Natalie Seifert Eliassen, born in 1993, from Oslo,
lives and works in Oslo
Address:
Dalsveien 27B, 0775 Oslo, Norway
Contact:
NO: +47 934 777 53
natalie.se@hotmail.com
Instagram: @nataliese
Language skills: Norwegian, English
Education
2023 Master of Fine Arts Degree, Time and Space program, Academy of Fine Arts (KuvA), University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts) 2021
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Bergen, Norway, Institute for Contemporary Art ,Bergen Academy of Fine Art, 2016
2018 Exchange spring semester, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts
2016 Art School of Stavanger, preparatory art school, 2014
2014 Karmøy Folkehøgskule, extreme and sea sports outdoors school
2013 Oslo City Waldorf High School, art program, 2009
2009 Risenga Junior High School, culture program, 2006
Upcoming Projects
Spring 2024 Costume design for choreographer Marit Loe Bjørnstad, project: Føniks.
2023-25 Costume design and scenography for choreographer Elise Austad, project: ELDST
Residency
04.09 - 23.09.23 HELD - Experiments in Touch, facilitators: Nina Sernelle and Selwa Sweidan, Praksis, Oslo
Internships:
August- 22.09.22 Tori Wrånes Studio, performance artist, Oslo -Stockholm
26.09 - 09.10.22 Nasreen Aljanabi Larsson, choreographer, Stockholm
Exhibitions
2024
8.5-20.5 Get Wet and Sparkle, (duo) with Kai Kosieradzka (to kosie) Asbestos Art Space Gallery, Helsinki
2023
2.12-17.12 Kaleido interactive video installation in collaboration with Katie Ballinger + costume from performance ,Expanded Cinema Vol2, Galleri Augusta Suomenlinna - Helsinki. Curator: Paola Guzmán
- Fletta-Kunstfest, Trekanten, Oslo. Curated by Susanne Fernløf Arntzen
- Touch Salong, Annatomibygget, Praksis Oslo
- Time and Space Exhibition Vol.1 Kuva/Tila , Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts. Curator: Tanja Kiiveri
- Bring your own Beamer, Free Art Space, Helsinki
2022
06.05-05.06 Sexual Journey Interviews, 3 channeled 4K videos and Brestfall II, sculptural installation with plaster breasts and ceramic breast fountain. Graduation exhibition, Kuvan Kevat 2022, installation about sexuality, videos, fountains, sculptures. Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki building.
10.03- 03.04 Brestfall I sculpture waterfall installation and 4 weeks casting performance, in the curator exhibition : "Tracing Work" in Kuva's main Gallery. Breastfall was curated by Jarkko Partanen. Plaster chest /breast cast and a performance where I cast the chest in a private session of volunteers /people who sign up for it, in a room in the gallery. More and more sculptures will appear after each casting session. Some of the casts will be used for ceramic sculptures that will be put together to a fountain for the graduation exhibition.
2021
1.12-17.12 We are 6 international students trying to survive…, Tasku Gallery, group exhibition, Boob sculpture installation hung with bras, water and textiles. + Interactive artwork written on the window with whiteboard markers.
27.11 Sexuality, Kino Club Helsinki, Curator and artist of the November edition of Kino Club, Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Auditorium K 218, art exhibition, performance and 17 international short films, 3 hours Helsinki, 70 audiences, and 170 streams of the two day online screening programme. My roles as the main organiser: select the topic and the order of the program, Instagram promotion, communication with the artist, school and audiences, conference speaker, online program editor/organisator, also one of the video-artist. Premier of my Sexual Kaleidoscope 17 min video (work in prosess) + YouMixer interactive kaleidoscope installation/tool with Katie Balenger.
