Studio Artists 2024-2025
Abirami Logendran
Abirami Logendran (b. 1992, Oslo) is an artist, critic and curator. She has a master's degree in visual arts from the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts and a master's degree in screen culture from the University of Oslo. Logendran has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Oslo (2024) and K4 Galleri (2024). She is also editor of Norsk Kunstårbok, film curator at Kunstnernes Hus Cinema and film reviewer in Klassekampen.
Adin Mušić
Adin Mušić (b. 1995, Kristiansand) lives and works in Oslo. Mušić holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Fine Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2019-2024). Mušić’s practice spans across various media, including video, installation, and sculpture. In previous works, he has used materials such as metal, textiles, broken screens, projections, and different light sources to create site-specific installations and moving images.
His works often engage in a conceptual exploration of the future, offering a critical view of the modern technologies that surround us. Mušić has focused on themes such as digitisation and light as a source of information, while simultaneously posing deeper questions about the soul's role in the contemporary reality.
Mušić draws a comparison between light and information, as most of the information we process today is presented through illuminated screens. Previously, broken or defective monitors and screens have been a fundamental part of his practice, serving as a symbolic anchor point for his expression.
In recent years, Mušić’s work has created a dialogue between modern technology, identity, and society, with his practice taking on a more personal approach. In the solo exhibition Muscle Memory at K4 Gallery (2024), he explored his journey through two cancer diagnoses, crafting an ambiguity that merges his artistic practice with personal experiences.
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Anne-Marte Før
Anne-Marte Før, (she/her), based in Oslo/Valdres, holds a master's degree in fine art from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Før works with cultural-historical materials in a broad sense, reflecting on transformation, absence, gaps, and time. With an interest in place-bound and fluid identities and how objects, songs, stories, knowledge, and art change through processes of passing on traditions. Før also run the platform Flyktig/Fugitive together with Gary Farrelly (IR). Every summer since 2021 they have invited artists to work with performative and temporary practices in Valdres.
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Eili Bråstad
Eili Bråstad is from Nordreisa in the northern part of Norway, and is working mainly with film, video and live visuals. She explores the links between time and identity, often based on her own Kven background. She is interested in ecofeminism and queer theory, and gets inspiration from nature, dance, mythical stories and dark techno clubs. For years Bråstad was living in Berlin where she was active in the queer, feminist VJ collective Tensememori.
Bråstad studied art photography and film, has a BA in Moving Images from Nordland Art and Film College and a MA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her short films have received several awards, and her work have been shown at exhibitions and film festivals such as Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival (NO), Imagine Native(CA), CTM Berlin, Atelier Nord(NO), Kunstnernes Hus, Riddu-Riððu(NO), Vårscenefest(NO) and others.
Ghazaal Nasiri
Ghazaal Nasiri (b. 1999, Shiraz, Iran) is a visual artist living and working in Oslo, Norway. She studied for her bachelor's degree in painting at the Shiraz University of Arts in Iran and received an M.F.A. at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo.
Ghazaal explores automatism in personal histories. Her practice investigates conditioned responses to trauma and violence. As an artist from Iran, she finds human source material to be her primary inspiration. Her work binds the past and present, exploring the repercussions of untethering minds under repressive, innate self-censorship.
The traditional craftsmanship of Qashqai women plays a central role in Ghazaal's practice. Intertwined with an outsider's vision, these conventional methods are an intrinsic characteristic of her visual style.https://ghazaalnasiri.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/ghazaal_nasiri/
Kim Henning Andreassen
Kim Henning Andreassen (b. 1986 Norway) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He holds an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Arts in Norway. Previous exhibitions include solo shows at Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo (BG) (2024), HULIAS, Oslo (2024), Centralbanken, Oslo (2023), and Salgshallen, Oslo (2022).
Madelon Verbeek
Madelon Verbeek (b. 1999 in the Netherlands, based in Oslo) mainly works with painting (fresco, kalkpaintings and aquarel) and textiles.
She is interested in assembling the public and the private, the personal and the political. Verbeek sees her works as 'diaristic patchworks' based on many different conversations, news messages, current and relevant issues, political opinions and private experiences. The core of her works emerges from meetings, interviews, and conversations with individuals about their perspectives and experiences. The artist uses a figurative, narrative language influenced by her background in art history where she refers to artists, works and events that play a key role in her practice.
Verbeek holds an MA in Fine Arts from the National Academy of Arts in Oslo (KHiO), a BA from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and an undergraduate in Art History from the University of Amsterdam.
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Sampson Addae
Sampson Addae born in Ghana, currently lives and works in Oslo, completed a master's degree this spring 2024 at the Oslo Academy of Arts (KHiO). He holds a bachelor's degree in Painting and Sculpture from the College of Arts at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology, Ghana. Addae in His practice explores the intersection of material culture, environmental pollution, and sustainability.
His works are usually made of discarded bodies (used clothes) collected from individuals in Oslo and its neighboring cities. His art pieces, immersed with the emotions of previous wearers, invite other bodies (viewers) to reflect on how circumstances influence questions of value and the power we hold to shape our surroundings and, in turn, be shaped by them. They prompt reflections on the potential dangers of unchecked adaptability, shedding light on overconsumption, and the lasting impact of our choices.
Solo exhibitions include Kunstnerforbundet (upcoming, 2025). Previously, he has, among other things, exhibited at Høstutstillingen 2024, Gallery Seilduken I, and Skylight. He has also shown works in the group exhibition The Activist, The Bureaucrat and The Expert (ABC/X) at Tuben (Sandaker Center), ‘Cornfields in Accra’ Science and Tech Museum, and KNUST Museum 2016.
Santiago Díaz Escamilla
Santiago Díaz Escamilla (Bogotá, Colombia. 1992) explores notions of nature to reflect on ways of experiencing, perceiving, and recognizing the world we inhabit. His works seek to generate environments of contemplation and introspection intended to propitiate states of attention in the public.
He holds a Bachelor's in Visual Arts from the Pontifical Xavierian University (Bogotá) and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts—KHiO. He has exhibited in Colombia, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Finland, and Norway in venues including the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá, Quimbaya Gold Museum, Casas Riegner, Oswald de Andrade Cultural Office, and Immigration Office.
Díaz Escamilla has received distinctions such as the BKH Kunststudentstipend (Oslo, 2023), the VI Sara Modiano Prize (Bogotá, 2018), and the Tutor Fellowship at Flora ars + natura (Bogotá, 2017). He has participated in residencies and workshops with institutions such as KUNO (Reykjavík, 2023), LABVERDE (Manaus, 2018), and Fundación Botín (Santander, 2016).