DEV DHUNSI

Interviewed by Zara Afthab for @dazed On Mixed (SPBH/Mack, 2026) and Unmistakably You at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art. Link in bio to the full article. @zara.aftab @selfpublishbehappy @mack_publishing @nitja_senter_for_samtidskunst

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Unmistakably You yesterday, and for making it so special. Curated by Kathrine Wilson To everyone at @nitja_senter_for_samtidskunst @luzyvida for the poetic reading of their text «min indiske venn» @seiselina for an unforgettable concert The exhibition is open: Tuesday-Sunday 10-17 14.03-26.04 Documentation images: @ts.ulstein

I’m very happy to share that Unmistakably You is opening at Andréhn-Schiptjenko in Stockholm 9 April 17:00-20:00! The exhibition at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art is still on view until 26 April, so this presentation runs in parallel but with a different selection of works and images not shown at Nitja. If you’re in Oslo/Lillestrøm, you can still experience the full installation there. And if you’re in Stockholm, this is another way into the project. Hope to see you in one (or both) places ❤️ @andrehnschiptjenko

FINAL WEEK: Dev Dhunsi, Unmistakably You On view in Stockholm until Saturday, 16 May, 2026 Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present Dev Dhunsi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Unmistakably You. The gallery exhibition is an extension of Dhunsi’s recently presented solo exhibition at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm, Norway. As a foundation for the exhibition lays his recently published photobook Mixed (2026), published by SPBH Editions / Mack Books. The project was awarded the 2024 Nordic Photobook Award, and British Journal of Photography (@bjp1854 ) has selected his work for the 2026 Ones to Watch, their annual selection of emerging photographers. Exploring the intersection of language and identity, Dhunsi’s exhibition stems from the question: what happens when language fails to name lived experience? Starting from a reflection on the absence of a word in Norwegian to describe “mixed” without reproducing ideas of race, Dhunsi here approaches identity as a shifting, porous process, in contrast to the idea of a fixed category. Fluidity holds in different aspects a crucial part in Dhunsi’s work - both in his visual language, the materials used and the subjects his lens-based practice depicts. Blurred, colour-inverted or partially concealed the subjects in his photographs are never fully revealed to the viewer, instead they enter a place where metaphor, symbols and mythology intertwines. Dev Dhunsi (b. 1996) is a Norwegian–Indian artist living and working between Oslo and Punjab. He holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2024) and a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Unmistakably You at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm (2026), presented in conjunction with the release of his publication Mixed (SPBH Editions / Mack Books); as well as Encircling Stories at the Centre for Photography, Stockholm (2024), following its initial presentation at MELK, Oslo. His work has also been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb during Organ Vida 13th Festival and FUTURES Photography. @devdhunsi #devdhunsi #andrehnschiptjenko Photo: Sissela Jensen

Cover image for the Italian translation of The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior, published by @nero_editions as Internet è una foresta oscura. The publication by Konior explores secrecy, survival, and the shifting conditions of intelligence within contemporary digital life. The cover image is taken from my ongoing project Mixed (@selfpublishbehappy / @mack_publishing , 2026). I’m especially interested in how this collaboration reflects the ways Mixed continues to manifest across different contexts and disciplines. The work was never intended to exist only within photography or exhibition-making, but as a visual language capable of moving through theory, publishing, installation, and cultural discourse while still carrying its core questions around identity, opacity, hybridity, and transformation.

