Bobrikova & de Carmen
Oslo, Norway
Martinka Bobrikova (Norway/Slovakia) and Oscar de Carmen (Spain) have collaborated as an Oslo-based artist duo since 2005. Their practice examines social transformation at the crossroads of utopian visions and tangible realities, probing the dynamic relationships between economic systems and natural environments. Their projects—ranging from installations and sound works to site-specific and urban transformation pieces—explore alternative frameworks for work, community engagement, and political discourse.
Bobrikova and de Carmen's approach includes self-curation, self-publishing, and self-organization to foster critical thinking and alternative modes of interaction.
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Publications
The Migrant Assembly (2022)
ISBN–978-82-692882-0-9
The Migrant Assembly is a device for encounters that articulates people, projects, spaces and temporalities for opening up and making visible to the community the experiences and realities of migrants. Devised by the artistic duo Bobrikova & de Carmen, in collaboration with the curator María Alejandra Gatti, this work of collective participation questions and problematizes concepts such as border, identity, territory and community.
This self-published book offers a comprehensive view of the conceptual background behind the project as well as a deeper understanding of our practice as a tool for collaboration with invited guests. The book contains new commissioned text-essay in collaboration with the artists, hosts and guests of the assemblies Rodrigo Ghattas-Pérez, Dani Zelko, Apolonija Šušteršič, Sarah Kazmi, Javier Ernesto Auris Chavez, María Alejandra Gatti, Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen together with contributions by Jodi Rose, Karina Sletten, Yildiz Yalcin, Ekaterina Sharova, Sarakka Gaup, Liv Brissach, Ihra Lill Scharning, Maritea Dæhlin and photo documentation of the assemblies.
Authors: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen
Editor: María Alejandra Gatti
Contributors: Rodrigo Ghattas-Pérez (with Jodi Rose, Karina Sletten), Dani Zelko (with Yildiz Yalcin, Ekaterina Sharova, Sarakka Gaup, Liv Brissach, Ihra Lill Scharning, Maritea Dæhlin), Apolonija Šušteršič, Sarah Kazmi, Javier Ernesto Auris Chavez, María Alejandra Gatti, Martinka Bobrikova, Oscar de Carmen
Translations: Tamara Mathov, Martin Berner Mathiesen, Anna Ďurišíková, Julius Mihkkal Eriksen Lindi
Graphic Design and Layout: Anna Sole
Photos: Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo
Poster illustration: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen
Proofreading: MaryClaire Pappas, Germán Tosto, María Alejandra Gatti, Martinka Bobrikova, Ane Katrine Øverseth Olsen, Bård E. Dahl
Printed by: palgraphic
Edition: 300
Published by: Bobrikova & de Carmen
Kitchen Dialogues, Anthology 2013-2016 (2019)
ISBN–978-80-972325-5-9
Kitchen Dialogues, the collaborative project of Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen consists of a body of work around the notions of value and power that govern politics in the economic and social spheres. Some of the works reflect on consumer habits, highlighting the fact that the common capitalist idea of growth is not sustainable in our contemporary globalized world. The project has concentrated on building community through food and cooking, on exploring the possibilities of creating a new social ecosystem.
The book published by tranzit.sk and Bobrikova & de Carmen offers a comprehensive view of the artists’ conceptual background and practice as well as a complete anthology of specific events, happenings and sub-projects that have been implemented under the same concept since 2013. The book contains essays from Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Anto Lloveras, Bora Hong, Marius Meli, Vytautas Michelkevičius, Amalie Frederiksen, Aristides Santana, Erika Stöckel, Judit Angel, Woon Tien Wei, Zuzana Jakalová, Tinatin Khomeriki, Kristine K. Wessel and Ingrid Økland – an international spectre of contributors who were involved in the realisation of the project.
Authors: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen
Editor: MaryClaire Pappas
Co-editors: Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen
Graphic Design and Layout: Aurelia Garová
Cover Design and Illustration: Aurelia Garová
Illustrations: Oscar de Carmen
Coordinator: Petra Balíková
Printed by: PROTISK, s. r. o.
Published by: tranzit.sk, Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen
Kitchen Dialogues 01 (2015)
ISBN–978-80-260-8152-4
Riso-printed photobook of Kitchen Dialogues project between 2013-2015.
