Exhibition: Siren station curated by Hedda Grevle

Welcome to an exhibition in two acts, curated by our curator in residence Hedda Grevle Ottesen. Act one; And all the light that grind-cores, at The Garden Show Room. Act two; Siren Station, at Odderøya Lighthouse.

Act two is a one-day-only interference with the historic Odderøya Lighthouse. The participating artists activate the old living quarters as well as the main light house.

Artists: Sandra Vaka, Alina Vergnano, Adin Mušić, Marianne Bredesen, Agatha Wara, Ida Rasmussen, Hedda Grevle Ottesen, Marvin Sereba, Thyra Dragseth, Kaja Krakowian, Mikael Marman, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong, Louise Evensen Herreira, Elise Macmillan, Madelen Isa Lindgren, Tim Høibjerg, and Natalie Price Hafslund.

The exhibition is open and free for everyone.

With:

Alina Vergnano, Adin Mušić, Marianne Bredesen, Agatha Wara, Ida Rasmussen, Hedda Grevle Ottesen, Marvin Sereba, Thyra Dragseth, Kaja Krakowian, Mikael Marman, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong, Louise Evensen Herreira, Elise Macmillan, Madelen Isa Lindgren and Tim Høibjerg.

Agatha Wara

XUXA

Vinyl stickers on stone wall

2025

In Bolivia-born American artist Agatha Wara’s practice, phantasms of identity are excavated as the self is constructed and dissolved, subject to fictionalization and narrativization, presented on- and off-stage. Wara’s work combines textual endeavors, video, sculpture, performance, and occasional parties. Within these realms, real-life desires meet disappointments and become vehicles that the artist uses to colonize feelings of belonging and alienation. With a distinct emotional component, the work displays a type of angst, perhaps of the American teenage girl variety—emotionally stunted, and “unintelligent”—serving as a lens through which Wara processes her own native roots. South American llamas appear as avatars, fashion and glamour meets rural trash, while tradition and myth is mashed up with contemporary commerce. Wara is based in Oslo and represented by the gallery Damien & the Love Guru.

Adin Mušić

Jeg vil være ekte,

Jeg vil være skjør,

Jeg vil danse i vinden som de andre.

Mixed media

2025

Adin Mušić (b.1995, Kristiansand) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oslo. He works with video, installation, and sculpture, with a particular focus on contemporary history, new technologies, and how they shape our daily lives in relation to identity, belonging, and the digitisation of society. Music holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2024). He recently held the solo exhibition Time is Moving, Again as part of his FKDS residency and studio program at Kunstnernes Hus. Mušić also have an upcoming solo exhibition at Podium in Oslo later this year.

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong

Scenography from Los Tres Puntos

Backdrop, 290 x 600 cm

digital print on polyester textile

Backdrop, 354 x 120 cm

digital print on polyester textile

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong’s practice (mostly) revolves around the serial video ‘soap opera’ project Days, and their work relates to its storylines or functions as its scenography. Days adapts the romantic themes, typical to soap operas, to stories about labour (emotional, unpaid and abstract labour), and its domestic spaces are swapped for the neoliberal ‘third spaces’, such as the cafe, hostel, bar, rideshare, gym, co-working space, public park, etc. The video works engage numerous collaborators in forms of satirical auto-fiction and docudrama, set within synthetic stylized spaces that speculate urban dystopia.

Their work has been exhibited in Oslo at Fotogalleriet and The Vigeland Museum; in Norway at Agder Kunstsenter (Kristiansand) and Buskerud Kunstsenter (Drammen); internationally at Triangle-Astérides (Marseille), Sundy (London), NKR (Düsseldorf), FORT biennale_01––Forte di Fortezza (Bolzano), Kling & Bang (Reykjavik); their videos have been screened at Kunstnernes Hus Kino (Oslo), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Porn Film Festival (Berlin), Dreamland Film Festival (Athens), Okay Space (Athens), CCA Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Felleshus––Nordic Embassies (Berlin), and multiple Radical Film Network Meetings (Berlin). Their first public sculpture, Phonehenge, was recently erected at Granåsen Ski Centre (Trondheim); they have upcoming solo exhibitions at the Berlin project spaces DoomSpa and DieRaum, and the group show Travail utile, fatigue inutile curated by Una Gjerde will open at Podium (Oslo) later this year.

Alina Vergnano

Outside In

2025

Dry pastel and water, acrylic varnish on canvas, 30x20 cm

Alina Vergnano (1989, Torino) is an Italian artist based in Oslo. She holds an MFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bergen. With the line as a point of departure, she explores concepts of fluidity, time, and entanglement working at the intersection between painting, drawing and installation.

On her large-format canvases, she uses dry pastels, paint, and water applied in washes, to create dynamic and monumental images where the figure dissolves into abstraction. Her paintings are often presented in site-specific installations that engage with architecture or natural landscapes, and with the body.

