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Mutual support and artist-powered Infrastructures

Monday 24th of November, 17:00-18:30 Oslo Kunstforening (Rådhusgata 19, 0158 Oslo) Capacity: 40 people

Verdensrommet is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a one-week programme hosted by multiple art spaces across Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Tromsø and Stavanger.

The festival will be launched with a conversation between funders of mutual-support art initiatives in Norway and Finland. We will discuss the importance of artists-powered structures, contest institutionalized inclusion, and exchange tools for sustainable practices in the arts.

Thank you Oslo Kunstforening for hosting this event.

Paola Jalili

Paola Jalili (she / her) is an artist-publisher and cultural worker currently based in Helsinki. In 2021, she started Ei Mainoksia, Kiitos!, an independent art publishing initiative that aims to prioritize care and highlight the time and labor behind the act of publishing. She is part of Feminist Culture House, a curatorial and editorial platform that works with and for underrepresented artists, and produces tools for more equitable collaborations within the arts. In her visual arts practice, Paola reflects on the intersections between labor, gender, and the contemporary workplace through the project Office Aesthetics.

Marea Lazzara

Marea Lazzara Vigesaa is an interdisciplinary artist of Afro-Latinx Creole, and Norwegian descent. She has served on the board of Rafiki Art Initiatives since 2017 and co-founded the Diaspora Kollektiv in 2022. Her curatorial projects include exhibitions at Kunsthall Oslo (2023) and the Gamle Munch Museum (2024). In 2025 she appeared in Soil Ground at Fotogalleriet marking the start of her sound-based work, including her ongoing series Vibrational Offerings. She is pursuing an MA in Art in Public Space at KHiO.

Marie Skeie

Marie Skeie has experience as an artist, researcher, curator and producer. She has a master's in art and public space at KHiO and specialization in curatorial practice in public space at KORO. Now she is finishing a PhD at USN, where she works with the research project Colours of Gaza, where she brings her artistic practice of plant dyeing into a kindergarten in Gaza. The interest in collective processes and artistic collaboration has led to her either initiating or participating in projects such as Her og der (2017 - ongoing), The Stitch Project (2012 - ongoing) and LandCrafting (2022 – ongoing).

Itzel Esquivel

Itzel Esquivel (they/them) is an organizer, researcher, and writer. Their practice is focus on performance and embodied practices from an intersectional and cuir/queer lens. They are co-founder of ‘Gestures & Nods. A Platform for Embodied Practices and Performance Art’. Esquivel holds a BA in Fine Arts from The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the Art Academy in the University in Bergen (KMD) Esquivel has a long-standing and international institutional experience that started in 2015 and is currently working for the Publishing and Public Programs at OCA.