BIO
Bakketun’s artistic practice can be characterised as a chain reaction of movement, unfolding through video, installation, performance, sculpture and text. By engaging, observing and translating energies, changes and decay in our physical environment, Bakketun examines the presence of the Laws of Nature, and how they are interfering with our lives. Simultaneously her work is coming from a strong fascination for the impalpable human mind, and the tactics we employ to systematise and understand the surrounding forces, whether it is through science or metaphysics. Using time as a radical element, she resists the expectations of efficiency, product and entertainment, creating space for observing and reflecting on our environment.
Collaborations and self-initiated exhibitions also constitute an important part of Bakketun’s artistic practice. In 2012 Bakketun together with Silje L. Haaland initiated and curated the project «Five thousand generations of birds», an exhibition in Fitjarøyene, an archipelago off the west coast of Norway, where 16 international artists where invited to work and exhibit on their own islets. Bakketun also initiated and produced the one year research and exhibition project «Grand Complications» in and around the Old Rommen School in Oslo.
Bakketun has presented solo shows at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo; Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo; Kunsthaus Essen, Essen; TSSK, Trondheim; Edvard Munch’s studio at Ekely, Oslo, Centrablanken, Oslo and Il Stile, Berlin. Her work has been shown in numerous group shows in Norway and internationally, including «Pattern Drill», Hacienda, Zürich; «Parkplatstreffen III», Kunstverein St.Pauli, Hamburg, «Dating Service», Autocenter, Berlin; «Kopie - Documented Now», De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam; «The Quick Brown Fox…», Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm; «The Autumn Exhbition», Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, «Et kollektivt kaosmos», Kunsthall Oslo, «Wildlife Sculpture Park», Akershus and «The Sculpture Triennal 2021», Oslo.