“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
“Phantom Gut”, solo exhibition by Ingeborg Tysse. Installation view at L21 Home, 2024.
Ingeborg Tysse
Spikey, 2024
Sycamore maple tree, aspen, spruce, epoxy resin, bird spikes
144 x 37 x 22 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Pod, 2023
Spruce, cables
27 x 50 x 30 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Another kind of gut, 2024
Birch tree, socket, iPod, charger, looped video, contact folio, leather shoes, epoxy resin
144 x 37 x 22 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Plug, 2023
Power plug, wood
7 x 20 x 35 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Tales of Transit, 2023
Sell, Hazel, pigmented epoxy resin, iPhone, loooped video, charger
144 x 37 x 22 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Apparatus for bonding, 2024
Bird spikes
13 x 28 x 27 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Tails to Tales, 2024
Birch tree, aspen, handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, copper, metal pipe, patent tape, contact folio
166 x 37 x 34 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Pocket , 2024
Copper, handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, nails
100 x 40 x 30 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Phantom gut, 2024
Handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, wool, linen
200 x 100 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Hot gut, 2024
Handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, wool, linen
160 x 100 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Golden claws, 2024
Handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, wool, linen
200 x 100 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Morgan cane, 2024
Copper, wooden stick
90 x 95 x 27 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Arm or, 2024
Copper, handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, copper thread
28 x 110 x 28 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Hoopthesis, 2024
Cherry tree, handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, copper thread
140 x 47 x 33 cm
Ingeborg Tysse
Skiapod’s vacation, 2024
Cherry tree, handwoven digital Jacquard weaving, copper thread, metal pipe, epoxy resin
144 x 37 x 22 cm
“Phantom Gut” marks Ingeborg Tysse’s debut exhibition in Spain, coinciding with her inaugural representation by L21. The assembly of the works resembles a forest of bodies and limbs, a landscape merging fiction with reality. It inhabits a realm that straddles the virtual, the real, and the mystical, rooted in something visceral and raw. This landscape in transition gathers limbs that may never have existed, encapsulating history, contemporary and ancient myths, folklore, embodied technology, and future possibilities.
The allusion to the ghost is compelling, suggesting that while a ghost once physically existed, a phantom may never have had physical form.) While ghosts often appear as a shadow of something manifested in the ‘real’, the phantom suggests an imagined phenomenon rather than something factual – opening up a realm of endless opportunity – as the imagined often happens to be where magic can gently coexist, merge and create narratives.
Within this realm we are urged to step into a kind of underworld, where Tysse states ‘there is no right or wrong, good or bad, nor up or down- instead we are in constant transition of remolding, melting, and morphing with our surroundings- with the head in the future, the heart in the past, and the gut in the present,” we are invited to navigate the temporal complexities of our existence.
This mutation of complex hybrid bodies exists between animal, human, machine, and realms beyond our known existence. Her sculptures offer new possibilities rather than definitive answers, with the gut, our intuitive connection to digestion, truth- synthetic or organic, creating and blurring outlines. Her bodies indicate some sort of functionality within their own logic, suggesting an unreleased performativity, leaving the room in an uncanny state.
By placing the work in a space that was once a home, we step into a new dimension, confronting, succumbing and eating up our traumas, our childhood furniture now a part of our limbs, table legs grow through our nervous system, the floors where we stumbled, the bruises we are and the windows we peered through. The body now merges with the house. Is this what they meant when they said, ‘death becomes her’? In this room we are both fiction and reality.
Zé Ortigão
EN / ES
Ingeborg Tysse (b. 1992, Stavanger Norway) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice takes on the form of sculpture, installation, weavings, costumes, video and text. She creates sculptural bodies bearing traces of historic and contemporary myths, feminism and environmental concerns. Her work often unfolds in scenographic installations featuring complex creatures exploring a state between reality and fiction. When merging organic and synthetic materials with craft techniques, Tysse thematizes the history of traditional craft and forms new hybrid meetings. Central in her process is working with humor and seriousness side by side, approaching her surroundings through an animistic perspective and a method of care and conservation.
