Eline Benjaminsen
(She/her)
Address: Ekely, Jarlsborgveien 14, 0377 Oslo
Floor: 1
Room number: Lille atelier
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
My works are attempts at observing the always weird, often violent and mostly invisible spaces where market fundamentalism and ecological crisis meet. A camera-based ‘follow-the-money’ approach fuses techniques associated with a documentary photography tradition and experimental representations. Video works, print- and publication-making are central within my practice. I collaborate with a variety of platforms and individuals, from researchers and activists to the financial press. Recent exhibits of my work include Oslo Kunstforening (NO), Radius Centre for Art and Ecology (NL), Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (NL) and KunstHaus Wien (AUST).
Photography and video
'The Flora of Finance' at Oslo Kunstforening (14.11.24-26.01.25). Video: 'Footprints in the Valley' by Eline Benjaminsen & Elias Kimaiyo (2024, 4K, 8:30 min). Photo: Tor S. Ulstein.
Installation of "Where the money is made: Surfaces of algorithmic capital" Eline Benjaminsen (2017), Heden Gallery, The Hague, 2018.
'The Flora of Finance' at Oslo Kunstforening (14.11.24-26.01.25). Photo: Tor S. Ulstein.
Video still from ’The Flora: Hedging (a.k.a hedge heist)' - Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey, 2024 (4K, 11.30 min)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6xzcio18xyfrodb/Wherethemoneyismade_ElineBenjaminsen_edit2020.mp4?dl=0
In my studio
I will be showing the process going into an ongoing research project as well as recent video works and prints.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Mars-aug 2025: Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Exhibited work: Footprints in the Valley. In collaboration with Elias Kimaiyo.
June 2025: Old Munch Museum, Oslo.
Prisms of Myopia, with Bjørka photography collective. Curated by Monica Holmen.
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Selected projects
Footprints in the Valley (2020-) Collapsed Mythologies (2024) Where the money is made (2017)
Publications, books
2017
Where the money is made – surfaces of algorithmic capital
2023
Collapsed Mythologies – a Geofinancial Atlas. In collaboration with Dayna Casey
Education
2017 BA in photography, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
Selected exhibitions
14.11.24-01.25
The Flora of Finance
Oslo Kunstforening, Sparebankstiftelsen DnB Stipendutstilling, group
11.10.-27.10.24
Bjørka Fotokollektiv at Oslo Negativ
photography festival
(curated by Monica Holmen), group
05.04.-11.08.24
Footprints in the Valley
Klima Biennale Wien, KUNST HAUS WIEN
(curated by Sophie Haslinger), group
24.2.-25.5.2024
Collapsed Mythologies
RADIUS Centre for Contemporary Art and Ecology (curated by: Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk & Sergi Pera Rusca), group
21.4.2023-15.2.2024
Where the money is made, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Someone is Getting Rich
(curated by Carrie Pilto), group
3-5.2022
Footprints in the Valley
Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim (curated by: Iris Sikking) group
12.2021-2.2022
Footprints in the Valley, Gallery ARWE, Gouda, group
11.2021
Footprints in the Valley,
Atelier Néerlandais, Fotodok/Blurring the Lines, Paris, (curated by: Jenny Smets) group
5.2021- 8.2021
Collapsed Mythologies
Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Dudelange, (curated by: Daniela del Fabbro) solo
7.2021
Footprints in the Valley
Prospects: Mondriaan toent tallent, Art Rotterdam (curated by: Johan Gustavsson) group
5.2021
Where the money is made
Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, group 6.9.2019-13.10.2019
Footprints in the Valley, The Image is our Voice (curated by: Iris Sikking), Melkweg, Amsterdam, group
29.3.2019-27.4.2019
Where the money is made, Pennings Gallery, Eindhoven, group
12.4.2019-16.6.2019
Where the money is made, Digital Dilemma Bureau Europa, Maastricht (curated by: Vincent Thornhill, Guillemette Legrand, Saskia van Stein), group
21.2.2018-10.03.2019
Radio, Techno, Fossil, i samarbeid with Sophie Dyer and Migrant Journal, Parallel Crossings, Artefact, Leuven, group
