Siri Austeen
(She/her)
Address: Maridalsveien 3, Austeen studio, 0178 Oslo
Floor: 2. etg.
Room number: -
The studio is open Saturday 18 April from 12-17
Siri Austeen (1961) graduated from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts 1985.
She lives and works in Oslo, Sørumsand and Tistedal.
In her artistic practice, Austeen is concerned with the relationship between sound and place and how different listening strategies affect our understanding of reality and ourselves as part of a whole. A recurring theme in her work is the interaction of individual, collective and ecological structures, often taking exploratory field recordings as its starting point. Her works are presented as multichannel sound installations, participant-based projects, text, performance, sound publications, and public commissions.
Austeen is currently involved in AVGANG/DEPONI at Velferden 2023-2026 with the project «To gather a mountain». Through a serie of field recordings, texts and performative interactions she reflects up on the local mining industry, with following challenges conserning mining waist and nature loss due large scale mineral extraction.
Her last sound publication “Tides and Wanderings”, was published by Breton Cassette in 2024. Austeen has presented works nationally and internationally, including at National Museum Oslo, Henie Onstad Art Center, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Galleri Rudolfinum Prague, Kurt-Kurt Berlin and Struer Tracks Denmark. Since the early 80s, she has been involved in various musical projects as part of her artistic practice.
Of public art commissions can be mentioned; Ears of the field l-ll-ll at The Falstad Center museum – memorial and human right center (2009 – 2024), South North Sound Exchange at Sørumsand High-school (2022) and “Civil Repose Signal” at Fredrikstad Fortification (2009)
sound art, installation, sculpture, text, performance, music
Bush agitation part 2, Siri Austeen, performance 2025. MUTANT PROSPECTS Coast Contemporary / Velferden Scene for Samtidskunst, Sokndal. foto CC
Tides and wanderings, Siri Austeen, physical / digital sound publication 2024, Breton Cassette / Bandcamp. photo E. Mowinckel
Siri Austeen - To gather a mountain. Field recordings from Titania (detalj) 2025 sound installation, Coast Contemporary -25 / Velferden Scene for Samtidskunst, Sokndal
sketch element for a sound installation, Siri Austeen, 2025 (detail) photo S.A.
https://bretoncassette.bandcamp.com/album/tides-and-wanderings-by-siri-austeen
In my studio
In my studio it is possible to listen to various works and sketches, both from previous and ongoing works. You can sit down at a listening station with headphones or capture sound in the space from speakers and different sound objects set in motion by transducers. The sonic material ranges from concrete sound, recitation to music.
A selection of my own texts will also be available if you like to read; poetic or essayistic reflections on topics such as navigation, polyphony, extraction, sensing – different conditions for life.
I look forward to meeting you for a pleasant chat or professional exchange.
Some drinks and snacks will be served.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Performance, Breton Matinee at H//O//F, Moss, spring 2026
Exhibition/performance, Avgang/Deponi, Velferden Sokndal, spring 2026
Exhibition/performance, Halden Kunstforening, autumn 2026
CV
CV – Siri Austeen
Lives and works in Oslo, Sørumsand and Tistedal
Education
1981-85 Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts
1984 Accademie de Belle Arte, Bologna, Italy
1992-93 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Solo exhibitions – selection
2024 What is moved moves, Lydgalleriet, Bergen
2022 Acoustic Archipelago Remix from a House archive, Fredrikstad Kunstforening
2018 Kronebreen kalver, Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen
2018 Nå-Da, The Factory Tistedal, Tistedal School/Norwegian Art Associations
2011 Ears of the field, Tenthaus, Oslo
2009 Hum of the Tram, Ultima, Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
2008 Heard Life ll, Trøndelag Center of Contemporary Art, Trondheim
2007 Heard Life l, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær
2004 Songs from Misuk, Galleri F15, Moss
2000 I out of U, Akershus Kunstnersenter, Lillestrøm
1995 U.T., Galleri Nebb X, Oslo
1994 So near – So far, Vilnius Contemporary Art Center, Lithuania
Group exhibitions – selection
