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Svartlöga is a sailing ship that functions as both an exhibition and community platform across the art world and the maritime community. It is run by a voluntary association who are invested in renovating, repairing, and maintaining the ship. In 2018, artist and captain Sara Grønborg and art historian Anna Liv Bolther, together with other members in the association, formed a collective to salvage the ship from 25 meters ocean depth after the ship had sunk. It is through the exhibition programmes and maintenance of the boat that the collective exercises collectively healing from the trauma of the drowning. The past five years, Svartlöga has been placed in Ebeltoft, Djursland, but in January 2024 the ship found a new quay in Grenaa Harbour. OXER is an artist-run exhibition platform on board the ship Svartlöga and has existed since 2019. The name OXER is taken from the ship's identification letters (like a number plate). OXER arranges exhibitions, publications and workshops where contemporary artists are invited to rethink, challenge and contextualise the use of a ship. It provides the space and infrastructure for thinking around contemporary art and maritime cultures. OXER is run by curators Sara Kirstine Grønborg and Anna Liv Bolther. With Hosting Lands, Oxer recently concluded a three day gathering and exhibitionary moment, Radical bridges ༄ Stories of the Sea (16-18th May 2024). The gathering practiced storytelling and renegotiations of mythologies and traditions as ways to possibly gather, bridge, share, challenge, connect and hold responsibilities - between guests from abroad, local guests as well as local and new coming hosts, all bringing their knowledge, relations and stories to the ship.