The jury for ArtEx

The jury for ArtEx 2025-2026

The professional committee consists of highly qualified professionals, who together represent a broad spectrum of cultural fields. The committee selects participants for the program based on written applications, submitted artistic material and interviews.

Jury leader Hanne Tømta

Hanne Tømta was trained as a theatre director at St. Petersburg's State Theater Academy (1992–1998). She was the theater director at Rogaland Theater from 2005 to 2008, and at the National Theater from 2009 to 2020. She has directed a number of performances. Children's productions in selection: Heksene, Hålogaland Teater (2000), Karlsson på taket, Oslo Nye Teater (2002), Leopard in the park, Frognerparken (2003), Pippi Langstrømpe, Den Nationale Scene (2004) and Pinocchio, Nationaltheatret (2009). Other productions in selection: 2 sisters, Sogn og Fjordane Theater (2000), Kvinner på randen, Teatergarasjen, Bergen (2001), The woman who married a turkey, Centralteatret (2003). At the National Theater she has staged Anna Karenina (2012), En får bæra som en er – an Ole Ivars musical and Tre søstre (2014), Seks roler syker en author (2015), The Cherry Garden (2017), Måken (2019) and The Wild Duck (2020). Tømta received the Hedda prize 2015 in the category of best director for Tre søstre, and received HR Norway's Leadership Award 2015 for good leadership and organizational renewal. In Talent Norway, she is employed as a professional resource for the performing arts.

Photo: Marte Garmann

 

Alan Lucien Øyen

Graduating in dance from the School of Art in Oslo, Alan works in hybrid forms straddling dance, theater, opera, and film. As the son of a dresser watching theatre religiously from the age of 7, Alan started studying ballet at 17 with Hungarian ballet master and Marinsky graduate Peter Tornev. After performing with Carte Blanche and Amanda Miller's company Pretty Ugly – Alan established winter guests in 2006. winter guests brings together actors, dancers, writers, set designers and technicians, touring theatrical works in English for the international stage. Alan has been artist in residence with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet since 2013 and his works are highly acclaimed in both his home country Norway and abroad. Alan was of the first choreographers invited to create a full-length work for the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal, the first time since the death of their founder Pina Bausch. He has done a range of international projects including a full evening dance creation for The Berlin Staatsballett, and the play – The American Moth – for winter guests, an international co-commission by the National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. In 2019 Alan directed his first opera, Rusalka for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, and recently he did a full evening creation for Paris Opera Ballet, mixing spoken word and dance onto a theatrical set for a cast of 40 dancers, premiering at Palais Garnier in Paris.

Photo: Massimo Leardini

Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

Andrea Berentsen Ottmar is a producer and partner at Eye Eye Pictures, established in 2022 together with producer Dyveke Bjørkly Graver. Her first feature film was The World's Worst Person (2021) by Joachim Trier. The film had its world premiere in Cannes, where lead actress Renate Reinsve won the award for Best Female Actress. The film also received two Oscar nominations and two BAFTA nominations, and has become Norway's best-visited film internationally of all time. In 2022 and 2024 Andrea was back in Cannes in Un Certain Regard with Syk Pike by Kristoffer Borgli and Armand by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel respectively. The latter won Norway's first Camera d'Or. Ottmar has previously also run the company Frokost film, where she has produced over 30 short films, music videos and documentaries. She has also been a producer at Ape&Bjørn, account director at VICE Norway and producer at Oslo Pictures.

Photo: Eye Eye Pictures

 

 

