About
Annike Flo works cross disciplinary between art, scenography and costume. Inspired by the anthropocene as a concept her work broadly investigates what it means to create in our current era, producing work based around giving up “human” space and decentering the human. By including other beings who do their own worlding in staged spatial events, together with a human audience and herself, her work plays with the fusing of reality and performance to conjure new realities. Her projects are often inspired by research, materials and methods from both the humanities and life sciences which she mixes with materials such as textiles and ceramics. Annike often collaborates with researchers and practitioners from other fields such as biology and ecology.
Annike is currently artist in residence at Anthropogenic soils, University of Oslo, as well as working with Verdensteateret and all female black metal trio Witch Club Satan. She has previously exhibited at Galleri Format, Meta.Morf and Atelier Nord, and ran Norwegian BioArt Arena, a new project by Vitenparken Ås, from 2018 to 2021. As a scenographer and costume designer she has worked with Verdensteateret, Witch Club Satan, Punch Drunk, Secret Cinema, Another and Love magazines, MiuMiu and more. Annike holds a MA in scenography at Norwegian Theatre Academy, and a BA in Costume for Performance at London college of fashion, University of the Arts London.
CV
Recent
2023- 2026 Anthropogenic Soils research project, University of Oslo + NOBA
2023 Pure Filth, Gallery 69 (NO), The smallest gallery in soho (UK)
2022 Antennae magazine fungi issue, June 2021, visual essay, selected by Anna Tsing and Merlin Sheldrake.
2022 Underflate, public artwork in collaboration with KINICO architects, July-September, SALT (NO)
2022 + Habitat +, collaboration with design and art historian Malin Graesse, and biologist Hanna Bjørgaas, Pre-project supported by Arts Council Norway
2022 Invisible Matters, Solo exhibition (currently Covid postponed) The Smallest Gallery in Soho (UK)
2022 KHiO, Agenda Art and Craft: The Natural State of the Art, 21.01, Artist presentation
2021 kinships, Scenographer for Øyteateret, December, Dansens Hus, Oslo.
2021 Your Everyday Exhuberance, Group exhibition Are we human? Gallery Format, Oslo.
2021 ~ * Metaorganismisk * ~ , Sculptural Agar workshop for 4th-7th grade, DKS Lab Agder (NO)
Press + Texts + Talks
2022 Antennae magazine fungi issue, November 2021, visual essay cocreat:e:ures , selected by Anna Tsing and Merlin Sheldrake.
2022 KHiO, Agenda Art and Craft: The Natural State of the Art, 21.01, Artist presentation
2021 Norsk Kunstårbok, feature of s h i f t d i g i t a l in Elisabeth Nesheim’s conversation with professor Jill Walker Rettberg.
2021 PAO 7 Years, by Performance Art Oslo. Feature of Samtid at PAO Steilene 2019.
2021 Are We Human? Book, Galleri Format 30th birthday publication
2020 Galleri F15, Talk, Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, panelist (NO)
2020 Arkitektur N, 3/2020, Der land møter vann, written by Åshild Mienna, on HAV at NOBA by Elin T. Sørensen, curation Annike Flo
2020 Digital Wild anthology, Espen Gangvik/Zane Cerpina, Meta.Morf (NO)
2019 Carry the Fire, cocreat:e:ures/reflections, text, Drew Beckett (UK)
2019 Clot Magazine, Scenographic Perspectives of the Antropocene, Clot magazine, written by Tina Gorjanc (UK)
2019 Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH), University of Oslo, presentation cocreat:e:ures (2018) (NO)
2019 Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, cocreat:e:ures, presentation, Linnæus University, Växjö (SE)
Grants + Residencies
2023 Anthropogenic Soils residency, University of Oslo + NOBA
2023 3 year artist stipend, BKH (NO)
2022 1 year artist stipend, BKV (NO)
2022 Praksis, R21 - Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads, With Kajsa Dahlberg and Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation,
2021 Arts Council Norway, Exhibition support for newly established artists, Your Everyday Exhuberance, Galleri Format.
2020 Forprosjekt for Scenekunst, Arts Council Norway, Pre-project +HABITAT+ , trans disciplinary collaboration between Hannah Bjørgaas, Annike Flo and Malin Graesse
2019 Environment- and climate crisis fund, Arts Council Norway, Project support for s h i f t
2019 Exhibition support for newly established artists, Arts Council Norway, s h i f t
2019 Diverse stipend for newly educated artists, Arts Council Norway
2019 Project support, Norske Billedkunstneres Vederlagsfond, s h i f t
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
Link to costume and set-design work
Exhibitions + Performances
Solo
2023 Pure Filth, The Smallest Gallery in Soho (UK)
2023 Pure Filth, Galleri 69 (NO)
2023 Pure Filth workshop, Podium (NO)
2022 Underflate, public artwork in collaboration with KINICO architects, July-September, SALT (NO)
2022 Invisible matters, The Smallest Gallery in Soho (Covid postponed) (UK)
2019 ??? , PlussPluss, Blackbox Theatre (NO)
2018 Cocreat:e:ures, Vitenparken Campus Ås (NO)
2018 ??? , Deichmanske Tøyen (NO)
Group
2021 Are We Human? , Your Everyday Exhuberance, installation, Galleri Format (NO)
2021 Kinships, Scenographer for Øyteateret, December, Dansens Hus, Oslo.
2020 FAEN DIGITAL, s h i f t digital, digital artwork, wwww.faen.today
2020 Meta.Morf, s h i f t , Galleri KiT (NO)
2019 FAEN, s h i f t , Atelier Nord (NO)
2019 Entanglements, Samtid, performance, Performance Art Oslo Steilene.
2019 Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, cocreat:e:ures, screening, Linnæus University, Växjö (SE)
2017 MASHGAL, group scenography, Meteor Festival (NO)
2017 Night Sea Journey, CC, scenography collaboration with Anne Cecilie Lie, Østfold Kulturutvikling (NO)
Curation + Organisation
2019-21 Norwegian BioArt Arena (NOBA) Project manager, Vitenparken Campus Ås (NO)
2020 HAV crossdisciplinary talk with Anne Beate Hovind, Elin T. Sørensen and Eli Rinde, organiser, NOBA (NO)
2020 Ars Electronica, organizer, garden “Path less trodden”, NOBA (NO)
2020 HAV by Elin T. Sørensen, Exhibition curator, NOBA (NO)
2019 Art in the Park, organiser, Artist talk, NOBA (NO)
2019 Thinking Through Matter: BioArt in a contemporary Norwegian Context, organizer, NOBA (NO)
2018 Politics of Space, Co-organiser, Symposium, Norwegian Theatre Academy, NTA (NO)
2018 Between the Lines, co-curator, exhibition, Østfold University College (NO)
2017 Tentacular Thinking, co-organiser/presenter, symposium, Norwegian Theatre Academy, NTA (NO)
Teaching + Workshops
2023 Metabolic Union, Streetwear in collaboration with the oyster mushroom, workshop, Rucka (LV)
2023 Friend: Unknown, yeast sculpture workshop, RUCKA (LV)
2021 ~ * Metaorganismisk * ~ , Sculptural Agar workshop, DKS Lab Agder (NO)
2020 Treverk, co-organiser, art/science workshop, NOBA (NO)
2018 Kunst og økosystemer, co-organiser, artworkshop for children 3-10, Vitenparken Campus Ås
2018 Anthropocene Art Lab, teacher, 3 day workshop, Norwegian Theatre Academy, NTA.
2016 Industry evaluation, Design for Performance, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London
2016 Industry speaker, Design for Performance, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London