Tenthaus is an art collective and artist-run space in Oslo initiated in 2009. Its profile is characterized by an open, process-oriented form of participation from an internationally orientated group of artists. The context of contemporary art practice is re-examined through exhibitions as well as a broader field of discursive activity such as radio, dinners, workshops for youth, residency, events and collaborations.
Tenthaus has developed from an artist in school project to encompass a project room and exhibition space using socially engaged art as a platform for expanding and exploring our practice. Tenthaus wishes to uphold its work with children and youth as well seek to find other relevant contexts to expand and explore our socially engaged practice.
Tenthaus Board of Directors: Helen Eriksen – Director of the board, Trine Farmen Christensen, Miriam Firesewra Berhane Haile, Ebba Moi, Stefan Schröder
Facilities and accessibility
We at Tenthaus are aware of the challenges that the access can bring to our physical space (gallery at Maridalsveien 3) during exhibitions and/or workshops. Therefore we put on disposition for any help needed by our visitors in case of limitations on the accessibility.
Please reach out to us via e-mail or Social Media in case you need assistance. We can also accommodate or arrange a visit to our exhibitions outside the opening hours.
Mail: team@tenthaus.no
Find us also on Facebook and Instagram
Tenthaus is supported by the Norwegian Arts Council and Oslo kommune.
JOANNA CHIA-YU LIN
Project coordinator at Tenthaus
Joanna Chia-yu Lin is a visual artist based in Oslo. Her works reinforce the subtle changes in everyday moments, where the time passing becomes abstract, stretchy and fluid. She works with photography, painting, textile, installations, labours and time.
Joanna Chia-yu Lin was born and raised in Taiwan. She has a master’s degree in medium and materials-based art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the National Taiwan Normal University.
joanna@tenthaus.no
VALENTINA MARTINEZ
P1 – Project Coordinator / Communications and Social Media
Valentina is a dance artist and a researcher in artivism, esthetics, and temporary urbanism. She has a doctorate in anthropology, information and communication science from the Sorbonne University in Paris. Her work, both within art and esthetic research and dance is focused on the subject of collective meeting spaces, relational and somatic esthetics, performativity, and other participatory methods. She is currently exploring methodologies of participation (medvirkning) and socially-engaged art in placemaking processes, namely within the field of dance and choreography.
valentina@tenthaus.no
WEI TING TSENG/ZENG
Radio/ Project coordinator at Tenthaus
Wei Ting Tseng/Zeng is a cellist, composer, and teacher based in Oslo. She was born and raised in Taiwan, where she studied Performance in Classical Music at National Taiwan Normal University and worked as cellist in both orchestras and chambers.
Though her roots are classical – Wei Ting’s musical interests span the globe, and embrace a wide range of improvisational traditions. She has worked with musicians including Ayumi Tanaka, Jo Berger Myre, Jo David Meyer Lysne, Kjetil Jerve and more.
weiting@tenthaus.no
radio@tenthaus.no
ADRIANA CALDERON
Communications and Social Media Manager. Responsible for external communications at Tenthaus. (On leave)
Adriana is a media and communications professional working across disciplines. She focuses on visual communication to both promote and document artistic performances and exhibitions. Her working experience include journalism, concept development, film & photo production.
She holds a BA in media and communications from Colombia and a certification in digital content production from Høyskole Kristiania in Norway.
Adry@tenthaus.no
JACKY JAAN-YUAN KUO
Responsible for publishing and photographic documentation at Tenthaus.
Jacky is a visual artist working across photography, text, installation, and site-specific cleaning gestures. Memory. It is the source of his knowledge, the vehicle in which he approaches the correlation between body, family, pictorial experience, object, and space. He creates scenarios where the paradoxes of intimacy, identity insecurity, estrangement, and the latent violence of patriarchal structure are absurdly captured, exposed, cleaned. (Read More Here)
jacky@tenthaus.no
SHAHRZAD MALEKIAN
Aspirant and Curators’ Assistant at Tenthaus
Shahrzad is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, performance and sculpture/installation. By using the body as a tool for exploration and as a medium, her practice explores the body in a social, cultural, and political context. In her practice-based research, she adopts collaborative and participatory approaches to explore performativity and interaction both in art institutions and public spaces. Here you can find out more about her work.
shahrzad@tenthaus.no
NIKHIL VETTUKATIL
Coordinator/technician for Radio Tenthaus.
