Helene Sommer
(She/her)
Address: ORP 2, Olaf Ryes plass 2, 0552 Oslo
Floor: 3
Room number: 326
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
I work with video, text, and installation. The projects are presented as both multi-channel audiovisual installations and single-channel. I have also produced several artist books. I combine documentary material, archival material, montage, essay genre, and fiction.
In my works I’m interested in the established mechanisms of science, both in relation to storytelling and how we relate to our natural surroundings – both as individuals and collectively. I am concerned with the many levels of transmission, interpretation, and translation that are involved in all storytelling.
Video, installation, text
Remains of day and night, Helene Sommer, Video 4K 25 min, 2024-2025. Video still.
Effigy of the Beast, Helene Sommer, 4K, 25 min, 2023, video still.
A Wetland Chronicle, Helene Sommer, video installation, 2021, KO.SA, architecture Vera Wyller, installation view. Photo: H.Sommer
Undergrunnsbevegelser (Underground movements), Helene Sommer, 4K, video still, in production.
In my studio
In my studio, visitors can see a selection of works as well as parts of the process that are involved in developing a project, such as literature and images I am interested in, and materials I collect along the way.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Levninger av dag og natt (Remains of Night and Day) (video 4K 30 min, to be completed in 2025)
Undergrunnsbevegelser (Underground Movements) (video 4K 25 min. to be completed in 2026)
Stones Move Trees Speak (video/installation to be completed in 2025)
Planned exhibitions:
Bodø City Museum- Nordlandsmuseet (2025)
Edvard Munch Haus, Warnemünde, DE (2025)
Oslo Kunstforening (2026)
CV
See https://www.helenesommer.net/cv/