Astrid Ardagh

Astrid Ardagh is an artist and filmmaker from Northern Norway, with a Bachelor's in Moving Image from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her site-specific work delves into the interconnected relationship between people and their environment in a rapidly changing world. By merging her interest in anthropology and aesthetic storytelling, her films become immersive and sensory experiences that transcend traditional human-centred perspectives. Ardagh's short films have been screened at acclaimed festivals such as Clermont-Ferrand and Kortfilmfestivalen in Grimstad, as well as galleries and art museums such as Kristiansand Kunsthall, the Eye Film Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
  

Awards

• Honorary Mention: Best Nordic Doc: Minimalen Short Film Festival
• Honorary Mention: Doxs! dokumentarfilme für kinder
• Young Art Amsterdam 2024
• Trafo talent of the year 2022
• Eye on Art Research Lab - the most urgent work 2022

Grants

• Norske Billedkunstnere ettårig arbeidsstipend 2024
• Drømmestipendet 2023
• Samfunnsløftets talentstipend 2022
• Trafo development grant 2022

Exhibitions/screenings
Upcoming

• Eye on Art: Selected Artists Moving Image, NL, Feb
• Barents Spektakel, NO, Feb 

2025

• The North Norwegain Art Exhibition, NO, Jan
• Minimalen Short Film Festival, NO, Jan
• Tromsø International Film Festival, NO, Jan

2024

• Experimental Superstars, SER, Nov
• Doxs! dokumentarfilme für kinder, GER, Nov
  
• Le Lierre Parapluie, FR, Oct
• Lofoten International Arts Festival, NO, Sep-Oct
• Nordic Docs, Norway, NO, Sep
  
• NAP+, De Wasstraat, NL, Sep
• Odense International short film festival, DK, Aug
• Braziers International Film Festival, UK, Aug
• Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, USA, Aug
• International Islands Film Festival of Groix, FR, Aug
• Cervino Cinemountain, ITLY, Jul 
  

• SBK Sprouts, Arti, NL, April
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, FR, Feb
  
• Minimalen film festival, NO, Jan
  
• Tromsø International Film Festival, NO, Jan

2023

• Laterna Magica Film festival, NO, Nov
• Rialto for Short, NL, Nov
• SBK Sprouts Young Talents, NL, Oct
• Suzi and friends: Loods 6, NL, Sep
• Matters of Being: iii, NL, Sep
  
• Hidden in plain sight: Jogja photography festival, INDO, Sep
• Arty party: Melkweg, NL, Aug 
• Young Arctic Artists: Rovaniemi, FI, Aug
  
• Graduation show: Gerrit Rietveld Academy, NL, Jul
• Cineradar 5: Melkweg, NL, May 
  
• Parasitting: Neverneverland, NL, April

• Body is the message: Cinedans, Eye Film Museum, NL, Mar
• Close-Up, Vox- Pop, NL, Mar

• Selected Artist’s Moving Image, Eye Museum, NL, Mar 
• Recycled thoughts: Filmhuis Cavia, NL Feb

2022

• Cohabitation: Museumnight, Mediamatic, NL, NOV
• Wildborn, De Bouwput, NL, Oct

• Cinema Ecologica: Climate Grief, Eye Museum, NL, Oct

• Wildborn, K30, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, NL, June 
• The Norwegain Short film festival, NO, June
• Go Short filmfestival, NL, Apr
  
• Uncut, Stedelijk Museum, NL, Mar
• Cranberryjuice Exhibition/Event, OT301, NL, Mar
• Tromsø International Film Festival, NO, Jan
• Den Nordnorske Kunstutstilling, NO, Jan - Dec

2021

• On, Neverneverland, NL, Nov
• Mikstur, Kristiansand Kunsthall, NO, Oct
• In between the lines, Galleri Skyhågen, NO, July 
• SPAM, De Bouwput, NL, June 

• Young talent, Contemporary Institiute of Art, UK, August 2013

Collections & Distribution

• Eye Film archive and distribution 
• T-Port Screen Talent Europe

Residency

• Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes, Norway, Oct 2023 & Aug 2024

News

• Kunstkritikk
• ArtMatter.DK
• The Art Newspaper
• Filmkrant.nl
• Lost painters
• Cultuurpers
• Het Parool
• Eye film magazine
• Rushprint
• Drømmestipendet, Avisa Nordsalten 2023 
• Avisa Nordland 2023
• Talentstipendet, Avisa Nordland 2022
• Trafo award 2022
• Avisa Nordland interview 2022
• Nordsalten Avis interview 2022
• Trafo Profile 2022
• Et unikt møtested: Avisa Nordland 2021

CV
email: astridardagh@icloud.com 
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