Trond Ansten is a visual artist and nature conservator educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and the University of Telemark. With a background as a woodcarver, biologist and trapper man, he explores aspects of our relation to nature and the resource base. Ansten works with sculpture, film, relational art & performance were transformation of organic material, innovation and craft traditions are central. Recent works explore trapping architecture, fractal structures in nature, seaweed-farming, fish glue and the bar as an artistic site. The audience is invited on a journey through science, history and mysticism. What is there of forgotten knowledge that can open up new potential?
Ansten recieved the Government´s three-year artist grant in 2019 and 2022 and his work is exhibited at galleries and art festivals such as Barents Spektakel (NO), CCA gallery (Glasgow), Sami Centre for Contemporary Art (NO), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Satellite Art Show/Art Basel - Miami, Lofoten International Art Festival (NO), Nordic Art Week-Estonia, The Arctic Arts Festival (NO), Museum Kunst der Westküste (DE), Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum (NO), Delai Film-festival (Moscow), Alternative Film Festival (Belgrade) and Grace Exhibition Space (NYC). In 2017 he recieved the Grand Prize at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