Nikhil is an artist and writer working across disciplines with a range of mediums including sound, video, sculpture, performance, text, and installation. Nikhil sees his work as situated between the fields of Fine Art and Philosophy, as both an experimental artistic practice and a conceptual and philosophical enquiry.
radio@tenthaus.no
IDA UVAAS
General responsible for accounts and admin at Tenthaus, P1 coordinator (On leave)
Ida is a dance artist from Larvik, Norway. She holds an MFA in Art and Public Space from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and BA (hons) Dance Theatre from Laban in London, where she lived and worked for many years, before relocating to Oslo. She is interested in collaborative and multi-disciplinary processes, and her work is often site-, time- and/or audience specific.
ida@tenthaus.no
MECHU RAPELA
Mechu is a member of Tenthaus collective. In organisational terms she is the managing director, in the collectives terms, she is the driver. Her role is to keep everyone on the path they need to follow, knowing when to push forward, step aside or stop to recalibrate the route.
Mechu was born and raised in Cordoba, Argentina. She received her education at UiO, where she graduated with a MA in Art History.
mechu@tenthaus.no
STEFAN SCHRÖDER
Founding member of Tenthaus, Board member
Stefan is a visual artist and curator based in Oslo. He was born and raised in Dresden, Germany. After an education in construction, he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (GER) and The School of Fine Art and Design St. Joost, Breda (NL).
His artistic production includes various projects in the public sector as well as works based on drawing, painting and photography. His work is open for participation through sharing of ideas and resources.
stefan@tenthaus.no
HELEN ERIKSEN
Founding member of Tenthaus, Director of the board
Helen is a visual artist was born in and raised in Liverpool UK. Eriksen is a visual artist and educator living and working in Oslo. She studied literature and languages at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, before studying visual art at the National Art Academy in Oslo, Norway and public art at the Oslo School of Architecture.
„My work started as a sculptural investigation of space but has become increasingly orientated towards the investigation of the artist´s role within society.„ Website
helen@tenthaus.no
EBBA MOI
Founding member of Tenthaus, board member, member of Radiorådet.
Ebba is a visual artist graduated from Trondheim Art Academy in 1999. She works mainly with socially engaged art based on participation. Frequently engaging within public space, her focus lies in process, where key words are collaborative participation, direct dialogue and time as material.
Moi is also collaborating with Anna Carin Hedberg in the longterm collaboration HedbergMoi.
ebba@tenthaus.no
THOMAS BENEDICT HOLTH
Architect for P1 mobile studio
Thomas is an independent architect from Lillesand, Norway. He studied at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallès (ETSAV) in Spain. He’s interested in social/participative projects, parametric driven design and bioclimatic architecture. He has experience within all scales from small mobile projects to larger scale buildings.
thomas@tenthaus.no
HAMZA ALI
Regular weekend host at Tenthaus
Hamza is 22 years old, attends Hellerud upper secondary school on the IT program and is a former student from Hersleb high school’s department of primary school education. Lives at Furuset in Oslo.
Instagram: @whois_hamza
STAN D’HAENE
Project coordinator at Tenthaus.
Stan is a water based artist from Belgium. He works with gardening and lifestyle as artistic media to explore the value of process-oriented art, open scripts and the spiritual experience of the journey. The audience is invited to travel along and interact with the rituals, vernacular, myth, nomadic phenomena and trends that are synthesized in his work. More here.
stan@tenthaus.no
MATILDE BALATTI
Project coordinator at Tenthaus with responsibility for workshop and school contacts.
Matilde is a MA student in Art and Cultural Management at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. She was born in the North of Italy where she studied Art History at the University of Milan, with a focus on contemporary art. She has long experience working in galleries both in Milan and Lecco (Italy)
matilde@tenthaus.no
SIRI AUSTEEN
Member of Radiorådet
Siri is a sound artist concerned with the relationship between sound, place and identity, working at the intersection of audio and visual art. Her interest in process-oriented art and extended vocal techniques in the early 80s became a bridge over to time-based media such as sound. Today her work focuses on the impact various listening strategies have on our reception of reality and the personal experience of an investigative and sensory self. Relations between individual, collective and ecological structures often form an underlying focus in her work.
siri.austeen@gmail.com
JAMES FINUCANE
Member of Radiorådet.
James is a street artist and art producer originally from the UK, and moved to Norway in 2015 to run Nuart Festival in Stavanger before relocating to Oslo in 2018.
He is the founder and creative director of Desire Lines Festival, Street Art Oslo and Subvertising Norway.
jamesfinucane86@gmail.com
MEERA M. KAUR
Former member of the Tenthaus collective.
Meera is an artist and art mediator with MA for Art in Society, OsloMet and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in general teacher training programme and as well as in Art and Design. She is passionate about art dissemination, and her thesis was on conveying public art through gamification as a form of art mediation. Her responsibility at Tenthaus has been communication, web and social media in addition to being project coordinator for P1 mobile studio.