Ane Dahl Torp

Ane Dahl Torp graduated from Statens Teaterhøyskole in 1999. After graduating, she got a job at Teatret Vårt in Molde, where she played the lead role in Hedda Gabler. From 2002 she has been associated with Det Norske Teatret. There, she has had major roles such as Másja in Måken, Maggie in Katt på heit blektak, Shen Te/Shui Ta in Det gode mansen från Sezuan, the main role in Mother Courage and her children, Ragnfrid in Kristin Lavransdotter and Akab in Moby Dick. She has also made a version of Haugtussa (2013) together with her musician husband Sjur Miljeteig. Ane won the Hedda prize in 2012 for the role of Shen Te/Shui Ta, and again in 2016 for Solaris corrected. She has participated in a number of TV productions, such as the NRK series Black money, white lies, for which she received the Amanda prize and the People's Film Award in 2004, Codename Hunter (Gullruten 2007) and Heimebane (Gullruten 2018), and the TV2/Viasat series Occupied. On the screen, she has had major roles in films such as Gymnaslærer Pedersen (Amanda Award for Best Female Lead 2006), 1001 Gram, Lønsj (Amanda Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008), Bølgen, Skjelvet, Charter (Guldbaggen 2021) and Storm. In 2006, she was the Norwegian "shooting star" at the Berlin Film Festival and she has won both the Liv Ullmans and Wenche Foss awards.

Photo: Renate Torseth

 

Harpreet Bansal

Harpreet Bansal (1980) is a Norwegian-Indian violinist and composer. The combination of Indian music and family background and a Norwegian upbringing has led to a very personal approach to the Indian musical heritage, and Harpreet is described as a unique and radical interpreter of Indian raga. She has been a soloist with her own works with e.g. The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Broadcasting Orchestra and the Trondheim Soloists. She plays concerts in Norway, Europe and Asia as a soloist and with the Harpreet Bansal Band, and she is a member of Combonations, Tundra Electro, Simin Tander New Quartet and JAR Ensemble. Harpreet's first solo album Samaya (2018) received rave reviews in Norway and abroad, and was nominated for Spellemann in the Open class category. In 2021, she was awarded the prestigious NOPA prize in the Open class for the critically acclaimed album Movements, where Svante Henryson features as a guest artist. Her latest album Parvat, in which she is a soloist with the Kringkastingsorkesteret, was released in February 2022 to fantastic reviews.

Photo: Anna-Julia Granberg

 

Hisham Zaman

Hisham Zaman is an award-winning director, screenwriter and producer best known for his films that explore themes related to migration, identity and belonging. Educated at the Norwegian Film School, he had his international breakthrough with the short film BAWKE (2005), which was named the best Norwegian short film of the decade by Rushprint magazine in 2010. His feature films FØR SNØFALL (2013) and LETTER TO THE KING (2014) both won the Dragon Award for best Nordic film at the film festival in Gothenburg. In 2015, Zaman founded the production company Snowfall Cinema. His third feature film, A HAPPY DAY, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023. Zaman has also taught at The Norwegian Film School, where he served as head of the Department of Film Directing from 2017-2019. He also established the workshop program "Hver Sin Cinema" which gives young filmmakers from various backgrounds practical experience in directing and visual storytelling.

Photo: Lukasz Zamaro

Heiki Riipinen

Heiki Riipinen (1990) has a BA in acting from the Academy of Performing Arts (2015) and an MA in directing from the Danish Academy of Performing Arts (2023). Heiki works with theater as an extended practice, alternating between working as a director, actor, playwright, dramaturg, costume designer, drag artist and curator. His performances utilize the theater as a meeting place, where challenges related to co-existence are the central drama, and togetherness the aesthetic experience. Through fiction and speculation, he asks questions about power, norms, gender, sexuality, social identity and groupthink. His goal is to create existential-experimental-entertainment performances. His latest work, "HEDDA", premiered in March at the Berliner Ensemble, where he has been house director through their program "WORX". The performance examines Henrik Ibsen's classic as a scene of identity politics in queer aesthetics. His previous works have been shown on stages such as Münchner Kammerspiele (DE), Thalia Theater (DE) and Oslo Nye Teater (NO), and at festivals such as Copenhagen Stage (DK), Donaufestival (AT) and GogolFest (UKR). As a member of the collective by Proxy, he has been artistic director of Theater Momentum (DK) and resident artist at Theater Freiburg (DE). Their production "Stop Being Poor" won the jury prize at Körber Studio Junge Regie in 2015. Heiki also collaborates with other collectives such as Building Conversation (HOL), Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Friends (DE) and CUNTS collective (DK/BRA). For several years he has collaborated with Grenland Friteater (NO), where he has participated in projects such as "Stedsans" (2010, 2018, 2021), and played the lead role in performances such as "KAOS" (2007) and "Verdas Søtaste Turist" ( 2017). In addition to his artistic work, Heiki holds workshops and lectures at institutions such as the Academy of Performing Arts, KHiO, Oslo Met, The Norwegian Film School, The Danish School of Performing Arts and Bø University College. Heiki is part of the artistic council for the Porsgrunn International Theater Festival and is also a board member of Performing Arts Hub Norway.