01.12.2018-03.01.2019
Where the money is made, festival: The Wind of Time (curated by: Jerome Sother), Lianzhou Photo, group
23.11.2018-23.02.2019
Where the money is made, Who’s in Control? (curated by: Rob Wetzer), Fotodok, Utrecht, group
15.11.2018-15.01.2019
Notes on apocalypse fatigue, OpZicht,
Stroom, The Hague, solo
25.05.2018-08.07.2018
Where the money is made, Heden gallery,
The Hague, duo m. Lisa van Casand
19.05.2018-15.07.2018
Where the money is made, My Practice My Politics (curated by: Saskia van Stein, Agata Jaworska), Stroom, The Hague, group
17.04.2018-23.04.2018
Where the money is made, My Practice My Politics (Curated by: Saskia van Stein and Agata Jaworska), Salone del Mobile, Milan, group
14.05.2018-04.06.2018
Where the money is made, festival: Spaces of Flows (Curated by: Iris Sikking), Krakow Photomonth, group
04.02.2018 25.03.2018
Where the money is made, award show: Canon Zilveren Camera, Museum Hilversum, group
07.11.2017-18.11.2017
Where the money is made, Blurring the
Lines (Curated by: Steve Bisson, Rodrigo Orrantia),
College of Art, Paris, group
16.09.2017 – 29.10.2017
Where the money is made, Steenbergen Stipendium, Nederlands Fotomuseum, group
Prizes
Sparebankstiftelsen DnB Art Stipend 2024
Centre National de l’Audiovisuel Residency Award 2019
Steenbergen Stipendium 2017
Residencies
2025
Ekely, Oslo
2023
Jachére, Halle aux Sucre, Duinkirk
2020-2021
Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg
2018
Dockingstation, Amsterdam
Résidence Henriette Sanglard, Sveits
Stipends and funding
2025
-Art Council Norway, Kulturrådet: 4 years working stipend
2024
-Stimuleringsfonds Voucher (m/Dayna Casey)
2022
-Art Council Norway, Kulturrådet: 3 years working stipend
-Stimuleringsfonds, publication grant Stroom Kunstprojekten, publication grant 2021
-Mondriaan Corona Bijdrage, work stipend
2020
-Stroom Spot, project grant
2019
-Mondriaan Jong Talent, work stipend Stroom Invest, project grant
-Stroom Pro:Onderzoek, research grant
Presentations, talks
27.5.2024
Klima Biennale Vienna
Footprints in the Valley with Elias Kimaiyo
14.3.2024
Paul Mellon Centre, London
Extractivism/Activism, seminar
Footprints in the Valley with Elias Kimaiyo
9.10.2021
Uncertainty Seminars, Stroom;
There, There, Footprints in the Valley with
Elias Kimaiyo, Stroom Den Haag
10.6.2021
Symposium Documentary Futures: New Ecologies, Science and Aesthetics, Footprints in the Valley with Elias Kimaiyo. University of South Wales
02.02.2019
Presentasjon av Where the money is made, World Press Photo, WTC, Rotterdam 25-28.01.2019
Artist presentation and reviews, PLATFORM, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur 02.12.2018
Panel: Investigative Narratives.
Lianzhou Foto, Lianzhou
23.11.2018
Presentasjon: A curious reading of the photobook market as market place, The Photobook of the Future,
Unseen Bookmarket, Amsterdam
06.07.2018
Presentasjon: Radio, Techno, Fossil. With Sophie Dyer, Sascha Engelman and Victoria Douka-Doukoupolou
(oneacre.online), Melly, Rotterdam
26.05.2018
Panel: Data and Power.
Krakow Photomonth, Krakow
01.02.2018
Intervju: De Donkere Kamer #34
Museum Hilversum, Hilversum
23.11.2017
Presentasjon: Where the money is made, Pioneers, BNO IMG LAB, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
09.12.2017
Presentasjon av Where the money is made, Time/Efficiency/Productivity , Bar Talk, The Hague
22.11.2017
Intervju: De Donkere Kamer #13
Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam
14.09.2017
Presentasjon: Where the money is
made, Fotodok Bookclub, Utrecht
Selected articles
11.2023
Trigger Magazine, FOMU Antwerpen
Trunk Memories and Surrealist Photosynthesis: Records of Oil Optics at an Abandoned BP Town 01.11.2020
Yet Magazine
Footprints in the Valley
Written by George King
09.07.2020
Jegens and Tevens
Intervju with Indra Devriendt
27.8.2020
De Correspondent, Footprints in the Valley, journalist: Bart Creezee
29.06.2018
oneacre.online, Radio, Techno, Fossil, with Sophie Dyer og Sasha Engelman
26.05.2017
Migrant Journal, Spectral Typographies, with Sophie
Dyer, Wired Capital
28.01.2017
Het Financieele Dagblad
Eiffeltorens voor de flitshandel, with
Joost Dobber og Titus Knegtel