Cv; Gitte Sætre (1975)
Lives and work in Bergen, Norway
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Tlf: 0047 93050078
gittesatre(at)gmail.com
www.gittesatre.com
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: 
2016   Kunsthall 3.14.Bergen
2016   Oslo Kunstforening. Oslo
2015   Gallery Basement. Voss
2015   The House of Foundation. Moss
2014   Woman cleaning shame, KABUSO (foajé). Øystese
2008   The child, the women and the man.Private pop opp.Bergen
2007   Trying to be happy.Bergen
2006   My Grandmother's views. KunstiBadet. Bergen
2006   Limitations GalleryOz.OS
2005   Gallery Trallala. Norheimsund
2004   Opera Mints, Gallery Drops.Bergen
2003   Ministry for Foreign Affairs.Copenhagen

Group exhibitions:
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:
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 of the city of Bergen
2017 New Worlds; B-open at Kunsthall 3.14 Bergen
2017 Public Space, Oslo
2016 International Performance Festival, Bergen Kunsthall
2016 Whitebox, New York
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
2015 Woman Cleaning Final Destination, Indonesia
2015 Woman Cleaning together with man. Voll II. India
2014 Woman Cleaning European History. Poland
2014 Woman cleaning National Identity. Denmark
2014 Woman cleaning National Identity. Norway
2014 Woman cleaning shame. Norway
2014 Woman cleaning tanks. Isreal 

Dialogbased art: 

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 calloboration 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 calloboration 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:
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 experience:
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:
2018 Cost Contemporary
2017 Green Hijab Movement at PechaKucha vol 9,  World road championship 2017’s culture programme
2017 Mobilization 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. Kerela
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
 
Artist Presentations:

2017 Green Hijab Movement; part of Mary Coble workshop at KODE 1. Bergen
2016 Kunstgarasjen, 8 mars.Bergen 
2016 Seminar on Art and Activisme; Oslo Kunstforening
​2015 Screening and artist talk about the Woman Cleaning video performance project at Media Impact Festival, Moscow
2015 Melancholy and Method, University of Jakarta
2013 Dialog Based Art, Art School in Bergen
2013 The Zeppelin (Luftskipet), B-Open workshop, artist as social actor 2012 The Zeppelin (Luftskipet), State's Cross Conference, Oslo
2011 The Zeppelin (Luftskipet), Art Academy in Bergen
2011 Art and Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Hordaland fylkeskommune
2010 Design Region Bergen
2010 Wealth Creation Program. Bergen
2010 VISP, Logen Theatre.Bergen
2006 Artistic methods, Fjell  

Publications:

2017 'One wednesdays in May'; publication by Performance art Bergen
2016 Unrest seris, interviewing the Franch 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:

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 Diversestipend, 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

Acquisitions by public institutions:

Bergens Tidende, 2014 
Bergen municipality in 2005 and 2012 
Copenhagen Foreign Affairs, 2002

Discussed in media:

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
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
Performace art Bergen
Kunstgarasjen.no
Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
International Women's League for Peace