Exhibition and catalogue (Galleri Kunstparken, Risør, September/October 2026), presenting the artistic outcomes of CoLab 2025. With artists Obrestad/Dølheim, Stine Gonsholt, Tom Løberg, Emma Arnold, Maj Gret Gaupås.

EcoEchos is a film art festival initiated by Obrestad/Dølheim in collaboration with Michelle Sales, Stine Gonsholt and Tom Løberg. EcoEchos grows out of the ongoing Extractions project. The festival’s first edition took place in Skien, Norway, 7–8 February 2026, with a parallel screening in Brazil later in 2026.

The third installment in the Extractions series, this collaborative project explores alternative fieldwork practices in a threatened forest. Through shared artistic research and site specific works, it culminates in a catalogue and exhibition reflecting on extraction, landscape, and resistance.

Extractions is an artistic investigation into how industrial extraction intersects with ecosystems, communities, economies, and the different values attached to landscape. Beginning with the proposed rare-earth mining project at Fensfeltet in Telemark, the work connects a specific local situation to wider questions of mineral demand, technological transition, environmental responsibility, and the ways landscapes become understood as resources.

Rather than approaching these relationships as a simple opposition between development and preservation, the project attends to the conflicting needs, scales of knowledge, and ideas of value that meet in an extractive landscape.

Metal meets wood, and words emerge, etched into the fabric of the forest. Developed in response to the proposed mining project at Fensfeltet, the work considers how a landscape changes when it enters the horizon of extraction: how ideas of progress, necessity, value and loss begin to gather around a place. The intervention is also an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and tread lightly upon the land.

“Rock, Paper, Scissors”, art project that explores aspects of knowledge and meaning. The project is inspired by the game rock-paper-scissors, where two players simultaneously form one of three shapes with their hands.

The game is a metaphor for the project’s exploration of the interplay and conflicts between different media, materials, and forms of knowledge. The game/play metaphor also reflects the project’s playful and experimental approach to art creation, and how elements of chance and unpredictability are involved in creative processes.

The number 42, which according to the book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, is used as a unifying element that ties together twigs, stones, pictures, film, and books into a whole.

Ongoing land art project in the Telemark forests

On site investigations and out-door exhibition on the small island of Langøya, Telemark and a follow up exhibition in Galleri Pop in Langesund based on our stay on the island.

Big issues seen though the lens of the everyday, mixed media installation works

Mixed media installation works

Link to documentation video