Sarah Kazmi
(She/her)
Address: Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Kjeld Stubs gate 3, 0160 Oslo
Floor: top floor
Room number: 3
The studio is open Sunday 28 April from 12-17
Sarah Kazmi (b.1990 Pakistan, she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and a writer, who lives and works between Oslo and Karachi (Pakistan). Her artistic practice moves across research and visual production, observing the relationship between food, language and politics; often based around/with communities and local environments. / She works with the medium of writing where her texts are visual, rhythmic and performative; often conveyed through a variety of disciplines, which includes sound pieces, video, installations and performance. Since 2021, she is also one of the active working group members of Verdensrommet, an artist-powered support network by and for non-EU/EEA creative professionals in Norway or (Alongside her artistic practice, Kazmi does policy advocacy for Verdensrommet; an artist-powered mutual support network by/for immigrant artists based in Norway.
Kazmi holds a master’s degree in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO, 2019), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (IVSAA, 2014), was participating artist at Coast Contemporary 2023 , worked on the editorial board for HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival. Her largest solo show will open at Oslo Intercultural Museum in April 2024, curated by Noor Bhangu, followed by performance in fall 2024, commissioned by V.O.L.T, in Bergen.
drawing. photography. installation. performance. text. spoken word. sound. zine. collage. relational art. activism. socially engaged practice.
The Sea We See is not Blue, Sarah Kazmi, video installation at the Reading room by RAW Académie - Xam, Xamlé for The Educational Web at Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany, 2023.
Sarah Kazmi, Sweet Dreams, Homes, collection of 14, 8 by 6 inches,Drawings on mellomslegg acid free paper, archival mount, Karachi, Pakistan, 2022, together with table installations, Installation shot.
Test and Taste the Norwegian Water, Sarah Kazmi, 8min duration, performance at exhibition Currents, 2023, Open Out Festival, Trømso, photographed by Daniela Toma
Recipe of/for a Dream, performance, duration 8min, I am Undone, Hulias, photographed by Hulias, 2024.
In my studio
There could be for instance a reading, conversation, a shared meal.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Solo exhibition with a public program titled “Cooking, Time?” curated by Noor Bhangu at Intercultural Museum. The exhibition opens on 18th April and will run until 6th August, 2024. https://www.oslomuseum.no/en/whats-on/vernissage-cooking-time/
Performance commissioned by V.O.L.T for fall 2024, to be performed in Bergen.
CV
Academic Qualifications:
December 2014. B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts) _ Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (I.V.S.A.A), Karachi, Pakistan
October – December 2017. The Anthropology of Food (short course) at UiO_ Department of Social Sciences, Oslo, Norway
June 2019. M.F.A Art and Public Space _ Oslo National Academy of the Arts _KhiO, Oslo, Norway
May 2020. Buddhism and Modern Psychology by Prof. Robert Wright, Princeton University, (online course, Coursera)
February 2022. On Reading With _ GCAS-Jehān with Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Dublin (Online)
Stipends/Awards/Committee:
2024 – Atelier Kunsterforbundet awarded until 2026, Kunsterforbundet, Oslo.
2024 – Project grant for Cooking, time, NBK
2024-2025. Vara/substitute member on State Scholarship Committee for Forbundet Frie Fotografer (FFF) Oslo, Norway
March 2022 , 2023. Stipend from BKV_ Visual artist remuneration fund, NBK, Norway
November 2022. Diverse stipend, NOFOFO, Oslo, Norway
March 2022. Travel grant for Sweet Dream exhibition, Office for Contemporary Arts, OCA, Oslo, Norway
February 2022. Eckbos Legat grant for Immigration Clinic, Oslo, Norway
June 2021. Norsk Kultur Fond, NKF Prosjektstøtte kulturvern, Oslo, Norway
May 2021. FLB Fond for lyde og Bilde, Prosjektstøtte, Arts Council, Norway
April 2021. Nominee for DNB stipend exhibition with Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway
Dec 2020. Extraordinary support in connection with corona crisis and project support Local Community Scheme, KORO
March 2020. Arbiedstipend/One year working grant for young artists, Arts Council, Norway
May 2019. Diverse stipend for newly graduated artists, Arts Council, Norway
July 2017. Group residency grant at Saari Residence (Koneen Säätiö), Mynamaki, Finland
December 2014. Distinction in Dissertation, B.F.A _ (I.V.S.A.A), Karachi, Pakistan
Solo Projects and Exhibitions
September 2024. Performance commissioned by VOLT, Bergen, Norway.
