Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Danish Arts Foundation
Astrid Myntekær
Astrid Myntekær constantly tests, challenges and refines materials and technologies in new contexts and compositions. Light and sound merge and hit you in both body and head. Posh and high-tech materials establish sculptural and performative links to more low-key materials from the local DIY shop and low-key industrial producers. In a time when hackers are the new revolutionaries—and there are signs that we could perhaps move completely through the screen—Astrid Myntekær lets topics of biology, emotion and spirit resonate through her work.
Astrid Myntekær (1985, Denmark) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. Her recent solo shows include MANA, Black Sesame Space, Beijing and ORGONE at Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Astrid Myntekær’s work has been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde; Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Kunstforeningen Gl Strand; and Gallery Jacob Bjørn. Astrid Myntekær is representing Denmark at the Jeune Creation Europeenne Biennale, 2015–17.
Astrid Myntekær, MANA, 2015, Algae spirulina powder, mac computer and algae sex. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2016: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Sara Eliassen
Sara Eliassen is an artist and filmmaker from Oslo, Norway. She creates conceptual cinematic work that investigates how aesthetics and narratives presented in moving images create collective memories, and how these in turn influence the understanding of ourselves as subjects. Her work often plays with narrative expectations, using film, video, text, drawing, photography and installations in a critical practice. Eliassen’s work also involves projects in public space, such as the activist anti-ad project Not Worth It; making false TV-ads interfering with Norwegian public and commercial TV-channels.
Sara Eliassen holds an MFA in experimental filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and was a studio fellow at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2011. Her films Still Birds and A Blank Slate have played extensively at international film festivals, amongst them Venice Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Sundance.
Sara Eliassen, Out of Frame, 2015, Algorythmic video installation, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2015: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Natalie O’Donnell
Natalie Hope O’Donnell is a curator at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway and a project leader for Munch Museum’s offsite contemporary art projects, “Munchmuseet on the Move.” Past curatorial projects include the retrospective of Pushwagner at MK Gallery and the Boijmans Museum (2013); an exhibition of Norwegian film and video art of the 1990s at Atopia, Oslo (2013); and the First Supper Symposium with Pussy Riot, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti in Oslo (2014). Hope O’Donnell chairs the Norwegian Association of Curators and runs its lecture series together with Milena Hoegsberg and Leif Magne Tangen. She retains an interest in curating as a spatial practice, feminist and queer performative practices, and the exhibition as an historical and cultural construct.
Natalie Hope O’Donnell (born 1979, Oslo, Norway) holds a BA in Modern History and Politics from the University of Oxford (2002) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London (2008) among other degrees in Legal Practice, Cultural Studies and History of Art. Her PhD at the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS) is entitled Space as Curatorial Practice and investigates curators’ use of spatial strategies in the art galleries of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, outside Oslo, in the early 1970s. These included exhibitions in collaboration with architect Sverre Fehn and exhibition maker Harald Szeemann.
Natalie O’Donnell, Pussy Riot in Perspective with Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti, Discursive event. Courtesy of the curator.