2025 Mutant Prospects, Coast Contemporay, Velferden Sokndal
2024 Sweet Eighteen, Gallerie Kurt-Kurt, Berlin
2024 Bjørka, The Falstad Center, Ekne, Trøndelag
2023 The Language of Flowers, Hermetiske Skygger, Oslo
2023 Galerie Holger John, Dresden
2023 Witness, The Falstad Center, Ekne, Trøndelag
2022 I call it art, National Museum, Oslo
2022 Oslo Negativ, Det gamle Bibliotek, Oslo
2022 Moments of Trust, Documenta 15, public workshop, with Tenthaus / Gudskul
2022 Covid ́s Metaporphoses, curated by Lasse-Marc Riek and Bernd Herzogenrat
2021 Mattering Oil, Climata, Praksis/ Museum of Science and technology, Oslo
2019 Reality Based Audio Workshops, Struer Tracks, Denmark
2019 Hvitsten Salong Art festival
2019 Utopian Paradise / Sublim Nature, Bærum Kunsthall
2018 Living Air – Spring Depot, Tenthaus, Oslo
2018 Oslofjord Ecologies, Hybrid Labs Symposium, Aalto University, Helsinki
2018 My Landscape, Bodø Biennale, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær
2017 Future Diamonds in Movements and Rest, Sted søker Kunst, Ski
2017 We are Earth others! Artists’ Open Microphone, Deichman Library, Oslo
2016 Drive-in sound art, Gallery Ruth, Rebildt, Denmark
2016 My Landscape, Stormen Kulturhus, Bodø Art Association, Sortland Kulturhus
2010 See and hear – Sound art. KINOKINO / Sandnes Kunstforening
2010 Bloody Seriousness – Norwegian art in the 80s, Bergen Art Museum, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Vestfold Art Museum, Trondheim Art Museum
2008 Absorption and Resonance, NOTAM / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
2007 Playback, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, with Buckle Bunnies /Søssa Jørgensen
2007 Statens Høstutstilling, Oslo/Trondheim
2007 Land, installation with Bea Otto, Art Cologne and Bahnhof Eller, Germany
2005 The Idea of North, Sound Art, Galleri F15, Moss
2001 Performer, Ridehuset, with Buckle Bunnies/S. Jørgensen, Oslo
2000 Nests of games, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
1998 Fellessentralen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1996 M.U.E. Mobile Exhibition Unit, Trondheim
1995 The Doctor and the Patient in Norwegian Visual Art, Trondheim Art Association
1995 June Exhibition, Artists’ Association, Oslo
1995 Ad-HOK, Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo
1994 So near – So far, Vilnius Contemporary Art Center, Lithuania
1994 P.I.G. Project in Gamlebyen, Oslo
Performance – selection
2025 To gather a mountain, Coast Contemporary / Velferden, Sokndal
2024 Not homeless, but without permanent residence, Lydgalleriet Bergen
2023 The Punch Card Ensemblet,- Greetings from Ringnes, festival
2023 with the Punch Card Ensemblet, The Factory Tistedal,
2022 Not homeless, but without permanent residence, National Museum, Oslo
2020 Observation Room, Ways of Seeing Collective, Ultima festival, Oslo
2019 Reality Based Audio workshop Borealis, Bergen and Struer Tracks festival, DK, with a group of Norwegian sound artists.
2019 Not homeless, but without permanent residence, Bærum Kunsthall
2019 Performance – PAO, Performance Art festival, Oslo
2014 In public Time, Statens Høstutstilling, Kunstnerens Hus, with Tsarsten & TFS,
2010 I found what you left, Dramatikkens Hus, Oslo, with Inghild Karlsen and Cecilie Løveid,
Public art commissions – selection
2024 Ears of the field #3 – The Birch, The Falstad Center, Ekne
2020 Ears of the field #2 – Bird version, The Falstad Center, Ekne
2020 South – North – Sound – Exchange, Sørumsand High School
2015 Improvement of market facilities, Russemarkedet i Kirkens, MKB, KORO
2009 Civil Repose Signal for Fredrikstad Fortress, National Fortifications
2009 Ears of the field #1, The Falstad Center / KORO, Ekne
Sound publications – selection
2024 Tides and Wanderings, Cassette, Breton Cassette
2022 Covid ́s Metaporphoses CD, group, Gruenrecords Germany
2019 Waterways, LP with Tsarsten & the Freudian Slippers
2015 Caravan Serai, LP/CD with Tsarsten & the Freudian Slippers
2010 Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection. Book and CD, Editor Brandon LaBelle, Errant Bodies Press,
2010 MUU for EARS CD, Galleri Muu, Finland / Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm
1991 Tremulators, CD, D ´but Records,
1989 Blitz Hits, Tremulators, double LP compilation
1986 Tutti Contro Maggie, cassette
1985 Memory Pitfall, Tremulators, cassette
Membership
NBK / UKS / ØBK/ Tono / Bono
Austeen received the State’s Guaranteed minimum income for Visual Artists 2011