Sarah Kazmi
(Hun/henne)
Addresse: Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Kjeld Stubs gate 3, 0160 Oslo
Etasje: top floor
Rom nr: 3
Atelieret er åpent søndag 27. april kl 12-17
Sarah Kazmi (f.1990 Pakistan, hun/henne) er en interdisiplinær kunstner og forfatter som bor og arbeider i Oslo og Karachi. Hennes kunstneriske praksis beveger seg på tvers av forskning og visuell produksjon, og observerer forholdet mellom mat, språk og politikk, ofte i tilknytning til og sammen med lokalsamfunn og -miljøer. Hun jobber tekstuelt, hvor stilen hennes er visuell, rytmisk og performativ, og ofte formidlet i kombinasjon med lyd, video, installasjoner og performance.
Siden 2021 har hun vært et aktivt medlem av Verdensrommet, et kunstnerdrevet støttenettverk av og for kreative fagpersoner utenfor EU/EØS med base i Norge, hvor hun bidrar i stor grad med påvirkningsarbeid.
I 2019 ble Kazmi uteksaminert fra Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo med en MA i kunst og offentlig rom. I 2021 ble hun valgt ut til å delta i RAW Académie Session 8, ‘Tour de Table’, i Dakar, Senegal, og i 2023 ble arbeidet hennes omtalt i ‘Ocean Eyes’, den 7. utgaven av Coast Contemporary, kuratert av Valentinas Klimašauskas i Lofoten, Norge. I 2024 deltok hun i ‘Reading Ocean Imprints’-workshop ledet av Cooking Sections ved Foundation Botin, Spania; ved siden av separatutstillingen på Interkulturelt museum i Oslo, deltok hun i et gruppeutstilling Chronoplasticity på Raven Row, London. Arbeidene hennes ble nylig anskaffet av Oslo kommunes kunstsamling og er for tiden mottaker av det 2-årige gratis studioprogrammet ved Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo.
tegning. fotografi. installasjon. opptreden. tekst. spoken word. lyd. zine. collage. relasjonskunst. aktivisme
Clapping hands on the dastarkhwan by the fjord,
Photo-based installation, various sizes: Photograph 200cm by 209cm, carpets, 438 cm, 2024 (part of solo show "Cooking, time?"
Photo by Jahn Khür
Sound Text
Performance, 18min, Text written by Sarah Kazmi, sound work produced by Mudassir Shiekh, 2024
Photo by Karoline Hjorth
https://vimeo.com/1028820960
Recipe of/for a dream # 2
Drawing on mat papir with photographs and text,120cm by 10cm, group show Choronoplasticity or How to eat a Rolex, Raven Row, 2024, London, UK, curated by Juan Pablo and Lars Bang Larsen
Photo courtesy, Raven Row
Recipe of/for a Dream #3
performance with text in print and sound, 40min, commissioned by Volt, performed at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, 2024
Performance link: https://vimeo.com/1015682572?share=copy
Photo by Thor Brødreskift and Volt.
I mitt atelier
Jeg deler mer enn gjerne mitt kommende prosjekt/forskning om norsk og samisk innvandring til Nord-Amerika med dere. Jeg er nysgjerrig på å lære av deg om du har noen spor, familiehistorie, slektninger i USA eller verdifull kunnskap som prosjektet mitt kan dra nytte av? Det blir te, og litt snacks.
Planlagte prosjekter og utstillinger
Mars og August 2025 – Gruppeutstilling, Østlandsutstillingen, Nitja senter for samtidskunst og Galleri Fjordheim, Norge
Mai 2025 – Kuratorer av en bokhandel med tittelen Corner store no 3: Bordduk, men på gulvet – دسترخوان , på Blank Blank, Oslo, Norge.
