Applications to Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale (NKD) are reviewed by a panel of three invited professionals with diverse backgrounds in art, architecture, and design. Together, they bring a breadth of perspectives and experience to the selection process.
We are committed to an open and transparent application process, where all submissions are assessed solely on artistic merit. NKD values equal opportunity and does not discriminate on the basis of nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, or other personal characteristics.
Pierre Lionel Matte
Pierre Lionel Matte (b. 1961,Tønsberg) is known for sculpture, photography, installations, books, videos, animation, sound, drawing, paintings and text.
His work draws on his early experience of split national identity, with a Norwegian mother and French-Belgian father.
His work has its origin in his personal biography and daily events, contemporary politics, the literature of national identity, xenophobia, ecology and art history.
From 1987-92 he studied at the Art Academy in Trondheim (KIT), and has taught and lectured since the 1990s at Einar Granum Art School, Oslo.
Since 2001 this has included giving lectures on the history of experimental cinema at Nordland Art Film School in Kabelvåg, Lofoten.
Laus Katrine Østergaard
Laus Østergaard (b. 1994, Allerød, Denmark) is a curator and producer working with exhibitions, performances, and contemporary art projects.
Østergaard has curated exhibitions and events in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway and has been involved in several self-organized galleries and initiatives, working to promote art outside of the white cube. With the aim of making the art scene more accessible, they co-founded Seaslug Art Guide, an online platform for navigating exhibition openings and art events in and around Stockholm.
Alongside their curatorial work, they have worked in production and coordination with artists and art institutions, including Carola Grahn, Jessie Kleemann, OCA (Office for Contemporary Art, Norway), and Konstforum i Skåne.
They hold a BFA from Bergen Art Academy and an International Master’s in Curating from Stockholm University.
Rosa Tolnov Clausen
Rosa Tolnov Clausen (b. 1985, Denmark) is a Danish textile designer whose participatory practice challenges prevailing notions of where and how free-time hand-weaving can take place in contemporary urban North European society, as well as what value the practice can have for the practitioners.
She graduated in 2013 from the Kolding School of Design in Denmark with a Master of Arts in Textile Design. Since then, she has realised participatory hand-weaving projects in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Japan, China and South Korea.
Her artistic and research practice involves the creation of physical spaces centered on the practice of hand-weaving, where craft serves as a catalyst for social, physical and creative interaction. Through these spatial installations she explores the potential and place of free-time hand-weaving in contemporary urban everyday life.
The examination of such publicly accessible weaving environments formed the core of her PhD dissertation, Weaving Spaces in Nordic Cities, which she successfully defended in 2025 at the HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, in Sweden.
Photo: Kohei Usuda