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Hedda Grevle Ottesen 

Education 

2017 - 2019: KhiO - Oslo national academy of fine arts MAF 

2013 - 2016: KMD - Bergen academy of fine arts BAF 

2015 - 2015: Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Malerei 

2012 - 2013: Prosjektskolen Preschool in fine arts 

2011 - 2013: UIO University of Oslo BA in art history and media science 2011 - 2011: Universidad de León/Høgskolen in Vestfold, Leon, Nicaragua Latin American  history 

2008 - 2010: Strykejernet Preschool in fine arts 

Residencies:

2026: Hybrida Platform AIR, Sweden

2025: Grac, Kristiansand

2024: Can Serrat Residency, Catalonia

2023 Cite de International arts, Paris

2022 Arv.International, Bulgaria 

Collections: 

Den Norske Bank 

Christen Sveaas Kunststiftelse 

Caviar Factory 

Selected solo shows: 

Upcoming:

2027: Salgshallen, Oslo

2026: Ådden,  Nesodden

Past:

2024: Un Animal de compagnie, Cité des Arts, Paris 

2024 Parabol Studio, (exhibition and a catalog), Oslo

2023 Sweet Sweet Relief, Bunny's garage, Oslo

2023 ARR, Centralbanken, Oslo 

2021 Clerval, Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2021 Speedy in between, MLag – Michael Laundry art garden, Bergen August 

2019: ArenaII, K4 gallery, Oslo 

2019: How we like to sing along thought the words are wrong, KhiO, Oslo  

2018: Til Maleriet Mitt, Skylight, Oslo 

2017: Ingen tittel, Folque, Skien 

2015: En åpning ut mot det lukkede, Bokboden, Bergen 

2015: Project Space, VI, VII, Oslo 

2014: Under Vann, LAB, Oslo 

Selected group shows: 

Upcoming: 

2026: FERIA Material, Art Fair, Mexico City

2026: Galleri Lott, Duo-utstilling med Stian Eide Kluge, Sandefjord

Past:

2025: Galleri Gayah, Avmønstring, Oslo

2025: Grac, Siren Station, Kristiansand

2025: Galleri Lott, Mølje, Sandefjord

2024: Can Serrat, Catalan Heather, Barcelona

2022: Memphis, Suggestions on Magic, Oslo

2021: BOA- Billedkunstnere i Oslo og Akershus. «Witchmag». Curated by Astrid Lillo, Oslo 

2020: Kösk Thirdspace 2020, with Petrine Vinje and Sofie Kjørum Austlid, curated by Jo  Morten Weider, Oslo


2020: Vermillion Sands, with Melodie Mousset, Francis Patrick Brady, Gunnhild Torgersen, Copenhagen 

2019: Club Tropicana, Dada Post, Berlin

2019: Plural Plur avgangsutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo 

2019: Østlandsutstillingen, House of Foundation, Moss 

2018: Vårutstillingen, Edvard Munchs atelier Ekely, Oslo 

2018: Dancing around the so-so Akademirommet, Oslo 

2018 Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo 

2018: After School Special, Landmark - Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen  

2018: Screening of the film «Portico» at Kunstnernes Hus kino, Oslo  2017: Public space, Private, CLB Berlin, Berlin 

2016: Above the ArtIc circle, The Caviar Factory, Henningsvåg 

2016: Teftriss (In a god place), KVIT, København 

2015: Just around the next corner, Blomqvist, Oslo 

2015: Just around the next corner, Kistefoss museum, Kistefoss 

2105: We are where the haptic matters, Errant Bodies, Berlin 

2015: Nein, FELT, Bergen 

2015: Cut a rug, Move a wave, Galleri Blunk, with Melanie Kitti and Ida Ribu, Trondheim 

2015: A little bit down and to the right, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 2015: A little bit down and to the right, McCallan, Glasgow

2015: Når sitter livet, Galleri  Snerk, with Melanie Kitti and Ida Ribu, Tromsø 

2015: Prorpio, Das Wunder in der Spiegelfliese, Don Camillo e Pappone, Berlin 

2014: The Tenant, VI, VII, Oslo. 

