FKDS jury for 2025:
Antonio Cataldo (Dekan)
Are Mokkelbost (Eksternt medlem, representerte Brynseng)
Katinka Maraz (Eksternt medlem)
Sara Guldmyr (Tidligere mottaker av FKDS-atelier)
The jury wants to emphasize that it was very difficult to make a selection based on the many qualified applications and the strong and diverse practices in the application pool. We were unfortunately only able to award some of them but wanted to be sure to commend all of the applicants, encouraging you to reuse your applicants for future opportunities for funding and showing.
FKDS 2025 Studio grant – studio
Carmel Alabbasi, 2MA
The jury praised the clarity of Alabbasi’s motivation and found Alabbasi’s practice to be engaging and exploratory, working with a wide range of materials and conducting research-based work that explores essential political themes. The jury recognizes the importance of Alabbasi having a studio space to develop the practice further, both conceptually and materially. The fact that the candidate worked with complex materials such as concrete and ice but also the fact that the candidate clearly expressed a wish to open the studio up to the public in several senses intrigued the jury and led them to award Alabbasi a studio space.
June Kittelsen, 3BA
Kittelsen’s precise application impressed the jury as much as Kittelsen’s practice, focusing on trauma, memories, and everyday life, which comes to life through drawing, text, and a range of materials – mainly utilizing a woodburning pen on large surfaces as a distinct practice that required proper space and time for continuing development. The jury recognizes the value of Kittelsen having a studio based on the practice of being dialogue-based and working collaboratively, as well as potentially opening up the studio to the public through workshops.
Kim Andreas Roland Berger, 2MA
The jury was impressed by Roland Berger’s precise application and practice, particularly in how the candidate explored materiality and processes within the fields of painting, drawing, and sculpture. The jury recognizes the need for Roland Berger to have a studio to work with these formats and explore dimensionality, canvases, paintings, and pigments – all of which demand space and time. There is also a clear desire to work collaboratively and participate in a studio collective, a space to share knowledge and expertise, as well as through social events.
Isak Ree Torgersen, 2MA
The jury finds it essential to grant Torgersen a studio to develop his practice further, primarily because Torgersen focuses on the human and the mechanical developed through large sculptures, electronics, and mechanical elements – all of which require space. The jury entrusts Torgersen to utilize the studio daily to further experiment with such materiality while also opening up the studio to the public and collaborating with others in this process.
Taylor Smith, 2MA
Smith’s candidacy impressed the jury with her diverse and collaborative practice, and they found it especially important that her work involved deconstructing perceived boundaries between scientific and artistic knowledge. The jury recognizes that working across multiple mediums, such as video, sculpture, installation, sound, printmaking, and text, would greatly benefit from having a dedicated studio space for such development. The work on larger projects and the desire to collaborate with other residents, such as potentially setting up a darkroom, a small printing press, and a recording space that will benefit the community, is something the jury supports through awarding Smith a studio.
Clara Claussen, 3BA
The jury was impressed by Claussen’s varied and engaging practice, which primarily focuses on reworking the given and normalizing elements of architectural space, as well as time, memory, signs, and language – often taking form through painting, drawing, and sculpture. The jury is clear that Claussen will significantly benefit from a studio as a space where to work, explore, create an artistic community, and continue learning from one another, even after completing the studies at the Academy/KHiO.
David Tobias Bonde Jensen, 2MA
Bonde Jensen’s application intrigued the jury, as well as his practice, which ranged from hand-drawn animation to computer graphics and video, primarily working with more-than-human subjects and exploring their presence in the stories we tell and share. The jury sees clearly that Bonde Jensen needs a studio to continue exploring animation, research the history of animated and stop-motion puppet animation, and focus further on collaborations – which requires space and a stable setup over time – but also to work alongside fellow artists to continue to challenge and share his practice while finding further intersecting collaboration across other fields as well.
Mohamed H. M. Aljabali, 2MA
The jury proposes to award Aljabali a studio to ensure that he can further develop his artistic and filmmaking practice, fostering a space where experimentation and creation can take place and allowing his technical skills to be further explored. Through his application, Aljabali outlined a clear wish to collaborate, exchange, and reflect with fellow artists, which the jury believes is perfectly in line with the FKDS mandate of supporting a studio space at Brynseng.
FKDS 2025 Studio grant – Office space
Sanna Sønstebø, 2MA
Sønstebø has a practice focused on the everyday and its experiences, which are documented and processed through various techniques and materials, including text, performance, and video – a practice that the jury proposes to support further through a studio space. The jury’s finding is especially intriguing, as Sønstebø aims to work at the intersection between art and public transportation, which is particularly relevant for an area like Brynseng, and also points to the need to collaborate with the local artist community.
Jonathan Hörberg, 3BA
The jury found Hörberg’s practice to be both explorative, social, and material-based, a practice Hörberg describes as full of projects existing in proximity to each other, often overlapping, and being developed through the use of many different materials. The jury finds it essential to support this further exploration of materials, as well as investigate publications, bookbinding, and printing, by awarding a studio space that the jury is confident will be well utilized, also serving a larger social need to the community at Brynseng.
Waiting list for studio grants, if more studios become available:
Lova Hiselius, 2MA
Åsa Ylva Marie Båve, 2MA
Victoria Alstrup, 2MA
Stine Marie Korsfur, 3BA