Annike Flo
(She/her)
Address: Hausmania, Hausmanns gate 34, 0182 Oslo
Floor: 4 etg
Room number: 1408 B
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
My cross-disciplinary practice bridges visual arts and scenography, drawing on natural sciences, environmental humanities and occulture. As artist in residence with the research project Anthropogenic Soils project (University of Oslo, NOBA), I explore how soil reveals the boundaries of scientific knowledge, creating fertile points of contact between reality and what lies beyond. Enter the queer, weird, and monstrous, haunting the limits of human understanding and the ways we acquire it. Current projects include mouth-pharynx-cuticle, a nomadic work in Sør-Varanger (August 2025), and Necromantic Kitchen, a collaboration with Lexie Owen at Tenthaus (September 2025). I currently work with Verdensteateret and have a background in theatre, holding an MA in scenography (Norwegian Theatre Academy, 2018) and a BA in costume (LCF, University of the Arts London, 2010).
installation, bioart, textile, scenography, costume
Your Everyday Exuberance, Annike Flo, secondhand textiles/ agar/ microorganisms, 2850 x 500 mm, 2021, Galleri Format, installation and detail, Photo Annike Flo and Thomas Tveter
Underflate, Annike Flo in collaboration with KINICO architects, 1200 x 500 mm, Codskeletons on a base of pine installed underwater in the Oslofjord, SALT. Photo: Annike Flo and Nicolai Larasse
s h i f t, Annike Flo, Agar/ceramics/textile installation, 2020, Galleri KiT, detail, Annike Flo
Pure Filth, Annike Flo, secondhand silk, leather and fur with microbiome from ferret, cow, silkworms and the artist, the artists own blood and hair, 2023,Gallery 69 Oslo, installation view, Foto:Annike Flo
In my studio
In my studio you can look at in process work from my project “Mouth-Pharynx-Cuticle” and Necromantic Kitchen as well as elements from earlier works such as Pure Filth and “Sluts are Chimera are Sluts are Chimera” dealing with our erotic relations to other organisms and animal derived materials.
Planned projects and exhibitions
In 2025 I am working on two projects with soil as an underlying theme.
In august the installation “Mouth, Pharynx, Cuticle” will haunt 9 different places in Sør-varanger (by the Norwegian-Russian border) over 9 days. The project is shown in collaboration with Anthropogenic Soils and the Norwegian institute of Bioeconomy research as a part of the platform TRE TRE TRE by kurator Hilde Methi.
In September The Necromantic Kitchen, a process-based, performative work in collaboration with artist Lexie Owen, will be exhibited at Tenthaus in Oslo. The work proposes grieving practices that queer the process of processing loss, connecting the metabolism of the graveyard with human processes of digestion. The project gets close to death and the dead, through the appropriation of various traditional food processes, incorporating edible plants, honey and other elements harvested from graveyards.
CV
SELECTED ART CV
CURRENT
2026: Anthropogenic Soils, Group exhibition, Norwegian BioArt Arena
2025, February and April: Flat Sun by Verdensteateret at BIT, Bergen and Rewire, The Hague.
2025, August: Mouth, Pharynx, Cuticle, NIBIO Svanhovd/sør-Varanger library
2025, September: Necromantic Kitchen, Tenthaus, Oslo. In collaboration with Lexie Owen.
RECENT
2024, December: Co-organiser of support auction for Hausmania culture house, Oslo
2024: Sluts are Chimera are Sluts are Chimera, Evryskin, Blå, Oslo
2023: Pure Filth, workshop/exhibition, Wild Seeds at Podium, Oslo and Smallest Gallery of Soho, London
2023: Pure Filth exhibition, Galleri 69, Oslo
2023: Nature Scribbles and Flesh reads residency publication launch, Index Stockholm
2023: Metabolic Union, Art+Food+Next generation, RUCKA, Latvia
2022: Neurospora and Rhizopus, Riso i Norge, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
2022: Cocreat:e:ures, Visual Essay, Antennae Magazine for nature in visual culture
2022: States of Chimera, Ecophilia, Trøndelag Senter for samtidskunst
2022: Underflate, SALT with KINICO architects
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022: Hedda nominee, best scenoraphy for KinShips by Øyteateret
2023-2025: 3 year stipend, The Relief Fund for Visual Artists
2022: 1 year stipend, The Relief Fund for Visual Artists
RESIDENCIES
2023: Artist in residence, Anthropogenic Soils, cross-disciplinary research project, University of Oslo
2022: Nature Scribbles and Flesh reads, Praksis
SOLO
2025, August: Mouth, Pharynx, Cuticle, NIBIO Svanhovd/ Sør-Varanger library
2023: Pure Filth, Smallest Gallery in Soho, London
2023: Pure Filth workshop, Wild Seeds, Podium, Oslo
2023: Pure Filth, Galleri 69, Oslo
2022: Underflate, SALT, Oslo
2022: HABITAT, Årvollåsen streinbrudd, Oslo, visning forprosjekt scenekunst, Oslo
2019: Black Box ++ selected by Ingeleiv Berstad
2018: c o c r e a t : e : u r e s, Vitenparken Campus Ås, NO
GROUP
2026: Anthropogenic Soils, Group exhibition, NOBA
2025, September: Necromantic Kitchen, Tenthaus, Oslo. In collaboration with Lexie Owen.
2024: Sluts are Chimera are Sluts are Chimera, Evryskin, Blå, Oslo
2023: Art+Food+Next generation, group show/workshops, RUCKA, Latvia
2022: States of Chimera, Ecophilia, Trøndelag Senter for samtidskunst
2022: Neurospora and Rhizopus, print, Riso i Norge, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
2021: Your everyday Exuberance, Are We Human, Galleri Format
2020 : s h i f t digital, digital.faen.today
2020: s h i f t at FAEN, at Meta.Morf , gallery KiT
2019: s h i f t at FAEN, Atelier Nord
2019: Samtid, PAO Steilene
2017: ‘CC’ Night Sea Journey, with Anne Cecilie Lie, Fredrikstad, NO
PUBLICATIONS
2023: Nature Scribbles and Flesh reads residency publication, launch at index, Stockholm
2022: cocreat:e:ures, visual essay. Antennae
2020: shift featured in magazince Neural Mag (IT)
2020: Arkitektur N, Curation for HAV
2020: Meta Morf Catalogue, s h i f t
2019 : Interview , Clot Magazine, (UK)
2019: Photo Essay, Carry the Fire Zine (UK)
TALKS AND PANELS
2024: Ritualistic lecture, Anthropogenic Soils PHD School, NIBIO Sør-Varanger/University of Oslo
2022: Panelist, Laterna festival, Hidden connections: visible ecologies, Blackbox, Oslo
2022: Artist presentation, Agenda: Forest, KHiO
2020: Panelist, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Galleri F15
2020: Panelist, Ars Electronica, Path Less Trodden
2019: Paper presentation, Multispecies Storytelling conference, Linneaus University, SE
OTHER RELEVANT POSITIONS
2018 – 2021: Artistic director, NOBA
EDUCATION
2017-2019 MA Scenography, Norwegian Theatre Academy, NTA, NO
2007-2010 BA Design for Performance, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
DETAILS
Annike Flo
annikeflo@gmail.com
www.annikeflo.com
https://www.instagram.com/cocreateures/