STOCKHOLM: Dev Dhunsi, Unmistakably You On view until 16 May, 2026 ”Photography seduced me through its authority. It presents itself as evidence—something that has been there, something you can trust. But very early on, I became interested in the instability beneath that surface. Photography always arrives too late. It captures something that has already shifted, already disappeared. That delay opens a space where fiction—both fortunately and unfortunately—can enter. A kind of magic, or something ghostly. So, while I began with photography as a way of holding onto something, I stayed because it allowed me to question what is being held, and for whom. Over time, the image stopped being an endpoint and became a starting point—something I could extend into textiles, sound, and spatial constructions.” - Dev Dhunsi, interviewed in Daily Lazy (@daily_lazy ) by Koshik Zaman (@koshikzaman ) Dev Dhunsi (b. 1996) is a Norwegian–Indian artist living and working between Oslo and Punjab. He holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2024) and a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Unmistakably You at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm (2026), presented in conjunction with the release of his publication Mixed (SPBH Editions / Mack Books); as well as Encircling Stories at the Centre for Photography, Stockholm (2024), following its initial presentation at MELK, Oslo. His work has also been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb during Organ Vida 13th Festival and FUTURES Photography. Dhunsi is a recipient of the Nordic Photobook Award 2024 and was selected for the FUTURES Photography platform in 2023. For more information about the exhibition, please visit our website via the link in our profile. Artwork images: 1) [Kitsune] Series, 2026 2) [Liberty Spikes], 2026 3) [Sangam, Mixed Ply] Series, 2026 4) [Sangam] Series I, 2026 5) [Sangam] Series II, 2026 6) [The Act of Making Things Visible] Series I, 2026 7) [The Act of Making Things Visible] Series V, 2026 8) [The Act of Making Things Visible] Series VI, 2026 @devdhunsi #devdhunsi #andrehnschiptjenko

Siste dag! I dag, søndag 26. april, kan du oppleve utstillingen Unmistakably You av Dev Dhunsi en siste gang! Nitja holder åpent fra kl. 11.00 til 17.00 med åpen kafé i 1. etasje. Siste mulighet til å oppleve et ekstraordinært prosjekt som har fått stor oppmerksomhet både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Unmistakably You springer ut av Dhunsis prisvinnende fotobok Mixed og folder seg ut som en romlig fabel om språk, tilhørighet og «mixed» som kunstnerisk metode. Kuratert av Kathrine Wilson, direktør ved Nitja. Fotoboken Mixed er mottaker av Nordic Photobook Award 2024, utgitt av SPBH Editions / MACK i samarbeid med Fotogalleriet. Mer info: Lenker i bio @devdhunsi @kathrine_wilson_nitja @miki______tm @fotogalleriet_oslo @randimidthun @selfpublishbehappy @mack_publishing

Dev Dhunsi er intervjuet i dagens D2! Les intervjuet, og kom til Nitja for å oppleve utstillingen Unmistakably You av Dhunsi mens du fortsatt kan. Dette er nest siste helg med en sterk, særegen og mye omtalt utstilling, der identitet ikke fremstår som en fast kategori, men som noe sammensatt, bevegelig og i stadig forhandling. Unmistakably You springer ut av den prisvinnende fotoboken Mixed. Utstillingen vises til og med 26. april, kuratert av Kathrine Wilson, direktør ved Nitja. «I visse rom holder du tilbake, i andre slipper du deg helt ut. Jeg har erfaring med å ikke kunne være meg selv åpent for folk rundt meg.» Sitat: Intervju av Maja Hattvang for D2. Foto: Sebastian S. Bjerkvik. Bildekarusell: Nitja Fotoboken Mixed er mottaker av Nordic Photobook Award 2024, og er utgitt av SPBH Editions / MACK i samarbeid med Fotogalleriet. Boken er tilgjengelig for salg i Nitjas kunstbutikk, Tronsmo og Fotogalleriet. Lenke til intervjuet i bio (bak betalingsmur). @devdhunsi @kathrine_wilson_nitja @selfpublishbehappy @mack_publishing @fotogalleriet_oslo @d2magasin @dagensnaeringsliv

#FUTURESFeature – Dev Dhunsi⁠ ⁠ @devdhunsi is a multimedia artist working at the intersection of photography, textiles, and installation. Through water, movement, and layered visual languages, his work reflects on identity, belonging, migration, and social (in)justice.⁠ ⁠ His new publication 'Mixed' (@selfpublishbehappy / @mack_publishing , 2026), released following the Nordic Photobook Award, is a vivid and inquisitive exploration of mixed heritage and the search for language where words are missing. In Norway, where no equivalent term for “mixed” exists, Dhunsi turns to photography and text to articulate experiences of race, gender, desire, and belonging. Combining images, archival fragments, and writing, 'Mixed' unfolds as a hybrid space where tenderness and defiance, intimacy and displacement coexist. ⁠ ⁠ The book also forms the basis of his solo exhibition 'Unmistakably You', currently on view at @nitja_senter_for_samtidskunst Norway, until 26 April and at @andrehnschiptjenko Gallery in Stockholm until 16 May 2026.

