Works
Video-based work

Her hvor trikken går 
/here where the tram now travels
03:26
2025 Graduating solo exhibition exploring my obsessive interest in the Oslo tram that spanned over a year. The video is a norwegian text that talks about the project, the english translation was made into a book that can be seen in the bottom left corner. On the right hand side is a pile of texts and a tram cut out of paper. small video features part of the track where the tram no longer runs.


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Vi kan ikke vente forgjeves
installation of paper and fabric
Video (45:46)
2024




The video can be made available upon request.




In Pursuit of Invisible Art at the National Museum,
Video (01:57)
2023




The video can be made available upon request.





Det Blå Kameraet
Video (03:39)
2022

Available online.




And I’m Walking
Video (03:25)
2021

Available online.





Follow the line
Video (00:55)
2021 The video can be made available upon request.




I am Holding a Camera
Video (05:51)
2021The video can be made available upon request.















Sanna Sønstebø

Instagram Sanna Sønstebø(b.1999) creates instruction and conceptual frameworks that develops into text, video, and performance. She works mainly with the everyday, and uses its patters and predictable outcomes as a space for exploration and play. 

She holds a BFA from Leeds Arts University (2019), and an MFA from the Arts Academy of Oslo. She participated in exhibitions at the at Kunstnernes Hus in 2025, at Assembly House in Leeds, UK with the art collective We Didn’t Fancy in 2023, as well as the residency #23 Understanding Intelligence at Praksis in Oslo in 2022. She is currently in Vienna, Austria, interning for  for the gallery flat1.









Texts
How to get to know a city: a user’s manual; a test kit. (master thesis) 

The green man


CV Spitball Ideas.
Open ArtLink Festival, Piraeus Project .
Athens, Greece.
2025


Hold\ 
Kunstnernes Hus. 
Oslo, Norway.
2025


Venterommet. 
Biblioteket, KHiO. Oslo, Norway.
2025


Bergen Art book fair. 
Bergen, Norway.
2025


Her hvor trikken går, 
Blackbox, KHiO. 
Oslo, Norway
2025


Venterommet. 
Resepsjon, KHiO. 
Oslo, Norway. 
2024


Commonplace, Akademirommet, KH. 
Oslo, Norway.
2024


Vi venter ikke forgjeves, Resepsjonsgalleriet, KHiO. Oslo, Norway
2024


Telefon på langs, 
Breadbox gallery. 
Oslo, Norway.
2023


Sporting Miscellaneous, 
Galleri Pellerin. Oslo, Norway.
2023


Juvernarte 2023, 
Online Exhibition.
2023


Abstraction, Åpent Bakeri, Oslo, Norway.
2023


Understanding intelligence: Sharing of outcomes, PRAKSIS, 
Oslo, Norway.
2022


An Interval,
Assembly House.
Leeds, UK.
2021


We Didn’t Fancy, 
Assembly House, 
Leeds, UK.
2021


I Don’t Know, 
Online Exhibition.
2021


Space, 
Instagram exhibition.
2020


And/Now!, 
Online Exhibition.
2020


20:20 Exhibition, 
Blackwells, 
Leeds, UK. 
2020


Living Exhibition, 
The Brunswick, 
Leeds, UK.
2019


Loss and Lucidity, 
Fábrica braço de Prata,
Lisbon, Portugal. 
2019


End of Year, 
ISM, 
Moscow, Russia.
2018





AwardsFDKS studio grand
2025

Erasmus + traineeship programme
2025


Education
MFA
Oslo Academy of the Arts, Norway.
2025

BFA
Leeds Arts University, England.
2021


Residency
Understanding Intelligence
PRAKSIS
Oslo, Norway.
2022

 


Last Updated 24.10.31



Departures ( 001, 010, 100 )
Audio guides
2025


Audio guides are usually used in large museums. They talk about the origins of the work, the artists behind them, and the time periods they were made. Audio guided tours are a form of storytelling. They tell us what we should pay attention to and why.

In ‘Departures’ 2025, the visitor is invited to enter in to three narrated stories that frame the contents of the exhibition Hold at Kunstnernes Hus  in three..

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Venterommet
Collaborative book-making project with
Jonathan Danzer Hörberg
2024 -  Together with Jonathan Hörberg Danzer, we made an artist book collection called WAITINGROOM. We wanted to make a fictional waiting room by which people could sit down and kill time, and coincidentally also read artist books. 

We contacted different artists we knew that made books, and had the books (all in different shapes, materials, and sizes)printed out in A3 and bound, to fit a large magazine rack we had found. It was important that the format not be too visible, its main purpose was to be a waiting room.






Here where the tram now travels

Paper cutting book
+ translation of the text in the video ‘Her hvor trikken går’.
2025


A page dedicated to my books made for and about the trams in Oslo.

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Publikum må selv gi stoppsignal
tram- program
Public publication
2024Using this idea of the traveller being a member of an audience taken from the phrase ’ publikum må selv gi stoppsignal’ which can be found on the SL79 trams, I made a leaflet filled with information about every stop on the journey of the 11 tram line and placed it back into the tram, its intet being to function like a synopsis for a play. 

The text remained there for months; not being discovered by the drivers, but picked up by the travelers.





Nabolag på lag på lag

Glass box w. found material (17cm x 17cm x 17cm)
Book: papir, ink, photography (A5)

2023  I decided to get to know the area of Grünerløkka better by taking bits of every building in the area. They were placed in a glass jar I had brought along with me. Additionally, I photo- graphed pictures of walls and wro- te down observations and houghts about the buildings that became a book.




 
Fotspor / Footprints
Performative investigation
shared on Instagram
2022 During the first fall of snow in 2022 in Oslo, I decided I wanted to test out how far someone elses footsteps would take me. This was shared though a series of photos and notes on Instagram.






Making Time, 24 h
Participatory project
2019 24 people were given an hour to chrochet as much as they could with yarn in a shade of blue. The result is a sort of patchwork of different people’s material understanding of that time that had passed. 



Tracing and Erasing
Performance 
2019  I wished to see what material gave out first: the pencil or the eraser. The piece ended after 13 hours, when the paper had disintigrated.






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