Photo: Agnete Brun

 

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Bio Kiyoshi Yamamoto (b. 1982) lives and works in Bergen, and was educated at KHiB/Bergen Art Academy, Escola de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, and Central Saint Martins in London. Yamamoto works with textiles, sculpture and performance, and explores issues related to identity, belonging, existence and politics. Solo exhibitions include Kunstnerforbundet, TSSK - Trøndelag centre for contemporary art, Trafo Kunsthall, Rohsska Museet, KUBE Museum in Ålesund and Hå Gamle Prestegård. His work is in the collections of Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Kode Kunstmuseum, the Norwegian embassy in Brasilia, the City of Oslo and the City of Bergen. Yamamoto is a lecturer in Colour at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design – KMD at the University of Bergen, and a guest teacher at the Art Academy in Oslo/KhiO, the Academy of Arts in Tromsø and Sámi allaskuvla/ The Sámi University of Applied Science in Kautokeino. 

Photo: Maya Økland

 

Martin Sjølie

Martin Sjølie is a Norwegian songwriter and music producer. He graduated from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in 2002, after which he cut his teeth as an assistant to several producers in the UK and Norway. He has built a career simultaneously in the UK and Norway throughout his working life. This first led to his breakthrough with Maria Mena, winning a Norwegian Grammy in 2008, and spawning a long working relationship. Over the next decade, he wrote and produced songs for, among others, Gabrielle, Dotan, Bertine Zetlitz and Ina Wroldsen. In 2017, he co-wrote Sigrid’s breakout hit Don’t Kill My Vibe, and would go on to co-write and produce the lion’s share of her debut album, for which he won the Norwegian Grammy for Producer of the Year in 2019. He has also had songs released by Korean superstars BTS, Aurora, Kylie Minogue and Years & Years. He currently lives in Oslo and works in London.  

Photo: Ragnar Sjølie

Milena Høgsberg

Milena Hoegsberg is a curator based in Copenhagen and presently the Director of the Wanås Foundation in Southern Sweden, where she curated exhibitions such as Carola Grahn: Trädgränsen (co-curated with Malin Gustavsson); Young-jun Tak: Have a Lovely Sunday and most recently the group exhibition The Ocean in the Forest, with new commissions by Youmna Chlala, Evan Ifekoya, Lavanya Mani, and Eduardo Navarro. She also envisioned the Wanås Art & Words festival, a sensorial exploration of literature and art exploring more-than-human worlds and kinships. The first edition Mycocosm was dedicated to mycelium & fungi and the second edition Jellyfish and Deep Dreams will explore the oceanic. Hoegsberg is also the editor of monographic Publications Such as Mette Winckelmann: flags of Freedom (Strandberg Publishing); Lea Porsager: [?!] (Mousse), and Hilma at klint: Artist Researcher Medium (Hatje Cantz). She has mentored artists through The Association of Visual Artists (BKF), Art Hub Copenhagen and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. 

Photo: Christian Bang

Mona Berntsen

Mona Berntsen is a renowned Norwegian dancer, choreographer, director and Creative Director with over 16 years of experience as a professional dance performer. She began her career in Norway, where she trained from a young age in a number of dance genres, which gave her a versatile and solid foundation in dance. At 18, she moved to Los Angeles after being signed to a professional contract. Mona had her big breakthrough when she won "So You Think You Can Dance Scandinavia" in 2008, and since then she has established herself as a leading figure on the international scene. During her time in the states, she has toured the world with Justin Bieber for 9 years, as well as working closely with famous artists such as Alicia Keys, Madonna, Coldplay and Justin Timberlake. She has performed on some of the biggest stages in the world, including the Super Bowl, Grammy Awards, VMAs, AMAs, and Billboard Awards. In addition, she has had an important role as creative director in productions such as MGP and Eurovision. Mona has also been a judge in Norske Talenter, where she has contributed to assessing talent, and she has recently been program manager for Eurovision Young Musicians.

