Photo: Krista Caballero
Frank Ekeberg is a transdisciplinary artist, music composer and researcher working in the intersection of art, science and technology. His work explores issues of ecology, time, spatiality, and radical change, with a particular focus on nature spaces, technopolitics, and the interplay between humans and their natural and constructed environments. Primarily working with sound using obsolete as well as emerging technologies, Ekeberg’s artistic output includes generative installation art, immersive electroacoustic music, photography, and interactive audio-visual creations. Site-specificity and integration of spatial elements in the compositional structure are at the core of most of his projects. Ekeberg’s works have been widely presented in venues around the world, including Meta.Morf Biennale for Art and Technology (Norway), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany), Galería de Arte del Palacio Municipal de Puebla (Mexico), Chicharra Festival (Spain), Acousma (France), Saemien Sijte (Norway), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (USA), Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (Germany), Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway), International Symposium on Electronic Art (Australia, Dubai, Canada, Spain), K-U-K (Trondheim, Norway), International Computer Music Conference (Cuba, Sweden, Singapore, USA), Carlow Art Collection (Ireland), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Finland), CMMAS (Mexico), Felleshus (Berlin, Germany), ASU Art Museum (USA), and many more. He was awarded the Smithsonian Artist-Research Fellowship in 2017, and is currently the recipient of the Norwegian Government Grant for Artists.
CV is available upon request
Video Production: MONA / Berlin Art Link / Nordische Botschaften
Sound and images: Frank Ekeberg
Thanks to Berlin Art Link and Nordische Botschaften for doing this interview for the exhibition The White, the Green, and the Dark - Contemporary Positions from Norway, June 2 - October 3, 2020.
“Drawing on natural ecosystems for inspiration and material, Frank Ekeberg’s audio compositions have a cyclical quality akin to the habitats they capture. Field recordings play a crucial role in Ekeberg’s practice and, for him, an environment’s sound quality reflects its overall health. Ekeberg’s sound piece ‘No Man’s Land’ is part of the current exhibition ‘The White, the Green, and the Dark: Contemporary Positions from Norway’ presented by the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin. Tracing the extinction of natural pollinators from the rainforest of Norway, ‘No Man’s Land’ is a critical reflection on the rapid and devastating effects of climate change in the region. We spoke to Ekeberg about this work, as well as his evolving practice and the process behind his audio compositions.”