With the arrival of summer, eight recently graduated artists within the FKDS studio grant program will host a series of duo exhibitions. Reflecting together on the different processes established during the program, each exhibition will be open to the public for one weekend. The shows will feature two artists who have shared a studio together through the program. The purpose of the Fund for Art and Design Students (FKDS) is to support students and alumni at the departments of the Academy of Arts, Crafts and Design through various scholarship schemes.

Damla Kilickiran is a visual artist living in Oslo. Influenced by cosmologies and narratives drawn from spiritualistic thought traditions, her work meditates on themes related to the changing states of mind, as a method of approaching the body's own image production and source of knowledge.

Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (b. 1988, Hamburg) works within a broad spectrum of medias like performance, video, sound, sculpture and installation. Driven by curiosity and a desire for learning new skills through tacit knowledge, he finds his tools and expression in a space created by an overlapping of life, play and art. These skills range from using pre-industrial and labour intensive techniques for processing fibre for textiles, foraging medicinal wild growing plants and extracting scent and dyes from natural sources. Wenzel looks at how technological development, science and spiritual impulses take part in shaping our perceptions of nature, norms and identity. He enters characters and roles and de-fragments materials, narratives and experiences to piece them together in a new context. By accessing often forgotten techniques and ancient traditions, as well as giving space for playfulness in his work, Wenzel aims to challenge personal, environmental and normative structures in a western urban society.