Eva Bakkeslett is an artist, curator and cultural activist. Through her work, she conveys connections between humans, nature and culture as a living organism. Communication across species boundaries, bacterial cultures and fermentation as a process and metaphor are central themes and are often conveyed in the form of socially engaged and inclusive projects. Her works provide insight into poetic and sensory processes that create transformation where new perspectives are explored and revealed.

As a curator, she has focused on the connection between art and ecology, including through Gentle Actions at Kunstnernes Hus in 2010, the Repair programme at Galleri ROM in Oslo in 2016-17, Land Art Biennial at Kjerringøy in 2018 and her latest project; The Conference of the Birds. She has held a number of positions in the North Norwegain Art Society (NNBK), been a mentor for newly graduated artists in the pilot project for the North Norwegian Art Centre, taught art for many years at the culture school, DKS, and several art colleges and has been an external examiner and sat on the Norwegian Visual Artists’ Scholarship Committee.

Eva has an MA in Arts & Ecology from Dartington College of Arts in England. Her work has been shown at a number of galleries, art venues and film festivals in Norway and abroad, including MoMa in New York, DOX in Prague, Kiasma in Helsinki and the Autumn Exhibition in Oslo. Eva lives on Engeløya in North Norway where runs a cultural farm with a guest studio and AiR programme based on ecological thinking and action on Engeløya in Nordland.

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