Ane Hjort Guttu
Ane Hjort Guttu (b. 1971) is an artist living in Oslo. She works in a variety of media, but has in recent years mainly concentrated on film and video works, ranging from investigative documentary to poetic fiction. Guttu’s practice is concerned with individuals' everyday operation within larger structures – institutions of labour, education or politics – that define and interpellate subjectivities. Among recurrent themes in her work are the relationship between freedom and power, economy and the public space, social change and limits of action. Between 2011 and 2016 she directed various portrait films where a central conflict reappears: an individual dissident struggling to handle oppressive social structures. Guttu is also active as a curator and writer.
Guttu´s most recent exhibitions and projects include the two solo exhibitions eating or opening a window or just walking dully along, Bergen International Festival Exhibition 2015, Bergen Kunsthall; and Time Passes, South London Gallery, UK, 2015. In 2016, her work has been included in the exhibitions Identity, National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), Ukraine 2016; the 11th Gwangju biennale, South Korea; Back to the Sandbox, Reykjavik Art Museum; Playing By The Rules, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK, as well as in the film festivals Rotterdam Film Festival, The Netherlands; Images Festival, Toronto, Canada; Nordic Panorama, Sweden, Doc Fortnight, MoMA New York, Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden and CPH:Dox; Denmark, Kasseler Dokfest and DocPoint Helsinki, among others.
