Stix Omar is invited to the artist residency at the guest studio of The Nordic Art Association (NKF), with the support and engagement of Stockholm based artist Bror Ida Lennartsson.
With the month of July together in the studio, the artists will continue working on collaboration ideas started in the past years and develop a new performance to become part of Stix extended advent spectacle; Advent X.
Advent X is a 24-episode video series that talks about anticipation and disappointment, alternative family constellations, and the concept of Christmas spirit.
youtube link to Advent X teaser
Friday July 25th Stix and Bror Ida will be hosting a performance at NKF Malongen
open to the public from 19.30
A Gravy Boat. A long, narrow jug used for serving gravy is an image that serves well to link Stix and Bror Idas works as they both talk about liquids, textures and gestures.
The artists will use the weeks up until the performance incorporating Bror Idas sculptural practices in working on scenography and costumes, and Stix performative practices in working on character development, script and dialogue.
Stix and Bror Ida have a longer history of collaboration. For Brors sculpture WHITE M / U / U Slavought (01013, Stix wrote a poem. The poem is embedded in the score of Bror Ida's video work WHITE. At Tensta Konsthall last year at The Vaginal Davis Universitet for the Damaged and Gifted, Stix invited the sculpture on stage and performed the poem to it.
At Haninge Konsthall during Stockholm art week Bror Ida invited Stix to perform inside their exhibition Slavought, marking the end of the show. A milky fog filled the exhibition. On tall hooves, a cyborg cow, broken free from the milking machines, enters a desolate place searching for a lost calf and a past life. Finding the calf, dead, picking it up, carrying it close to the heart, singing.
Stix Omar, born in 1985 in Oslo, studied at Nordland Art and Film School and the Malmö Art Academy before moving to Berlin to become a pop star. In 2010, they began the collaboration Easter with fellow artist Maximilian Boss. Easter is an interdisciplinary project that primarily takes the form of pop music. In addition to numerous concerts and five album releases, Easter has produced a soap opera, Sadness is An Evil Gas Inside of Me, which has been screened worldwide since 2014.
Omar's artistic practice explores language, performance, and character development. Collaborations with fellow artists, choreographers, filmmakers, and musicians have been essential to their growth and discipline. In recent years, Omar has developed and toured with the solo show Stix Omar Romantic Comedy, a performance that blends poetry, prayer and powerpoint presentations.
Currently, Omar is working on a 24-episode video series—an advent calendar that explores anticipation and disappointment, alternative family constellations, and the concept of Christmas spirit. The pilot episode will serve as the starting point for a solo exhibition, opening in September at BLOKK, an artist-run exhibition space in Bergen.
Bror Ida Lennartsson (b. 1982, Mjölby) understands sculpture as an extended narrative technique, exploring material and form in order to transcend their original contexts. In the process, connections emerge between symbolic meanings, social values, and individual and collective readings. Their works often touch on repressed sensations, rejection, and the treatment of the other.
Lennartsson recently shared work as part of The Vaginal Davis Universitet for the Damaged and Gifted at Tensta Konsthall, and was an artist in residence at IASPIS in 2024.
They have exhibited at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof in Hamburg, Podium in Oslo and GAK in Bremen, and was an artist in residence at Iaspis in 2025. Their first Swedish solo exhibition Slavought was shown at Haninge konsthall 2025, ending on May 17th with a performance in collaboration with Stix Omar. Lennartsson is currently showing their solo exhibition Six Boots at Occasional Gallery in Stockholm, and will participate in Beau Travail's Sculpture Project in Stockholm opening in July.