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TEXTS: A sample, in changing order of enjoyability

2025
Hinges

2023
Shooting from the hip, or, on being strategically unstrategic

2019 -2021
I finally wrote up my PhD 

2020    
‘Yes to who or what arrives’: Hospitality and Property in Contemporary Art
(Excerpt)


2019
We Asked For It

2017
Image Drain

2015
Painting in Flat Time (on the occasion of Carl Johan Högberg’s exhibition Shuttlecock, feat. Bob’s Your Uncle Sports Bar)
EXHIBITIONS and MOMENTS

2026
Magnhild Øen Nordahl and Paul Kuimet: Exploded View, Kai Art Centre, Tallinn

2025-2026
Steven Cohen: Long Life, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town

2021
Hedwig Barry: Here is Where We Meet, Nirox Sculpture Park
Download catalogue

2017
Image Drain, Tallinn Art Hall, as part of Tallinn Photomonth Biennale
download the beautiful poster-catalogue

2014-2017
at Hordaland Kunstsenter (Director)
Carl Johan Högberg: Shuttlecock, feat. Bob’s Your Uncle Sports Bar
James Webb: Xenagogue
Dineo Seshee Bopape: We need the memories if all our members
Toril Johannesen: Oppfinnelsen og avviklingen av øyet
The Land
After the Exhibition
INSTITUTING


2020-2022
Owner and director of FORMS Gallery (closed)

2018-2019
Co-founder (with Scott Elliott) of Weekend Server project space experiment, Bergen, Norway

2014-2017
Artistic and adminsitrative director of Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
OTHER

2026-2027
Social Impact Art Prize Fellow (awarded by the Rupert Art Foundation, South AFrica)

2025-2026

NRF/DSTI-Funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the SARChI Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture