Nina Maria Kleivan (Danmark) (b.1960, Oslo, Norway) lives and works in Copenhagen. Nina is educated at the University of Copenhagen, Department of History of Art and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She works with graphics, paintings, photography, video and installation. Kleivan has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad and served as associate curator of several exhibitions. Among other, she has held solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Brundlund Castle, Jutland Museum, Kunsthal Brænderi farm, Gallery Asbæk and Kulturhuset in Stockholm. The National Art Fund, Carlsberg Fund and Kastrup Farm Collections have purchased her work. She received the National Art Fund 3-year grant in 2010. External web page: http://www.ninakleivan.dk/
External web page: http://www.ninakleivan.dk/
Rune Johansen (Norway) (f 1957) is born in Bodø and has lived and worked in Oslo for many years. When he worked for the company Telenor, he began to take photos of the place he left when he was young. Today he has moved back home to Engeløya and this is now his base. He works nevertheless internationally and is represented in the National Museum, The Norwegian Embassy in Washington and in the most recognised international photo institutions and magazines. He works on his fifth book and has his own column in the newspaper Dagbladet every Sunday to his disposal. The book "HIV mannskjiten" (All that glitters) documents folk culture and Norwegian personalities that is rarely captured so accurately. The book is a tribute to the people of Nordland - and the awareness of what is the closest in your life.
External web page: http://www.runejohansen.com/
Hrafnhildur Sigurðardóttir Island (f.1959) are graduated from the textile department at the Icelandic Art and Handicraft school and earned a Masters in Sculpture (MFA) from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the United States. She is a very active artist and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and conducted several solo exhibitions internationally. She has received numerous awards and fellowships and has been purchased among others, by Reykjavik Art Museum. She works in three dimensions and utilizes various handcraft techniques when she is constructing her artworks. In addition to being an active artist, she is represented in several committees and committees. Since 2010 she has held the post of Director of the Icelandic artist organization - SIM. In addition, Hrafnhildur has been head of the Artists in Residence Nes in Skagaströnd.
External web page: http://www.hsig.net/
Mikael Hansen (Denmark) From the first time Mikael participated in "earth-art/landart" projects in Denmark back in 1983, he has been fascinated by the opportunities to express him selves artistically in and with nature. Michael works in large formats, sculptural, with objects and installations and in addition he is an accomplished painter. He is represented in galleries and museums throughout Denmark, and you will find his installations in Germany, Japan, Italy, Holland and Norway.
External web page: http://www.mikael-hansen.dk/
Heidi Rognskog Mella (Norway) (1966) was born in the fishing village Veiholmen, but live and work in Oslo. She studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf and the Bergen Academy for art and design. She has participated in numerous art exhibitions and has received several governmental grants. She has worked as an artist and researcher in the department of research at Telenor between 1998 and 2011, where she mostly worked with the development of innovative products and services. She has led numerous research projects and has extensive experience with project work. Today she works hundred percent with the concept Samvirke and her own art projects. Her production is based on “redundant” materials. The technics are installations, sculptures, drawing and paintings.
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Participants at the RASK exhibition Veiholmen 2013
Mona Eckhoff Sørmo Norway (1969) born in Trondheim, but have worked and lived in Copenhagen for ten years. Today she lives in Nittedal outside Oslo. She studied at the Art Academy in Bergen, Madrid and Prague and are represented in Statoils collections and Sørlandets Art Museum and she has also been nominated for the Carnegie Art Award. She is via the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Copenhagen chairman of NAD, the network of Norwegian Visual Artists in Denmark and has since 2010 organized and curated monthly exhibitions at the embassy. She has made numerous public commissions that include Postgirobygget, the NRK headquarters in Oslo, Skreia juniorschool and Refsnes Gods. Mona is the initiator of the Samvirke artist in residence together with Heidi Rognskog Mella.
External web page: http://www.mesinfo.dk/#!__cv
Janne Aas (Norway) (1960) er utdannet ved Universitetet i Oslo og Bergen og er cand. philol innen teater- og litteraturvitenskap. Hun gikk på dramatikerlinjen ved Hordaland Skrivekunstakademi i 1994. Et år senere utmerket hun seg som en spennende debutant på Dramatikkfestivalen i regi av Det Norske Teater. Hun har hatt stykker oppsatt på Den Nasjonale Scene i Bergen og Dramatikkens Hus. I yngre år var hun med i Christiania Aksjonsteater, en videreføring av Solvognen, og har deltatt som medspiller i Baktruppen, Verdensteatret og Krapplakkteatret. Ut over å ha skrevet utgitte tekster har hun også stått for manus og regi på kortfilmer. I dag møter vi Janne Aass som en bemerkelsesverdig performance-kunstner hvor tale, stemmebruk, kroppsspråk og enkle visuelle grep inngår i et humoristisk, men eksistensielt perspektiv. Hun har mottatt støtte fra Fond for lyd og bilde, filmutviklingsfondet, Dramatikkens Hus og Kulturrådet og har ved flere anledninger jobbet med billedkunstnere. Blant annet på galleri Blunk i Trondheim og med Charlotte Thiis Evensen på høstutstillingen, kunstnernes hus, i Oslo. https://www.facebook.com/janne.aass?fref=ts
Frode Gundorf Nielsen (Denmark) (1950) is graduated from the academy of fine arts in Aarhus (dk) and Prague (cz) in 1982. Since the late 80*s he has worked with scuplture installation art, where air and water plays an very importend role. The first light and sound installations were made in collaboration with the composer Harald me Viuff. Since 1996 Gundorf has been creating both the audio and visuel expressions of the sculptures and installations.
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