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: 2021 Teheran; Iran 2020Nature 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 2018Represented at the Fair Cosmoscov by the Gallery SUNDERØ 2017Center for Future Art. Stavanger. Norway 2017 Galleri Blaker Skanse. Oslo 2017 Visningsrommet USF.Bergen-Norway 2016Acts of Sedition I, WhiteBox. New York. 2016 INFERNO; Pristine Galerie. Monterrey,Mexico 2016 Kunstgarasjen.Bergen 2015 Beautiful Lies. Warszawa 2015 Videonale. Alvøen 2015Komunitas 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: 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 'Let us think', Vega Scene, Oslo 2019 Woman Cleaning Westminsiter Magistrates Court, London 2019 Woman Cleaning for a New Beginning, Belmarsh Prison, London 2019 'Are You Ready?'A prolog, PAB-OPEN, Hotell Terminus 2019 'Let us think', Media City Bergen 2019 Dj Roles&Positions, Rødt (Fest For Folk Flest) and at HKS 2019 Operasjon X, A Performance About Music, Bergen 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 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. Israel
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 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: 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 experience: 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
Workshops/seminars: 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: 2019 'When we act, we create reality', the news paper NYTID 2019 Bergen-Cophenhagen papers, first edition 2019 2017 'The 7th floor'; publication by Performance art Bergen 2016 Unrest series, interviewing the French writer Nathalie Quintane 2015Clean 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 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: 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
Member of: NBK/BKFH Performance Art Bergen Kunstgarasjen.no Norwegian Association for Women's Rights International Women's League for Peace AntiWar-Initiativ