Lars Nordby

Norway / BulgariaArtists

Biography

Lars Nordby (b.1988, Norway) holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Norway (2016). His artistic practice, with theatricality as a medium, evolves around humans’ irrelational attachment to identity, combining art installations with photography and delegated performances. Solo exhibitions include Blue Seats at Centralbanken (2024, Oslo); Restaging Parallax at ICA (2022, Sofia); White Card Wardrobe Plot at Gallery Reneenee (2021, Amsterdam); Tango at Kunstnernes Hus (2016, Oslo); Dear Hilesh at Chicago Art Department (2015, Chicago); and To Tole at Poznan Biennale (2015, Poznan).

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

Ways We Move Organs #1 and #2, 2025 Digitally printed photographs

Artists

Ways We Move Organs, shown at BUNA Festival, is an excerpt from an ongoing photo series Lars Nordby is working on in collaboration with puppet theatres around Europe. It is a continuation of his exploration of his notion of the irrelational, a neologism used to describe theatricality as a medium in the interpersonal space and power structures in everyday life. Lars Nordby’s latest visual chapter delves into the mechanism of the necessary and destructive drive of humans’ obsessive approach to identity - be it photography, art installations, and delegated performances, often combined.