Past Residents

Ingrid Wildi Merino
Nominated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway Charlotte Hetherington Nominated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway Charlotte Hetherington

Ingrid Wildi Merino

Ingrid Wildi Merino (b. Santiago de Chile 1963) lives and works in Santiago de Chile. Having migrated to Switzerland in 1981 she studied at the University of Fine Arts in Zurich (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zurich) and received her postgraduate in Visual Arts at the University of Geneva, (Haute Ecole d’Art et Design Genève).

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Ramona Salo Myrseth and Katarina Skår Lisa
Nominated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway Charlotte Hetherington Nominated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway Charlotte Hetherington

Ramona Salo Myrseth and Katarina Skår Lisa

Ramona Salo Myrseth and Katarina Skår Lisa are two independent artists that work as a collaborative duo. Together they explore a common yet personal enquiry in contemporary arts through their Sea Sámi heritage. Themes they are occupied with are the ecology of creations, relations, culture, and care. Their aim is to investigate ways of learning and practise with a Sea Sámi cosmology and their landscapes.

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Oswaldo Maciá

Oswaldo Maciá

Oswaldo Maciá is a Colombian artist based in London, he works primarily with sound and smell. Maciá grew up in Cartagena de Indias where he attended the school of fine arts. He has later studied at Llotja school in Barcelona as well as Guildhall and Goldsmith's College in London. His olfactory-acoustic sculptures have been exhibited all over the world and is held by Tate among other international collections.

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Lars Paalgard

Lars Paalgard

Lars Paalgard studied at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway (1978–82) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1983–85). He has participated in exhibitions in Norway and abroad, and his works feature in public collections such as those of the Arts Council Norway and Trondheim Municipality. Paalgard was one of the initiators of G.U.N (Galleri Uten Navn / Unnamed Gallery) and Sound Of Mu in Oslo.

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Oddvar I.N. Daren

Oddvar I.N. Daren

Oddvar I.N. Daren is an artist who works across genres with paintings, objects, sculptures and land art. He trained at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway (1977–81) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (1982–84). He has held solo exhibitions at Bodø Kunstforening, Norway (2015); Trondheims Kunstforening, Trondheim (2013); Galleri F15, Moss, Norway (1986) and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Bærum, Norway (1985).

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