microcosm that exposes one's activities.
Gitte Sætre work has been shown at Manifesta 13, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, the WhiteBox gallery in New York, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Small Project in Tromsø, Bomuldsfabrikken in Arendal, Oslo Kunstforening, House of Foundation in Moss, the collateral programme of Kochi Biennale in India, Media Impact in Moscow, Arctic Art Forum in Arkhangelsk, Komunitas Salihara in Jakarta, Kongernes Lapidarium in Copenhagen, XX1 Gallery in Warsaw; Pristine Galerie in Mexico, Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen, Bergen Kunsthall, and at KODE in Bergen, Fylkingen in Stockholm and Guramayne Art Center in Addis Ababa, Kunstnernes hus in Oslo. And she has done two productions at the National Theater in her home city and one scenography for the theater director Lena Senstad at Oslo Nye.
Gitte Sætre often collaborate with people and organizations inside and outside the field of art, blow is a list of some of them.
Norges Fredsråd v/ Liss Schanke
Humanity Project
Bergen Exchanges v/CMI og Siri Gloppen
International Progressive
Bioregion institute
NHRF.no v/ Ingeborg Moa
Global Coastline Rebellion
Women's International League for Peace and FreedomGlobal Salmon Farming Resistance
The AntiWar-Initiative
Artist for Assange
Woman Against NATO
Frans Jacobi
Studio Michelle-Marie Letelier
Ca Conrad
Chris Duckett
Brian Maguire
Marcelo Brodsky
Jannecke Heien Knutsen
Galleri Høgstandard
Fakhra Salimi
Gitte Sætre is an artist working with dialogue-based art, performance, photography, video, and sound. Sætre's oeuvre deals with current and relevant issues, such as climate change, neoliberal patterns, and cultural radicalism; how do we think? Her body of work is characterized by the weight of contemporary society yet opens room for humor and quiet reflection. Her work investigates roles and positions through generations, related to philosophical questions like forgiveness, guilt, and freedom within the immediate family sphere and into the sphere of national and international politics. Currently, she is working on a production called " The Civil Defense Project' in Norwegian Sivilforsvaret.
The project started in 2017 and has up til now 5 act presented in public space at this point and one is planned to happen in the Spring of 2024 in Oslo.
During Covid Lockdown, she produced, together with her partner Frans Jacobi, the hybrid web-tv series Are You Ready in seven episodes. Are You Ready? was a part of the Nature as Infrastructure, a virtual program curated by the Copenhagen-based artist collective The Winter Office (TWO). Organized within the frame of Manifesta 13.
Gitte Sætre ever-ongoing project Woman Cleaning has been shown internationally in several locations over the years. A series of video-performative penance where she washes places and/or objects. Sætre has constructed a figure that diligently washes and tries to create harmony and gain control or understanding of the world. The project is strongly linked to her as a person, a Norwegian female born in 1975. A generation that thought everything was possible. The project is within the sphere of national and international politics and touches upon rituals with religious connotations, feminism, humor, and hopes and dreams.
Before she started on this extensive cleaning project, her work was related very much to women and the private sphere through a project called Mother Dust (Morstøv). In this project, she collected dorm rabbits (hybelkaniner) from her house and used it as her artistic methodology. Photographing a small mass of dust as a series of work. House dust comprises hairs, fibers of cloths, crumbs, mold, mites, and bacteria. Waste is derived from the very essence of daily life and its symbols of our existence, as if it were the intimate microcosm that exposes one's activities.
Gitte Sætre work has been shown at Manifesta 13, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, the WhiteBox gallery in New York, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Small Project in Tromsø, Bomuldsfabrikken in Arendal, Oslo Kunstforening, House of Foundation in Moss, the collateral programme of Kochi Biennale in India, Media Impact in Moscow, Arctic Art Forum in Arkhangelsk, Komunitas Salihara in Jakarta, Kongernes Lapidarium in Copenhagen, XX1 Gallery in Warsaw; Pristine Galerie in Mexico, Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen, Bergen Kunsthall, and at KODE in Bergen, Fylkingen in Stockholm and Guramayne Art Center in Addis Ababa, Kunstnernes hus in Oslo. And she has done two productions at the National Theater in her home city and one scenography for the theater director Lena Senstad at Oslo Nye.
Gitte Sætre often collaborate with people and organizations inside and outside the field of art, blow is a list of some of them.
Norges Fredsråd v/ Liss Schanke
Humanity Project
Bergen Exchanges v/CMI og Siri Gloppen
International Progressive
Bioregion institute
NHRF.no v/ Ingeborg Moa
Global Coastline Rebellion
Women's International League for Peace and FreedomGlobal Salmon Farming Resistance
The AntiWar-Initiative
Artist for Assange
Woman Against NATO
Frans Jacobi
Studio Michelle-Marie Letelier
Ca Conrad
Chris Duckett
Brian Maguire
Marcelo Brodsky
Jannecke Heien Knutsen
Galleri Høgstandard
Fakhra Salimi