Biography

A Norwegian interdisciplinary artist and performer whose practice moves between installation, choreography, sculpture, performance, drawing, and participatory interventions. She recently completed a Master’s degree in Art and Public Space at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2025). She has contributed to works with Geir Hytten, Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt, Dønning & Landing, as well as musician and researcher Cagri Erdem. She has also facilitated collaborative platforms and projects through Praxis Oslo. Katja is currently supported by a three-year working grant from the Norwegian Cultural Directorate, running until spring 2026.

At the core of her practice is the use of scores as a collaborative framework for sharing and negotiating artistic agency. Grounded in feminist and embodied perspectives, her work explores how unconventional public spaces can cultivate presence, attention, and collaboration.

Her works often take the form of a tripartite constellation: live actions, sculptural elements, and instruction-based scores. Using scores as an entry point for engaging with new groups, spaces, or materials, she creates room for spontaneity and dialogue with the surrounding environment. Drawing and dancing function as forms of site-sensitive mapping - responding to atmospheres, environments, and moods, while approaches emphasizing listening and guide encounters with both human and more-than-human actors.

Artistic project

A site-sensitive work in which a group of mothers performs a choreographic score in public spaces. The work explores the everyday-rituals that form around infant sleep and how women navigate the role of caregiver in public environments, both alone and collectively.

The piece functions as a parade for sleep and motherhood, a slow-moving sound-shower, and a sculpture in motion. Inspired by punk aesthetics and superhero iconography, the mothers wear backpacks with extra arms and fold-out hoods. 

In a broader context, the work highlights the value of care practices and questions why care labor is often treated as undervalued or deficit-producing in today’s society. EmmaHolten argues in Underskudd(2024) that economic language focused on what “pays-off” has systematically overlooked women’s care work since the Enlightenment.

 The choreography functions as an installation that edits bodily experience and challenges established social structures. Textiles shaped as extra arms create both a visual and physical weave between mothers and strollers, opening up new ways of moving. The soft materials both enable and restrict movement, a clear physical consequence. These bodily-constraints serve as a strategy for reimagining sociocultural structures. As a utopian-approach, the project seeks to open a space where care can be thought beyond conventional frames.

Format: choreographic score and performative walk

Size of audience: 30-60 people 

Specific location: urban city environment, preferably with some “challenges” like stairs, downfall, cobblestones, crowded areas and parks

Timing/duration: 30- 5 min live-action, two to three times during one day