Gitte Satre
Gitte Sætre b. 1975, is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and writer (NO).
Early life and education
When Gitte Sætre moved back to Norway in 2003 after nine years in Denmark, Mexico and USA, she established an artist-run exhibition space outside the city of Bergen, 'Kunst i Badet', from 2003–2008 (Alvøen). She was the project manager for the mobile gallery 'Luftskipet' on the west coast of Bergen from 2006–2010. Together with Katrine Meisfjord she ran the dialogue art-based Soups & Stories from 2012 to 2017. Sætre is closely affiliated with gallery Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen (NO), where she works as debate editor.[1]. Sætre holds a BA in Fine Art from Universidad de las Americas, Mexico (2000)[2] and an MA in creative curatorial practice from the Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Art (2010), Norway. She has two daughters and is living with the Danish artist Frans Jacobi.[3]
Career
Sætre’s work consists of contemporary and relevant themes such as climate change, neoliberal ideological patterns and cultural radicalism. Her narrative often bears the stamp of the seriousness of today’s social debate, but at the same time it opens up for humour and quiet reflection. Sætre examines roles and positions over generations, related to philosophical questions around forgiveness, guilt and freedom in the close family, in addition to national and international politics.
She held her first solo exhibition in 2003 at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen, (DK), and has continued to show her work consistently around the world.
Sætre began working on a series called "Woman Cleaning" when she visited Palestine / Israel in 2001. Based on penance work, where the artist washes places and objects as a method to cleanse our collective conscience, washing is a way of creating harmony and taking back control over one's surroundings – to the center of major geopolitical issues. A work which made the news was when she washed the street with the Norwegian flag when HH Dalai Lama was visiting Norway in 2014, and when she washed the Magistrate Court when Julian Assange was on trial.
One of Sætre’s most profound works is "The Magic of Seven" 2016, which was shown at Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen (NO).[4] It looks at the potential of finding alternatives to armed wars, an interplay between collective patterns and individual human actions.
In 2020, together with fellow multi-disciplinary artist Frans Jacobi[3] she created and produced the seven-episode story of Are You Ready? – a conceptual mini-series about Climate Futurism 3. It was shown in its total length at Rogaland Kunstsenter[5] as well as at their exhibition "Cosmology" at Small Projects in Tromsø.[6]
Sætre is a leader and spokesperson for the Antiwar Initiative in Norway.[7] She has raised awareness about what it means to be a NATO member state and the lengths governments will go to to accommodate the alliance. She has publicly asked questions about how resistance is necessary to shift our own government’s policies towards peace and against NATO.
Previous projects include Norwegian: Kommisjonen for de gode løsningene - Commission for the good solutions (2022),[8] Woman Cleaning (2014–2019),[9] The Soups & Stories Project (2014–2017),[10] Magic of Seven (2016)[11] and The Green Hijab Movement (2014–2019).
References
- ↑ "Kunsthall 3,14". kunsthall314.
- ↑ "Universidad de las Americas".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Frans Jacobi - Works". Frans Jacobi.
- ↑ "GITTE SÆTRE". kunsthall314.
- ↑ "Filmscreening: "Are You Ready?" av Frans Jacobi & Gitte Sætre". Rogaland Kunstsenter. March 26, 2022.
- ↑ "Cosmology". SP.
- ↑ "Gitte Sætre". antikrigsinitiativet.no.
- ↑ Gripsrud, Silje (28 June 2022). "19.09: Kommisjonen for de gode løsningene".
- ↑ Bleken, Mette (8 February 2022). "(+) Kunstneren gjør fra seg i fjorden: – Jeg fatter ikke at vi kan behandle natur og fjord som vi gjør". Hardanger Folkeblad.
- ↑ "THE SOUPS & STORIES". www.meisfjord-satre.com.
- ↑ "magic of seven". www.gittesatre.com.
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