"Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears."- Pauline Oliveros

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Ina Otzko is an interdisciplinary artist from Northern Norway, working across photography, video, sound, performance, text, and sculpture. Her practice is rooted in deep listening and eco-somatic intelligence, investigating embodied presence, sensory awareness, and ecological attunement, with the body as a perceptive instrument. Engaging urgent ecological, social, and planetary concerns, she moves through time, liminality, memory, and human–more-than-human relations.

Through silent activism, Otzko activates perception, memory, and relationality, merging poetic insight with critical intervention. Her somatically grounded, site-responsive, and research-driven works create spaces that invite reflection, foster reconnection, and open new possibilities for experiencing being and belonging.

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Otzko holds dual Master’s degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London—an MA in Image & Communication (2004) and an MFA in Fine Art (2007)—as well as an MA in Sound Studies (2012) from Universität der Künste, Berlin. She is also a Certified Deep Listening® Teacher through The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer, NY (2022).

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She is the co-founder of ArtBase Helgeland 66N (2005) and Arctic Pavilion (2023), and works as an independent curator and art consultant. She also founded the project 100 Norwegian Photographers, whose accompanying book was published by Hatje Cantz in 2019 and presented in the Norwegian Pavilion, The Dream We Carry, at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Since 2008, Otzko has been actively engaged in art politics, holding numerous positions of trust and influence within the artistic community. Current and past appointments can be viewed here.

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