Annike Flo

(She/her)
Address: Hausmania, Hausmanns gate 34, 0182 Oslo
Floor: 4 etg
Room number: 1408 B
The studio is open Saturday 18 April from 12-17

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Annike Flo’s practice is interdisciplinary, merging a focus on living beings and materials with video, photography and writing. Drawing from scenography, science, and occult perspectives, Flo explores how humans co-manipulate matter, time, and space with other entities, living or otherwise. Emerging through fieldwork, site-specific responses, speculation, and interdisciplinary collaboration her work dwell in the encounters between species, systems, and the unseen.
Flo is currently an artist in residence with Anthropogenic Soils at the University of Oslo (2023–2028) producing the work Jærtegn. Together with Lexie Owen she runs the long-term artistic research project Afterlives dealing with the materiality of death and mourning.

installation, bioart, textile, scenography, costume

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A mass of white, translucent nematodes, human sized and made in beeswax covered silk, lies on a large mound of black sand. The sand is a mining waste material made from separating iron from rock. In the background buildings and cranes from the mine are visible.

Jærtegn, Annike Flo, performativ installation, size varies, 2025, different locations outdoors in Sør-Varanger and at Sør-Varanger library and biological station, detail, Kjell Gunnar Monsen.

Your Everyday Exuberance, Annike Flo, secondhand textiles/ agar/ microorganisms, 2850 x 500 mm, 2021, Galleri Format, installation and detail, Photo Annike Flo and Thomas Tveter

Underflate, Annike Flo in collaboration with KINICO architects, 1200 x 500 mm, Codskeletons on a base of pine installed underwater in the Oslofjord, SALT. Photo: Annike Flo and Nicolai Larasse

In a white gallery a world of organic shapes made from silk, leather, fur and hair is spilling out through a doorframe. A single piece of white silk is hanging from the ceiling, attempting to hide what is spilling out through the doorframe.

Pure Filth, Annike Flo, secondhand silk, leather and fur with microbiome from ferret, cow, silkworms and the artist, the artists own blood and hair, 2023,Gallery 69 Oslo, installation view, Foto:Annike Flo

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Education
2007-2010 BA, Costume for performance, London college of Fashion, University of the Arts London
2017-2018 MA, Scenography, Norwegian Theatre Academy

Solo exhibitions
2028 Necromantic Kitchen, Curated by Philip Levine, Smallest Gallery in Soho, London, UK
2027 Title TBC, Curated by Tatiana Lozano, Billedhoggerforeningen, Oslo, NO
2025 Jærtegn, curated by Hilde Methi, Multiple outside locations in Sør-Varanger, Svanhovd biological station and Kirkenes Library, Norway
2023 Pure Filth, curated by Philip Levine, Smallest Gallery in Soho, London
2023 Pure Filth workshop, curated by Viktor Pedersen, Wild Seeds, Podium, Oslo
2023 Pure Filth, curated by the gallery 69 board, Galleri 69, Oslo
2022 Underflate, curated by Una Gjerde, SALT, Oslo

Group exhibitions
2027 Anthropogenic Soils, Curated by Nora Våge, Norwegian BioArt Arena,NOBA, Ås, NO
2027 Necromantic Kitchen, collaboration with Lexie Owen, Curated by Nora Våge, Norwegian BioArt Arena,NOBA, Ås, NO
2025 Necromantic Kitchen, collaboration with Lexie Owen, curated by Slekke, Tenthaus, Oslo, NO
2024 Sluts are Chimera are Sluts are Chimera, Curated by Aurora Aven, Evryskin, Blå, Oslo, NO
2023 Metabolic Union, Art+Food+Next generation, Curated by Zane Cerpina, RUCKA, Latvia
2022 States of Chimera, Ecophilia, curated by Zane Cerpina, Trøndelag Senter for samtidskunst, NO
2022 Neurospora and Rhizopus, Riso i Norge, curated by Jessica Williams, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, JP
2021 Your everyday Exuberance, Are We Human, curated by Ida Bringedal & Ida Olesdatter Barland, Galleri Format, Oslo, NOI
2020 s h i f t digital, digital.faen.today, curated by Zane Cerpina, online exhibition
2020 s h i f t digital, digital.faen.today, curated by Zane Cerpina, at Gallery KiT, Trondheim and Atelier Nord, Oslo, NO

Teaching
2024 Costume in collaboration with living beings, ½ day presentation/workshop, Aalto Unviersity, Finland
2023 Metabolic Union, RUCKA, Latvia
2022 – 2026 Norwegian Theatre Academy, supervisor, 3rd year BA productions, NO
2022 Artist presentation, Agenda: Forest, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, NO
2022 Costume for Immersive Theatre, specialist teacher, London College of Fashion, University of the arts London, UK

Residencies
2026 Artica, Svalbard, NO
2023-2028 Anthropogenic Soils, University of Oslo, NO
2022 Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads, Praksis, Oslo, NO

