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Søren Thilo Funder

Søren Thilo Funder’s works are carefully crafted cinematic mash-ups of diverse cultural fields and social histories, integrating aspects of critical theory, literature, cinema, popular culture and counterculture. Through the use of cinematic narratives, mise en scène and video documents the artist aspire to propose new connections between historical, cultural and political matter and generate new potential spaces, third places, for political contemplation and counter-memory.

Søren Thilo Funder lives and works in Denmark. He has participated in international exhibitions at 19th Biennale of Sydney; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; 12th Istanbul Biennial; Turku Art Museum; Critical Distance, Toronto; amongst others.

Marte Danielsen Jølbo

Marte Danielsen Jølbo is a curator, writer and editor. Her curatorial practice is concerned with site-specificity and transdisciplinary collaborations. She is interested in self-organisation, the relationship between curator and artist and in developing new tools and methods for curatorial writing.

Marte Danielsen Jølbo is a co-founder of Another Space, a project space for art and architecture, and is also co-founder and editor of the web journal Contemporary Art Stavanger. She is the author and editor of several essays and art publications. She has curated exhibitions at Open Source Gallery, New York City; Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City; insitu, Berlin, among others. Jølbo participated in Curatorial Program for Research, Mexico, 2017, and is the recipient of a Stavanger Curatorial Fellowship.

Anu Vahtra

Anu Vahtra employs an artistic approach to site-specific, space-oriented problematics. Her installations, which often include photography, capture the surrounding spaces of their sites, making them both the subject and the physical form of the artwork.

Anu Vahtra has exhibited her work in Estonia and abroad including at the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; and Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne. Vahtra has participated in residency programs in Norway and Lithuania, and is a founder of the independent publishing initiative Lugemik in Tallinn. She is the winner of the Köler Prize, 2015 and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia Annual Award, 2017.