Photo: Jarran Flokkmann

 

The jury for ArtEx 2023-2024

Alan Lucien Øyen

Graduating in dance from the School of Art in Oslo, Alan works in hybrid forms straddling dance, theater, opera, and film. As the son of a dresser watching theatre religiously from the age of 7, Alan started studying ballet at 17 with Hungarian ballet master and Marinsky graduate Peter Tornev. After performing with Carte Blanche and Amanda Miller's company Pretty Ugly – Alan established winter guests in 2006. winter guests brings together actors, dancers, writers, set designers and technicians, touring theatrical works in English for the international stage. Alan has been artist in residence with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet since 2013 and his works are highly acclaimed in both his home country Norway and abroad. Alan was of the first choreographers invited to create a full-length work for the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal, the first time since the death of their founder Pina Bausch. He has done a range of international projects including a full evening dance creation for The Berlin Staatsballett, and the play – The American Moth – for winter guests, an international co-commission by the National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. In 2019 Alan directed his first opera, Rusalka for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, and recently he did a full evening creation for Paris Opera Ballet, mixing spoken word and dance onto a theatrical set for a cast of 40 dancers, premiering at Palais Garnier in Paris.

Photo: Massimo Leardini

 

Asta Busingye Lydersen

Asta Busingye Lydersen is a member of the award-winning cultural group Queendom and has a background as a performing artist at Trøndelag Theatre, Hålogaland Theatre, Riksteatret and Oslo Nye Teater. As a founder and performer in Queendom, she has created a number of independent productions - from the comedy show "Integrert som faen" which was Queendom's breakthrough in 2005, to the record release "MamaLove" in 2019, as well as a number of tours and performances at cultural centers and festivals in Norway, Poland and Zimbabwe. Queendom's latest production is the autobiographical play "Farvann" together with singer/actor Numa Edema. The performance explores Norwegian-African identity, upbringing and paternal relationships, and is directed by Mari Kjeldstadli from the National Theatre of Norway. Alongside her artistic production, Asta has held a number of positions, including as deputy chairman of the Arts Council Norway, jury member of Telenor's Culture Prize, and board member of the National Theatre. Asta currently works as a freelance actor, cultural producer and presenter through her own company.

Photo: Ivana Klavis

Belinda Braza

Belinda Braza is employed as a choreographer by Det Norske Teatret, a public theatre producing plays in neo-Norwegian only.  She is Artistic Director of Det Norske Teatret i Groruddalen, a district in the east of Oslo, which is committed to theatre for children and young people. She is Programme Manager for Bikubekveld, which is also affiliated with Det Norske Teatret. She has previously choreographed a number of theatre performances and has worked with TV and artists. In 2022 she was artistic director on the artist Highasakite’s tour. Through B-Braza Productions she has produced, directed and choreographed four full evening performances: Fear Infection (2010), I am us (2012), Legacy (2013), and Survival (2017). All her productions have toured both nationally and internationally. Braza was part of Kulturrådets fagutvalg for dans (the Norwegian Cultural Council’s Professional Committee for Dance) (2020-2022) and (currently) of kunstnerisk råd for Scenekunstbruket (the Artistic Council for the Use of Scenic Art).