Talks, walks, presentations and articles
2025-2026 Walk With the Dead, series of walks focusing on graveyards, mourning and circularity in collaboration with Lexie Owen and Oslo cemetery authority, spanning over two years and four different graveyards in Oslo, NO
2025 Jærtegn public walk, with local historian Rolf Randa and Mushroom club Miraculix, Sør-Varanger, NO
2024 Performance lecture, Anthropogenic Soils PHD School, Svanhovd Biological station/University of Oslo, Sør-Varanger, NO
2022 Visual essay, cocreat:e:ures, Antennae Magazine
2020 Panelist, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Galleri F15, Moss, NO
2020 Panelist, Path Less Trodden, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria/digital
2020 c o c r e : a : t u r e s, paper presentation, Multispecies Storytelling, Linnaeus University, Sweden

Grants and Awards
2023-2025 3 year art stipend, The Relief Fund for Visual Artists, NO
2022 Nominee, best scenography for KinShips by Øyteateret, The Hedda Awards (annual award for excellence in Norwegian theater), Oslo, NO
2022 1 year stipend, The Relief Fund for Visual Artists, NO
2018 Miscellaneous grant for recently graduated artists in Norway, NO
2018-2025 Various project grants for Jærtegn, Underflate, Pure Filth and Necromantic Kitchen from the Norwegian Art Council, The Relief Fund for Visual Artists, the Barents Culture Fund, and North Norwegian Art Centre

Other arts and cultural work
2024 “Save Hausmania”, co-organiser online art auction raising money to save the independent and artist run culture house, Hausmania, Oslo,NO
2022-2024 Member selection board member, Hausmania, culture house, Oslo, NO
2018-2021 Co-founder and artistic director of NOBA, Norwegian BioartArena, Vitenparken Ås

Media coverage
2023 Interview on Pure Filth, run-riot.com (UK)
2020 Artwork shift featured in Neural Mag (IT)
2020 Artwork shift digital featured in Norwegian art yearbook (NO)
2020 Scenography of the Anthropocene, Interview, https://clotmag.com/ (UK)

Memberships
2023-ongoing Member, Verdensteateret, experimental artist collective, Oslo, NO
2022-ongoing Member, Hausmania, Artist run culture house, Oslo, NO
2020-ongoing UKS, Young Artist’s Society, institution for contemporary art and political membership organization and NBK, The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists

In my studio

In my studio you will meet elements of the installations Jærtegn (2025-2027), Necromantic Kitchen/Afterlives (2025-2027) as well as elements from earlier works such as Pure Filth and “Sluts are Chimera are Sluts are Chimera”. There might also be in-process work for the project Putrescene, working with magickal-political evocations for queer erotics.

Planned projects and exhibitions

In 2026, I am working on the artistic research project Afterlives, the interdisciplinary research project Anthropogenic Soils(University of Oslo), the work Jærtegn, the development of the solo project Putrescene, as well as preparations for an exhibition at the Norwegian Sculptors Society in 2027.

AFTERLIVES, artistic research project with artist Lexie Owen.
Afterlives is an artistic research project focused on death cultures and the material afterlives of bodies, seeking new forms of mourning and remembrance that foreground decomposition as a continuous, cyclical, and generative process.
2026
Artica Svalbard: Artist residency, August–October.
Five cemetery walks: Featuring guests from various worldviews and professions, Oslo and Longyearbyen.
2027
Necromantic Kitchen: Exhibition at NOBA, Ås. The work explores the material aspects of death by linking the metabolism of the cemetery to human digestive processes, incorporating edible plants, honey, and other elements harvested from graveyards

JÆRTEGN, Sør-Varanger 2025, NOBA 2027
Jærtegn is a work in three parts: a textile installation, a video piece, and a fanzine.
The textile installation of entangled nematodes scaled up to human size, haunted the area of Sør-Varanger over nine days and nine nights, while a video work and a fanzine haunted the printers and screens at the local library and biological station. In Jærtegn, haunting becomes a way of being in conversation with soil as a medium; in continuous change interacting with the world around it, rendering connections between place, science, politics and scale legible. Jærtegn will be shown at NOBA in Ås, 2027.

THE NORWEGIAN SCULPTORS SOCIETY, autumn 2027
In collaboration with artist Lexie Owen we are developing a site specific piece for The Norwegian Sculptors Society in Oslo.

VERDENSTEATERET
I am a part of the theatre collective Verdensteateret. In 2026 we are developing a new work, as well as touring our piece Flat Sun in Norway and Europe.

PUTRESCENE
Building on material practices from demonology, Putrescene is a magickal-political evocation used to facilitate, feed and empower specific erotic human–material relations —antithetical to currents of clean aesthetics and human supremacy, as entities in their own right. Putrescene will be developed 2026 through 2028.

CV

[www.annikeflo.com] | /www.instagram.com/cocreateures/]

Education
2007-2010 BA, Costume for performance, London college of Fashion, University of the Arts London
2017-2018 MA, Scenography, Norwegian Theatre Academy

Residencies
2026 Artica, Svalbard, NO
2023-2028 Anthropogenic Soils, University of Oslo, NO
2022 Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads, Praksis, Oslo, NO