Randi Nygård

Drawing

Randi Nygård (b. 1977, Bergen) has a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts at NTNU in Trondheim. She works mainly with drawing, collage, installation and text. Climate and social structures are recurring themes in Nygård's work. In recent years, she has taken scientific facts and hypotheses about what crosses society and the social with the forces and abilities of nature as her point of departure. Through three-dimensional collages, drawings and installations, she visualizes her own hypotheses about the human-nature relationship. Nygård describes her work as visual models of complex and invisible relationships, and is inspired by natural processes, such as glaciers breathing and that words in similar syllables often stand for things with similar visual forms. The question ´What significance do art and culture have when climate and environment are in dramatic change?´ is particularly relevant for Nygård's artistry, which believes that art can function as a tool for producing rational facts and knowledge about climate and environmental challenges facing the world.

Nygård is part of the international collaboration Ensayos, an interdisciplinary project where artists, social and natural scientists and philosophers investigate topics related to political ecology.

Text for Sensing Earth, Anthology published by Valiz (with Meander)
2023
Poem, Galerie Modulab, France
2022
Turba Tol, La Biennale di Venezia
2022
Oceanic Thinking (Semester 2), The University of Queensland Art Museum, Australia
2022
Cellule de performance, MABA, France
2022
Cucú and Her Fishes (Act l), Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
2021
As far as my Eye can Sea - The Expedition Exhibition, Bomuldsfabriken
2021
Elva, Kongsvinger Museum, Kongsvinger kunstforening
2021
SUBMERGED PORTAL, Kunstplass Contemporary Art
2021
Unfolding Questions, Codes, and Contours, Tromsø Kunstforening
2020
Unfolding Questions, Codes and Contours (group), Tromsø Kunstforening
2020
Tenthaus for Sale (group), Tenthaus Oslo
2020
Signalfeil, Atelier Nord
2020
Gesichte, Geschichte, Gedichte - Sicht, Schicht, Dicht, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Germany
2019
Sikt, skijt, dikt (solo), MELK
2019
Tegnetriennalen (group), Kunstnernes Hus
2019
The Drawing Triennial, Kunstnernes Hus
2019
Walk like a Giant (group), QB Gallery
2015
Ein tanke i naturen (solo), Tag Team
2014

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