Tysse recently graduated with an MFA from the Art Academy in Bergen, holds a BFA from the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, Textile Department and from the Art Academy in Iceland. Recent solo and group exhibitions include is this is personal at Bergen Kunsthall (2024), Phantom Gut at L21 Gallery in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2024), SKRØMT at Hordaland Kunstsenter (2023) and Shared Imaginations at Titanikas in Vilnius, Lithuania (2023).
EDUCATION
2022 –2024
MFA, Bergen Art Academy, KMD, University of Bergen NO
2021
Classical Mythology, University of Oslo NO
2015–2018
BFA Textile Department, Oslo National Academy of the Arts NO
2017
BFA (Exchange) Iceland Academy of the Arts (Listahaskoli Reykjavik) IS
2013–2015
Art Studies, Prosjektskolen Kunstskole NO
2012–2013
Art History and Visual Studies, University of Oslo NO
2012
Textile Fashion, Gateway Paris FR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Phantom Gut, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca ES
2023
Skrømt, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen NO
2022
Have Giants Got Souls, Galleri Taxi, Bergen NO
2021
Cherished to my knees, Blank Blank Studio, Oslo NO
2020
Surefootedly Floating, curated by Espen Iden, Memphis Gallery, Oslo NO
2017
Can’t Reach Me Here, Rettingaverkstæðis Þorarins, Reykjavík IS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
this is personal, Graduation Show, Bergen Kunsthall NO
We Never Could Do Anything About! What We Could Do Something About, Group exhibition organized by Hommersåk/Hestånå Architecture & Taxonomic Triennale (HATT) in collaboration with Steinar B. Haug, Sandaker Senter, Oslo NO
2023
Shared Imaginations, KUNO Biennial, Titanikas, Vilnius LT
EVA, The Experimental Video Art Exhibition, BACC, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok TH
Stories from Badedammen, Costume Design, by Theatre Company Mågå, Stavanger NO
MA1 Show, Bergen Kjøtt NO
Pleasure, NOGOODS, curated by OVE Gallery, Bergen NO
Morphogenesis, After School Special at Landmark, Bergen NO
Aeaea, curated by Oslo City, Podium Oslo NO
2022
rt 4 Ukraine, Auction for Kyiv Biennial, Kunstplass Oslo NO SIM, SÍM Residency, Reykjavik IS
2021
Stories from Stavgersand, Costume Design, Theatre Company Mågå, Stavanger NO
2020
Guilty Pleasure, Curated by Petter Wang, Atelier Oblivion, Oslo NO
2019
Velvet Ropes, Got It For Cheap (GIFC), Galleri Golsa, Oslo NO
Munch’s Skrik, Det Gamle Museet, Oslo NO
2018
Sommersolverv, curated by Espen Iden, After School Special at Landmark, Bergen NO
BFA Graduation exhibition, Oslo National Academy of the Arts NO
2017 STANLEY, outdoor performance Reykjavík IS
INITIATIVES, CURATORIAL PROJECTS AND RESIDENCIES
2023
Costume Designer for Mågå Theatre Company, Stavanger
SKAKMD Collaboration between Writing Academy and Art Academy, Bergen Art Book Fair
2022
Mardi Gras, Co-curator, 12 artists on 12 hours, Montebello Kulturhus
Artist in residence at SÍM (The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists) Reykjavik, IS
2020 – 2022
Head of Montebello Kulturhus association
2019 Rhapsody & Still Life, Artist Assistant for Lin Wang, Vigeland Museum in Oslo NO
Artist in Residence, Obrestad Fyr, Rogaland NO
2018
Artist in Residence, The Studio House in Arcueil FR
Mermaids Gender by Eivind Hansen, Curator, Black & White Building, London UK
2017
Mutations by Alex Fretin and launch of HYMEN, Curator, Kvit Galleri, Copenhagen DK
2016
Artist Presentation at Prosjektskolen Kunstskole
2015 – 2020 HYMEN Art Magazine Co-editor and founder (3 printed issues)
Drømmen by Hennes Majestet Theater Company, Scenographer, Cornerteateret, Bergen NO