Current Residents
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Nov 30, 2025
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Studio #221
Curator
Abirami Logendran
As a film curator, Abirami Logendran is drawn to hybrid practices and interdisciplinary approaches that reflect her cross-field background in design, art, film, mathematics and media theory. She has developed programs on migration and diaspora experiences, engaging with international artists like The Otolith Group, Sky Hopinka, Kamal Aljafari, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and more. With strong interests in postcolonial theory, she critically examines contemporary culture through both conceptual and material lenses. She is also an active artist and critic.
Abirami Logendran has curated exhibitions at Kunstnernes Hus, Olso; Kunsthall, Oslo; and Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, among other things.
Abirami Logendran, Commitments to Mirror-Writing, 2025, talk. Screening of Into the Violet Belly by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Silver Series #8, "The Otolith Group" exhibition, 2024, video. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Artist talk with Shirin Nest, 2025. Opening of"Silver Series#7," Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Diamond Heist, group exhibition, 2025, prints, drawings, video. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Abirami Logendran, Diamond Heist, group exhibition, 2025, video. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
Current Resident: Sep 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2026
OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Studio #220
Artist
Wendimagegn Belete
Wendimagegn Belete is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the complex interplay of culture, memory, identity, heritage, spirituality, and epigenetic inheritance—a form of memory transferred across generations in unconventional ways. He works across diverse mediums, including installation, moving images, painting, photography, textiles, and found objects. By interweaving physical and digital archival materials, he creates richly layered works that craft dynamic narratives, traversing both temporal and spatial boundaries.
Wendimagegn Belete has exhibited work at The National Museum in Olso, Norway; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and Pinchuk Art Centre, Ukraine, among others.
Wendimagegn Belete, Your Gaze Makes Me, 2021, mixed media installation, 2435/16 × 248 × 1113/16 in. (618.01 × 630 × 30 cm).
Wendimagegn Belete, Of water and the spirit., 2024, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Wendimagegn Belete, Unveil, 2020, video installation (loop), 987/16 × 472.44 in in. (250.01 × 472.44 in cm).
Wendimagegn Belete, MISS AND HIT, 2025, mixed media, dimensions variableThree Steps North.
Wendimagegn Belete, Three Steps North, 2024, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Current Resident: Oct 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025
Studio #305
Artist
Rafaela Foz
Rafaela Foz works with conceptual contrasts, exploring boundaries between matter and image, weight and lightness, presence and impermanence. Her multimedia practice employs materials such as charcoal dust, real and false stones, minerals, and collected objects as vectors of time — geological, bodily, and historical. Moving between installation, drawing, projection, and collage, she weaves elements that evoke fragmented landscapes, dense atmospheres, and materiality — always in tension with aesthetic contemplation and the systems that shape perception.
Rafaela Foz has exhibited work at Paço das Artes; Brazilian Art Museum; and Espaço Delirium, all in Brazil, among others.
Rafaela Foz, The Wild, Rebounding, 2025, installation.
Rafaela Foz, Sediments Series, 2025, mosaic, 44,5 × 29,5 in. (44,5 × 29,5 cm).
Rafaela Foz, Stay here, until the word 'dwell' makes sense., 2022, sculpture.
Rafaela Foz, Perspective, 2024, site-specific drawing.
Rafaela Foz, Mineral, 2023, collage, 5913/16 × 6911/16 in. (151.89 × 177.04 cm).
