Ananda Serné (NL/NO) is a writer and visual artist based in Norway. She grew up aboard her parents’ cargo barge on Europe’s rivers and canals. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts, and has been awarded several research and studio residencies, such as the Jan van Eyck Institute in Maastricht supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature, Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei supported by the Mondriaan Fund, and Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard through the Association of Norwegian Visual Artists.
Solo presentations include: Nightblooming, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen; Insect sing-along, puntWG, Amsterdam; Liquid Whistle, The Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo; A Long Hum, Bergen Kunsthall's Live Studio; A caterpillar is curled in a green ring, Galleri 54, Göteborg and Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei; hour, flower, Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung. Selected group exhibitions include: Tenderflix Film and Video Prize, Tenderpixel, London; Art Rotterdam, 14th Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje; Dancing through (un)common worlds, De Vishal, Haarlem; Feral Tongues, The University Museum of Bergen; Vårutstillingen, Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Mesh, Galleri CC, Malmö; Fra balkongen, Stavanger Art Museum.
Upcoming exhibitions will take place at BABEL in Trondheim, Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo and IMPAKT - Centre for Media Culture in Utrecht.
Her debut novel Nachtbloeiers (2022), about a society struggling with sleeplessness, was nominated for the Libris Literature Prize and the Hebban Debut Prize. Her second novel, IJsberenprotocol (2026), is set in a research village on Svalbard. She has spoken about her work at venues such as Kunstencentrum KAAP, Niederrheinisches Literaturhaus, International Literature Festival Utrecht and International Literature Festival Berlin.
