About
Nedreaas works across drawing, sculpture and photography, and is best known for her film practice. Through intimate, playful performances and the use of makeshift materials, her work explores shared experiences of temporal existence.
Her films portray solitary performers removed from their conventional stages and audiences, absorbed in specialised acts. In Nedreaas’ work, performance functions not as spectacle but as a condition in which a sustained negotiation between body, time and effort reflects structures of lived experience.
Training and fatigue are made visible through close framing, repetition and durational attention, while scratches and light spills within the film material operate as traces of use, exposure and passage, paralleling the marks left on bodies through labour, encounters and time.
Frequently presented as rhythmic multi-screen installations, the works convey a sense of instability and fragility alongside a quiet agency within a world that carries on regardless.
Situated between portraiture, documentary and psychodrama, Nedreaas’ films employ performative strategies to consider human existence as a continuous act of rehearsal marked by repetition, effort and inevitable failure.
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.