Jason Havneraas & Kjetil Berge

This year, Jason Havneraas and Kjetil Berge will do a collaborative project, where they retrospectively summarize their production from the high north over the past seven years. These works will be merged with a new video work, produced in Harstad, especially for AMIFF 2020.

Jason Havneraas (b. 1978) is an artist who works with photography, video and film. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, lives and works in Oslo. He took his BA in Photography from the University of Plymouth, UK, and his MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim.

He has had a number of solo, duo and group exhibitions, including the Photo Gallery, Oslo, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Noplace, Oslo and The National Portrait Gallery, London.

Kjetil Ingvar Berge (b. 1957) is a Norwegian visual artist who works with video, photography and sculpture. He was born in Ølen, lives and works in London, Great Britain, but also spends a lot of time at Kvalnes in Lofoten. In 2006, he participated in the Havana Biennale in Cuba. Selected solo exhibitions are Oslo Kunstforening in 1997, Galleri MGM in 2001, LAUTOM contemporary in 2010 and the artist-run gallery Noplace in Oslo in 2013. He has his education from the Slade School of Fine Art in London (1987-1989), Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa i Portugal (1984-1985) og Bergens Kunsthåndverkskole (1982-1986). He has been purchased by The Arts Council in the United Kingdom, the National Museum in Oslo, Jyväskylä Art Collections in Finland, Oslo Municipality's art collections, the Embassy in London and the Norwegian Cultural Council.