Una Line Ree Hunderi
(She/her)
Address: Veterinærhøgskolen Atelierfellesskap, Ullevålsveien 72, bygg 12, 0454 Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: 226
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
I have always worked with photography as a medium and have a desire for the art to be engaging and outward-looking. I want to create art that dares to address ethical and ideological issues. A common feature of my work is a desire to combine an idea-based art with an aesthetic attitude. My work is strongly influenced by my interest in sociological and anthropological issues and the projects often take the form of society-related investigations. Like anthropology, my working method is about seeing, interpreting, collecting, sorting and looking from the outside and inside at the same time. For me, photography and my work as an artist mean that I can go out into the world and ask the questions that bother me.
In my more recent projects, I have also directed my gaze towards photography itself and how this medium is inextricably linked to the material world, while at the same time there is always a transformation of some sort taking place.
I am currently working on two new projects: Debris and The Moral of Things. Debris (presented on this website) is an investigation of the materiality of the photographic negative and how it is connected to or detached from the objects that are photographed. I cut and create collages from “bad” negatives that I somehow can not trow away; – these can be images that have a bad composition, light leaks, are completely uninteresting as a photograph. I cut directly into the negatives and tape the pieces together before finally scanning them with a negative scanner.
The moral of things: Things are the opposite of nature. Where nature represents what is real and good; the thing is a representative of what is superficial, immoral and unnatural. This becomes even stronger when we know that it is things that are destroying the earth. Why do we still attach ourselves so strongly to things; even the useless, ugly or mass-produced objects? This ambivalence is what I want to look into more closely by isolating and bringing out the things that always create clutter, get stowed away, or give you a guilty conscience with their eternal reminder of overconsumption, poor design, uselessness, and transience.
Photography and colage
Debris; Una Hunderi, scanned negative collage from analogue film, 2025
Debris, Una Hunderi, scanned negative collage from analogue film, 2024
Debris, Una hunderi, scanned negative collage from analogue film, 2024
Debris, Una Hunderi, negativcollage, 2025
In my studio
I will be hanging up pictures from the two projects I am currently working on: Bunnfall and Tingenes moral. In addition, there will be a sale of my photo book Born Free and free postcards to help yourself to. I am very happy to answer questions if you want to discuss what you see.
CV
EDUCATION
2019 – 2021 PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education) in art, design and architecture
2001- 2002 Master of Arts with honors in Film and TV Studies at ISSH, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
1996 -1998 Master in Photography at the Norwegian College of Art and Design in Bergen (Kunsthøyskolen i Bergen)
1992-1995 BA-degree (grunnstudium) in Photography at the Norwegian College of Art and Design in Bergen
1992 Foundation course in Photography at Wellington Polytechnic, Wellington, New Zealand
1991 Undergraduate studies (grunnfag); in Psychology at the University of Trondheim (NTNU)
1991 Undergraduate studies (grunnfag); in Anthropology at NTNU
1990 Examine Philosophicum at NTNU
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMISSIONS
2019 – Born Free; Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2016 – The Ideal State, public art for UDI in Trondheim, KORO-project
2014 – Idealstaten; Akershus Kunstsenter 2014 – Remember Death, Gallery Monthly 2009 – Domestic Landscapes, Rom for kunst, Mesen, Trondheim Sentral Station 2008 – Happy End of the World, Nosbaum & Reding, Art Contemporain, Luxenbourg 2005 – Excerpts from Sun City at Rom for Kunst (Space for Art) at Oslo Central Station (public art project) 2005 – Sun City, Gallery Brandstrup, Oslo 2003 – Tonga 2000, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø
2001 – Domestic Landscapes, Gallery Brandstrup, Oslo
2000 – Tonga 2000, UKS (Young Artists Society), Oslo
1999 – Welcome To Nature Wonderland, Hordaland Centre of Art, Bergen
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 – Oslo Negative
2020 – Kristiansand Kunsthall – Og lenge gikk vi uten lys (And for a long time we walked in the dark)
2016 – «Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?» Photographers Gallery, Oslo
2014 – Dyrebart, Pilotgalleriet/Akershus Kunstsenter.
2012 – Photographers Gallery and Blomquist; Contemporary Art Auction.
