Oslo Kunstforening is pleased to present new work by Sandra Mujinga. We welcome you to a vernissage in conjunction with the opening night of Oslo Art Weekend, Friday Oct 14 @ 18-20.

«Real Friends» will present a new series of video and photographic work. As previously seen, the artist uses material gathered from her own travelling and combines it with blue screen, mobile-apps and her iPhone in addition to filming with a HD camera. This time around it is the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mujinga’s own place of birth, that becomes focal.

Mujinga herself maintains a sense of ambivalence in regards to how she wishes to exist in digital media. The self-centred «I» which constantly shapes it’s own image has been a reoccurring theme in her work. The focus is placed upon the loss that arises in the interplay between the physical and digital realities between which we find ourselves moving. A discussion surrounding what constitutes the perception of the human becomes relevant.

Sandra Mujinga (b. 1989) graduated from Malmö Art Academy in 2015. She lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. In the spring of 2016 she was awarded one of Swedens largest art grants, Fredrik Roos-stipendet, which simultaneously secured her an exhibition spot at Moderna Museet in Malmö. This fall she will be part of the upcoming group exhibition «Missed Connections» at the Julia Stoscheck Collection in Düsseldorf. Her she will show the sound- and video piece «Face Time/Facetime Real Time/Realtime» which granted her Sparebankstiftelsen DNBs grant in 2013. Sandra Mujinga has been offered the opportunity to exhibit a solo presentation at OK in relation to receiving the grant.

Mujingas last solo presentation in Norway took place at Podium in 2012. Previously she has also shown her work at Kunsthall Oslo (2014) and at Oslo Kunstforening (2012, 2013).

Oslo Kunstforening is supported by Arts Council Norway and the City of Oslo. Sandra Mujinga has received support from Mediaverkstaden Skåne, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond and Arts Council Norway.