Tanja Sæter (b. 1975, from Norway and Trinidad, lives and works in Oslo, Norway) is trained as a glassblower and as a visual artist, and has also studied art history. In 2015 she established the artist-led platform Coast Contemporary, a positive platform for contemporary art and dialogue, trying to generate transnational collaborations between participating artists and institutions, and to make it easier for people to find jobs as art workers.
She is idealistically passionate about strengthening the artist economy, and has a long background working as a board member in Norwegian artist unions, strenghthening the social and economic rights of artists.
She has curated or co-curated all editions of Coast Contemporary (2017-2023) and as an artist-curator she often focuses on the problematic areas of the art-world that do not necessarily function optimally. The power of an assembly over time is important in her work, and Coast Contemporary is also a part of her activist practice.
