Ane Hjort Guttu talk at Falmouth University on Tuesday 17 March at 5pm

Ane Hjort Guttu will visit Falmouth University to speak about her work.

Ane Hjort Guttu (b. 1971) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Oslo. She works across a range of media, with a particular focus on text and moving images. Her practice explores the relationship between freedom and power, how we navigate public space, individual autonomy, and the social, economic and political conditions of art. She has an extensive exhibition practice both nationally and internationally, and has also published several books, the most recent of which will be released later this year. Guttu is also a professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto, 2020, (27 mins) is being shown at CAST in Helston, until Saturday 14 March 2026 (Wednesday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm). The film speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education. Newly migrated into a university and an open-plan campus building, an art school feels cornered by a suffocating culture of surveillance and administration. Staff and students find ways to subvert control through secret operations. Drawing on her own experiences as an art teacher, Guttu explores what is lost when creativity is replaced by order and provides action plans for how to be the playful rebel.

The talk at Falmouth is organised with CAST as part of the eighth Cornwall Workshop, a weeklong intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers based in Cornwall and the South West. The workshop is organised by CAST and hosted at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula.

Image Credits:

Manifesto (2020), Ane Hjort Guttu. Photo: Patrick Säfström.

Portrait of Ane Hjort Guttu, courtesy the artist.