Book launch and signings at Fotobokfestival Oslo

Friday 10 September
18:00-20:00
Youngstorget

Fotobokfestival Oslo invites you to a book release and signing party at Youngstorget Saturday 10 September, including Ungleichgewicht by Karina-Sirkku Kurz, the winning book of the Nordic Dummy Award 2015. For more information about the publications, please visit our websites fotobokfestivaloslo.no.

Launches:
Karina-Sirkku Kurz – “Ungleichgewicht"
Tonje Bøe Birkeland – “The Characters”
Emanuel Cederqvist – “Observatören”
Johan Wilner – “Wind Upon the Face of Waters”
Katja Aglert – “Winter Event–antifreeze”
Madelen Isa Lindgren – “Victoria”
Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir - "Hvassast"

Bios

Karina-Sirkku Kurz (FIN) lives and works in Finland and Germany. Kurz har studied at Aalto University School of Arts Design & Architecture. The central theme in Kurz’s artistic confrontation is the human body; the body as a projection surface of wishes, hopes, and expectations.

Tonje Bøe Birkeland (f. 1985, NO) lives and works in Bergen, Norway. Since 2008, she has given the women a place in nature and at the same time researched the truth value of history through the project THE CHARACTERS.

Emanuel Cederqvist (f. 1983, SE) is educated at Valand Academy, Sverige, og jobber som fotograf og kunstner i Gøteborg. I sitt nye prosjekt, Observatören, har Cederqvist besøkt og fotografert forlatte værstasjoner i villmarken i Sarek, Nord-Sverige.

Johan Wilner (f. 1971, SE) lives and works in Stockholm. Willner works with both documentary and staged photography, and allows the subject or the concept to determine the technique. He also works with text, combined with the visual.

Katja Aglert (SE) lives and works as an artist and lecturer in Sweden. In 2009, Aglert embarked on an artistic residency research trip to the Arctic. This became the starting point for her project Winter Event–antifreeze.

Madelen Isa Lindgren (f.1990, NO) lives and works in Oslo, starting her second year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, with an exchange semester in Berlin. Lindgren works with narrative text in different mediums, and uses research as a base for her works.

Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir (f. 1984, IS) lives and works in Reykjavík. Mysterious landscapes, intriguing portraits and daily situations is rediscovered as Hallgerður focuses her artistic work on the medium of photography. This shines through in her newest book "Hvassast".