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     Gitte Sætre (1975)
     Lives and work in Bergen, Norway
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Education:
2025: Drawing Graphic Narratives at Royal Drawing School, London
2024: Drawing Portraits at Royal Drawing School, London
2008-2010: Creative Curating, Bergen Art Academy, UiB
2007: Art in Public Space, KORO
2004-2004: Philosophy at the University of Bergen
1999-2000: Tv-production, Copenhagen 
1997-1999: 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: 
2026           Kulturkirken, Geilo
2026           Galleri Langegården, Bergen
2025           Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Bergen
2024           Peace Culture by the Fresco Sisters, Olav Vs Plass, Oslo
2023           USF Visningsrommet, Act 4: WAR, Bergen
2022           Gallery HøgStandard, Oslo
2022           Cosmology, Small Projects, Tromsø
2022           Rogaland Art center, a shorter pop-up
2016           Magic of Seven, Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen
2016           Woman Cleaning, Oslo Kunstforening
2015           The House of Foundation, Moss
2015           Gallery Basement, Voss
2014           Woman Cleaning National Identity, KABUSO (foajé), Øystese/Hardanger

Group Exhibitions: 
2025 2025 EMPWRNG VOICES. Curated by Annicken Dedekam Råde, Gamle Munch Museet, Oslo
2025 Isotop, Bære eller Briste, Bergen
2025 CM7, Bergen2025 CM7, Bergen
2024 Biennial Means Necessary II, Jane's Room, 78 Jane St, New York                                                                
2023 B-Open; Geopolitical landscapes with Frans Jacobi and Matthew Flintham
2023 CM7, Bergen
2022 The Civil Defense; Akt 4: WAR, Visningsrommet USF Verftet, Bergen
2022 Woodoow, Galleria curator´s lab, Poznan. Poland
2021 Show:Agent Provocateur. At: The Empty Circle, Brooklyn, NY
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 & 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
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

Work Experience:
2025: Den Kulturelle skolesekken, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen
2025: Workshop,Edward Munck Vgs, Oslo med utstilling på Gamle Edward Munch.
2024: Civil Defense. Akt 5: PeaceCulture, a frieze of peace by the Fresco-sisters, Oslo
2024: Workshop Nobel Peace Center, Oslo through Oslo Kulturskole

2022-: Podcast: “Dare to Hear”
2014-:  Debate Editor at Kunsthall 3,14 ( a 50% position)
2023: Scenography at Oslo Nye and Heddadagene (regi: Lena Sendstad)
2019-2021: TV series AreYouReady.tv with/ Frans Jacobi
2019 -: Artists group with Michelle Marie Letelier and Jannecke Heien and interdisciplinary guests.
2018-2022: Leader for Antiwar- Initiative, Norway
2016- Debate editor at Kunsthall 3,14
2013-2015: InEpic (artist group)
2012-2016: Running the dialogue-based art project Soups&Stories v/ Katrine Meisfjord
2009-2011: Running the mobile art space Luftskipet, West coast, Norway. SINTEF
2011-13: Kuratorsamvirket Radiator with Kjell-Erik Ruud & Bjørn Inge Follevaag
2003-2009:Established the artist-run showroom for contemporary art: KunstiBadet, Alvøen

Performance/Theater:
2022   Civil Defense: Act 3:The Commission for the Good Solutions, The National Theater (DNS), Bergen
2021   Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo 
2021   Artist for Assange, Bergen, Berlin, London, Serbia. curated by Predrag Kolakovic
2021   Voices of Pythia, Office of Emergency, Copenhagen
2020   Yesterday and today the energy in the cosmos is extremely intensive. BEK; The Latent City
2020   Eu Parliament, Are You Ready, Brussel. corona cancelled.                  
2019   Let us think'. This performance followed the exhibition WeAreMillions.org and was performed at the different venues in Berlin, Genova, Leipzig, Belgrade, Frankfurt, and Oslo.
2019   Are You Ready? A prologue, PAB-OPEN, Hotel Terminus
2019   Let us think, Media City Bergen
2019   DJ Roles&Positions at different clubs and events (Norway and Sweeden)
2019   Are you Ready? Guramayne Art Center, Addis Ababa
2017   Civil Defense, Act 1:War Theater Trident Juncture, The National Theater (DNS) Bergen
2017.  Green Hijab Movement, KODE, Bergen

