High-North Residency: Mai Hofstad Gunnes

HIGH- NORTH is an ambitious three-year artists’ residency initiative linking the cities of Tromsø (Norway), Gateshead/Newcastle (England) and Glasgow (Scotland). The project is coordinated by NABROAD, and supported by Arts Council Norway, and The Royal Norwegian Embassy London. Working with a range of high profile partners, each of whom brings a unique understanding of their local context, HIGH- NORTH represents a rare opportunity to substantially strengthen both cross-border dialogue and trans-national artistic practice.

Norwegian artist Mai Hofstad Gunnes works with film, collage, and installation. In Glasgow Hofstad Gunnes will continue to explore ideas connected to production of subjectivity in relation to how we handle and understand images today. Her core artistic method is developed in close collaboration with actors and performer.

Dublin born artist Declan Clarke will head to Tromsø in 2015. He works predominately in the medium of film, but has worked frequently with other media throughout the last 15 years. His films reflect on everyday experiences and contrast these with grand narratives and explorations of the historical edifices of political power.

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Mai Hofstad Gunnes (born 1977, Lørenskog, Norway) works with film, collage, and installation. Gunnes was educated at Universität der Kunste, Berlin, CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan and Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway, where she received her MFA in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions has been held at Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels and UKS, Oslo. Other exhibitions include Momentum Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway, (2013); In the house of Mr and Mrs X, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany, (2013); Paradoks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, (2013); Oh how time flies, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2011); Le choix du titre est un faux problème, Cneai de Paris, Paris (2011); Goddesses, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2010).