It Looks Like You Belong Here

2023 to 2024 · Sparebankstiftelsen DNB’s grant exhibition · Oslo Kunstforening · with Damien Ajavon and Linda Lamignan

Installation for the sixteenth Sparebankstiftelsen DNB grant exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening (16 November 2023 to 28 January 2024), shown with Damien Ajavon and Linda Lamignan.

The sculptural pieces are habitats made with soil and clay gathered and mixed with sand, then extruded by 3D printing, bioactive forms that host bacteria, vegetation, moss, and algae and change over the run of the show. Floor trays, wall clusters, and moss tanks sit as small biotopes in the gallery; a sound work plays recordings of endangered black legged kittiwakes roosting in the mobile nesting hotels Grundvåg developed in Tromsø, linking the gallery to the urban bird project documented separately under Kittiwakes.

Photography: gallery install documentation, November 2023; earlier views via Kunstavisen / Arve Rød and Jacky Jaan Yuan Kuo (Oslo Kunstforening).

It Looks Like You Belong Here, installation view, Oslo Kunstforening, 2023

Biotope tray with moss, algae and extruded forms. Photo via Kunstavisen / Arve Rød

Artist with wall fragments from the installation. Photo: Jacky Jaan Yuan Kuo

Gallery with wall text It Looks Like You Belong Here, floor biotopes and wall cluster, Oslo Kunstforening

Wide install view, organic floor sculptures on clear trays under windows, Oslo Kunstforening

Kåre Aleksander Grundvåg among floor biotopes, Oslo Kunstforening, 2023

Artist standing beside the wall cluster of soil-clay fragments

Wall cluster of irregular bioactive fragments on white gallery wall

Detail, extruded clay coils woven through wood strips on the gallery floor

Tripod floor sculpture with extruded coils and sprouting grass in a water tray

Skeletal organic floor sculpture with coiled extrusions on a clear tray

Dark extruded mounds with green sprouts in a shallow acrylic tray

Water-filled biotope tray with moss, coils and power cord, Oslo Kunstforening

Tall clear moss tank with a green strip at the base against a white wall

Moss tank detail, condensation on acrylic above a soil and moss line

Aquatic moss tank on the windowsill with floating plants and city view beyond

Small white organic wall fragment held by a metal clamp