08.11-23.11. Sculpture exhibition, Tasku Gallery, group exhibition, Helsinki. Boob Experiments, boob sculptures in plaster and wax + textile, pink shelf
04.09-26.09 No arrow in time, group show, video “Roots” + textile sculptures, Natalie managed the galleries instagram account in September, Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki
27.08-29.08 "Swells" - first solo exhibition, video works, costumes and textile installation, Salongen Gallery, Stavanger, Norway
2020
Canceled: 08.03 – 22.03, “My Body is My Business” video installation, app and performance, FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway group exhibition, Galleri Kit, Metamorf Bienale, Trondheim
2019
17.10- 03.11 “My Body is My Business” video installation, app and performance, FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway, group exhibition, Atelie Nord, Oslo
16.05-2.06 DIVE, Bachelor Graduation show, Bergen Academy of Fine Art, Bergen
27.03. Open Scene, group exhibition, Kvarteret, Bergen
2018
23.03-25.03 Grådig på livet/Lust for life, duo exhibition with Agnete Tangrand, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen. 10-20. april,
June The golden age of Tuesday exchange students exhibition, Tasku Galleria, Helsinki.
2017
06.09. Open Scene, group exhibition, Kvarteret, Bergen
05.08. Munkehagenfestivalen, group exhibition, Munkehagen Stavanger
29.05-02.06 Bokboden skulpturpark 2017, group exhibition, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen
12.05-18.05 Glitterflagg, solo exhibition, one sculpture, Gallery Flaggstang, Bergen
The art of falling apart. BAK1 group exhibition, Bergen Art Academy
Urom, group exhibition, Yoga Festival, Stavanger
Jerada installation, group exhibition, collaboration with Carte Blanche dance company, Studio Bergen
2016
Plot#14, group exhibition, Tou Scene, Stavanger
Multiples and Masses, group exhibition, KHiB Strømgaten,
Bergen New Expressions, group exhibition, Straen Center, Stavanger
Brutalt Taco, graduation exhibition, Tou Scene, Stavanger
2015
Unveiling of Color Empire, Studio 17, Stavanger
Juicy, group exhibition, Art School of Stavanger
2014
1.years at Art school of Stavanger, group exhibition, Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger
Cities for life, group exhibition, collaboration with Amnesty International ,Valbergtårnet, Stavanger
Performances
2024 "Ave Clitoris" , with singer Signe Bødtker, PAN Performance 1, Sagene Kunstsmie, Oslo
2023 "Glitter UFO 4", - Expanded Cinema Vol2, Galleri Augusta Suomenlinna - Helsinki.
2023 "Hekse Performance", headliner, (dancer + dresser with my costumes,) after screening of Sister What Grows Where Land is Sick?
at Høstpunkt festival, Skien
2021 Canceled: "My art is my love 2" Performance at Knipsu Gallery 10th anniversary exhibition opening, Bergen. Rituals and dance by me and Agnete Tangrand and live electronic composing music by Inish Héden Næss. The exhibition is curated by Hilde Jørgensen, postponed from November 2020 and canceled because of corona and moving 2021.
2020
25 -29.11 Canceled due to Covid19 “Indre Klitoris” (Arbeidstittel) costume dance performance and group exhibition “Sammen om” about interactivity. The costume will hang in the gallery during the exhibition period. Galleri Blank Space, Oslo
06.11. “Klitorisdansen”(Clitoral dance) costume dance performance and interview /after talk at Nytfestivalen, House of Literature Oslo
24.10. Costume design, scenography and guide for “Growing Stories” a dance-theater outdoor show by Ine Therese Hogstad and David Alræk, and co-produced by Bergen International Theater, Oktoberdans festival, Muséhagen Bergen
08 - 09 Mask maker for three improvised mask performances with a jazz musician and contemporary dancers, about anti-capitalism and environmental issues, outdoor in different parks in Oslo. Concept and sound by Ferdinand Bergstrøm:
19.08. Full of Eyes, with dancer Oda Olivia Øverbø Lindegård, Torshov park, Oslo
27.08. We coexist; we are in solidarity, with dancer Synne Garvik, Ila monastery garden, Oslo
04.09. Distant Family, with dancer Lone Eivindsdottir, Voldsløkka park, Oslo
2019
28.11 “My art is my love” ritual costume performance with rituals and dance by me and Agnete Tangrand and live electronic composing music by Inish Héden Næss, After school Special, Landmark, Bergen
17. 10 “My Body My Business”, lecture performance, FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway, opening of group exhibition, Atelie Nord, Oslo
17. 08 “Vesen/Beings” , Prøverommet, Milde Botanical garden, Bergen
29. 03 “Glitter UFO 3” costume-dance to own music, Innbilling, Exhibition by Månebedotten & Mørkerommet, Isotop galleri, Bergen
03 “Glitter UFO 2” and “My nature is too much” was filmed for my graduation show, and some of the same material is used in the in the
movie “Sister” by Franciska Eliassen, filmed in Lofoten.
