Architecture for Yeast

Arkitektur for gjær (Architecture for Yeast), a suspended wooden sculpture first shown at Høstutstillingen 2019, Grundvåg’s debut in Statens kunstutstilling. The porous, tunnelled form draws on traditional yeast log structures that conserved brewing yeast between sessions, long before microorganisms were named.

The work belongs to his ongoing interest in non human architecture: carved cavities as speculative dwellings for microbial life, linking craft, fermentation, and coastal material knowledge.

The same sculpture later entered Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum’s collection circuit, shown in Dilemma at Nordover, Longyearbyen (2022 to 23), and in Til naturen in Tromsø (2025 to 26).

Photographs: Høstutstillingen 2019 documentation.