Astrid Ardagh

Astrid Ardagh is an artist and filmmaker from Engeløya in 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

• 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

• Lofoten International Arts Festival, Sep 
• Nordic Docs, Sep
• Doxs! dokumentarfilme für kinder und jugendliche, November
  
• Barents Spektakel, Feb 

Past
2024

• NAP+, De Wasstraat, Amsterdam, Sep
• Odense International short film festival, Aug
• Braziers International Film Festival, Aug
• Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Aug
• International Islands Film Festival of Groix, Aug 

• SBK Sprouts, Arti, Amsterdam, April
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Feb
  
• Minimalen film festival Trondheim, Jan
  
• Tromsø International Film Festival, Jan

2023

• Laterna Magica Film festival Vesterålen, Nov
• Rialto for Short, Amsterdam, Nov
• SBK Sprouts Young Talents, Oct
• Suzi and friends: Loods 6, Sep
• Matters of Being: iii Den Haag, 10. Sep
  
• Hidden in plain sight: Jogja photography festival 9. September
• Arty party: Melkweg, 7. September
• Young Arctic Artists: Rovaniemi, Finland, Aug
  
• Graduation show: Gerrit Rietveld Academy, July
• Cineradar 5: Melkweg Amsterdam, May 
  
• Parasitting: Neverneverland, 1st April

• Body is the message: Cinedans, Eye Film Museum, 26th March 
• Close-Up, Vox- Pop, 16th March 

• Selected Artist’s Moving Image, Eye Museum, 14th March 
• Recycled thoughts: Filmhuis Cavia, February 

2022

• Cohabitation: Museumnight, Mediamatic, 5th November 
• Wildborn, De Bouwput, 31st October - 2nd November 

• Cinema Ecologica: Climate Grief, Eye Museum, 18th October 

• Wildborn, K30, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, June 
• Uncut, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, March 
• Cranberryjuice Exhibition/Event, OT301, Amsterdam, March 
• Den Nordnorske Kunstutstilling, North Norway, January - December 

2021

• On, Neverneverland, Amsterdam, November  
• Mikstur, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Norway, October 
• In between the lines, Galleri Skyhågen, North Norway, July 
• SPAM, De Bouwput, Amsterdam, June 

• Young talent, Contemporary Institiute of Art, London, 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

• 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