Nathalie Djurberg

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Nathalie Djurberg (* 1978 in Lysekil ) is a Swedish artist . She lives and works with her partner, the musician Hans Berg, in Berlin .

life and work

Nathalie Djurberg works primarily in the field of video art and animation film with modeling clay figures made of plasticine in combination with puppets (partly filled with modeling clay) for so-called claymation films . In her films she dedicates herself to the subjects of life, death, eroticism and violence. Influences: Including the well-known Czech animation filmmaker Jan Švankmajer .

Djurberg directs and camera himself and is responsible for the technical organization, the costumes and plasticine figures as well as for the production of the scenes from paper mache and modeling clay. Each picture is recorded individually using stop-motion technology with a mini DV video camera. In the last few years she has combined her films with hand-made, painted sculptures to create room installations. Her partner, Hans Berg, composes the music for her films and installations.

For the implementation of the content of her work she uses complementary pairs of themes such as power and powerlessness, care and abuse, violence and love, masochism and sadism, monstrosity and vulnerability. The double standards of the Catholic Church are just as much a theme as racism and the oppression of women. Instead, she finds haunting images that are reminiscent of nightmares. It is a mixture of cruelty and a rough sense of humor. In the animation, your characters achieve an astonishingly sensual physicality and differentiated facial expressions. Her art can also be described as grotesque (see Francisco de Goya , Hieronymus Bosch , George Grosz ). "In her animations, Nathalie Djurberg tells stories that seek and find the beauty of life, especially in dark fantasies, lewd representations and breaking social taboos."

Djurberg had her breakthrough in her home country Sweden in 2004 with the exhibition "Tiger licking girls butt" in the Färgfabriken, Stockholm . In Germany, the artist and her composing partner had their first major museum exhibition and at the same time their breakthrough in 2019 at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt .

education

  • 1994–1995 Folk University, Basic Art Education, Gothenburg
  • 1995–1997 Hovedskous Art School Gothenburg
  • 1997–2002 Malmö Art Academy (graduation with Master )

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010 SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent
  • 2009 The Porn Identity - Expeditions into the Dark Zone, Kunsthalle Wien
  • 2009 53rd Biennale di Venezia , “Making Worlds” (for this she received a lion for the best young artist)
  • 2009 Benaki Museum, Athens

Claymation films, digital videos (all with music by Hans Berg)

  • Tiger Licking Girl's Butt, 2004, 2:15
  • The Natural Selection, 2006, 11:42
  • Camels Drink Water, 2007, 3:47, 4th edition
  • Hungry Hungry Hippoes, 2007, 4:20
  • It's the Mother, 2008, 6:00
  • Turn into Me, 2008, 7:10
  • Putting down the Prey, 2008, 5:40
  • We are not two, we are one, 2008, 5:33, edition 4
  • I Found Myself Alone, 2008, 9:45 am
  • Turn into me, 2008, 7:10, 4th edition
  • The Experiment (Greed), 2009, 10:45
  • The Experiment (Forest), 2009, 7:27
  • The Experiment (Cave), 2009, 6:39
  • Snakes know it's Yoga, 2010, 6:30
  • I wasn't Made to Play the Son, 2011, 6:27 am
  • I am Saving This Egg For Later, 2011, 6:27
  • Deceiving Looks, 2011, 6:27
  • Bad Eggs, 2011, 6:01 am
  • Woods, 2011, 5:02
  • I'm a Wild Animal, 2011, 5:01 am
  • My Body is a House of Glass, 2011, 5:01
  • Didn't you know I'm made of butter, 2011, 5:01
  • Monster, 2011, 5:01
  • Open Window, 2011, 6:27
  • The Parade of Rituals and Stereotypes, 2012, HD, 10:56
  • The Black Pot, 2013, Stop Motion Animation, 11:57

Prizes and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrike Knöfel: The View into the Riesenweib , Spiegel Online Kultur, April 21, 2008
  2. ↑ Markus Mittringer: Don't be afraid of fear , DerStandard.at, May 7, 2009
  3. ↑ Jens Ullheimer: Nathalie Djurberg , Art | Press review, July 18, 2008
  4. ↑ "A Journey through Mud and Confusion with Small Glimpses of Air" , exhibition at the Schirn from February 28 to May 26, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019
  5. ^ Exhibition in the Schirn: "Evolution eats its children" , discussion of the Djurberg / Berg exhibition in the FAZ , published and accessed March 12, 2019
  6. ↑ Current: Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg , accessed on July 9, 2014
  7. ↑ http://www.zachfeuer.com/nathaliedjurberg.html
  8. ↑ www.kunstaspekte.de

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personal data
SURNAME Djurberg, Nathalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Lysekil , Sweden