Photo: Erika Hebbert

Hanne Tømta

Hanne Tømta is a renowned theatre director educated at St. Petersburg's State Theater Academy (1992–1998). She was the Theatre Manager at Rogaland Theater from 2005 to 2008, and at the National Theater from 2009 to 2020. She has directed a number of plays; Children's productions in selection: Heksene, Hålogaland Teater (2000), Karlsson på taket, Oslo Nye Teater (2002), Leopard in the park, Frognerparken (2003), Pippi Langstrømpe, Den Nationale Scene (2004) and Pinocchio, Nationaltheatret (2009). Other productions in selection: 2 sisters, Sogn og Fjordane Theater (2000), Kvinner på randen, Teatergarasjen, Bergen (2001), The woman who married a turkey, Centralteatret (2003). At the National Theater she has staged Anna Karenina (2012), En får bæra som en er – an Ole Ivars musical and Tre søstre (2014), Seks roller søker en forfatter (2015), The Cherry Garden (2017), Måken (2019) and The Wild Duck (2020). Tømta received the Hedda award in 2015, in the category of best director for Tre søstre, and received HR Norway's Leadership Award 2015 for good leadership and organizational renewal. She is currently employed by Talent Norge as a professional resource in performing arts.

Photo: Marte Garmann

 

Iram Haq

Iram Haq is a Norwegian-Pakistani director, actor and filmmaker. She has drawn people’s attention with her short films and longer feature films. She has won a number of prizes and awards and was educated as an art director at Westerdals reklameskole, a school focusing on advertising disciplines. Haq started directing in 2004 with «Trofast» (‘Faithful’), a film. In 2009 she scripted and directed «Skylappjenta» (‘The Girl with Blinkers’), which was selected for the Sundance Film Festival. Her breakthrough came in 2013 with «Jeg er din/I am yours», for which she has won several awards. Her latest feature film "Hva vil folk si/what will people say" won the People’s critics award in 2018. 

Photo: Marie Sjøvold

Jacob Fabricius

Jacob Fabricius is the director of Art Hub Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021). Previously Fabricius hs been a director at Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (2008-12) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013-14) and artistic director at Kunsthal Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark (2016-2021), where he has curated numerous international exhibitions. He has worked several biennales – among them: Words at an Exhibition 《열 장의 이야기와 다섯 편의 시》 An exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Busan Biennalen 2020, Busan, South Korea, Leisure, Discipline and Punishment, 6th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (Artistic director, 2013), Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, France (co-curator, 2007), Socle du Monde biennale, Herning, Denmark (Artistic director, 2004), Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic (co-curator, 2003) and Momentum, Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway (co-curator, 2000). Fabricius has utilized many projects in public spaces and is the founder of the publishing project Pork Salad Press and the newspaper Old News. Most recently he curated Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Act 1-4 at Art Sonje Center (Seoul) and Kunsthal Aarhus in 2022/23. 

Photo: Private

Jørn Pedersen

Jørn Pedersen has worked for more than 30 years as a producer of classical music and has been behind several hundred record productions with the very best instrumentalists, singers and orchestras at home and abroad. He runs his own production company and over the years he has also been employed at Abbey Road Studios in London as orchestra leader at Den Norske Opera & Ballett as head of the Crescendo Mentorprogram, and now as a professional classical music consultant at Talent Norge. Jørn was educated as a performing musician and educator at Norges Musikkhøgskole (the Norwegian University College of Music) and also studied for several years at the University of Oslo. His commitment to talent development has run like a red thread through his career. In London he produced young international stars’ first record recordings in the record series EMI Debut. In the collaboration between DNO&B and Olympiatoppen he joined in researching and developing an interdisciplinary performance culture in the meeting point between sport and music at the highest level. As leader of the talent programme Crescendo Mentorprogram he helped inspire young musicians to strive to reach the top and build a sustainable soloist career. He is employed by Talent Norge as a professional resource in classical music. He will have a keen eye for developing talent at all levels and will have an interdisciplinary look at other genres and forms of art.

