Liv Brissach is the Springbrett OPEN CALL 2025 recipient
January 29, 2025
The jury for the second edition of Springbrett is pleased to award the 2025 project to Liv Brissach, who will curate an exhibition at Kistefos during this year’s season.
The Springbrett 2025 jury states:
“Brissach presented a precise and pertinent exhibition concept, centered on art works that explore themes of fire and destruction. The proposal skillfully integrates the overarching themes of this year’s artistic program at Kistefos—The Corporeal and Intersectionality—with contemporary urgencies such as war, decolonization, and the climate crisis.
The candidate has shown a strong commitment to leveraging collection-based curatorial practices and has proposed a comprehensive educational program tailored to the target audience. The jury is confident in Brissach’s ability to further refine their distinct curatorial voice within an international context.
Springbrett is dedicated to nurturing new talent in the field of curating while developing individual skills and professional networks. The jury unanimously agrees that these goals will be realized through this year’s recipient.”
Ring of Fire: The Poetry of Destruction and Renewal
The Pacific Ring of Fire is a belt of volcanoes and seismic sites that outlines the Pacific Ocean. Its tectonic forces have inspired not only stories and poetry, but entire cosmologies about the Earth’s destruction and renewal since time immemorial. The exhibition Ring of Fire: The Poetry of Destruction and Renewal takes the formal elements of this tectonic phenomenon as its starting point – the fire and the circle – to platform artistic investigations of fire and destruction, and their relationship to cyclicality today. These investigations foreground Indigenous, western and non-western cosmologies and ideas in relation to contemporary discourse on war, decoloniality and environmental destruction pertinent to today’s complex geopolitical terrain.
Liv Brissach (they/them) is Curator at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum / Davvi Norgga Dáiddamusea. They have previously worked as Curator of Contemporary Art at MUNCH, as Project Officer at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and as a producer at KORO – Public Art Norway. Brissach was co-curator of the MUNCH Triennale – The Machine is Us (2022) and assistant curator for The Sámi Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2022. They trained as an art historian at University College London (UCL) and the University of Oslo, and their texts can be found in publications by MUNCH, OCA, Artes Mundi, and Fotogalleriet.
Brissach will curate an exhibition on the second floor of Nybruket Gallery sourced from Christen Sveaas’ Art Foundation, titled Ring of Fire: The Poetry of Destruction and Renewal. The Pacific Ring of Fire is a belt of volcanoes and seismic sites that outlines the Pacific Ocean. Its tectonic forces have inspired not only stories and poetry, but entire cosmologies about the Earth’s destruction and renewal since time immemorial. Brissach’s exhibition concept takes the formal elements of this tectonic phenomenon as its starting point – the fire and the circle – to platform artistic investigations of fire and destruction, and their relationship to cyclicality today.
The jury:
The jury is comprised of key figures from the Norwegian and international art and culture scene:
Dr Isabella Maidment – Curator, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Ruben Steinum – Director, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
Apachiya Wanthiang – Artist
William Flatmo – Director, Christen Sveaas' Art Collection
Ring of Fire: The Poetry of Destruction and Renewal opens on the second floor of Nybruket Gallery at Kistefos June 2025. The project is supported by funding from Sparebankstiftelsen DNB.