2012 – Domestic landscapes; Voies Off Arles, curated by the Finnish Museum of Photography
2009 – The Romantic landscape – revised, Ørje Brug and F-15 i sammarbeid
2009 – Landscape, Nosbaum & Reding, Art Contemporain, Luxenbourg
2009 – SECOND_NATURE, Dexia Banque Internationale, Luxenbourg og Centre d’art Chamarande, France
2008 – Hjemmelige Trondheim, Rom for kunst i regi av Mesen, Trondheim sentralstasjon
2008 – Jahresgaben 2008, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2007 – OPHELIA’s WORLD; AR\GE Kunst, Bolzano,
2006 – Flik for Flik, Oslo Kunstforening
2005 – What You Don’t See; Pilotgalleriet, Akershus Center of Art
2002 – Thousand Flowers: Haugar Vestfold Artmuseum:
2002 – Dream vs. Reality, Gallery F-15, Moss
1999 – Floating Thoughts, The Centre for Creative Photography, Museum of Central Finland
1999 – Stunt; New Memories from Bergen, collaboration with Mikkel McAlinden at Hordaland Centre of Art, Bergen
1999 – EXIT 99; final degree show at the Norwegian College of Art and Design in Bergen
1999 – Trøndelagsutstillingen; group exhibition organised by the Centre of Fine Art in Trondheim
1997 – Landscape-97; Group exhibition curated by The Centre for Creative Photography in Jyväskylä, Finland
1997 – The Spring Exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery in Oslo
1996 – Romanticism, group exhibition at Gallery GUN in Oslo
1995 – Kunstgress, group exhibition at gallery Otto Plonk in Bergen
SELECTED PRINTED MATTER
2019 – BORN FREE; book with interviews
2008 – Bjørka: Mørkeromsbilder, Press forlag
2008 – Second_Nature, Exhibition Catalouge
2008 – Pieces of Energy, from the collection of Statoil-Hydro
2005 – Una Hunderi, Happy end of the world. Funded by NoFoFo and Billedkunmstnernes Vederlagsfond Distribution: Norway: www..torpedobok.no, Germany: www.schaden.com, Japan: www.utrecht.jp
2003 – Real, book project by Lucky Bar, Oslo
2000 – FUSION, free-standing project for the BIK BOK fashion magazine
1999 – frotté, four pages spread presenting work from final degree show in the Scandinavian art magazine frotté
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS and REVIEWS
2020 – Kunstavisen; review: En friere barndom (A free Childhood: https://kunstavisen.no/en-friere-barndom)
2019 – Subjekt; review: (https://subjekt.no/2019/11/08/kunstnerforbundet-har-tidligere-vist-god-evne-til-a-skape-helhetlige-univers-med-ulike-utstillinger-det-klarer-de-denne-gangen-ogsa/)
2019 – D2; presentation (https://www.dn.no/d2/kunst/fotografi/una-ree-hunderi/kunstnerforbundet/emigrerer-fra-sverige-for-a-tilby-barna-alternativ-skole/2-1-693544)
2019 – P2 NRK radio, EKKO: Unschooling – Når barn styrer sin egen læring (https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/MDSP25022119/06-11-2019)
2016 – Klassekampen, review of Why do Things Get in a Muddle?
2015 – Ny Tid, Ukens bilde, curated by Nina Toft
2014 – D2, presentation of the exhibition Idealstaten
2014 – Debris Fanzine; presentation of Idealstaten
2014 – Billedkunst; review of Idealstaten av Silje Rønneberg Hogstad
2008 – Adresseavisen, review by Solveig Lønnmo of Hjemmelige Trondheim
2006 – Kamera Austria presentation of Happy End of the World
2006 – FOAM presentation of Happy End of the World
2005 – ArtReview presentation of Happy End of the World in the December issue 2001 – VG (Norwegian newspaper); review by John Elton of exhibition at Gallery Brandstrup (December)
2001 – Kunstårboka (The Norwegian Art Yearbook)
2000 – Dagens Næringsliv (Norwegian newspaper); interview (October)
2000 – Dagbladet (Norwegian newspaper); review by Harrald Flor of exhibition at UKS (November)
GRANTS
2023 – The Norwegian State’s Art Scholarship – The Photographers,
2019 – The Cultural Council – arts publications
2019 – State art grant – The photographers – 2-year work grant
2018 – Biledkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, One-year scholarship
2018. – The Norwegian State’s Art Scholarship – The Photographers,
2018 – Norwegian photographic foundation project support
2018. – Visual artists’ Remuneration Fund; project support.
2017 – Fritt Ord, project grant (https://frittord.no/en/home)
2016 – KORO, URO: development grant for «Housewarming»
2016 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Project grant from
2015 – National grants for artists, 3 years working grant (the photographers committee)
2014 – National grants for artists, miscellaneous grant (the photographers committee)
2014 – Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond, Project grant,
2013 – Norsk Kulturråd, projectgrant
2013 – National grants for artists; miscellaneous grant
2013 – Norwegian Photography Fund (NoFoFo), project grant
2010 – Vederlagsfondet, 1 year working grant
2006 – National grants for artists, two year working-grant
2005 – Norwegian Photography Fund (NoFoFo), project grant
2005 – Norsk Kulturråd, exhibition grant
2005 – National grants for artists, equipment grant
2003 – Norwegian Photography Fund (NoFoFo), for the production of a catalogue
2003 – Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, for the production of a catalogue
2003 – Sørtrøndelag County Grant for Cultural Workers
2002 – National Grants for Artists, travelling grant
2000 – Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefond, travelling grant
1999 – National grants for artists; travelling grant
1999 – The painter Ambrosius and wife’s grant
1999 – Norwegian Cultural Board, equipment grant
1998 – National grants for artists, equipment grant
MEMBERSHIPS
• Association of fine art Photographers (FFF)
• Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK)
COLLECTIONS
• The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
• Statoil (Norwegian oil company
• Pilotgalleriet
• KORO