The Ocean

Contribution to Bergen Kunsthall’s city scale exhibition The Ocean (28 August to 31 October 2021). With Trond Ansten, Grundvåg installed Intertidal Shelter III, a sculptural garden of 3D printed, graphite rich clay forms stretching through the intertidal zone at Store Lungegårdsvann, near Gamle Nygårdsbro.

A shore mounted solar panel fed current through the salt water. Drawing on Wolf Hartmut Hilbertz’s mineral accretion research, the electrolysis was meant to bind ocean CO₂ and minerals as limestone on the sculptures, building substrate for seaweed and other marine life. Inside the Kunsthall, wooden logs from Intertidal Shelter I (LIAF 2019) were shown with Hilbertz documents and models.

Supported by Arts Council Norway, Troms and Finnmark county, Bergen og Omland havnevesen, and Skaland Graphite (Senja).