About
Nedreaas works in a variety of media including drawing, sculpture and photography and is best known for her intriguing and uncanny films.
Her work teases to the surface the human desire to control, to excel, to fabulate, to identify, to order, to assert oneself - all as a means to find
purpose, to keep carrying on, and fundamentally, to belong.
Through intimate, playful performances and makeshift materials, her work explores our shared experience of a temporal existence in a relentless eternity.
Nedreaas’ films lie somewhere between the realms of portraiture, performance, and documentary and are assembled into rhythmic multi-screen installations with a symbolically rich and visual language. Her film works often portray solitary performers on the fringe of society, isolated from their usual audience and stage, absorbed in their own specialist act. Their years of practice and effort is made palpable through Nedreaas’ use of intimate close ups and her use of scratches and light spills on the film material echoing the physical scars and imperfections of a lived life, of meetings and the passage of time.
Nedreaas’ visually rich and disconcerting work conveys a sense of instability and fragility, as well as a sense of agency in a world that carries on regardless.
Nedreaas´ work has been exhibited worldwide. Notably at the billboards of Times Square in New York, in the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), PS1 MoMa (NY), Kunstwerke (Berlin), Palazzo delle Arti (Napoli), Everson Museum (NY), Kunstverein Schwerin, New Center for Contemporary Art (Louisville), MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (Rome), International Biennial Bienalsur in Buenos Aires, Boca Raton Museum in Miami, Art Pavilion in Zagreb, Albright Knox Gallery (Buffalo, NY), Astrup Fearnley (Oslo).
Nedreaas work is represented in private as well as in public collections like Nasjonalmuseet, KODE i Bergen, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Albright Knox Collection USA, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Berlin, and Staatliches Museum Schwerin Germany. Nedreaas has developed commissioned artworks for Den Norske Opera og Ballett in Oslo, Koksa property at Fornebu and for Inspiria Science Centre in Moss.
Trine Lise Nedreaas studied art history at the University of Bergen and Fine Art in London at Central Saint Martins and at the Slade School of Fine Art. After many years in London and Berlin, Nedreaas now lives and works in her hometown Bergen in Norway.