UPCOMING:
2024: Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Solo exhibition in parallel with Pearla Pigao. 24.05.24 – 04.08.24.
2024: Visningsrommet USF. 40 years jubilee exhibition for artists at United Sardines Factory, Bergen. 18. 04 – 12.05 24

RECENT:
2024: BEK- Bergen centre for electronic art, sound performance during the BEK Opening Week 2024.
2024: Chicago Architecture Center, sound work for «Radio Utopia - News from the world". 24.Feb - 03.March 2024.
2023: XVIIIth Venice International Architecture Exhibition 2023, sound work for «Radio Utopia - News from the world".
2023: Sail In of Sound Art, Soundwork for the platform Urban Sound Art, Fredrikstad (NO). 15. July- 15. Aug. 2023.
2023: Hordaland kunstsenter. Pinball Weekend as part of the initiative Dear Neighbour. 20. - 21. May.
2023: Oscillation ::: o tempo — festival 2023, solo performance commissioned by Q‑O2. 27. - 30. April, Brussels.
2023: Borealis – a festival for experimental music, IONOS - commisioned work. World premiere in Bergen, 19. 03. 2023.

2022: Atelier Nord, Oslo: FERD solo exhibition. Part of the Ultima festival 2022. 16.09 – 30.10.22
2022: Ultima Context: artist talk with writer Rob Young. Atelier Nord 18.09.22
2022: «-I»: contribution to a 12-hour online event organized by Christof Migone as part of «You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death» - a series of twelve annual events taking place on December 12 from noon to midnight EST 2020-2031.
2022: Radio Art Zone: A 22-hour sound work for radio commissioned by Radio Art Zone in Esch2022. 26.07 2023.
2022: ORF Kunstradio: a 26 minutes’ sound piece based on the 22 hours-long «Train Tables and Radio Waves» by Maia Urstad. Producer: Elisabeth Zimmermann, broadcast on FM Ö1 (Austria), RÖI (Shortwave) and online, 28. August at 23.00 CEST
2022: National Museum Norway + Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology: MURMUR installation 01.10 2021 - 24.04.2022
2022: Norwegian Sound Archives Conference: Maia Urstad gave a talk on issues and challenges in archiving and documentation of sound art, with the main focus on sound installations and spatial works. Speakers can be found here. 25. - 26.04.2022.
2022: Quimera Gallery Buenos Aires: ES TIERRA MELANCOLÍA PERROS, Y LA RUTA AVANZA, a group exhibition with 14 international artists, curated by Melina Berkenwald in the context of URRA residencies. Opening 4. February 2022. Norwegian embassy info HERE
2022: The Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) and the Norwegian Institute at Athens: panel / presentaiton in the conference «Greece and Norway: European center, periphery or it’s complicated?» With: Anna Papaeti (GR/CY), Maia Urstad (NO), Karolin Tampere / NNKS (NO) and acte vide (GR) as part of the Transmissions Sound Art Residency Exchange. April 11th, 2022.
2022: Transmissions Sound Art Residency Exchange will do a joint introduction, listening session and talk in Syros, Greece 13th April 2022. With: researcher Anna Papaeti (GR/CY), artist Maia Urstad (NO), curator Karolin Tampere / NNKS (NO) and respondens, curators and organisors acte vide (GR).
2022: Kunsthall 3,14: Book launch of SPRANG, a long term collaboration between Hilde Hauan and Maia Urstad. Conversation moderated by Anne Marthe Dyvi. 10.Feb 2022.
2021-2022: Oslo kunstforening: Sparebankstiftelsen DNB's Grant Exhibition 2021: Lillian Saksi, Anne Haugsgjerd and Maia Urstad.
2022: Oslo kunstforening: Book Launch, SPRANG, a long term collaboration between Hilde Hauan and Maia Urstad. 6.Jan 22.
2022: Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Europalia trains & tracks. 18.01.2022 - 13.02.2022. (Cancelled)
2018 - 2022: Osterøy Museum: “SPRANG” installation, with Hilde Hauan. Commission: BEK and KORO. About Osterøy Museum.
2021: RUMMUR_radio: a radio broadcast initiative from curators, producers and artists Peter Meanwell, Eva Rowson and Maia Urstad since October 2020. Broadcasting on FM 93.8 Mhz and AM 1314 kHz to the region of Bergen, Norway, hosted by Bergen Kringkaster.
2021: LISTENING / HEARING, international symposium bonn hoeren 20. – 23.10.2021. Sound performance.
2021: The Transmissions sound art residency. Invited artists: Anna Papaeti (GR/CY) and Maia Urstad (NO). Initiators / respondents: acte vide (GR). The project is organized by Syros Sound Meetings (Greece) & North Norwegian Art Centre (Norway) and coordinated by ONASSIS STEGI (Greece) in partnership with Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (Norway). DATES: 12. - 22. June: Ano Syros, Greece // 5. - 12. September 2021: Vardø, Norway:
2021: Borealis Radio Space. An online radio platform by Borealis Festilval. 15 March–18 April.
2021: The Scientist in Pisco, a mini opera commisioned by «AVGARDE - Bergen's concert series for new music».
With Eva Pfitzenmaier and Ole André Farstad: voice, guitar, electronics; Andrea U. Toft: video, and Nico Trompe: recorded voice. World Premier at Cornerteateret Bergen 5th February, 6th February: Ytre Arna Industrihus.
2021: Kabuso Art Centre, «The Scientist in Pisco», performance as part of en Opera Avgarde commision, 24. April. 2021: NRK Spillerom: guest in a national radio broadscast by Marion Hestholm about Opera Avgarde and The Scientist in Pisco.
2021: Borealis- en festival for eksperimentell musikk a video documentation of The Scientist in Pisco at the Borealis opening.
2021: Creative Monday Meeting at The House of Literature in Bergen, Maia Urstad: insight to working methods and creative practice.
2020: Kabuso Art Centre, solo exhibition «Etter Alle Solemerke» with Lars Ove Toft. Hardanger, Norway, 8.2 - 31.5. More HERE
2020: Reina Sofia Museum, AUDIOSPHERE: “Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post-Internet”, curated by Francisco Lopez
2020: Sonic Acts Academy 2020: MÆKUR: Anton Kats + Maia Urstad + Eva Row­son. Amsterdam, february 2020.
2020: NyMusikk at Borealisfestival 2020. Conversation about possible international strategies for the contemporary music field.
2020: Hordaland kunstsenter: «Ambient poetry» - a 45 minutes’ live radio conversation initiated by artist William Kudahl 13th Feb.
2020: OORtreders Festival, Belgium / MÆKUR - residency and performance with Eva Rowson and Anton Kats. Oct 2020 ((Cancelled).
2019: 14. Bienal de Artes Mediales, “El tercer paisaje” Santiago de Chile (CL) 17. November - 8. December 2019
2019: Zeit-Ton-Passagen. 40-channel radio installation in Bonn. Open till end Sept. 2019. Article by R. Fulker HERE
2019: Struer Tracks Urban Sound Art Festival. New sound installation, Struer, Denmark, 22.08 - 07.09 2019
2019: Radiophonic concert. Commisioned by Beethoven Foundation and Bonnhoeren. Bonn, 28.9.2019.
2019: Kongsvinger Kunstforening, «Festningen» curated by Helga-Marie Nordby. 24th.August - 29th.September
2019: Maia Urstad is awarded the Rune Brynestad's memorial Grant, Norway’s largest one-year grants for artists. May 2019.
2019: Lighthouse, Brighton (GB). MAKU: Maia Urstad and Anton Kats in residence, 13th-23rd June 2019. Curated by Eva Rowson.
2019: Hardanger Musikkfestival, New sound installation, SIDERSOGER, at Alvavoll, Lofthus, Norway, 6.- 10.06 2019.
2019: Universität der Künste, Berlin, Special guest at a lecture by Carsten Seiffarth at department of Sound Studies and Sonic Arts.
2019: Art Fair Suomi 19, sound piece for Galleri Ruth’s Drive-In of Sound Art, an out-door artist-run sound gallery located along the high way.
2019: Borderline Festival, Athens. New sound installation, MURMUR at Onassis Cultural Center, 5.-7.04 2019
2018-2019: Bergen Kunsthall «On Circulation». 16. November 2018 — 13. January 2019.
2018: Upstairs, Bergen Kunsthall «Maia Urstad + Anton Kats», collaborative commision 20. - 25. nov.2018.
2018: Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, live performances from Maia Urstad + ИЛЬИЧ (Anton Kats). 23. nov.2018
2018: Bergen Kunsthall: “Plattform: On Maintaining Circulation” With Andrea Francke & Eva Rowson / Wish you’d been here, Anton Kats, Maia Urstad, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, and Hannah Gillow-Kloster. More HERE
2018: Bonnhoeren exhibition: «urban sound art», Athens, 19th-28th October 2018 at the Onassis Cultural Center
2018: Sonic Agency; Live performance at the launch of Brandon LaBelle’s book «Sonic Agency». Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall.


PODCASTS, BROADCASTS, ARCHIVES
2022: NORD broadcast, new music from Scandinavia. «New music, test-tapes, demos, experimental and collaborative projects simmering under the surface in Norway right now», selected and introduced by Eva Rowson. Featured with a stereo remix of the installation «In the unlikely event of emergency».
2020 - present: RUMMUR_RADIO: A curatorial initiative for analoge broadcast in the region of Bergen, Norway. By Peter Meanwell, Eva Rowson and Maia Urstad
2020 - present: Bergen Kunsthall, launch: CONDITIONS: 1218-0719 by MÆKUR. Live audio broadcast from Bergen Kjøtt. In collaboration with Sonic Acts, Lighthouse, Reimagine Europe. Listen to the broadcast HERE
2020 - present: CONDITIONS: 1218-0719 by MÆKUR: digital and vinyl release. Available at Bandcamp and Sonic Act Academy’s website
2020 - present: Bergen Kunsthall, Talks and reading series #3 – Maia Urstad in conversation with Karen Werner.
2020 - present: Freqwave: seven seas is a collaborative project unleashing 84 rogue sound artists for the Ocean. Curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, co-curated by Alonso Vázquez and commissioned by TBA21-Academy. Mixer #2 two: HERE
2020 - present: BEK Archive - motlyd 2001 - a festival of sound initiated, curated and produced by Jana Winderen, Jørgen Træen and Maia Urstad. Conversation with S. Lillebostad
2019 - present: Podcast 2 from Radio Web Macba, SON[I]A #264. Maia Urstad “Deleted scenes”. By Anna Ramos and André Chêdas.
2018 - present: Podcast 1 from Ràdio Web MACBA: Son[i]a #264 Maia Urstad. "In this podcast we talk to Maia Urstad about nostalgia, radio pips, AM, FM and DAB, about the importance of ska, about arches and obelisks, sounds in the fjord, and time capsules, about program 81, freqout, and foghorns, and about local radio stations and lost tapes". By Anna Ramos and André Chêdas.
2018: Deutschlandfunk "Zeit-Ton-Passagen". A 50 minutes’ radio commision for Deutschland Radio. Online until October 2019.
2006 - present - HER NOISE archive

PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2016 - present: Kongsvinger Fortress "The return of the Prime Meridian". Commissioned by KORO/Public Art Norway
2014 - present: freq_out 1.2∞ (scandion) - Uppsala, Sweden. Curated by C.M. von Hausswolff/ Lotta Mossum…
2010 - present: Herdla Museum "Yellow 16".  Permanent sound installation since 2010 at Askøy Island, Norway.

PAST PROJECTS
2018: Artist residency in Berlin appointed by Bergen Kommune, Norway. Sept-Oct 2018
2018: The Ethernal Chord "Semper Liber". CD release spring 2018. With Charles Matthews, Clare M Singer, Hildur Gudnadottir, Anna von Hausswolff, Marcus Davidson Mike Harding and Maia Urstad. Curated by Mike Harding, published by Field Music.
2018: Nordens Hus, Island. Commisioned soundwork for Drive-in sound art gallery, curated by Tulle Ruth.
2018: Artist presentation at «Nye Stemmer», a project initiated and led by Rebecka Ahvenniemi. Bergen Library, Norway, 12th May.
2018: Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall: Live performance at the launch of Brandon LaBelle’s new book "Sonic Agency".  16th April 2018.
2018: Borealis Festival - Radio is Dead. Long Live Radio! with Anna Ramos, Jan Høgh Stricker, Peter Meanwell and Maia Urstad
2017: WDR Radio House, Cologne. "Babel Funkhaus", concert installation with Dirk Specht during Museumsnacht Köln. Nov. 4th 2017
2017: Maia Urstad is appointed as the “City Sound Artist of Bonn 2017" Interview with Maia by Rick Fulker at Deutsche Welle.
2017: Radio Hommage an Pauline Oliveros Live Ö1 Kunstradio broadcast by Elisabeth Zimmermann, under the direction of Mia Zabelka,
          With Maria Chavez, Ione, Zahra Mani, Doug Van Nort, DJ Spooky, Maia Urstad, Mia Zabelka. Part of Phonofemme Festival 2017. Vienna. 
2017: Carambolage. Maia Urstad is presented as city sound artist in Bonn; Q/A with curator Carsten Seiffarth and moderator Raoul Mörchen
2017: Babel Underground, live concert installation for a tunnel and multiple voices. 2 days at 8 hours. With Dirk Spech. DW / Bonnhoeren.
2017: Trafo Kunsthall, Oslo: solo exhibition with Hilde Hauan,  26th August 2017 - 1st October.
2017: SPRANG. Visningsrommet USF, Bergen , Norway. Fibreoptic sound installation in collaboration with Hilde Hauan Johnsen.
2017: Margareth's Bells . GalleriRuth, Kartfjord, Lofoten. Commisioned soundwork for the Drive-in sound art gallery curated by Tulle Ruth
2016: Radio Taxi Buenos Aires. Proa Foundation Contemporary Space, Buenos Aires: Solo exhibition
2016: Taxi Argentina. Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires. Performance with Peter Meanwell and Lars Ove Toft.
2016: Freq_out 11, at Tonspur, Vienna. Curators: CM von Hausswolff & Franz Pomassl, April 2016 (AT)
2016: Radio Revolten II 2016. Sound installation in Halle / Saale Oct. - Dec. 2016. (DE)
2016: The 18th Annual High Zero Festival. Baltimore, September 2016 (USA)
2016: Works for Radio. Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, commisioned by The Lake Radio (DK) 
2015: Radio Barents, Barents Spektakel, performance, Kirkenes (NO)
2015: Landmark, Bergen - BEK Anniversary: "Taxi Argentina", performative sound work with Peter Meanwell and Lars Ove Toft
2015: Lutefish and old cassettes Lydgalleriet. Performative sound project with Conrad Kemp (ZA) curated by Daniella Cascella

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