board member /
Artist (*1973)
Jesper Alvær received his artistic training mainly in Prague, New York, and Kitakyushu. During 2013–17 he was a Research Fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts with the project Work, work: Staging dislocation in artistic and non-artistic labour. In addition to showing his art at a number of international exhibitions, Alvær has also participated in numerous study, residence, and research programmes both in Norway and abroad. His most recent exhibitions include Upstream The Cold Chain/Immune Nations (Various locations, McMaster University, Ontario, 2015-2021), AVU 220 (AVU Prague, 2019), Making Use: Life in Postartistic Times (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2016), Mother, Dear Mother (Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, 2014), Arbeidstid/WorkTime (Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2013) as well as several exhibitions held in collaboration with Isabela Grosseová: Exhibition As Alibi (Display - Association for Research and Collective Practice, Prague, 2020), Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre-Preview/Audience First (Galerie sam83, Česká Bříza, 2019), Audience Without Artwork (Biennale Matter of Art, Prague, 2020), Divák Má Cenu (Galerie TIC, Brno, 2018), Competence (Fotograf Gallery, Prague 2014), Activum (Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, 2013), Eventos Paralelos (Manifesta 8, Murcia, 2010/11), and the exhibition Figure and Ground at Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, 2007.