Viktor Pedersen
b. 1988
Member of UKS and NBK
Education
2018 - 2020 MFA, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2013 - 2016 BFA, Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing.
2008 - 2010 Film studies, Nordland Art and Film College.
Upcoming
2023
Screen City Biennial Oslo edition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
A new season of Wild Seeds, Podium, Oslo
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Dancing With Dionysos, Gallery Memphis, Oslo
2021 Skin, a border, Studio 17, Stavanger
2019 Experiences of the Dissolved, Seilduken 2, Oslo
2018 From the Depths, A Voice, Parthenon, Tromsø
2017 Trip Report, Small Projects, Tromsø
2016 Exodus, Galleri Snerk, Tromsø
Group shows
2022
Screen City Biennial, Archenhold Observatory, Berlin
Coast Contemporary, Tromsø, Norway
2021
Just be quiet and feel it around you. K4, Oslo
Life is a Gas. Loftet; Kunstneres Hus, Oslo
Jeg er mangfoldig. The Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad
Wild Seeds. Kunsternes Hus and Startblokka, Oslo
After School Special, Bergen Kunsthall
Cyfest, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020
Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Avgangsutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2019
The Suitors, Momentum Biennalen, Moss
Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofotpostbygget, Svolvær
Close to Cancellation, Gallery seilduken 1, Oslo
Vi møtes i Victoria Huset, Botanical Gardens, Oslo
2018
Why We Cant have Nice Things, Seilduken 1, Oslo
Castles, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Russia
Steinalderdrømmer, Nordnorsk kunstnersenter, Svolvær
2017
Pile o Sápmi. Curated by Máret Ánne Sara, Tromsø
Alien Threshold, Gallery Napa, Rovaniemi, Finnland,
The Powers That Be, Levende Lokaler, Tromsø
Tromsø Tegneklubb, Galleri Snerk, Tromsø
Inversia Festival, Murmansk, Russia
2016
Tromsø Open, Cafe Eka, Tromsø
Toronto Art Book Fair, Mondo Books, Canada
Fighting Gravity, Kurant Visningsrom, Tromsø
Supermarket, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Sweden
2015
The Big Splash, Tromsø Academy of Fine Art and Contemporary Writing.
Reality Rehearsal #1, Collaboration with Ina Hagen, Oslo
Inspired: Musical Interactions With The Polar Museum, Tromsø
Inspired: Musical Interactions With Art. Northern Norwegian Art Museum, Tromsø
2015
Phuture Club 2, Nebbelux, Fredrikstad
Phuture Club 1 Kurant Visningsrom, Tromsø
++, Black Box Theatre, Oslo
Tromsø Open, Bangsundbrygga, Tromsø
Film Screenings
2021 Ouroboros, Galeria Nova, Zagreb
2017 Year Zero. Tromsø Academy of Fine Art and Contemporary Writing. Curated by Tanya Busse and Arne Skaug Olsen
2015 On the Tragic. Tromsø Academy of Fine Art and Contemporary Writing.
2010 Impressions of the North. The F.M Dostoyevsky Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg Russia
Curated projects
2022 Co- curator of the exhibition Utopia at Tegnerforbundet.
2021 Wild Seeds. A platform for projects that relate to non-human intelligences, Kunstnernes Hus and Startblokka, Oslo
2015 Letter of Intent. Kurant Visningsrom. Tromsø
2014 Galleri Snerk. Co-founder and curator. Tromsø
2010 Hønefoss Film Festival, Film programmer, Hønefoss
Discography and Publications
2021 Veien - Blyant. Singel release with remixes, digital.
2020 Veien - Vi er her. Album released on Breton Casette, Myntegata 2, Oslo
Tangboka, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter
2018 Veien - Tilbake til den skinnende skogen. Album released on TECKEN records
2017 Trancend #0, Art magazine compiled by Anne Ødegård
2016 Through Hardship To The Stars. Fighting Gravity, MONDO BOOKS
2015 A Greater Jihad – jpgHAD. Album released on ANIMALs records.
2013 No Fate Compilation. ANIMALs, Art Magazine
Concerts
2019
Veien – The Suitors, Galleri F15, Moss
Veien - Karlsøyfestivalen
Veien – Hildelund Konstfestival, Vestre Amtervik, Sweden
Veien - Vårscene fest, Euforisk, Oslo
2018
Veien release concert, OG35, Oslo
Residencies
2022 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Dale in Sunnfjord, Norway
2017 Barentskult, Recidency in St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk, Russia
2016 Dark Ecology, Journey 2016, Kirkenes to Murmansk
Other
2022 Winner of the Coast Contemporary Prize 2022
2018 Assistant for Trygve Luktvasslimo and Camilla Figenschou through the Art Councils assistant grant.
2015 - 2018 Assistant for Lisa Torell through her PHD at Tromsø Academy of Fine Art and Contemporary Writing.
2016 Pojkarna, Poster for Teater Temauer, Gothenburg, Sweden.