YPPĒ is fluid platform for and by liminal* art professionals with a trans-geographical and complex approach to art.
Image: work by Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux in YPPĒ #2
Image: Maisam N. Mahdi, cover of YPPĒ #1 (2017)
YPPĒ was launched In 2017 as an annual, bilingual, printed art journal published in Norway.
yppe.no is published by the not-for-profit organization Rafiki Art Initiatives (RAI) with generous support from the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA).
Contributors
Ro Averin
Ro Averin is a writer and founder of UNLRN PRJCT
Jessica Lauren Taylor
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor is an artist, filmmaker, writer and community organizer based in Oslo.
Lisa Anderson
Lisa Anderson is an independent curator, consultant and champion for Black British Art. She is the Founder of blackbritishart.
Péjú Oshin
Péjú Oshin is a British-Nigerian curator, writer, and educator based in London.
Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Ph.D
Malgorzata Ludwisiak is an Independent art critic, curator, museum management expert, academic teacher, and member of the CIMAM board.
Lise Ragbir
Lise Ragbir is a curator and writer with over 20 years of cultural management experience. Her career spans public, private, for-profit and non-profit cultural initiatives.
Maria Esmeral Henriquez
Maria Esmeral Henriquez is a Colombian-born, Oslo-based art historian specialized in visual culture and visual epistemology.
Curatorial team
Ro Averin
interim Editor and curator
Nicole Rafiki
Editor and curator
Susannah Worth
Copy editor and proof reader.