Selected curatorial shows:

K4:

2026: Pernille Mercury Lindstad - Solangrep i skyggeland

2025: Sofie Amalie Andersen - After Man

2025: Magne Lyngvær - Heimweih

2025: Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard and  Zayne Armstrong - Dirty Fucking Rat

2025: Ane Hjort Guttu - På Bakken

2025: Malthe Møhr - Sja Mægre

2025: Marvin Sereba - Show Room

2025: Thyra Dragseth - oh mother a face in the floor, oh mother oh

2024: Doris Guo - The Jar

2024: Abirami Logendran - transposition poetics

2024: Ferdinand Waas - Show Match

2024: Patricia Carolina Rodriguez - Beneath the eyelids, a river

2024: Charlotte Thiis Evensen - Movements

2024: Anafi Film Festival, Anafi Greece.

2024: Jasper Sivers- True Economy

2024: Adin Musac - Muscle Memories

2023: Leander Djønne, Botnteikn

2023: Jessica MacMillan, The world before eyes

2023: Beth Von Undall - Angel Matrices

2023: Coline Cherry, Mechanisms

2022: Simona Barbera and Ronny Faber Dahl, This cold heat folding in on myself.

2022: Pernille Lindstad Mercury, Inn i Noe

2022: Mira Amoudier, Dreams of a wandering Octopus

2022: Madelen Isa, Eg døyper deg på Ei von

2022: Hamid Waheed, We have waited long enough

2022: Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan & Reinert Berg Sortland, Kjuke

2021: Catalina Aguilera, Tørkestress  

2021: Eli Mai Huang-Nesse, Tusen Takk 

2021: Katarina Sylvan Henriksson, Ripper and Stamper

2020: Eugene Sundelius Von Rosen, Mikalidagen

Selected  Podium:

2026: Anders Holen

2026: Manos Saklas

2026: Vilde von Krogh

2026: Kjersti Vetterstad

2025: Henrik Olai Kaarstein - In Insincerity 

2025: Nicholas Grafia with Mind Eater Festival

2025: Ina Hagen, Marte Æknes, Marius Presterud, Patricia Carolina, “Outphasing” A collaboration with Extinction Rebellion

2025: Lene Berg - The Mystery of Mary B

2025: Romane Claus, Eugene Sundelius von Rosen, Alice Slyngstad, Theo Ghiglia and Max Ockborn - Trait d’union-Hyphen

2025: Kier Cooke Sandvik - Get out of my house

2023: Izzy McEvoy, Hippocrene

Other:

2026: Material.Art Fair with Eli Mai Huang Nesse, Ilavenil Vasuky Yayapalan and Jo Mikkel Huse, Mexico City, Mexico

2025: Swab art fair with Dev Dunshi, Thyra Dragseth and Louise Herreira , Barcelona, Spain

2025: And All the lights that grind-cores, Grac Residency Kristiansand with Agatha Wara, Mikael Marman, Tim Høibjerg Adin Musac, Ida Rasmussen, Thyra Dragseth, Madelen Isa Lindgren, Ellinor Aurora and Zayne Armstrong, Marvin Sereba, Elise MacMillan, Kaja Krakowian and Alina Vergano, Grac, Kristiansand

2025: Supermarket, Stockholm Independent art fair. With Kier Cooke Sandvik, Tim Høibjerg and Natalie Price Hafslund, Stockholm

2024: FUTURE art fair with Simon Daniel Tegnander Wensel, New York

2022: Dev Dunshi and Kier Cooke Sandvik for Oslo Negativ, Podium

2021. Gatitas, Pop up show with: Melanie Kitti, Nikhil Vettukattil, Jacky Jaan Yuan,, Agatha Wara, Lesia Vasylchenko, Vilde Tuv, Ida Ribu, Natalie Price Hafslund and Ray Hagelbach and Eli Mai Huang Nesse, Oslo

2019: After School Special, As Long as it takes with: Carte Blanche, Norwegian national company for Contemporary dance. 

