Hanna Sjöstrand based in Oslo, Norway is a conceptual painter whose work investigates the relationship between humans and their surroundings. Through projects grounded in strong contextual frameworks, she explores painting as both a material and ritual process—where the act of painting becomes a contemplative response to place and situation.

Her work is included in both private and public collections, such as Malmö Art Museum, Aguélimuseet, Statens Konstråd, KORO, Region Stockholm, Region Skåne, and Tore A. Jonasson Foundation.

Sjöstrand has an ongoing collaboration with playwright and director Ludvig Uhlbors within the fields of theatre and performance art. Here she continues to explore her central themes: nature, violence, the body, and the creation of reality through more collective processes. Sjöstrand and Uhlbors have produced 18 performances together since 2012.

During her presentation, Sjöstrand spoke about using fungi pigments for some of her works and painting from pigment obtained from tree bark. She also touched on burning masks after using them to give back to the tree, sort of like painting a tree from its own tree via the mask. She took us back to the cave project, where she wanted to go back to the metaphor involving plato of a cave as a symbol of the source for life. She also Mentioned the cave project creating what is known as “cave football” where players whose eyes are covered are led through the game via words for strategy. Sjöstrand is hunting for creativity that comes from material itself, extracting unnatural waste pigments.

Ludvig Uhlbors is a writer, director and playwright based in Oslo with a BA in drama/dramaturgy from the Dramatic Institute in Stockholm and an MA in directing from KHiO in Oslo. In his work, he faces physical, craft related and social concepts in order to make room for the unknown.

Co-founder of the theatre company Institutet in Malmö 2006, dramaturg at the Central Theater in Leipzig 2009, leader of Etikett 2010 and co-director of the performance company The End Foundation in 2012. He created Förlaget in 2013, which publishes literature about theater and art. In connection with that he also published his book, Gjord obrukbar.

Since moving to Oslo in 2016, Uhlbors has produced a number of conceptual and interdisciplinary works together with co-producing venues and institutions such as Black Box Teater, Det norske teatret and BIT-Teatergarasjen. These include three productions about the Norwegian ecophilosopher Arne Næss and a couple of works exploring performativity in online formats. As a consequence of these experiences, he has formulated an ecological dramaturgy for the performing arts; Deep Ecological Dramaturgies, which he has presented in various essays and lectures.

In 2024 Uhlbors intiated a series of longer writing projects, still under development.

During his Performance, Uhlbors conceptualized his life story from his birth in sweden to his time spent in the copperbelt and kabwe in Zambia.