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
6.-15.6.25 Separatutstilling, “Sorgen over en båt / Heartbroken by a Boat”, Galleri Sentrum Senter for Samtiden, Oslo
2024–29 Alien, Turnerende Nordisk Gruppeutstilling + Performance, prosjektleder og utstiller 12.-25.5.25 Helsinki. 25.-31.08.25 Beitostølen
2024-27 Costume and mask design with Svalin Sætereng, for choreographer and performance artist Sunniva Eira Sæteren, project: GALDR.
2025-27 Costume design and scenography for choreographer Elise Austad, project: Kvinnen Som Bor Der Tiden Tar Slutt.
Youth art-club member:
2019 - 13 Plot Oslo/Stavanger. 2012 - 10 Ung Kunstarene Astrup Fearnley/UKAF
Dance classes:
2025 - 20 Burlesque, Oslo/Helsinki, 2012 - 96 Ballet + contemporary at Nasjonalballetens ballettskole + Asker dans og ballettskole.
Interview courses:
Radio Rakel feminist radio Oslo, Journalist course, 2021 + Oslove by Memoar - In-depth interview course, 2024.
Leadership course:
“Tools for Collaborations” Uniarts Helsinki 2023 + “Lederskapskurs” ANSA, Internasjonale utenlandske studenter fra Norge + Leader experience from being a captain and tour-leader at a sailboat since 2017 - check out #betzy2 on Instagrm.
Residency
aug. + sept. 2024 R.E.D danseproduksjon residency på Eina,Toten, med forestillingen GALDR av Sunniva Sætereng
09.06 - 14.06.24 SEANSE, Høyskolen i Volda, med scenekunst prosjektet ELDST av Elise Ausdal
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
Solo exhibitions:
June 2025 Sorgen over en båt/ Harbroken by a bote! Immersive theatre + scenography + dance performance. Sentrum Senter for Samtiden, Oslo
2024 Mermaids tale, (duo) with Kai Kosieradzka (to kosie) 8. - 20.5 Asbestos Art Space Gallery, Helsinki
2018+26 Grådig på livet/Lust for life, (duo) with Agnete Tangrand, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen, Grådig på livet 2, exhibition in Vikten, Lofoten, Norway
2021 Swells, Salongen Gallery, Stavanger. First retrospective exhibition.
2017 Glitterflagg, Galleri Flaggstang, Bergen. One sculptural work.
Group Exhibitions:
2024
- Vår utstsilling, Røa, Oslo, curated by Carmella Guzzo
2023
- 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 and Brestfall II . Graduation exhibition, Kuvan Kevat 2022, curated by Harri Moni, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki.
10.03- 03.04 Brestfall I, "Tracing Work", Kuva Tila Gallery, Helsinki. Curated by Jarkko Partanen.
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 and curator: selecting 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 artists. 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 gallery Instagram account in September, Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki
2020
Cancelled: 08.03 – 22.03, “My Body is My Business” video installation, app and performance, FAEN – Female Artistic Experiments Norway group exhibition, Galleri Kit, Metamorf Biennale, 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. Curated by Randiane Sandboe.
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
1st 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. Curated by Hilde Jørgensen, cancelled because of corona.
2020
25 -29.11 Canceled due to COVID-19 “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, outdoors 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, the opening of a 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 gallery, Bergen
03 “Glitter UFO 2” and “My nature is too much” were 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
2024 Costume design and sewing for choreographer Marit Loe Bjørnstad, project: "Føniks".
2021 Costume design and sewing for the kids show “Fabelaktig” by Ine Therese Hogstad (choreographer), Hanne Vatnøy (music composer) and Annie Thorkildsen (circus artist/acrobat), MoonMade productions, Bergen. Shows played at: Bergen, Sandene and Stavanger.
2019
August – October 2019, costume design for the dance “Working With Children” by Nicola Gunn, Bergen International Theater, Bergen
March, scenographer, costume designer, 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 cooperative, Stavanger
2015
Color Empire, facade mural for Rogaland Art Center (juried competition), Stavanger
Artistic work experience
2024
21.10- 22.12.24 Working as a dresser/påkleder 100 % vikariat at Den Norske Opera og Ballett, Oslo
15.-19.09 2024 ART ON FOOD Coast Contemporary conference – 8. Production crew, art-installer / artist-assistant, catering, rigging, runner
2019 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 the facade of Micahel Lin Art School in Stavanger and also worked as the librarian at the school's library of art
Curation:
2024 - 27 Alien, Nordic gallery tour, Curator in Helsinki, Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger, Beitostølen ++
2023 Touch Salong Videos, Oslo Cultural Night, Annatomibygget - Praksis Oslo
2021 Sexuality, Kino Club Helsinki. Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Auditorium K 218 + online screening.
Artist assistant
2024 Costumeassistent, textile and styling, for Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Munchmuseet, Oslo
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 1st edition of The magazine NYT, issue 1, November 2021, connected to the annual NYT- (pleasure) festival about positive sexuality. Pages 64-65.
Grants / Stipend:
2024 Oslo Kommunes Etablerings Stipend for nyutdannede tverfaglig kunstnere.
2023 Kulturådet, Diversestipend for nyutdannede kuntnere.
2019 Fritt Ord, støtte til produksjon av kunstfilm, hvor jeg intervjuet norske sexarbeidere, vist på gruppeutstilllingen FAEN på Atelier Nord, Oslo
In the collection / innkjøpt av:
2022 Kiasma, Finnis National Museum of Contemporary Art, owns two ceramic sculptures from the installation Breastfall 2022
Other /Board member
2023 - 26 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 of an artist collective curating thematic film/video screening events
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 theatre 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