Selected Oslo City (curated, not produced):

2024: Podium/Oslo City Summer Residency - exhibition at BO with: Kim Jakobsen Tô, Louise Evensen Herreira, Samuel Feste, Stella Vallik,  Stan D’Haene and Nelly Kolding. 

2023: Billedkunstnere i Oslo with: Ilavenil Jayapalan, Leon Lindgren, Lova Hiselius, Laura Polanska, Julian Espelis Orpe og Mikkel Vestad, Oslo

2023: UKS with: Torje Hanssen, Ravn Norment Aasdam, Elisabeth Thorsen og Jørn Bjerke

2022: Aljosa Erakovic, Ilija Wyller, Kier Cooke Sandvik, Ilaviniyl Jayapalan, Lotte Lovise Brøndbo, Siri Hjorth og Sebastian Makonnen Oslo City og Amir Asgharnejad,  nr 7, Billedkunstnere i Oslo.

2020: 11-14 of September at B-O-A under the name Oslo City. With: Natalie Price Hafslund, Jan Eric Wold Skevik, Kim Laybourn, Damla Kilickiran, Agatha Wara, Melanie Kitti, Ella Novotny Hafslund, Eirik Abri and Jomikkel Huse.

2020: 21-25 November Curated with Gateavisa. With Bjarne Melgaard, Fredrik Veiga and Per Guttormsgaard, B-O-A, Oslo

Selected experience:

2025  Performer at Øyteateret Performative reading group with Vilde Tuv and Ellen Jerstad.

2023 - Teacher in various conceptual and performative courses, Prosjektskolen, Oslo 

2022 - Curator and daily manager of Podium artist run space in Oslo.

2021 - Curator at K4 Gallery artist run space, Oslo

2016-2019 Curator and initiator for Oslo City , Bergen Kunsthall - Landmark, Bergen

2018 - Freelance Art Critic for Billedkunst, Kunstkritikk, Subjekt, Kunsthåndverk.

2020-2022 Exhibition producer at BO-Billedkunstnere i Oslo 

2018 - 2021 Gallery assistant, Kunstnerforbundet

2019- 2020 Assistant for Jorunn Hancke Øgstad with Arts council Norway aspirantordning.

2016 - 2019: Curator for After School Special at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall

2016 - 2017: Residency coordinator, Flaggfabrikken residency for contemporary art. 

2012-2016: Gallery Coordinator, VI, VII, Oslo

Boards:

2025 - Steering group, Oslo Art Weekend.

2023 - Boardmember Prosjektskolen, Oslo 

2025 - Boardmember Hausmania, Oslo

2021-2024 - Boardmember, BO-Billedkunstnere i Oslo 

Grants: 

2026: Support from the Norwegian embassy in Mexico City.

2025: Travel Support - The Norwegian Embassy in Madrid.

2025: 1. year BKV grant.

2024: Travel support - The Greek consulate in Athens.

2024: OCA - Office for contemporary art - international traveling support

2024: 1. year BKV grant.

2022: Arts council Norway Project support for newly established artists.

2019-2022, 2024: 1. year BKV grant.

2021: OCA - Office for contemporary art - international traveling support

2020: Fritt Ord project support for Oslo City.

2020: Arts council Norway, project support 

2020-21: Oslo Municipality project support 

2019: Oslo Municipality grant for newly established artists. 

2019: BKH grant for newly established artists. 

2019: Arts council Norway, grant for newly established artists. 

2016-2019: Arts council Norway project support 

2016- 2019: Bergen Municipality and Hordaland fylkeskommune, support

Hedda Grevle Ottesen