January 2025

Residency at BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts 

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28.10.2024 - 08.11.2024
Live Studio - Bergen Kunsthall

Presentation on Saturday 02.11 at sunset, around 16:30, with the voices of: 
Hanna Kallestad, Charlotte Besuijen and Bernhard Sekkelsten

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29.10.2024-01.11.2024
Cross Course program
Bergen School of Architecture, Bergen Assembly

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INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL BERLIN
14.09.2024
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
with Theresia Enzensberger
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LITERARISCHER SOMMER/ LITERAIRE ZOMER
25.07.2024, Krefeld
with Andrea Kluitmann

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Very happy with the project support from the Dutch Foundation for Literature for my second novel.

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12.07.2024
Buitenplaats Brienenoord, Rotterdam 
I wrote a text for the presentation of artist Kim David Bots 
on the island of Brienenoord.
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July - August 2024

Residency at Billytown, The Hague

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May 2024
Residency at Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard
Supported by Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond 
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Supermarket - Stockholm Independent Art Fair 
with ChihChung Chang and Foad Alijani
25.04.2024 - 28.04.2024

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A MILKY BLUE LIGHT / SILVER SEAS
26.01.2024 - 25.02.2024
Duo exhibition with Matt Bryans at Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger

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A German translation of my novel Nachtbloeiers. 
Published by Weissbooks in Berlin in February 2024.
Translated by Andrea Kluitmann.

 

Conversation on Kulturjournal Bayern 2, 23.02.2024. 
Review on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 28.02.2024.
Review in Die Presse, 21.03.2024.
Review in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 04.07.2024. 

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FERAL TONGUES
21.10.2023 / 15:00 - 18:00
The University Museum, Bergen

Ananda Serné (with Kristen Keegan and Eira Søyseth)
Hamid Waheed
gentian rhosa

Feral Tongues has been produced for Isotop Fellesatelier by Alex Hamish Millar. 

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PELLICULE 
performance at Tou, Stavanger
08.10.2023 / 16:00 and 18:00

With Helene Espedal-Selvåg, Marie Ronold Mathisen and John Derek Bishop.

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OPEN STUDIOS
23.06.2023 - 25.06.2023
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht


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MICROKOSMOS
17.06.2023: Opening


An outdoor group exhibition, curated by Àngels Miralda.
Performance with the voices of Ilyas Nadjafi and Susanne Ohmann.

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ALTERED BREATH
Plaatsmaken, Arnhem
10.06.2023

With works by:

Marijn van Kreij
Ananda Serné
Astrid Nobel
Dorien de Wit
Bernice Nauta
Hannah van Binsbergen
Müge Yilmaz
Vicky Francken

Curated by Wouter Venema

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25.05.2023

Public talk about my novel at
OBA Linnaeus Live, public library Amsterdam

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May - July 2023

three-month residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie
supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature

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14TH BIENNALE OF YOUNG ARTISTS
06.04.2023: Opening
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

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April 2023
Residency at Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard
Supported by Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond 

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Nachtbloeiers in New Dutch Fiction 
by the Dutch Foundation for Literature

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DANCING THROUGH (UN)COMMON WORLDS
11.03.23 - 16.04.23
group exhibition at De Vishal, Haarlem

With works by:

Sanne Bax
Lola Bezemer
Britt Dorenbosch
Lenny van Gent
Paulina Mellado
Lola Schot
Ananda Serné
Hilla Spitzer

Curated by Lola Bezemer

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03.03.2023, Kunstencentrum KAAP, Oostende.

