Matias Faldbakken

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Matias Faldbakken (born November 20, 1973 in Hobro in Denmark ) is a Norwegian writer and visual artist . He lives and works in Oslo .

life and work

Artist

Matias Faldbakken is the son of the writer Knut Faldbakken and the visual artist Gro Skåltveit. He is the brother of the Norwegian film director Stefan Faldbakken . Matias Faldbakken grew up in Hamar in Norway.

From 1994 to 1998 Faldbakken studied at the Vestlandets Kunstakademi i Bergen (National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen ). From 1996 to 1997 he studied with Thomas Bayrle at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main .

In the following years Faldbakken worked with a wide variety of forms of representation and techniques. His works, which can be found in exhibitions around the world, range from photography and video projects to installations and murals. Faldbakken has realized many works, projects and exhibitions to this day together with the Norwegian contemporary artist Gardar Eide Einarsson , who lives in the USA . In 1998, Faldbakken and Einarsson founded the Bergen Museum for Samtidskunst (Bergen Museum for Contemporary Art). In 2000 Faldbakken was co-curator of the Oslo Art Gallery. From 2002 to 2004 he was together with Einarsson editor of the Forum for samtidskunst (magazine for contemporary art) of Unge Kunstneres Samfund (group of young artists in Norway).

In 2010 Faldbakken exhibited his series garbage bag drawings in collaboration with Anders Nordby at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel . The title was That Death of which One does not die .

author

Faldbakken made his debut as a writer in 2001 with the publication of his novel The Cocka Hola Company (in German 2005). His second novel, Macht und Rebel (in German 2005) , followed a year later . Both novels are part of Faldbakken's Scandinavian Misanthropy , which ended with the novel Unfun (in German 2009) as a trilogy. All three novels were published in Norway under Faldbakken's pseudonym Abo Rasul (translated: Father Asshole).

The shorter texts of the following years, which were published again under his real name Matias Faldbakken , were published as Snort Stories in 2005 and are not yet available in a German translation. They are based on earlier texts published in newspapers, magazines and books and deal with the gray area between literature, art and documentation.

Since his debut as an author, Faldbakken has been one of the most important writers and contemporary artists in Scandinavia. He represented Norway at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005.

Stage versions of The Cocka Hola Company and Macht und Rebel were performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele (2006 German premiere (DEA) of Macht and Rebel ), at the Berliner Volksbühne (2007 Macht and Rebel ) and at the Stuttgart State Theater (2008 DEA by The Cocka Hola Company ) listed. In Austria, the Wiener Theater WERK X and its predecessor stages brought dramatizations from The Cocka Hola Company (2008, Drama X), Unfun (2011, Garage X) and Macht und Rebel (2017, WERK X ) to the stage.

In 2006, Faldbakken updated the Henrik Ibsen classic Nora or A Doll's House under the title Kaldtprodukt. Et dukkehjem på nytt vor. Faldbakken's adaptation was premiered in 2007 at the Torshovteateret of the Oslo National Theater . The German premiere followed in 2008 at the Schauspielhaus of the Staatstheater Stuttgart under the title Noras Baby .

Works

  • The Cocka Hola Company. Scandinavian misanthropy. Translated from the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. Roman, Blumenbar , Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-936738-03-2
  • Power and rebel. Scandinavian Misanthropy II. From the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. Roman, Blumenbar, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-936738-16-2
  • Snort Stories. Cappelen, Oslo 2005, ISBN 82-02-25031-5
  • Kaldt product. Et dukkehjem på nytt. Kagge, Oslo 2006, ISBN 82-489-0581-0
    • Cold product. Translated from the Norwegian by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. Hartmann & Stauffacher, Cologne 2008 (manuscript publication)
  • Unfun. Translated from the Norwegian by Max Stadler. Roman, Blumenbar, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-936738-51-3
  • The Hills , Forlaget October, Oslo 2017.
    • The Hills , novel. From the Norwegian by Maximilian Stadler, Heyne Encore, Munich 2018, 238 pages, ISBN 978-3-453-27190-6 .

Prices

  • In 2002 Faldbakken received a Bjørnson grant (Bjørnson Prize for Literature) for The Cocka Hola Company .
  • In 2018 The Hills was nominated for the Norwegian Brageprisen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Gro Skåltveit ( memento of the original from March 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - infoguiden.no @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.infoguiden.no
  2. ↑ Information on Matias Faldbakken ( Memento of the original of July 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Moderna Museet @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.modernamuseet.se
  3. ↑ "I am a vandal", portrait by Matias Faldbakken. In: U_mag. April 29, 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Peter Urban-Halle: "Light, natural and thought through" , review on deutschlandfunkkultur.de from September 24, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Faldbakken, Matias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasul, Abo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th November 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobro , Denmark