Photo: Amanda Pedersen Giske

Margreth Olin

Margreth Olin (1970) is a Norwegian director and producer with a big cinema audience. She has made 13 films, which have been lauded by critics, and has participated in a number of festivals abroad and has won several Norwegian and international prizes. Margreth has managed to catalyze important dialogues on the subjects her films shed light on. She personally has received 26 honorary prizes for her commitment and focus on human rights.  Her filmography includes ‘Dei mjuke hendene’ (‘The soft hands’)(Yamagata 1999), ‘Kroppen Min’ (‘My body’) (Tribeca 2002), EFA-nominated ‘Ungdommens Råskap (‘Young People’s Savagery’) (2004), Engelen (‘The Angel’) (TIFF 2010), De Andre (‘The others’) (IDFA 2012), Cathedrals of Culture, Operahuset i Oslo (the Opera House in Oslo)(Berlinale 2013). Olin was one of six directors for the Wim Wenders-series ‘Cathedrals of Culture’, the others including Wim Wenders and Robert Redford. Her film ‘Mannen fra Snåsa’ (‘The Man from Snåsa’, Norway) (2016) is the second most viewed documentary at Norwegian cinemas. Her previous film ‘Selvportrett’ (A self-portrait’) (DOC NYC 2020), which she co-directed with Espen Wallin & Katja Høgset, won seven prizes internationally. Olin was one of the recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award 2022. Together with Joachim Trier, Deeyah Khan and Nils Gaup, Olin was awarded Anders Jahres Kulturpris in September 2022, Norway’s foremost honorary award. Her new full evening documentary, ‘Fedrelandet’ (‘(My) Home Country’), will premiere in 2023. 

Photo: Agnete Brun

 

Marianna Shirinyan

Armenian-born Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and in sought after pianists in Europe today. Her vibrant and virtuous musicianship puts her in demand, both as soloist and as a chamber musician.  She has received Danish Broadcasting Corporation´s prestigious P2 award for her contribution to Danish music life and the critics prize of the association of Danish critics. In 2022 she won the Carl and Anne Marie Nielsen honorary award. She is a frequent guest at a string of international music festivals, among them the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bodensee Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, MDR Summer Festival, Festspillene in Bergen. Marianna has garnered a reputation as a leading pianist of her generation through solo appearences with orchestras such as the Bavarian radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, Potsdammer Kammerakademie, Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, among others. She has enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonello Manacorda, Jun Märkl, Daniel Raiskin, Lan Shui, Thomas Søndergård, Krysztof Urbanski and Joshua Weilerstein.

Photo: Nikolaj Lund

Raül Refree

Raül Refree is one of the most recognized Spanish producers of the last decade. As a composer and producer, he has worked with Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, the singer Silvia Pérez Cruz, and together with the artist Lina, he has released the fados of the legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues to the praise of critics worldwide. However, he is best known for Los Angeles, the joint album with Rosalia, which marked the debut of the pop and flamenco icon. Through his work with innovative artists such as Rosalía and El Niño de Elche, he is at the forefront of the so-called "new flamenco" movement. His talent is praised by stars such as Ricky Martin while he himself continues to invest in new talents. Raül is an award-winning composer of film music and a well-known songwriter and musician who has released a total of eleven albums under his most personal project, Refree. His discography is full of projects free of genres as he only understands music as an exercise in creation and investigation in freedom.

Photo: Alex Rademakers

Tatiana Pereira

Tatiana is known as the artist Miss Tati. She is an artist, a songwriter, a DJ and a curator. Her current projects are Miss Tati’s Angola Søtti and Miss Tati’s Eyemba, the latter being a concert performance further developed in 2021 with Den Nasjonale Scene, the main theatre in Bergen. It is about identity, language and belonging. She won the Role Model Award at the by:Larm Festival in 2015 and released her first album in 2017. She has toured all over Norway and is known for her energetic live shows. Her work has been commissioned by the Bergen International Literature Festival and the Bajazz Festival. She has been a guest artist at Fargespill (Play of Colours) Bergen in 2018 and at Fargespill Oslo in 2019. She has collaborated with artists like Sandra Kolstad, Bendik Baksaas and the South African/Norwegian artist Nosizwe on various albums. She is DJ and curator for the HotHotHot (House Of Telle) Festival via Klubb Diaspora, which is her concept.

