Ayman Alazraq
(He/him)
Address: Palestine -Norway archive unit, Rådhusgata 19
, 0158 Oslo
Floor: 1
The studio is open Saturday 18 April from 12-17
My artistic practice is research-based and interdisciplinary, working across visual art, archival methods, and storytelling. I engage with historical and contemporary materials to explore how memory, place, and power are shaped and negotiated over time. The archive functions both as method and medium in my work, where documents, images, and testimonies are activated through installation, film, and text. My projects often unfold as long-term processes developed in dialogue with institutions, collaborators, and communities, taking the form of open structures where knowledge is produced collectively.
Archival practice, installation, video, text, documentary methods, research-based practice, photography, sound, publishing
In my studio
In my studio, I work with ongoing archival projects and will open parts of the archive to the public for interaction. During Oslo Open, visitors will be able to see working materials, sketches, and elements from projects in progress, and gain insight into how research, archives, and artistic production intersect. I welcome conversations about methodology, collaboration, and long-term artistic processes.
Planned projects and exhibitions
I am currently developing several long-term, research-based projects exploring archives, oral histories, and transnational connections. Upcoming work includes a poster exhibition at Folkets hjørne in collaboration with the Norwegian Labour Movement Archives and Library, as well as an archival project developed with Our Borders Archive and UNESCO. Further projects include a wall-based work at Konsthallen Luleå in Sweden, and several unfinished, process-based projects developed in collaboration with Tenthaus.
CV
Utdanning
Master i kunst, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
Bachelor i kunst, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo
Utvalgte utstillinger og visninger
Fotogalleriet, Oslo
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Nitja senter for samtidskunst
Hordaland kunstsenter
Kunstnernes Hus kino
Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo
Tenthaus, Oslo
Podium, Oslo
Charlottenborg Kunsthal, København
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Tabakalera, San Sebastián
Theaterhaus Jena, Tyskland
FRAC – Fonds régional d’art contemporain, Italia
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah
Konsthallen Luleå, Sverige
Film og video (utvalg)
Oslo Syndrome, The Lost Tapes of a People’s Tribunal, Into My Lungs
Stipender og priser
Blix-prisen, 2009
Kuratorisk arbeid (utvalg)
Uppsala Short Film Festival
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Kortfilmfestivalen Grimstad
Fotogalleriet, Oslo