from the series Blissed Photos, 2006
© KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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from the series Finally Photos, 2007
61cm x 100cm © KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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from the series Finally Photos, 2007
61cm x 100cm © KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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from the series Finally Photos, 2007
61cm x 100cm © KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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from the series Istanbul, 2002
© KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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from the series Istanbul, 2002
© KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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Poster for the 60th Festival internazionale del film Locarno – Play-Forward / Installation (2007) using a picture from the series Psychasthenia 10

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from the series Psychasthenia, 2000
125cm x 189cm. © KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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Oblique, 2008
installation view at Manifesta 7 © KNUT ÅSDAM Studio

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Norwegian KNUT ÅSDAM produces films and video installations that explore the politics and poetics of architecture, space and community. Youth culture, politics, linguistic psychology, music and everyday life are some of the coordinates in ÅSDAM‘s network of complex urban narratives.

KNUT ÅSDAM currently lives and works in Oslo. He has exhibited at Tate Britain; Manifesta; the Istanbul Biennial; the Venice Biennale; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; P.S.1, New York; and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has had solo exhibitions at venues including Bergen Kunsthall (2010); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2007); the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2006); and Kunsthalle Bern (2005).

Make sure to check out his architectural installations: it is here that ÅSDAM’s interest in the experience of people in public and private spaces takes root, which he later carries into his film work.