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Hannah Heilmann, Albert Mertz, Natalie Price Hafslund, Jonathan Monk, David Shrigley, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Tora Dalseng, Goodiepal

Barbara

30–31 May 2026

The first edition of the artist-run fair Barbara brought together Oslo’s artist run spaces under one roof (let’s hope it won’t be the last.)

Featuring:
 Centralbanken, 69, Hulias, K4, Pachinko, Podium, Royal Flux Gallery, Salgshallen, Sandaker Trialektek, Schutzhaus, SNAILS, Trolldays & Trollnights, Spjeld, Suvatne & Erakovic, Van Etten

Hannah Heilmann (b. 1978, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and is an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Heilmann co-founded the artist-run exhibition space TOVES (2010–2017) and the artist collective Ingen Frygt (2001–2010). She has received awards from the Danish Arts Foundation and has exhibited and performed at numerous institutions in Denmark and internationally, including Esbjerg Art Museum, Kunsthal Aarhus, HEART in Herning, and Manifesta 11 in Zurich

Albert Mertz (1920–1990, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish artist, filmmaker and critic. He worked with painting, film, collage and objects, often through his signature “red+blue proposition”.

Natalie Price Hafslund (b. 1987 Devon UK) is a British-Norwegian visual artist working with text, sculpture and performance. She studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London and Hypnosis at the UK college of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. Price Hafslund often works with found objects: material, emotional and social which she reconfigures, interested in the threshold between our inside and outside worlds and that in which we might share with each other.

Tora Dalseng (b. 1982, Tromsø, Norway) lives and works in Oslo. Solo exhibitions include "LUCKY NIGHT" at Noplace, Oslo; "Psycho Analytic" at Oslo Utmark; “X4" at Kunsthall Stavanger; "Snow White" at Podium, Oslo; and “Symmetry" at UKS, Oslo. Group shows include "SELFLESSNESS" at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; "Uummannarsuaq" at 1857, Oslo; "The 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennale" at Vigeland-museet, Oslo; "DNB Savings Bank Foundation Artist Grant" at Oslo Kunstforening; "Walk like a giant" at QB Gallery, Oslo; and "Pattern Drill" at Hacienda, Zürich.

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish conceptual artist, who works in a variety of media, from sculpture and installation art to performance art and public intervention. He has studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1987 to 1994, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, Paris, France, from 1992 to 1993.

Jonathan Monk (born in 1969, Leicester) lives and works in Berlin. He received his BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). Notable solo exhibitions have been held at Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2025); CCA (Tel Aviv, 2019); KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Berlin, 2018); Vox (Montreal, 2017); The Gallery at De Montfort University (Leicester, 2017); Kunsthaus Baselland (Muttenz, 2016); MACRO (Rome, 2015); Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) (Dublin, 2014); Centro De Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) (Málaga, 2013); Kunstraum Dornbirn, (2013); Palais de Tokyo and Musee d’Art Moderne (Paris, 2008); Kunstverein Hannover (2006); Institute of Contemporary Art, (London, 2005); and Museum Kunstpalast, (Dusseldorf, 2003).

David Shrigley (born 17 September 1968) is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015. Shrigley first came to prominence in the 1990s for his distinct line drawings, which often deal with witty, surreal and darkly humorous subject matter and are rendered in a rough, almost childlike style. Alongside his illustration work, Shrigley is also a noted painter, sculptor, filmmaker and photographer, and has recorded spoken word albums of his writing and poetry.

Goodiepal, whose given name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, is a Danish/Faroese experimental electronic musician, performance artist, composer, lecturer, and horologist. His work engages with the past, present, and future of computer music, compositional practices and resonance computing, and his concept of Radical Computer Music. His tours have included 150 universities internationally. Goodiepal has exhibited widely, including exhibitions at Museet for Samtidskunst (DK), Statens Museum for Kunst (DK), Kunsthall Oslo (NO), Ormston House (IE). At the time of writing, he has released 44 albums and countless sound works.

Hannah Heilmann, Albert Mertz, Natalie Price Hafslund, Jonathan Monk, David Shrigley, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Tora Dalseng, Goodiepal, BarbaraHannah Heilmann, Albert Mertz, Natalie Price Hafslund, Jonathan Monk, David Shrigley, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Tora Dalseng, Goodiepal, Barbara