21. 02 “The escort lecture”, After school Special, Landmark, Bergen.
02. 02 “The escort lecture”, Sharing notes (feminist gathering), Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2018
08.11 “Glitter UFO 1” costume-dance to own music, Performance night and Kick-off party, Jinoos Performance Space, Bergen
Commissions
2021
June– July, 4 weeks production of six animal costumes at Bergen dance center, USF Verftet, costume design and sewing for the dance and acrobatic show for children “Fabelaktig” by Ine Therese Hogstad (choreograph), Hanne Vatnøy (composer) and Annie Thorkildsen (circust artist/acrobat) , MoonMade productions, Bergen
2019
August – October 2019, costume design for the dance “Working With Children” by Nicola Gunn, Bergen International Theater, Bergen
March, scenographer, costume design, choreographer and dancer, in the movie “Sister” by Franciska Eliassen, filmed in Lofoten
2017
Flower decoration, graffiti murals in one entrance in a housing cooperative, Bergen
2016
Flower mural, graffiti mural, collaboration with Vibeke Andersen, at Gourmet Consulting and Restaurant, Bryne
Flower decoration, graffiti murals, three entrances in a housing cooperatives, Stavanger
2015
Color Empire, facade mural for Rogaland Art Center (juried competition), Stavanger
Artistic work experience
Kunstakademiet i Bergen, guide in the graduation exhibition and at the academy for new applicants, May 2019
Bergen International Theater /BiT Teatergarasjen, distributor, 2017 - 2019
2016
Rogaland Art Center, gallery guard 2015
Kunsthall Stavanger, gallery guard 2015
Art School of Stavanger, marketing group in 2015
Astrup Fearnley Museum, marketing assistant, in summers, Oslo 2014
2015
Art School in Stavanger, re-painted facade of Micahel Lin Art School in Stavanger, and also worked as the librarian at the schools library of art
Artist assistant
2016
Melanie Bonajo, in conjunction with her exhibition: Does it matter WHO orbits? BlackLED sex ii esterification, Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger
2015
Elin Melberg, in connection with her commission at Tokerud secondary school, Stavanger
Matt Keegan, the Graphic Workshop, in conjunction with his exhibition: Portable Document Format, Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger
Publications /Press/Reviews
Documentation of two mask performances "Beings" and "My Body is My Business" can be found in the photo magazine SJÅ, issue 2 ROM, pages: 3, 41, 68-69, and 72-75. ISSN 2535-8324. Text: Natalie. Editor: Amalie Trones.
Documentation of the clitoris costume in "The Clitoris Dance", can be found in the 1sth edition of The magazine NYT, issue 1, November 2021, connected to the annual NYT- (pleasure) festival about positive sexuality. Pages 64-65.
Other
2023 - 25 PAN - Performance Art Norway, Board member and SoMe/PR responsibility
2022 - 23 PAU - Performance Artist United, Helsinki, in the artboard of making performance events/festivals
2021
2021 - 23 Kino Club , Helsinki, member o f an artist collective curating thematic film/video screening events
Radio Rakel feminist radio Oslo, Journalist course 27. - 28. Mars
2019
Aesthetically responsible in the Art Board in the Student Theater Immaturus, spring semester, Bergen
In the PR and instagram group for DIVE, Bachelor Graduation show, Bergen Academy of Fine Art, Bergen
2018
Costume design and scenography in the Immaturus student theater play “Izanami and Izanagi” Nominated for best costumes, Bergen
2016
Student Council Representative and board member of the Art School in Stavanger student organization StuFo Kir, Stavanger
2010
Young Art Arena Astrup Fearnley. Helped create UKAF, an art club for youth, which has now evolved into Plot, Oslo
2008
The Norwegian Opera, danced in the National Ballet's ballet school for youth, 2005, Oslo