Photo: Skjalg Ekeland

 

 

Tominga Hope O´Donnell

Dr Tominga O’Donnell is first conservator of contemporary art at MUNCH and has been curator for  Munchmuseet i bevegelse (The Munch Museum in motion) (2016–2019), a programme with temporary art projects in various rooms in the district of Gamle Oslo (Old Oslo) with a gay curatorial approach, which was awarded Kunstkritikerprisen (the Art Critic Prize). At the new museum, O’Donnell is the curator of solo exhibitions with Sandra Mujinga, Camille Henrot and Piya Wanthiang, and at the MUNCH Triennale – Maskinen er oss (The machine is us). O’Donnell was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Oslo and was educated as a curator at the Royal College of Art in London. She earned a Doctorate Degree (phD) from Arkitekthøyskolen (the University College of Architecture) in Oslo on the subject of exhibitions as spatial structures.

Photo: Ove Kvavik / Munchmuseet

The jury for ArtEx 2021-2022

 

 

Catharina Bøhler

Catharina Bøhler is co-founder, general manager and game designer at Sarepta Studio, which is based in Hamar. She is best known for her work as lead game designer and co-writer for the BAFTA-winning game "My Child Lebensborn". For this work, she was praised, among other things, with a place in the "Hall of Fame" of the organization "Women in Games", an honorary title given to individuals who have distinguished themselves in the industry. The game was also the spearhead of the renowned production company Teknopilot. 
Bøhler is chairman of Hamar Game Collective, and has received "Young entrepreneur of the year" in 2019 (Hedermark county municipality)

Iram Haq

Iram Haq is a Norwegian-Pakistani director, actor and filmmaker. She has made a name for herself with both short films and longer feature films, has won a number of awards and honors, and is trained as an art director from Westerdal's advertising school. Haq started directing in 2004 with the film "Trofast". In 2009, she wrote and directed the film "Skylappjenta", which, among other things, was selected for the Sundance Film Festival. Her breakthrough came in 2013 with the film "Jeg er din / I am yours", for which she has received several awards. Her latest feature film "Hva vil folk si/what will people say" won, among other things, the People's critics award in 2018.

Photo: Julia Granberg

Jarle Aambø

Jarle Aambø is head of the Olympiatopps Performance Cluster, and former head of top sports in Norway. The performance cluster is a project collaboration between Olympiatoppen, strong business environments and representatives from research, who work together to influence performance thinking in Norwegian society. 
Previously, Jarle Aambø has an intermediate degree in health education and sports biology from the Norwegian Sports Academy, and in the period 1985–1994 he was an alpine coach and national team manager in the Norwegian Skiing Association. In the period 1993–2004, he had a number of different roles at the Olympiatoppen, and was head of top sports in the Norwegian Sports Confederation (NIF) in 2004–2013.

Jasper Parrott

HarrisonParrott was founded in 1969 by Jasper Parrott and Terry Harrison. The company is one of the world's largest management companies in classical music. HarrisonParrott works with some of the world's foremost composers, singers, ensembles, instrumentalists and conductors, but also speakers and curators. 
They have offices in London, Munich and Paris. In 2019, the HarrisonParrott Foundation was founded. The purpose of the foundation is to work for diversity and inclusion in the sector.

 

Maria Mediaas Jørstad

Maria Mediaas Jørstad was the Director of Talent Norway from 2015 to until 2023. She came from the position of chief producer at the National Theatre. She was employed at the National Theatre throughout the years 2001-2015, with the exception of 2007-2010, when she was a producer for MAMMA MIA! which was performed at Folketeatret.

Moema Parrott

Moema Parrott is the founder and CEO of the British company "PolyArts", a leading management agency, with a number of artists and projects within music, film, gaming, visual art and new classical music. 
Moema has a long track record in talent development and marketing, with 19 years of experience, and she is also president of HarrisonParrott - France. Moema Parrott and Polyarts work with artists such as Quincy Jones, Stewart Copeland, Eimear Noone and Avishai Cohen and several others.