April – August 2024. Cooking, time? with Noor Bhangu, Solo project/ Public Program Intercultural Museum Oslo, Norway
December 2023. Live recitals of my debut poetry collection (draft) “et bilde i et bilde” Literature House, Oslo, Norway
October – December 2022. “Sweet Dreams ” Solo Project at AAN Art Space and Museum, Karachi, Pakistan
June 2019. Degree Show_ Semiotics of Food | II, BAR Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Glasnost, Oslo, Norway
December 2014. Degree Show I.V.S.A.A.; Karachi, Pakistan
Group exhibitions/Projects/Performances:
January 2024. Live audio-visual performance, Recipe of/for a Dream part of project I am Undone, HULIAS, Oslo, Norway
Oct 2023. Participation at Gathering spells, BJCEM,Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Norway
September 2023. Recital of “Test and Taste the Norwegian Water” Ocean Eyes, Coast Contemporary, edition 7, Lofoten, Norway
September 2023. Video installation with Performance at Open Out Festival “CURRENTS, Trømso, Norway.
July 2023. Acting in Rose Hammers production Snake Oil, Guttormgards arkive, Oslo, Norway
Apr – Aug 2023. Reading room by RAW Académie- Xam, Xamlé for The Educational Web, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
May- 2023. Performance of The Sea We See is not Blue at Supermarket, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Sweden
May – 2023. Reading a letter from Girls Like Us, issue 14, “The Letters of Disappointment”, Norma T, Oslo, Norway
May 2022. Retirement Rave at First Supper Symposium on Ages-im with Verdensrommet, Elsker club, Oslo, Norway
May – June 2022. Tutti-Frutti Kahaniyan, Group show at Canvas Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan.
October 2021. “Mattering Oil" exhibition, Teknisk Museum, Oslo, Norway
February 2020. Karachi ki Khoj: [Re]defining the metropolis, IPAF 2020, (International Public Art festival), Karachi, Pakistan
June 2019. Convocation, on Expanded Language-Based Practices, live readings at Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
May 2019. Supermarket Flow, exhibition at KBH Kunsthal, Skive, Denmark
September 2018. Public Reading, Through the Tandoor, Flat Bread Society, Losæter, Oslo, Norway
September 2018. Reading/Performance at Jan Van Eyck Akadmie, FAFF (Food Art Film Festival), Maastricht, Netherlands
January 2016. Group show titled “Is Saye Kay Parcham Talay” (I.V.S.A.A), Karachi, Pakistan
August 2015. Public Art Installation at Sziget Festival Island of Freedom, Budapest, Hungry
June 2014. Group. Show, “Up, Down, Inside and Out” at Jamshed Memorial School, Karachi
Residencies/published material
December 2023. BJCEM, performance residency, Dance House Lefokosia, Nicosia, Cyprus.
September 2023. Presentation of Sweet Dreams, at Fotobook festival, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
September 2023. Sweet Dreams, 2 poems and 4 photos, published on ASAP |Art, fiction, India.
February – November 2023. Multilingual writing workshop with Leser søker bok, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, Norway
Jan – March 2023. Artist in residence at Photo Ktm with Jatayu Vulture Restaurant & Bird Conservation, Kawasoti, Nepal
January 2023. Commissioned Essay for Matter Biennale of Art, Tranzit, Prague, Czech Republic
TBD. Fellow at Académie session 8, Tour de Table, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal.
April – October 2020. Artist in Residence, CLIMATA: Capturing Change at a time of Ecological Crisis, PRAKSIS, Norway.
July 2017. Artist in residence at Saari Residence, (Koneen Säätiö), Mynamaki, Finland
Talks/Workshops/Seminars/Invitations:
October.. 2023. ARTIVAL RE:CONNECT, talk on Art, Mobility and Migration (for Verdensrommet), Helsinki, Finland.
August – 2023. Recital of Essay “What is a folder, that holds, that contains” for Verdensrommet at Starbusferie, Leveld, Norway
June 2023. Migrant Assembly Book Presentation with Bobrikova & de Carmen and Gudskul, Momentum 12 , Moss, Norway.
May 2023. Summer school I CONSENT Rehearsing Hospitalities by Frame Contemporary Art with UKS Oslo, Norway
October 2022. Artist talk with students from TCF College (non-for profit) and Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan
April – May 2022. Immigration Clinic for Creative Professionals, Verdensrommet, Kutlurhuset Oslo, Norway
August 2021. Roundtable Cooking: The Neighbourhood Meeting with Njokobok, part of Migrant Assembly, Oslo, Norway
March 2021. Ingredients for PROTEST/panel discussion, moderator, HUMAN International Doc Film Festival, Oslo.
March 2019. Semiotics of Food (publications) at Fully Booked Dubai Art Book Fair, UAE
November 2018. “Food, memory, place” Riso workshop at Low Standard gallery, Oslo, Norway
October 2018. Participant, Researching Public Art by Public Art Agency, Stockholm, Sweden
September 2015. Talking series lecture- Artist Talk at (I.V.S.A.A), Karachi, Pakistan