Marius Presterud
Who stole this city’s fire?
For O.F.F. 2025 those with wanderlust and latent pyromania are invited to assemble at their local fire-pit, from where we will collectively walk blindly from one to the next.
Public fire-pits for the respective days will be announced on a running basis.
Coffee will be served to those present before we collectively move in the direction of the light.
Old flames will be rekindled or extinguished, depending on the quantity and quality of kindling we manage to harvest on our drift through the urban landscape.
Let’s wander together in spite of the city’s electric light-pollution and its attempts to make us forget our solar system’s dying neighbors.
The universe is on fire and no-one can stop us from remembering what has been taken from us, as long as we can make our own sun in the midst of the city.
Marius Presterud
Marius Presterud (b.1980, Drammen) is a Norwegian artist based in Berlin and Oslo. He works across a variety of media; performance, poetry, sculpture and ecoventions. He has toured Europe and been a featured poet at venues in Paris, Berlin and Istanbul, and he has performed in established galleries such as Henie Onstad Art Center, Norway, and Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany. In 2018 he was a debutant at Norway’s 131. National Art Exhibition, Høstutstillingen, and in 2021 he had his first solo exhibition abroad, at Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin. Common themes throughout his work are a focus on selfhood, significant otherness and societal health.
Previous to working as an artist, Presterud held positions within the field of project management, program coordinating, curatorial research, music and psychiatry. He received his psychologist licence in 2008 and went on to work in the public and private health sector for several years, before being drawn to art’s didactic and remedial potential, as well as art as a repository for non-commodifiable values. In the period 2014-2019, he worked full-time with his art- and research based practice, Oslo Apiary & Aviary, which he describes as a “Dark-ecological service provider”. He currently works as both artist and group-analytic art therapist.
OFF - Oslo Flaneur Festival 2025 