Thyra Dragseth

En trance

Inkjet print, glass, muscovite

160 x 84 cm, unique

Thyra Dragseth (b.1993, Copenhagen) is a Norwegian artist based between Oslo and Lisbon. Dragseth works multidisciplinary with photography, film, sound, text, and installation. Her practice is rooted in feminist ideology. It is preoccupied with investigations of societal roles, and inter personal, and professional relationships. Leaning on autobiographical traditions, her work critically engages in questions of truth and perception. Dragseth co-initiated the discursive curatorial project Lars Lisboa (2021-2023), hosting events and exhibitions. Recent solo and group exhibitions include; Candyland, Stockholm (2025); Gallery K4, Oslo (2025); Pachinko, Oslo (2024); OSTRA Practice, Lisbon (2024); Kristiansand Kunsthall (2023); Sol Nexø, Bornholm (2023), and MELK Gallery, Oslo (2021).

Louise Evensen Herreira

Crrrd

Copper, nickel, led, nailpolish, nail-bling bling

2025

Louise Evensen Herreira (b.1993, Stockholm, Sweden) is based in Oslo, where she holds a

BA in Medium- and material-based art from Oslo Academy of the Arts.

Evensen works with script-driven approaches, shaped by narrative traces found in her social

surroundings. Working primarily in metal, she develops a trans medial artistic practice that

unfolds through sculpture, performance, and installation—integrating body, text and spatial

awareness. Working with the public space as a starting point and the surreal as both tool and

lens, Evensen is blending pop- and subcultural references and explores perception and

collective agreements on reality.

Elise Macmillan

Mixed media and drawing. Ink, Xerox, and Collage

Elise Macmillan is an artist and musician living in Oslo. Her works include sculptural installations and music for percussionists, tape bow ensemble, strings, telephone hotlines, and endless loop cassette. She is currently part of the artist collective Verdensteatret, and the group, Three to the Three to the Heart.

Marianne Bredesen

Marianne Bredesen (f.1982, Oslo) Hennes hovedfelt er installasjon, skulptur og lydarbeid. Temaer som omhandler virkelighet og uvirkelighet, synsbedrag og alternative perspektiver har alltid vært tilstede i Bredesens kunstnerskap. Universelle filosofiske spørsmål, som omfatter tid, rom og tilstand, er også gjennomgående i hennes arbeider.

Hun har sin utdannelse fra Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, og har stilt ut ved blant annet Fondazione Prada, Venezia (2018), Atelier Güell, Barcelona (2019) og Telemark Kunstsenter (2021). Hun jobber også med kunst i offentlig rom, og har blant annet laget «Wittgenstein-monumentet» (2018) i Skjolden (i samarbeid med Sebastian Makonnen Kjølaas) og «Sjøvettene varsler storm» (2024) i Bodø.

Kaja Krakowian

Rapunzel (garden)

2025

Installation, concrete, steel, textile. Variable dimensions.

Kaja Krakowian is an artist living in Oslo, Norway. She holds an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts and MS in Psychology from University in Wroclaw, Poland. She makes visual and sound installations and is currently involved in the group Three to the Three to the Heart.

Tim Høibjerg

Soft Archive

UV print on semi-transparent natural latex, steel rod, invisible thread

2025

Soft Archive is a suspended latex print resembling slack, translucent skin. A glowing form hovers beneath the surface, surrounded by branching lines that suggest veins, fractures, or signal pathways. The work traces both physical and emotional wounds, pressure that builds, holds, and never quite dissipates. It is about emotional charge suspended just below the surface. Soft Archive captures the unstable moment before rupture.

Tim Høibjerg is a Norwegian artist working with digital media, sculpture, sound, and installation. His practice explores unstable boundaries between the body and technology, informed by queer and posthuman perspectives. Through hybrid forms and raw material contrasts, he investigates identity, vulnerability, and transformation. His installations depict bodies as fractured, exposed, or in flux, intimate, grotesque, and unresolved.

Sandra Vaka

Thirsty, 2025

Heat-formed, UV-glued and polished acrylic glass, liquid, organic material

130 cm x 10 cm (diameter)

For over fifteen years, Sandra Vaka has created works that explore the conditions of living in a world saturated with products and technology. Her serial works highlight desire, consumption, pleasure, and shame—hallmarks of contemporary consumer society and its environmental impact. Vaka’s practice blends humour and seriousness in a deliberately dual approach.

Familiar objects—such as towels, plastic straws, and computer screens—are transformed and imbued with new meaning in the space between the sensual and the conceptual. Her interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, photography, and painting. With a painterly approach to photography, she often incorporates physical water and digital screens in a re-photographing process. Water also frequently plays a role in her sculptural work.

Sandra Vaka (b. 1980, Stavanger) studied at the Art School in Rogaland, earned a BA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO), and an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She has exhibited widely in Norway and internationally, and her works are part of numerous private and public collections. She is currently working on several outdoor public art projects: for Lervigskvartalet, commissioned by Stavanger Municipality; for Teglverket Kindergarten, commissioned by Oslo Municipality; and for Stavanger Secession 2025.

Marvin Sereba

Uten tittel

Glass tiles, bricks, pigment.

2025

Marvin Sereba is 29 years old and is studying for a BA at the Oslo Academy of Fine Arts. He has a background in the film industry.

Ida Rasmussen

Never a real horse

2025

Tinn

Ida Rasmussen is currently doing a BFA at Oslo academy of fine arts. She has also studied at Prosjektskolen. Rasmussen works within a big range of mediums. She is currently making an album with a friend.

The residency and exhibition is made possible with the support from Kristiansand kommune, Cultiva stiftelsen and Agder fylkeskommune. Thank you!