Kirsty Kross

2024-06-13

Kirsty Kross is an eco-feminist artist based in Oslo, Norway, but originally from Brisbane, Australia. Her practice spans performance, happenings, music, drawing and installation and focuses largely on human responses to the climate crisis and its associated economic, social and political effects. She engages audiences with theses complex themes through darkly, absurd interventions which comment on the attention economy, but also disrupt and reconfigure social, public and/or institutional frameworks.

Kirsty Kross holds a Masters from The Berlin University of the Arts and a Bachelor degree in Art History from The University of Queensland. In Norway, Kirsty Kross has exhibited/ performed at the National Museum of Norway, Tegnertriennalen, Bergen Assembly, Høstutstillingen, KUBE, Tenthaus and PINK CUBE. In Berlin, she has performed at Clockwork Gallery, Parkhaus Projects and Galerie Crystal Ball and in Stockholm at Supermarket Art Fair and the Swedish Artist’s Association. From 2000 to 2010 Kirsty Kross was a founding member of the electropunk performance band, Team Plastique that played throughout Europe and Australia at events such as Glastonbury Festival in 2008, the closing party of the Berlin Biennale in 2006 and Australia’s biggest music festival, The Big Day Out in 2004 and 2005.

The residency is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.

Kirsty Kross residency is organised by Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association. Residency curators – Aušra Vismantaitė-Silva, Monika Kalinauskaitė and Edvinas Grinkevičius. Activities of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association are funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture.

SODAS 2123 activities are supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius city municipality.