Camilla Martens

Camilla Martens is an artist and half of the duo Goksøyr & Martens.

The duo's Salong* (Salon), created for The National Theatre, was nominated for The Hedda Award 2009 in the production of the year category. Omsorg* (Care) by Goksøyr & Martens, also for The National Theatre, was nominated for The Hedda Award 2014 in the production of the year category. Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens were also nominated for Norwegian Critics' Award for theatre 2013/2014 for OMsorg.

Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens were nominated for The Hedda Award 2016 in the best stage text category for their text for Fri* (Free) (Goksøyr & Martens 2015).

Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens wrote and directed 11 years for their own company Goksøyr & Martens in collaboration with The Norwegian Theatre and Dramatikkens hus (2017). 11 years was nominated for The Hedda Award 2017 in the production of the year category.

*Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Information

(Objekt ID 6140)
Object type Person
Born June 18, 1969
Functions Concept/Idea, Director, Actor, Performance artist, Artist
Nationality Norwegian
Gender Female
Website goksoyrmartens
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Goksøyr & Martens were nominated for The Norwegian Ibsen Award 2020 for their play Dottera* (The Daughter). Dottera had its world premiere at The Norwegian Theatre in 2019.

The Norwegian Ibsen Award's jury gave the following description of the play:

"As an attractive, theatrical script, Dottera provides a credible presentation of daily life. Through a simultaneous, precise and thoroughly developed form, Goksøyr & Martens points at challenges in modern family life with your children, my children and our children. The retrospective style is combined with a contemporary expression, where things happen in parallel, and outside the control of the characters. Goksøyr & Martens' staged oeuvre has a strong literary dimension. Dottera is a drama that lets a secret gradually unfold. This structure, with a clear switch of focus midway into the text, creates a parallelism similar to life."

SOURCES:

The Hedda Award, heddaprisen.no, 19.05.2014, http://www.heddaprisen.no/pub/heddaprisen/main/?aid=1215

Norwegian Critics' Association, www.kritikerlaget.no, 25.09.2014, http://kritikerlaget.no/nor/pages/957-teaterkritikerprisen_201314

The Hedda Award, www.heddaprisen.no, https://www.heddaprisen.no/nominerte/2017

The municipality of Skien, press release 03.03.2020

*Not yet translated into the English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.

Education

1997-2001: The National Academy of Fine arts, Oslo

1996-1997: Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance, Copenhagen - stage design

1991-1994: The National Academy of Theatre, Oslo - acting

Affiliations (2)
Artworks (1)
Title Publiseringsdato Role
Dottera* (The Daughter) Script – Author