Saturday 30th May, 12:00 at Formue, Oslo

Listen to the artist talk here via Kunstpodden

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The conversation will expand on Graff’s new immersive installation at OSL contemporary, a saturated environment in which the body appears as a porous, reactive system shaped by accumulated exposure. Graff will discuss how contact — chemical, historical, and emotional — reconfigures living tissue over time, and how inflammation operates not only as biological process but as structural condition.

The exhibition proposes breach not as rupture, but as the premise through which contemporary life unfolds. The installation will be accompanied by a monologue performed by Samantha Lawson, and an original sound composition by May-Oisín Qviller.

Ane Graff is an Oslo-based artist whose work explores feminist new materialism, focusing on the interconnected relationships between human and non-human matter. She views bodies and environments as part of a dynamic, shared material network. She graduated from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in 2004 and is currently a PhD Research Fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Graff has exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, and the New Museum Triennial, with recent shows in New York and the Netherlands.

Seolhui Lee is Senior Curator and Head of Creative Partnerships at MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Spaces in Denmark. Her work spans major international roles, including co-directing the Korean Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale and leading curatorial positions at institutions in Aarhus, Malmö, Busan, and Seoul. She has participated in prominent international programs and currently serves on advisory and acquisition committees for institutions such as MMCA Korea and Frieze Seoul.