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My favourite books about sleep and the night
for the website of International Literature Festival Utrecht

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I spoke about my novel Nachtbloeiers 
on the Dutch TV show Brommer op zee

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LIQUID WHISTLE
solo exhibition at The Norwegian Sculpture Society in Oslo
02.12.22 – 15.01.23

with a performance at the opening on Friday the 2nd of December 18:00
performers: Hanna Kallestad, Anne Oven and Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse

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Reviews of my novel Nachtbloeiers: 

De lage landen 

De Morgen 

NRC 

De Reactor 

Bazarow 

TZUM 

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ORGELNATT: ØKOLOGI, MASKINMUSIKK OG VOKALKUNST
Stavanger Concert Hall
01.10.2022

There will be live sound to two of my video works.
Music: Gunhild Seim, John Lilja and Nils Henrik Asheim on the organ.

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27.09.2022
My novel Nachtbloeiers is Published by Uitgeverij Cossee in Amsterdam. 

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September 2022
two-week residency at Ny-Ålesund Centre for Arctic Scientific Research in Svalbard
supported by Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond

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THE WIGGLE OF A WORM
together with Marijn van Kreij
Plaatsmaken in Arnhem
2.07.22 – 11.09.22 

This exhibition is part of Altered Breath,
a project on the commons conceived by Wouter Venema. 

Participants include:
Astrid Nobel
Bernice Nauta
Müge Yilmaz
Hannah van Binsbergen
Vicky Francken
Dorien de Wit

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Insect sing-along on the cover of Daisyworld Magazine
collaboration with Poyen Wang

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INSECT SING-ALONG
puntWG, Amsterdam
20.03.22 – 27.03.22
solo exhibition, curated by Àngels Miralda

Performance made in collaboration with vocal ensemble Genetic Choir

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January – March 2022
Artist in residence at airWG in Amsterdam

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SEA Foundation, Tilburg
23.09.21 – 25.09.21

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SLOW-WAVE
solo exhibition at Bryne Kunstforening
10.09.21 – 03.10.21

The sound piece is made in collaboration with vocal ensemble Song Circus.

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During a stay at Velferden Centre for Contemporary Art in Sokndal (NO),
I worked with soprano Bodil Arnesen in the darkness of a former iron ore mine.

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VÅRUTSTILLINGEN
group exhibition at Fotogalleriet, Oslo
08.05.21 – 30.05.21

With:
Marit Arnekleiv
Petter Buhagen
Hilde Honerud
Julie Hrnčířová
Kaja Leijon
Mariken Kramer
Greg Pope
Karen Pettersen
Jenny Rydhagen 
Ananda Serné
Yanir Shani
Morten Torgersrud
Kjersti Vetterstad

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PARABOL
a collaboration between Kunsthall 3.14 and Lydgalleriet, Bergen
19.03.21 – 06.06.21

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KORTFILMDAGEN
Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
12.01.2021
curated by Bahareh Mirhadi

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Awarded Stavanger Artist of the Year 2021

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December 2020
Artist in residence at Titanik Gallery in Turku, Finland

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FROM THE BALCONY
group exhibition at Stavanger Art Museum
07.11.20 – 27.12.20
Curated by Hanne Beate Ueland, Vibece Salthe, Helga Nyman and Jane Sverdrupsen.

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September 2020
Artist in residence at Nordic Artists' Centre Dale

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Vestlandsutstillingen 2020, curated by Elise By Olsen
Touring exhibition:
Kunsthall Stavanger
Sogn and Fjordane Art Museum
Kunstgarasjen Bergen
Kunsthuset Kabuso
Art Museum KUBE

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DUET/SONGS
performance at Studio17, Stavanger
03.09.2020 

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A CATERPILLAR IS CURLED IN A GREEN RING

solo exhibition at Galleri 54 in Göteborg, Sweden 
15.11.2019 – 08.12.2019

The city of Göteborg acquired the video A caterpillar is curled in a green ring and added it to their public collection. 

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Artist in residence at Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei, Taiwan
01.05.2019 – 31.07.2019
supported and organised by the Mondriaan Fonds 

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PROSPECTS AND CONCEPTS
Van Nellefabriek, Art Rotterdam
06.02.2019 – 10.02.2019

Supported by the Mondriaan Fonds

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