Viel Bjerkeset Andersen is a Norwegian visual artist and sculptor mainly working with site specific art projects.
To be site specific presupposes that there are actual spaces to take hold of, and it demands a deep understanding of the place’s properties and proportions. Her art works can be close to both architecture, landscape architecture and landart, hereby also sculptures and objects. She also works with more ephemeral expressions like light and sound, expresses by photo, video, light and sound installations.
Her art projects relate to the site’s history and situation, often influenced by the presence of the sun or the site’s specific light and acoustics. She is not afraid of proposing large scale art projects, always with a focus on the human size, movement and experience connected to its environments.
"I find it both challenging and inspiring to work with art in places that are not necessarily thought of as places for art, - as public art projects often are. To suggest and speak of art at “non-art” places, contributes to widening the understanding that art is relevant and valuable as societal expression, a particularly important contribution outside the world of galleries and museums."
Viel Bjerkeset Andersen is a Norwegian visual artist and sculptor mainly working with site specific art projects.
To be site specific presupposes that there are actual spaces to take hold of, and it demands a deep understanding of the place’s properties and proportions. Her art works can be close to both architecture, landscape architecture and landart, hereby also sculptures and objects. She also works with more ephemeral expressions like light and sound, expresses by photo, video, light and sound installations.
Her art projects relate to the site’s history and situation, often influenced by the presence of the sun or the site’s specific light and acoustics. She is not afraid of proposing large scale art projects, always with a focus on the human size, movement and experience connected to its environments.
"I find it both challenging and inspiring to work with art in places that are not necessarily thought of as places for art, - as public art projects often are. To suggest and speak of art at “non-art” places, contributes to widening the understanding that art is relevant and valuable as societal expression, a particularly important contribution outside the world of galleries and museums."
Viel Bjerkeset Andersen has her education from SHKS and SKA, now both part of Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She has also been an artist in recidence at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at a one-year French Government’s scolarship.
She has been giving several talks in different fora for more than twenty years, and is also working as a curator.
Viel Bjerkeset Andersen lives and works in Oslo.
Selection of ongoing and upcoming projects:
- Vilnius Light Festival, Lithuania. 25 - 27 January 2019.
- Moss Dental Clinic, site specific photo project. Curator: Putte Dahl. To be finished February 2019.
- Opus Groma, landart project, Rebild, North-Jutland, Denmark. Project in process.
- Art project / sculpted landscape project for Polarsirkelen high school, Mo i Rana, Norway. Curator: Ingunn-
Milly Hansen. To be finished autumn 2019.
- Solo exhibition Hå gamle prestegard, September-November 2019.
- The Ryfylke tunnel, Norway. To be finished end 2019. Art project “Behind the Breath”; sculpting of two huge rock
rooms filled with light + ten light installations/composed light drawings; five in each line, four identity-builing light
objects in the Eiganes tunnel. Client: Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen), collaborating
company: Norconsult AS.
- The Rogfast tunnel, Norway. To be finished aproximately 2024. In the very beginning of developing light art/art
projects for the worlds longest and deepest undersea tunnel. E39, Rogaland county, Norway. Client: Norwegian
Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen), collaborating company: Norconsult AS.