Dev Dhunsi har laget tre fotografier med tekstilrammer til nye Stovner bad. Badet planlegges å åpne i august 🏊 Til sammen danner de tre bildene et helhetlig kunstverk. Hvert bilde utforsker mytologiske vesener og fortellinger om transformasjon, hybrider og tilblivelse. Disse fortellingene speiler badets egen symbolikk som et rom for forvandling, renselse og gjenfødelse 🌊 Verkene har skulpturelle former som veksler mellom bokstaver fra urdu og somali og gjenkjennelige, oppblåsbare objekter knyttet til vann som baderinger, luftlommer, elementer som flyter. Slik blir skrift til oppdrift, språk til materiell form, og svømmehallens visuelle kultur flettes sammen med alfabet som finnes i hverdagen i Stovner. Dev Dhunsi (f. 1996) jobber i skjæringspunktet mellom foto, tekstil og installasjoner, og undersøker hvordan fortellinger bæres, skjules og omskrives gjennom språk, materialitet og visuelle teknologier. I disse dager er han også aktuell med utstillingen Unmistakably You på Nitja. © Dev Dhunsi / BONO. 📸 Ingvild Brekke Myklebust 🎥 Yngvild Færøy #oslokommuneskunstsamling @devdhunsi #devdhunsi #stovnerbad @vibyggeroslo @bymiljoetaten @y_faero @ole_slyngstadli @kulturetaten @nitja_senter_for_samtidskunst

ON VIEW IN STOCKHOLM: Dev Dhunsi, Unmistakably You Until 16 May, 2026 Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present Dev Dhunsi’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Unmistakably You. The gallery exhibition is an extension of Dhunsi’s concurrently presented solo exhibition, bearing the same title, at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in Lillestrøm, Norway. As a foundation for the exhibition lays his recently published photobook Mixed (2026), published by SPBH Editions / Mack Books. The project was awarded the 2024 Nordic Photobook Award. Exploring the intersection of language and identity, Dhunsi’s exhibition stems from the question: what happens when language fails to name lived experience? Starting from a reflection on the absence of a word in Norwegian to describe “mixed” without reproducing ideas of race, Dhunsi here approaches identity as a shifting, porous process, in contrast to the idea of a fixed category. Fluidity holds in different aspects a crucial part in Dhunsi’s work - both in his visual language, the materials used and the subjects his lens-based practice depicts. Blurred, colour-inverted or partially concealed the subjects in his photographs are never fully revealed to the viewer, instead they enter a place where metaphor, symbols and mythology intertwines. Dev Dhunsi (b. 1996) is a Norwegian–Indian artist living and working between Oslo and Punjab. He holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2024) and a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Unmistakably You at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm (2026), presented in conjunction with the release of his publication Mixed (SPBH Editions / Mack Books); as well as Encircling Stories at the Centre for Photography, Stockholm (2024), following its initial presentation at MELK, Oslo. His work has also been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb during Organ Vida 13th Festival and FUTURES Photography. For more information about the current exhibition at Nitja Center for Contemporary Art, please visit @nitja_senter_for_samtidskunst . @devdhunsi #devdhunsi #andrehnschiptjenko Photo: Sissela Jensen

A lot of what Unmistakably You and Mixed has become starts with you. Thank you to mine and @ninadhunsi older siblings, @toridhunsi and Mikkel @dhunsi Unmistakably You is now on view at Andrehn-Schiptjenko. Where you also can get your copy of Mixed with @selfpublishbehappy @mack_publishing Familiarities (2026) 65x54 cm Sublimation printed linen on canvas stretchers Unique edition