Current Residents
Past Resident2024: Guadalupe Phillips
Paloma Contreras
Paloma Contreras Lomas works across various media, including film, drawing, writing, sculpture, and video. Her practice explores themes such as the landscape as a witness in Mexico, autofiction, and class horror. Through a blend of research and humor, and by weaving together genres like horror and science fiction, Contreras Lomas creates installations that immerse viewers in narratives shaped by her vision of Latin American political historiography.
Paloma Contreras Lomas has exhibited work at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, among others.
Paloma Contreras, Amar a Dios en tierra de indios, es oficio maternal, 2023, installation, dimensions variable.
Paloma Contreras, Uno muere muchas veces, Lazarito, 2023, charcoal and graphite in canvas, 78 × 314 in. (198.12 × 797.56 cm).
Paloma Contreras, ¿Y usted cómo se supone que se llamaba?, 2024, oil on canvas, 473/16 × 473/16 in. (119.89 × 119.89 cm).
Paloma Contreras, La fiebre de oro, 2023, film, 23:31 min.
Paloma Contreras, SIEDO antes SEIDO, 2023, sculpture made of plush and textile, 895/16 × 35 × 355/16 in. (226.82 × 88.9 × 89.66 cm).
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2024–Aug 31, 2025
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Studio #220
Artist
Apichaya Wanthiang
Apichaya Wanthiang creates environments that activate embodied knowledge and somatic memories, exploring how different spaces shape our perceptions, behaviors, and interactions. She primarily works with painting and installations that incorporate light, sound, and text. While each exhibition centers on a specific theme, these serve as a prelude to examining complex and often invisible structures, such as the cumulative effects of racism or the impact of memories on our present actions.
Apichaya Wanthiang has exhibited work at Munch Museum, Oslo; Storage Art Space, Bangkok; and UKS Young Artists’ Society, Oslo, among others.
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Apichaya Wanthiang, the night laid a hundred eyes on my skin, installation, 2024.
Apichaya Wanthiang, Gleaned from, 2024, painting installation.
Apichaya Wanthiang, Some Body Else, 2022, installation.
Apichaya Wanthiang, I've been here before, 2020, installation.
Apichaya Wanthiang, Evil spirits only travel in straight lines, 2018, installation.
Past Resident2024: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen
Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen is an art historian and curator based in Trondheim, Norway. She served as the Interim Director of Kunsthall Trondheim from May to December 2023 and currently holds the position of Curator. Pedersen’s curatorial practice focuses on perspectives that combine alternative realities, spiritualities, knowledge systems, and technology. Recently, she has explored themes of diasporic ancestry, neuroplasticity, and memory, inspired by her own experiences as a second-generation Filipinx immigrant. Pedersen is also the Chair of The Norwegian Association of Curators.
Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen has curated exhibitions at Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, among others.
Korakrit Arunanondchai , Songs for dying, installation view, 2021, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, curated by Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.
Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, A Body of Memory (from neurons to the sea), installation view, 2023, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.
Panteha Abareshi, INVALID PLEASURES, installation view, 2023, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, curated by Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ann Lislegaard, Unweaving the binary code, 2022, Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022, exhibition curated with Stefanie Hessler. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.
Artist talk with Yngvild Sæter in front of her work 'Mother (altar XXVIII)', 2023, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway. Photo by Daniel Vincent Hygstedt Hansen/Kunsthall Trondheim.
