I’m based between Norway and Sweden, working with sculptural and technological bodies to explore how materials can sense, respond, and communicate.
Much of my work explores the idea of agency in objects. I build with artificial muscles, brainwave sensors, and machine learning — all as tools to explore how materials might sense, communicate, or develop a kind of presence of their own. I’m interested in breaking down the boundary between subject and object, and imagining new forms of connection between people, objects, and environments.
My work often challenges conventional ideas of authorship, proposing instead a distributed form of expression where human and non-human actors co-create meaning. A recurring theme is the possibility of dialogue across systems — whether between two wooden chairs conversing via AI, or robotic sculptures responding to brain signals and environmental input.
I hold an MFA from the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, Norway. My work has been shown at among others Meta.Morf – Biennale for Art & Technology, Arctic Arts Festival, RAM Gallery, Atelier Nord, and numerous Art Centres. Upcoming exhibitions include Palass Gallery, and Kristiansund Kunsthall.
My work is part of several collections, including that of Statens Konstråd (Public Art Agency Sweden).
Contact
- [email protected]
- Phone: +47 48174467 / +46 739124693
- Member of Young Artists’ Society Norway (UKS), The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK), Norwegian Visual Artists Copyright Society (BONO)
Education
- 2012 – 2014 Master in Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
- 2008 – 2011 Bachelor in Fine Art, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Selected solo/collaborative exhibitions
- 2024 Creature That Experience, Vestfold Art Centre, NO
- 2021 Conversation Between Bodies 10.1, RAM Gallery, Oslo, NO
- 2020 Conversation Between Bodies 9.1, Oppland Art Centre, Lillehammer, NO
- 2019 Conversation Between Bodies 7.4 at Aldea Center for Contemporary Art, Bergen, NO
- 2018 Consciousness in the time of Kairos, Kurant, Tromsø, NO
- 2018 Vegetal Connections, Atelier Nord, Oslo, NO
- 2017 Seances with Materials, Platform 1-12, Topolcany, SK
- 2017 Conversation Between Bodies #2, Gallery BOA, Oslo, NO
- 2017 Individuation Treatments, Oslo Project Space, NO
- 2016 Conversation Between Bodies #1, Studio 17, Stavanger, NO
- 2016 Meditation Space, Oslo Utmark, East Forest of Oslo, NO
- 2016 Spiritual Time and Space, Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, NO
- 2015 Seances with Materials, Hotel Pro Forma, Copenhagen, DK and Podium, Oslo, NO
- 2015 This Is Its Body, Noplace, Oslo, NO
Selected group exhibitions
- 2025 Currents of Kinship, Kulturvillan, Åland
- 2025 Lorem Impsum, BO, Oslo, NO
- 2023 Home Bodies, SKAL Contemporary, Skagen, DK
- 2022 Conversation Between Bodies #11, Hidden Connections – Visible Ecologies, Black Box Teater, Oslo, NO
- 2021 I Am a Multitude, The Arctic Arts Festival, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad, NO
- 2021 Wood & Clay, Greenlight Triennale, Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, NO
- 2021 Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology, University of Pittsburgh, US
- 2020 Plant Cyborgs, Digital Wild – Meta.Morf Biennale for Art and Technology, Trondheim, NO
- 2019 The breath that leaves me, stay inside, Corporum, Aarhus, DK
- 2019 A poem to the Oak, Oslo European Green Capital, Ekebergparken, NO
- 2019 Hvitsten Salong, NO
- 2018 To learn to know a plant, Why Listen to Plants?, The North Norwegian Art Centre, Svolvær, NO
- 2018 Conversation Between Bodies 7.3, Stipendutstillingen, Art Museum of North Trøndelag, NO
- 2017 Collaboration with the houseplant, The National Art Exhibition / The Autumn Exhibition, Oslo, NO
- 2014 Meditations over form, Young. Promising, Punkt Ø / Gallery F 15, Moss, NO
- 2014 Meditations, The National Art Exhibition / The Autumn Exhibition, Oslo, NO
Collections
- Body (2021) Public Art Agency Sweden
- Wooden Coupling (2019) Private collection
- Conversation Between Bodies (2017) Löfström Architectural Firm AB
Other engagements
- 2023-2026 Tiller videregående skole, Trondheim, NO public commission (upcoming)
- 2021 Futures of Living Technologies Symposium, Oslo Metropolitan University, NO
- 2017 Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Residency, Vestfossen, NO
- 2015 Artist-in-residence at Hotel Pro Forma, København, DK
- 2017-19 Hildelund Art Festival (in collaboration with Sara Rönnbäck)
Artist books
- Anthro-botanical investigations from the atelier
- Conversations Between Bodies (in collaboration with Sara Rönnbäck)
- Meditations (in Norwegian)
Reviews and interviews
- ELEKTRONISK KUNST I NORGE, TEKS.press
- Teknologiske blindveier, Billedkunst 2-2020
- Teknologi-trivialiteters tyngde, Artscene.no
- Interview, Atelier.as
- Vægten af en forstenet snegl, Kunstkritikk.dk
- Å koble seg på, Hakapik.no
- Plantenes internett, Kunstkritikk.no
- Interview Magasinet Kunst 4-2017
- Kunstauk i Østmarka, Kunstkritikk.no
- Stedsspesifikke meditasjoner, text by art critic Kjetil Røed
- Tvilens tilstand, Kunstforum 1-2016
- Spør støvet, Kunstkritikk.no
- Tatt av lyset, Kunstkritikk.no
- Stramme samspill, Kunstforum.as
Selected Grants and Awards
- 2025 Art Council Norway 3 Year Working Grant
- 2023 Grant from Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard’s Foundation
- 2022 Art Council Norway 3 Year Working Grant
- 2021 Working Grant from the Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV)
- 2021 Project funding from DeepCA (Norwegian Research Council) and FeLT (Norwegian Artistic Research Programme)
- 2020 Grant from Ingerid, Synnøve and Elias Fegersen’s Foundation for Norwegian Visual Artists
- 2020 Working Grant from the Norwegian Visual Artists Fund
- 2019 Ørland Savings Bank’s Art Award
- 2019 The (P)ractical (I)ntelligent (G)enius Prize
- 2019 Working Grant from the Relief Fund for Visual Artists (BKH)
- 2018 Exhibition Grant from the Association of Art Centres in Norway
- 2018 Exhibition Grant from the Norwegian Culture Fund
- 2018 Project Grant from Region Värmland
- 2018 Working Grant from Arts Council Norway
- 2017 Grant from Inger & Iver Jåk’s Foundation
- 2017 Working Grant from the Norwegian Visual Artists Fund
- 2016 Exhibition Grant from the Norwegian Culture Fund
- 2016 Award for best exhibition from Visningsrommet USF
- 2016 Exhibition Grant from Bergen Municipality
- 2016 Working Grant from the Norwegian Visual Artists Fund
- 2015 Art & Technology Grant from the Norwegian Culture Fund
- 2015 The Norwegian Exhibition Grant
- 2015 Exhibition Grant from the Norwegian Culture Fund
- 2014 Grant from Ragnvald & Ida Blix’ Foundation