Profile — Sanna Sønstebø

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)
2021

The video can be made available upon request.

Sanna Sønstebø

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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

Awards

FDKS 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

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.

Work

Video-based work

CV