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Marc Kiska was born in France in 1983 and raised by schoolteachers in a small town close to Saint-Etienne. As an adolescent he was deeply attracted to underground culture and alternative lifestyles, romanticizing decadence and rebellion, which has deeply influenced his work. As a quiet, introverted boy, Kiska started writing at the age of 14. In love with fantasy and the wondrous, with dreams and the inner, troubled worlds of youngsters; doubting, opposing and distrusting the hollow, grave reality of adulthood. Disillusioned by a lack of substantial mirroring and genuine ideals, he absorbed himself with the outlands of normality, a Kaspar Hauser, falling in love with Arthur Rimbaud, who promises something more, somewhere else.


Kiska wasn't ultimately satisfied by his writing, and at the age of 20, he started taking a fast growing interest in photography; discovering a whole new dimension in which he could express himself. He started off taking photos to illustrate his short stories, and he immediately connected to the lens and found great passion in this new dimension to explore and communicate his vision and inner enterprise. One of his first shoots (2004) was literally inside the walls of the City Hall of Oslo, where he worked as a cook. He discovered there small, secret passages inside some of the walls. This portrays his artistic identity, revealing itself in that space, mysterious, hidden, in between parentheses and brackets, barely sheltered from the numb and rigid, institutional charade playing out on the other side of those duplexed walls.

 

After 10 years of art photography he launched his book Outlandish /Room/ (2014) which got great attention in several countries.  “Les vestiges d’Alice” (ed. TABOU, 2017) is Kiska’s debut novel, which he first started to work on in 2009 after having focused on short stories since 2001. “Les vestiges d’Alice” won the Jury's Special Mention at the french  Gay Novel Price 2017.

AWARDS


2019 OSLO MUNICIPALITY'S ARTIST AWARD 2018 FOR PRIDE ART

Marc Kiska has had a central position in developing, curating and directing Pride Art since 2007 and was member of the board when the group got the award.

2018 AUDIENCE PRICE FOR BEST ART

for the sculpture Conversion Therapy at the exhibition Shameless, Oslo, Norway. The audience (25 000 entries) voted between 500 pieces of art.

2017 GAY NOVEL PRICE 2017, JURY'S SPECIAL MENTION

for the novel Les Vestiges d'Alice, France.



EXHIBITIONS


2023 - 2007 Group Exhibitions, Skeive Kunstnere/Pride Art, Norway

2023 URO, Group Exhibition, Gallery Nord-Norge, Harstad, Norway

2023 SKEIV SJEL, Group Exhibition, Svinndal Kirke, Svinndal, Norway

2023 QUEER SPIRIT, Group Exhibition, Strømsø kirke, Drammen, Norway

2023 QUEER SPIRIT, Group Exhibition, Kulturekirken Jakob, Oslo, Norway

2022 WUNDERKAMMER, Group Exhibition, D.O.G.A, Oslo, Norway

2022 LIVE/LOVE, Group Exhibition, Oslo S, Norway

2022 QUEER SPIRIT, Group Exhibition, Stikklestad Cultural Center, Norway

2022 BLANKE ARK, Group Exhibition, Røros Museum, Norway

2022 SKAPE(T), Group Exhibition, Oslo Museum;Bymuseet, Norway

2022 SER DU MEG HARDANGER, Galleri Skarpeteigen, Group Exhibition, Herad, Norway

2022 WUNDERKAMMER, Group Exhibition, D.O.G.A, Oslo, Norway

2021 TILFLUKTSROM, Galleri Havna, Group Exhibition, Oslo, Norway

2021 FRIHET TIL Å ELSKE, Group Exhibition, Moss, Norway

2020 CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE : RESIDENTE O VISITANTE, Group Exhibition, Romantso Gallery, Athens, Greece.

2019 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN(S), Group Exhibition, Photo Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2019 FESTIVAL RACCORDS, Violette and Co, Paris, France

2019 HOMOSURREALISM PARIS, Group Exhibition, Les Souffleurs, Paris, France

2018 MELK, Group Exhibition, Kunstplass, Oslo, Norway

2018 HOMOFILI, KUNST OG OFFENTLIGHET, sculpture "Convertion Therapy", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

2018 SKAMLØS, Group Exhibition, Mint Art Gallery, Kristiansand, Norway

2018 SKAMLØS, Group Exhibition, Gamle politi stasjon, Arendal, Norway

2018 SHAMELESS, Group Exhibition, Youngstorget, Oslo, Norway

2017 À LA TOMBÉE DES MASQUES, Les Souffleurs, Paris, France

2017 CITY HALL OF OSLO, Group Exhibition, Oslo, Norway

2016 GENIUS, Group Exhibition, Oslo, Norway

2015 CITY HALL OF OSLO, Group Exhibition, Oslo, Norway

2015 CYAN GALLERY, Group Exhibition, Oslo, Norway

2014 AUBERGE LENTAISE, Lent, France

2014 LES MOTS À LA BOUCHE, Paris

2014 THE BLACK FAWN, Oslo, Norway

2012 ALT FOR NORGE, Galleri Vepsebolet, Oslo, Norway

2008 TORNADO, Galleri Vrangsiden, Group Exhibition, Halden, Norway

2007 Château Neuf, Oslo, Norway

2006 MS Innvik, Oslo, Norway




EVENTS


2022 OUTLANDISH /ROOM/ - DELUXE EDITION, Book signing and reading, D.O.G.A, Oslo

2022 OUTLANDISH /ROOM/ - DELUXE EDITION, Launch, Galerie Hors-Champs, Paris

2022 OUTLANDISH /ROOM/ - DELUXE EDITION, Special Public Preview, Røros Museum, Norway

2022 OUTLANDISH /ROOM/ - DELUXE EDITION, Special Public Preview, Olso Museum;Bymuseet, Norway

2022 THE KNIGHT, THE SPEAR AND THE DRAGON, Book Signing, Bar le Before, St-Etienne, France

2019 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN(S), Book Signing, Photo Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2019 CONFERENCE "L'IDENTITE DANS L'ART" FESTIVAL RACCORDS, Violette and Co, Paris, France

2018 PRIX DU ROMAN GAY 2017, Award Ceremony, Paris, France

2018 SALON DU LIVRE GAY, Book Signing, Paris, France

2018 SALON DU LIVRE, Book Signing, Paris, France








 
 
 
 

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