Bettina Camilla Vestergaard (DK)

Bettina Camilla Vestergaard (b.1975) is a visual artist, whose works explore how the roles of the visual and verbal are situated in the formation of identity, gender and space, with a particular focus on identity and places as a fluid and mutable construct. She often takes a contextual and research based approach to her subjects and works in a variety of medias such as photography, text, sound, performance and installation. Vestergaard received her MFA from Malmoe Art Academy (SE) in 2005 after having studied at the Department of Art, University of California Los Angeles (US) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Aarhus (DK). Her work has been shown in group- and solo shows throughout Europe, in the US, Mexico and Vietnam and in 2009 it was awarded by the Danish Arts Foundation. This fall Vestergaard will be a resident at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo. www.bcvestergaard.com

Tori Wrånes (NO)

Tori Wrånes gikk ut av Kunstakademiet i Oslo 2009, og arbeider hovedsaklig med stemme og skulptur der hun blander elementer fra teater, musikk og billedkunst. Hun har bakgrunn som skuespiller, og har arbeidet i flere musikalske prosjekter fra band til filmmusikk. Arbeidene vises i gallerier så vel som teatre og konsertscener, som Palais de la Découverte (FR), Rekord på Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst (NO), Nationaltheatret (NO), Le Nouveau Casino (Fr), Canadian Music Week (CAN), SXSW(US), Trama festival de artes performativas (Portugal). Hun arbeider også på mindre opplagte steder som i klatrevegger, parkeringsanlegg eller under vann, og arbeider ut ifra troen på en slags menneskelig elektrisitet.
www.toriwraanes.com

Lillian Fellmann (CH)

Lillian Fellmann is a curator and cultural researcher. She holds an MA in political philosophy from the University of Zurich and an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles. She is the founding director of the Kunsthalle Luzern in Switzerland, and the director of internationalcoffeeshop.org, Society for Critique and Good Togetherness. A Fulbright Fellow 2003-5, Fellmann was a guest lecturer and curatorial resident in the Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, USA and Switzerland. Her current focus lies on cultural activism in the Arab region. Since 2004 her curatorial project on "art & politics" took her to Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East. Fellmann lives in Switzerland and Holland.

www.internationalcoffeeshop.org
www.internationalcoffeeshop.blogspot.com

Lasse Lau (DK/BE)

Lasse Lau (born 1974 Denmark) is a queer and social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels, Copenhagen & New York. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark.

His work continues to expose the amnesia of today's crises in the global economy, and the parallel social displacement that occur in spatial terms. He seeks to utilize aesthetics as a framework that can open dialogical paths for social change.

Lau has among other exhibited in Westfälische Kunstverein and Hamburger Bahnhof and in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klædefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Tomas Lagermand Lundme (DK)

Tomas Lagermand Lundme, født 1973. Forfatter, dramatiker og billedkunstner. Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi 1996 - 2002 ved professor Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Har skrevet en lang række romaner, digte, artikler, essays, teaterstykker, hørespil og føljetoner. Arbejder i det billedkunstneriske rum med tekstlige udsagn, tegninger og fotografier.
www.tomasll.dk

Berit Nørgaard (DK)

Reflecting the social potential of everyday-life, Berit Nørgaard’s art practice focuses on human relations and interactions. The projects deal with themes connected to daily experience, and relate to how getting in touch with others somehow expands ones perspective on things. Berit Nørgaard studied at The Academy of Fine Arts, Aarhus, Denmark 1996-01 and Critical Studies, Malmö Art Academy/Rooseum, Sweden 2002-03.

For more information please visit: www.beritnoergaard.dk

Fredrik Strid (SE/US)

Fredrik Strid is a visual artist who was born in Sweden. He currently lives and works in Malmö and Los Angeles. His sculptures and installations reference ideas around the representation of nature. Distinctive to his practice is the nuanced tension between the illusory and tangible.

As a result of a research expedition with the Norwegian Polar Institute he will be showing at the Tromsø Center of Contemporary Art in the beginning of 2011. Shortly thereafter he will be an artist in residence at the Hordaland Art Center in Bergen. His recent solo exhibitions include Gallery 21 in Malmö, St. Gertrud Gallery in Malmö, Landings in Vestfossen, and Mors Mössa Gallery in Gothenberg. Recent group exhibitions include the Museum of Sketches in Lund, Kunsthaus Dresden in Dresden, and OR Gallery in Vancouver. His work is also in the collections of the Malmö Art Museum in Malmö and Skåne County of Sweden.

Line Skywalker Karlström (DK/SE)

Line Skywalker Karlström is a Swedish performer and visual artist based in Denmark and Berlin whose work is invested in art-as-life, identity politics and the production of space. Scrutinizing notions of normality and the gendered body, Karlström uses sculpture, performance, drawing techniques and curating in no particular order. She understands art as a mental and physical space in which narratives of values, culture and knowledge can be disturbed and renegotiated. Hence she puts strong emphasis on process, failure and the ephemeral. Located in a collective and social field Karlströms' work investigate structures for common life and how those structures are produced through history, everyday actions, aesthetics and desire. Informed by feminist art and queerfeminist activism her practise has for the last decade been placed in a collaborative realm. Line S. Karlström is a founding member of the feminist performance group High Heel Sisters (2002-2007) and in 2005 co-founded the art activist group The YES! Association (-2010).

http://lineskykarlstrom.blogspot.com
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Skylar Haskard (US)

Born 1977, Los Angeles, California; lives and works in Los Angeles. Haskard's wors with objects or documents that work together as part of the whole, but at the same time have the presence to exist on their own—some of which are utilitarian pieces that may be functional and relevant in a person’s everyday life. Haskard’s work bares a distinctively performative mark, with compositional elements often subject to change and viewer interaction. Such is the result of the artist’s conscious investigative process, one that views work as every bit durational as it is spatial. Haskard’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles (2007), and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, and has also been included in a numerous group exhibitions, including Squatting (New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2006); Collapsible Monuments (Thrust Projects, New York, 2006); GroupShowBoard II (Kunst Pavilion, Innsbruck, 2005); Speed, Need, and Greed (Villa Arson, Nice, 2005); SugarTown (Participant, New York, 2005); and Love after the Cold War in an Open House of a (Re)Constructed Babylon by a Popular Mechanic (Mackey Apartments, MAK Center, Los Angeles, 2004). Haskard will also participate in this year’s MexiCali Biennial.

André Amtoft/Arendse Krabbe (US/DK)

André Amtoft (DK/US) and Arendse Krabbe (DK/FR) both work within various collaborative and interdisciplinary constellations. They engage a wide variety of media and often take a conceptual and educational approach to sociologically informed themes. Amtoft is graduate of the Department of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen and from Malmö Art Academy Critical Studies Program. Krabbe received her MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths and is currently pursuing an MFA at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen. For Decenter II they've collaborated on 'opensourcefood' - a culinary project that repurposes New Nordic Cuisine - and foraging for wild plants, berries, roots, etc. - so that asylum seekers can supplement their limited allowance and acquire a more healthy and diversified diet.
www.opensourcefood.info