And all the light that grind-cores, by Hedda Grevle

This is a presentation of the exhibition curated by GRACs curator in residence Hedda Grevle Ottesen during summer 2025, and all the artists and their works.

Hedda is a curator, writer, and artist based in Oslo. Since 2022, she has been a curator at Podium, a non-profit artist-run gallery, and she is also behind the nomadic exhibition project Oslo City (2020–2024) and the moving-image–focused gallery K4, which she has run since 2020. From 2015 to 2019, she managed the platform After School Special at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall. Ottesen has worked extensively both in Norway and internationally, with previous residencies at Cité des Arts in Paris and Arv.international in Bulgaria.

During her residency at GRAC, she brought together a group of artists she has long collaborated with, from both Oslo and Southern Norway, to develop a new project for an exhibition in our showroom in Hagen.

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

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.

Madelen Isa Lindgren

Madelen Isa Lindgren (b. 1990, Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian artist working with sculpture and installation. She holds a BFA in medium- and material-based art from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2015–2018), which included a one-year exchange at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee (2017). She also completed a practical pedagogical education in Art and Crafts at Oslo Metropolitan University (2019–2020) and graduated with a Master's degree in Fine Art from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen (2022–2024).
Lindgren's work has been exhibited at both national and international venues, including Norwegian Sculptors Society, Kunstnerforbundet, K4 Gallery, PODIUM, Salgshallen, Kunsthall Oslo, Bergen Kunsthall, Sakmundal Tempel, Lillehammer, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal, CIFF International Copenhagen, Wehrmuehle Museum, Museum Fluxus, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz in Berlin, and Kastela Art Centre in Athens.

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