 

Per-Olav Sørensen

Per-Olav Sørensen is a director, screenwriter, playwright and producer. He is the founder of the artist collective The Global Ensemble, and creative director of the NonStop International Theater Festival. His work as a series creator for television has earned his productions the Prix Europa, Rose d'Or (Golden Rose), Prix Italia, Seoul International Drama Award, FIPA Awards, Golden Nymph Awards, Kristallen and several Gullruten awards. His productions have also been nominated or won the Humor prize, the Amanda prize and the Hedda prize. "TanGhost", "Tater!", "Les Miserables", "Hedda Gabler" "Dracula", "Deception", or "Alice in Wonderland".

 

Peter Tornquist

Peter Tornquist has been the headmaster at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has a background in creative arts with an emphasis on composition, electronic music, improvisation and music theory. His work has been central to the development of artistic research as a field in Norway. Peter is also active in political and organizational issues through positions in a number of musical life organisations, such as Ny Musikk, Norwegian Composer Association and TONO. .

 

The jury for ArtEx 2017-2020

Even Lynne

Even Lynne is employed as a senior lecturer in theater at the University of Agder, and is a former dean at the Theater Academy, KHiO. With a background as an internationally certified coach from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), Lynne has developed mental training for performing artists as one of her special areas of expertise. Based on this work, in 2015 he prepared the idea and concept for the ArtEx programme. Even Lynne is educated at the Statens teaterhøgskole and has a professional background as an actor at, among others, the National Theater, Den Nationale Scene i Bergen and Trøndelag Teater. He is active as a lecturer and non-fiction author and in 2016 was employed as head of department at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Agder.

Inge-Lise Langfeldt

Inger-Lise Langfeldt is a professor at KHiO. She is educated at the directing department, Statens teaterhøgskole and has a cand. mag. in Art History from the University of Oslo. He has been permanent director at the Nationaltheatret 2005–2009, manager of the Torshovteatret 2007–2009 and has had directing assignments at the largest theaters in Aarhus, Florence, Stockholm and Copenhagen.

 

Jarle Aambø

Jarle Aambø has intermediate subjects in health education and sports biology at the Norwegian Sports Academy. In the period 1985–1994, he was alpine coach and national team manager in the Norwegian Skiing Association. In the period 1993–2004, he had a number of different roles at the Olympiatoppen, and was head of top sports in the Norwegian Sports Confederation (NIF) in 2004–2013. Since then, he has mainly spent his time at the Olympiatoppen performance cluster.

Runar Hodne

Runar Honda is a professor at KHiO. He is educated at the directing department, Statens teaterhøgskole and has a cand. mag. in Art History from the University of Oslo. He has been permanent director at the Nationaltheatret 2005–2009, manager of the Torshovteatret 2007–2009 and has had directing assignments at the largest theaters in Aarhus, Florence, Stockholm and Copenhagen.

 

Tine Thing Helseth

Tine Thing Helseth is one of the leading musicians of her generation, with the whole world as his workplace. She has played with some of the world's leading orchestras and conductors, on the world's biggest stages and festivals. In addition to her solo activities, she leads two ensembles, tenThing brass ensemble and Tine Thing Helseth Quintet. Tine is also a permanent presenter at NRK Klassisk and professor of trumpet at the Norwegian School of Music.

Yaniv Cohen

Yang Cohen is a dancer, choreographer and photographer and employed as associate professor in contemporary dance at KHiO. As a dancer, Cohen has worked with a number of artists, he has worked with Carte Blanche and danced in the National Ballet. As a photographer, he has exhibited his work in a number of galleries and created short films and promos for dance performances. Since 2009, Yaniv has choreographed his own works, which have been performed in Norway, Germany and Israel.

Wolfgang Plagge

Wolfgang Plagge is a pianist and composer who had a sensational piano debut already as a twelve-year-old in 1972. Has won several national and international awards. Sought-after chamber musician and soloist. Extensive output as a composer ranging from liturgical music to symphonic works, chamber music and solo piano music. Artistic director of the Talent School at Bærum municipal cultural school for 23 years. In 2009 appointed as a professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at the University College in Nord-Trøndelag.