Juni – August 2025 – Resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA
Sept – November 2025. Ny kommisjon for Bergen Assembly innkalt av BAS, Adania Shibli, Ravi Agarwal, Bergen, Norge
Oktober 2025. Foredragsforestilling ved Propellen Teater, Trondheim, Norge
Januar 2026. Ny kommisjon for Colomboscope tverrfaglig kunstfestival, Colombo, Srilanka
CV
Sarah Kazmi
Grønlandsleiret 6, Oslo/flat 1, Fountain Apartment, Karachi
+47 45915823
sarahkazmi17@gmail.com
DOB:17 December 1990
Academic Qualifications:
Dec 2014. B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine Arts) _ Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (I.V.S.A.A), Karachi, Pakistan
Oct – Dec 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 2021. Experimenter Learning Program led by Bani Abidi and Priya Sen, online course (experimenter)
February 2022. On Reading With _ GCAS-Jehān with Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Dublin (Online)
Stipends/Awards/Committee/
2025 – Østlandsutstillingens award, Oslo, Norway
2024-2026. Studio recipient of Atelier Kunsterforbundet, Oslo, Norway.
2024 – Project grant for Cooking, time, NBK
2024-2025. Vara/substitute member on State Scholarship Committee for Forbundet Frie Fotografer (FFF) Oslo, Norway
April 2023- Oslo Open Honorary Award_ Verdensrommet, 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 Covid 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
January 2026. New commission for Colomboscope interdisciplinary art festival, Colombo, Srilanka
Sept 2025. New commission for Bergen Assembly convened by BAS, Adania Shibli, Ravi Agarwal, Bergen, Norway
September 2024. Performance Recipe Of/for a Dream for Volt at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.
April – August 2024. Cooking, time? solo exhibition curated by Noor Bhangu at Intercultural Museum Oslo, Norway
December 2023. Live recitals of 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,
December 2014. Degree Show I.V.S.A.A.; Karachi, Pakistan
Group exhibitions/Projects:
May 2025 – Curating Corner store no 3: Tablecloth, but on the floor - دسترخوان , Blank Blank, Oslo, Norway
March 2025 – Group show, Østlandutstillingen, Nitja Art Centre and Galleri Fjordheim, Norway
January – March 2025. Group show by City of Oslo Art Collection, Old Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
October to December 2024. Group show Chronoplasticity /How to eat a Rolex , Raven Row, London, UK
January 2024. Live performance, Recipe of/for a Dream part of project I am Undone, HULIAS, Oslo, Norway
Oct 2023. Video screening at Gathering spells, BJCEM,Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée,
Sept 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 Educational Web, Kunstverein Hamburg, Ger 2023. Performance of The Sea We See is not Blue at Supermarket, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Sweden
May
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
Feb 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 reading at Research Pavilion,Venice Biennale
May 2019. Supermarket Flow, exhibition at KBH Kunsthal, Skive, Denmark
September 2018. Public Reading, Through the Tandoor, Flat Bread Society, Losæter, Oslo, Norway
Sep 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 :
September 2024: Reading Ocean Imprints workshop with Cooking sections, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
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.
June 2023. Roundtable Cooking in Migrant Assembly Book by Bobrikova & de Carmen, Oslo, Norway.
February – November 2023. Multilingual writing workshop with Leser søker bok, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, Norway
Jan – March 2023. Artis residency 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 – Oct 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:
February 2025. Performative presentation part of Fear Eats the Soul series at Kunstnernes Hus Cinema, Oslo, Norway
February 2025. Cross-disciplinary course for BAS students, Bergen Assembly, Bergen Norway.
October 2024. Talk: Representation in communication, archive and collection seminar, Vestfold museum, Sandefjord
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, Norway.
May 2023. I CONSENT by 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 and 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
Work Experience:
April 2021- ongoing. Policy Advocacy for Verdensrommet, Oslo, Norway
Nov 2020 – March 2022. Editorial board member, HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
March 2016 – December 2016: Artist in Research, Gadap sessions by Karachi Lajamia, Karachi, Pakistan
Jan 2015 – Dec 2016. Teaching Assistant (Drawing /Writing) at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi
August 2013. Research Intern at Tentative Collective (Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema) , Karachi, Pakistan
Kazmi’s works were recently acquired by the City of Oslo Art Collection and she is currently a beneficiary of the two-year free studio programme at Atelier Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway.