Marion Bouvier (she/her) // Festival Director
is the co-founder of Open Out Festival. Marion is a freelance curator, writer and editor. She recently co-edited the first in-print edition of Hakapik (Under Radaren), and regularly publishes art criticism.
She also co-runs the publishing house MONDO Books together with Tanya Busse, which has amongst others published Mary Somby's prize-winning book, "Beaivváš mánát". Marion and Tanya organize the Arctic Art Book Fair, whose next edition is planned for 2025 in Nuuk (Greenland). As a print-maker, Marion prints fanzines and art projects on Risograph, and teaches Riso printing through workshops.
Marion is originally from France and has been living in Tromsø for almost 10 years.
Elisabeth Jørgensen (she/her) // assistant producer and curator
Is an art mediator and curator from Tromsø. She has a Master's degree in art history from the University of Oslo (2023), specializing in curating queer art. In her previous projects she has collaborated with the National Museum in Oslo, Pride Art and the Munch Museum. Jørgensen is particularly interested in questions of visibility and invisibility, as well as representations of minorities in the arts. Her latest art mediation project (2022-23), was the Rámis-series, a collaboration with SOLO OSLO Admir Batlak. Rámis explored Sami and queer identity through duodji and textile.
Elisabeth joined the Open Out team in 2024.
Amalie holthen (she/her) // curator and producer
is an artist based in Tromsø with a BFA degree from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art. She works with different collaborative and organizational projects, besides her individual practice. In her own works, Amalie investigates expectations of the phenomenon brought by the language, and questions the limitations of language and representation, the fallibility of perception, and the construction of knowledge. “I am particularly interested in how language defines access or restriction and how constructed codes(rules) sometimes extend only certain bodies, and do not leave room for others. In living a queer life, codes constructed by language - such as traces of heterosexuality - make it difficult to take up a place without feeling those traces as points of pressure. Such pressure points impress on the body, involving the ‘not-expected’/unfamiliar, and these unfamiliar and subtle impressions redirect my attention to the ‘less proximate’, or even the deviant as an orienting effect in my artistic practice, and life in general.”
Tuva Johansen (she/they) // producer
Is a journalist, writer, youth organiser and activist based in Tromsø. They write for the sami newspaper Ságát and organise queer clubs for youth, as well as working with Open Out. She is always thinking of language, of how to use and not use language, how to build with language, and how it can evolve. There is always something she has forgotten to do. They are very happy to be a part of this festival in a town where it didnt exist when she was growing up.