Narvik Museum
The spectacular Ofotbanen railway and iron ore trains, Narvik city’s development and industry in addition to travelling exhibits.
02 February 2023
VU-artist 2023
We are approaching Vinterfestuka, which is the biggest event of the year in Narvik. This year’s Vinterfestuka lasts from 17th-26th of March. Every year Narvik Museum has an art exhibition at the museum with a VU-artist. This year Bjørg-Elise Tuppen is the VU-artist!
Bjørg-Elise Tuppen / Biography
Bjørg-Elise Tuppen is a visual artist, photographer and sculptor who lives in Harstad, where she also has her art studio. She has degrees in art from the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Falmouth, England.
Tuppen’s art can be described as both versatile, philosophical, abstract and figurative, focusing on the human being. She paints with deep denominations and works a lot with texture through different techniques. This often results in expressions with connotations to light beyond the visible spectrum. In her abstract work, she explores aspects of our physical laws, such as particles, time, and entropy.
Her sculptures are often integrated with wood or other natural materials to explore our role in reality. Through site-specific and temporary sculptures, made from natural materials from the site, she explores entropy. This is done by returning them to their original state. Here the process becomes the important thing. In her photographic work, she often focuses on combining conflicting elements to create new, strange expressions.
Through her interest and fascination with physics, she explores our place in reality. How we are entangled with, and subject to, the same physical laws as all other matter, but at the same time a conscious part of it. This is a junction in her art where time and consciousness play central roles.
Tuppen has had several solo exhibitions, been presented in several books and journals, and she has recently become part of YAH Management representing her in Milan, Italy.
We at Narvik Museum are looking forward to having Bjørg-Elise’s exhibition at our museum! It’s a sales exhibition, and it opens on 17th. of March with a vernissage, and will remain at the museum until mid-August 2023.