Woman Cleaning Performances 2014-2024:
2024    Woman Cleaning Accumulation of Timeless Sorrow and Pain, International Waters  (# 20 ).
2024    Woman Cleaning Groundwater Pollution, Tunis (# 19 )2021 Woman Cleaning Equinor, Fornebu (# 18) - a Global Army of Cleaners. Part of the Global Coastline Rebellion network.
2022    Woman Cleaning Salmon Farming­­; Do You Give a Shit? (# 17 ). Part of the campaign Global Salmon Farming Resistance. 
2019    Woman Cleaning for a New Beginning, Belmarsh Prison, London ( # 16 )Part of the campaign Free Julian Assange and free to be used for the case with credits to the artist)
2019    Woman Cleaning Westminster Magistrates Court, London ( # 15 )
2019    Woman Cleaning Imperialism, Horn of Africa ( # 14 )
2017    Woman Cleaning Growth, A Walk of Penance from Oslo to Stavanger ( #1 3 )
2016    Woman Cleaning F-35, Bergen Kunsthall ( # 12 )
2016    Woman Cleaning Law & Order, Korskirken  ( # 11 )
2016    Woman Cleaning Weapon Industry, London ( # 10 )
2015    Woman Cleaning Final Destination, Indonesia ( # 9 )
2015    Woman Cleaning Collective Memory,  Masada dessert 2015 ( # 8 )
2015    Woman Cleaning Dumping of Mining Landfill, Norway ( # 7 )
2014    Woman Cleaning Coastline, India ( # 6 )
2014    Woman cleaning European History, Poland ( # 5)
2014    Woman Cleaning National Identity. Copenhagen ( # 4)
2014    Woman Cleaning National Identity. Hardanger ( # 3 )
2014    Woman Cleaning Shame. Norway ( # 2 )
2014    Woman Cleaning Palestine and Israel ( # 1 )
 
Dialog-based art:
2024                    What does Peace look like? ; Nobel Peace Price Center, Oslo
2018-2023         Antiwar-Initiative, Bergen 
2022                    Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger
2017                    Samspill # III, Meteor Festival. The discursive program of BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen.
2017                    Laboratory of Restructuring, Public library of Bergen
2016                    Soups&Stories dialogue at the Peoples Museum in Birzeit. Palestine
2016                    Soups&Stories dialogue at Artic Artforum. Arkhangelsk/Russia
2016                    The legitimacy of insisting to be. Kunsthall 3,14. Bergen
2012-2016          Soups&Stories https://www.meisfjord-satre.com/colaborators.html
 
Curatorial work:
2025                    Vågsallmenningen, a site specific project; Bergen
2022                    A World Struggling for a New Equilibrium, the Literature House in Bergen
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
2015-2016          Gerilja Gatherings
2021                    Things are okay when they are okay, Kunsthall 3,14
2020                    The Second Chapter, How to Represent the Unrepresentlbe?
2020                    The Anti-Terror Tour. Peter Voss-Knude, Kunsthall 3,14
2019                    WeAreMillions.org/Bergen
2019                    Valeria Montti Colque. CloudForest and The Lonesome Dreamer, Kunsthall 3,14​
2019                    wearemillions.org
2017                    To Clean Up Old Sins, 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               The Contemporary Video Gathering. Bergen
2005                     Bergen X. Gallery 3.14. Bergen

