TREDJE ROM: Public Programme
Fotogalleriet’s Youth Advisory Board presents the exhibition Tredje Rom – a project developed by and for young people, grounded in cultural theorist Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the third space. In Bhabha’s theory, the third space designates a dynamic in-between zone that emerges through encounters between different cultures, experiences, and perspectives. It is a space where identity is negotiated, boundaries are challenged, and new forms of community can arise.
Building on this understanding, the Youth Advisory Board has explored how subcultures, countercultures, and alternative communities create and sustain their own third spaces. At the same time, they have sought to establish a corresponding space within Fotogalleriet itself.
The exhibition is curated by the Fotogalleriet Youth Board in which consists of Abdirahmaan Hasan, Esma Bouhaddouz, Hamda Barise, Selma Beyoglu, and Karl Ian Centino.
The project has inspired a set of events gathered in an extensive public programme, with a focus on community building, knowledge exchange, and creative outlets.
What happens to youth when leisure activities and open meeting places are closed? How do we create our own third spaces? And what role can art and culture play when political priorities make everyday life more difficult?
Fotogalleriet and TrAP welcome you to a special edition of the TrAP-talk panel led by Abdirahmaan Hasan (20).
Guests:
Neslihan Ramzi (1995): Designer, founder of Shof.no, co-founder of ASSATA and affiliated with Kunsthall Oslo and the Anti-Racist Center.
Shof.no is an art criticism platform that promotes young critics and lowers the threshold for who can shape the conversation about art and culture.
Ali Asad (1997): CEO of Ung Bjørndal and youth coordinator at the Conflict Council.
Ung Bjørndal is a youth organisation started by and for young people in Bjørndal. Here, young people themselves are given the opportunity to shape the activities, lead and influence their local environment.
Maria Habiyambere (2002): Multidisciplinary artist and project manager for Art Club, and is currently exhibiting at Fotogalleriet’s group exhibition Tredje Rom.
Art Club is a low-threshold meeting place for artists and art enthusiasts, especially those with multicultural backgrounds. Here you can create together and develop in a safe creative community.
The bed is a stage, the bed is a refuge, the bed is a threshold, a mirror, a veil. On this evening, we welcome you to pull the sheets over your eyes.
Under the canopy of The Bed Place unfolds a series of three experimental performances that wrap around the audience like a dream.
Nasha Perez – builds an intimate and immersive soundscape of noise, resonance, and fragile melodies.
MIKE TV – a psychosonic ritual at the intersection of noise and experimental music, where no performance is ever the same.
Chibir3xx (Jenny Skaale) – multidisciplinary artist presenting her musical alter ego Music Chibi 1.2.
For the occasion, Fotogalleriet is transformed: the windows are draped in a textile collage by Nasha Perez, smoke spreads across the room, the lights are turned off and only a single spotlight illuminates the bed at the center. A projector casts fragments of images over the stage.
Welcome To The Bed Place is an invitation to share the space between dream, body, and sound – a place where intimacy and performative energy meet in a temporary community.
Maria is bringing her Art Club concept to Fotogalleriet. We will be working with mixed media and we will use photography, video, collage, painting and drawing to create something new together. Do you want to make animation, photo collage or just meet other artists and art enthusiasts on Thursday evening?
Art Club with Maria Habiyambere is a creative meeting place for artists and art enthusiasts who want to draw, paint and develop work in a community. Art Club puts multicultural perspectives at the center, both in conversation and in practice.
Maria Habiyambere is a 23-year-old multidisciplinary artist who is concerned with the intersection between art, social justice and sustainability. She is currently studying sound and music production while exploring being a DJ and has a bachelor’s degree in social work.
NB. Limited amount of spots.