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.
Anna Näumann (she/they) / curator and producer
is a curator, writer, and artist based in Oslo, Norway. She holds a degree in journalism from Oslo Metropolitan University, a BA from the Film and Art School in Kabelvåg, and is currently a MA student at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Her multidisciplinary practice spans text production and criticism, curating, organizing and mediation projects. .
From 2020 to 2023, she was based in Tromsø, where she co-ran the artist-led exhibition space Kurant with Andrea Conradsen and became part of the curatorial team of Open Out Festival.
Amalie Holthen (she/her) / curator and producer
is an artist based in Oslo with a BFA degree from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art. She works with different collaborative and organizational projects besides her individual practice and in addition to this, she has emerged as one of the most in-demand art technicians in the region.
Amalie is one of the organizers behind the idealistic project Materialbanken which is to be found at the Tromsø Kunstforening and at Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo. 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.
Amalie as been part of the Open Out team since 2020.
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 finding it special to be a part of a festival like Open Out in Tromsø, as these kind of initatives did not exist here when she grew up.
Tuva has been part of the Open Out team for three years.
Olga Gry Becker (she/her)
Olga is an amplifier, artist, curator and janitor currently based in Basel. She was deeply involved and energised from the work with Open Out Festival from 2021 to 2024 (director 2023 and 2024). The festival shaped her practice significantly and eventually led her to leave Tromsø and go to Basel to enroll in the MA Transversal Design (Olga's own translation of what that is about: social design… process modelling.. critical rehearsals of being kind and thinking twice).
As part of this studies she has recently returned from a 3 month internship at the LungA School (fall 2025), an independent artist led art school in East Iceland. During this time she practiced bravery and if it’s possible to fly by moving her arms (yes) and organised several community events, fx “the shitshow”.
Olga has BFA from Tromsø Academy of Art (UiT) including studies in scenography (DDSKS, DK) and gender studies (UiT).
Her motto is: pears will fall from the apple trees (if you let them).
Olga is part of the selection committee for Open Out Festival 2026