 
Workshops/seminars:
2025                   
From Utopia to Department of Peace.  Curated by Panter Tanter Produksjoner,  Trondheim.
2024                    Drawing portraits; Oslo Kulturskole, Nobel Fredsenter
2024                    What does a culture of peace look like? Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
2024.                   The UN as a peacekeeping organization!, Bergen Assembly
2022                    Workshop Sudan International Film Festival
2022                    Climate Futurism Workshop, Omduram Cultural Center, Sudan
2022                    Agenda: The Natural State of the Art: Art, Nature and Ecology; KIO-OSLO
2021                    Climate Conference, Art Academy of Bergen.
2020                    Critique & Estetics, Kunsthall 3,14
2019                    Global Treats to Press Freedom, Media City Bergen.
                             Panel: Stefania Maurizi, Eirin Eikefjord, Mads Andenes, Gisle Selnes, Rune Ottesten, Eirik Løkke. Moderator: Jan Landro
2019                    Safety for Whom? Belgin, Bergen Assembly KODE
2019                    Mobilization with the peace activist David Hartsough, Kunsthall 3,14
2019                    Dialogue with art collective ALT GÅR BRA, Public Library
2019                    Patching up, Addis Ababa University Fine Arts and Design 
2018                    What is performance, Cost Contemporary
2017                    Green Hijab Movement at PechaKucha vol 9. Cornerteater
2017                    Workshop Hardanger Academy for Peace, Klima, 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 Ami Bayani, Mehrdad Afari and Adriana Alves

Publications:
2024                    www.bt.no/btmeninger/debatt/i/rPl74w/bergen-bystyre-maa-prioritere-bedre
2023.                   BGO/CPH papers; in conversation with Sergei Prokofiev
2022                    Fri, intelligent og manipulert. essay i kulturtidskrift PLNTY 2/2022
2021                    article in Nordlys, a text to International Women's League for Peace and Freedom
2019                    'When we act, we create reality', the newspaper NYTID
2019                    Bergen-Cophenhagen papers, first edition 2019
2017                    & Acting; Nørrekjær Biennalen
2017                    The 7th floor; publication by Performance art Bergen
2016                    Unrest series, interviewing the French writer Nathalie Quintana

Grants:
2024                    UD, Oslo Kommune, Norsk Kulturråd, Oslo ByjubileeT, Fredsstifelsen
2023                    Antiwar-Initiative, Peace Fund Norway, City of Bergen,
2022                    The City of Bergen, Diversestipend,
2021                    The City of Bergen and Norwegian Art Council, IKFF
2021                    Eu-Horizon program, Creative Europe
2019                    Norwegian Art Council, NBK, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
2020                    Fond for Lyd og Bilde, BEK,
2018-2022           5 years of State-Grant (Statens Arbeids-stipend)
2017                    One-year working-grant, Norwegian Art Council
2016                    One year working-grant, Norwegian Art Council
2016                    OCA, Norwegian Art Council, Fond for Lyd og Bild

Media coverage:
21.04.2023          https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/nQB5lQ/etter-hvert-oppdager-jeg-at-jeg-likevel-ikke-er-alene-i-
07.09.2022          https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2022-09-07/debatt-den-farlige-kunsten
20.02.2022          Forfatternesklimaaksjon
09.02.2022          Haugesunds avis 
08.02.202            Hardangerfolkeblad  og iFinnmark.no
08.12.2021          ND Nordnorsk debatt
26.12.2021          Review online art magazine, HAKAPIK
​10.09.2021          Studvest https://www.studvest.no/tag/gitte-saetre/
15.07.2021          Klassekampen, Driter i fjorden/intervju.
08.06.2021          https://kunsten.nu/journal/er-du-klar-til-at-give-slip/
14.05.2021          https://www.areyouready.tv/2021/05/14/susanne-christensen-writes-about-are/you/read/
26.09.2019          https://spartakus.no/2019/10/26/the-cleaning-woman-gitte-saetre/
10.03.2019          Bergens tidene, Tv2, M24, BA, Ny Tid, NBK, Aftenposten, Steigan, NorskPen.
                           https://wearemillions.org/bergen/ 
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-  
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01.09.2017         Bergens Tidene; reportasje
01.09 2017         Bergens Arbeiderblad. Reportasje
12.06.2017         NRK P2; Kulturnytt. Interview
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