Isabela Grosseova & Jesper Alvær
Isabela Grosseová was born in Prague (1976), lives and works between Prague and Oslo. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and The Graduate Institute for Visual Arts, HISK in Ghent, Belgium. Among the recent exhibitions she took part in is ACTIVUM, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, 2013; Sarai Reader 09 : The Exhibition, Devi art foundation, New Delhi, 2013; Virtual Economic Zone, The Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, 2013; The Islands of resistance, National Gallery in Prague, 2012; Studio Бања Лука, tranzitdisplay, Prague, 2012; Finally together, Galerie Emila Filly in Ústí nad Labem, 2011; Architect’s belly, Kostka, Meet Factory, Prague, 2011; How to start from the beginning, Futura 2011, The Visitor, HISK, Ghent, 2010; Altruismus, Bonner Kunstverein, 2010; Forms of Transformation, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, 2010.
On most of these exhibitions she worked in tandem with Jesper Alvær. For six years she worked as an architect and member of the AP Atelier of Ing. Arch. Pleskot in Prague and later in Vito Acconci Studio in New York. She is interested in the factors that affects the development of visual culture through transformational changes in the society, for example evident in a publication entitled Representing The Nation, commissioned by the National Gallery in Prague (2008) and later issued as Erratum for the Brno House of Arts (2010).
Jesper Alvær (b. 1973) received his formal training as an artist in Prague, New York and Kitakyushu. Many of his projects may be characterized as long-term investigations that take into account effects of cultural constructions. His projects often materialize in the form of installations, videos or undocumented interpersonal meetings. in 2011 he initiated the project Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday during his residence at W17 in Oslo which continues in the form of a research project at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (khio.no) as a part of the The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (2013-2016).
