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Jenna Sutela works with words, sounds, and other living media, such as Bacillus subtilis nattō bacteria and the “many-headed” slime mold Physarum polycephalum. Her audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances seek to identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology. Sutela's work has been presented at museums and art contexts internationally, including Guggenheim Bilbao, Moderna Museet, and Serpentine Galleries. She is a Visiting Artist at The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) in 2019-20.

Jenna's show 'I Magma' is currently on show at Oslo Kunstforening. https://en.oslokunstforening.no/jenna-sutela

Anawana Haloba (b. 1978) lives and works in Oslo. She is a graduate from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts in Lusaka and the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo. Haloba's work has been featured in both solo- and group shows, including the Rauma Biennale, Finland; ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2010); the Venezia Biennale (2009); the Sydney Biennale (2008); Manifesta, Bolzano, Italy (2007); the Sharjah Biennale (2007 and 2013); as well as the biennales in Sao Paulo (2016), Shanghai (2016) and Lyon (2017). Haloba's video installation «To Mars By All Means» was shown at Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo in 2018, presented by Transnational Arts Production (TrAP).

She had a solo exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening in 2018, 'Conversations with Stitched up Lips' and was exhibited in the group show 'Nordic Delights' in 2016.

https://www.en.oslokunstforening.no/anawana-haloba-2018

Akram Zaatari (b. 1966, Saida, Lebanon) lives and works in Beirut. He has produced more than forty films and videos, a dozen books, and countless installations of photographic material, all pursuing a range of interconnected themes, subjects, and practices related to excavation, political resistance, the lives of former militants, the legacy of an exhausted left, intimacies among men, the circulation of images in times of war, and the play of tenses inherent to various letters that have been lost, found, buried, discovered, or otherwise delayed in reaching their destinations. Zaatari has played a critical role in developing the formal, intellectual, and institutional infrastructure of Beirut's contemporary art scene. He was one of a handful of young artists who emerged from the delirious but short-lived era of experimentation in Lebanon's television industry, which was radically reorganized after the country's civil war. As a co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, a groundbreaking, artist-driven organization devoted to the research and study of photography in the region, he has made invaluable and uncompromising contributions to the wider discourse on photography and its disintegration, preservation and archival practice.

Zaatari represented Lebanon at the Venice biennale 2013. He has shown his films, videos, photographs, and other documents in institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, MoMA in NY, Tate Modern in London, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, MACBA in Barcelona and Kunsthaus Zurich. He has taken part in Documenta13 (2012), the biennials of Gwangju, Liverpool, Istanbul, Sao Paulo and Sydney. His films have screened at the Berlinale, FID Marseille, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Oberhausen film festivals.

Akram Zataari exhibited at Oslo Kunstforening in the 2018 show 'Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout'.

https://en.oslokunstforening.no/beirut

https://arabimagefoundation.com

Multi-media artist Camille Norment’s work utilizes the notion of cultural psychoacoustics as both an aesthetic and conceptual framework. She defines this term as the investigation of socio-cultural phenomena through sound and music - particularly instances of sonic and social dissonance, and works through sound as a force over the body, mind, and society. Composing through forms including recorded sound, installation, drawing, and live performance, she applies this concept towards the creation of critical artworks that are preoccupied with the way in which form, space, and the body of the viewer create experiences that are both somatic and cognitive.

Camille Norment was born in Silver Spring, USA. She lives and works in Oslo.

Norment’s recent performances have taken place at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 2017; Montréal Biennial, 2016; The Armory Show, NY, 2016; Lisboa Soa Festival, 2016 and Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo, 2015. Previous solo exhibitions have taken place at Lydgalleriet, Bergen, 2016; September Gallery, Berlin, 2009 and the Round Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, 2007. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Norway and internationally, amongst others at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India, 2016; Montréal Biennial, 2016; Marso Gallery, Mexico City, 2016; the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, 2014 and 2012; the Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2013; Luleå Konsthal, 2013; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, 2010 and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, 2009. In 2017 Norment presented a solo exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin and participated in the group show «Soundtracks» at SFMOMA as well as the Lyon Biennial in France. In 2015 Camille Norment represented Norway at the Nordic pavilion at the 56th edition of La Biennale di Venezia, and in 2016 she participated in the Murzi Kochi Biennial.

Camille's website:

https://www.norment.net/

Camille's solo exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening:

https://en.oslokunstforening.no/camille-norment

Camille's recent work, 'Prime':

https://www.norment.net/work/objects-installations-ind/prime/

Lucien's website: http://luciensamaha.net/about

Lucien's self-published books: https://www.blurb.com/user/lucien58

Oslo Kunstforening exhibition: https://en.oslokunstforening.no/beirut