Eva Bakkeslett – artist and gentle activist

artist and gentle activistThrough my art, I seek to awaken the senses and deepen our sense of belonging and agency within our natural world. Small, attentive gestures can shift larger systems—like a trim tab quietly redirecting the course of a ship. I am drawn to these nearly invisible processes of change: fermentation, the exchange of breath, and other subtle forces through which transformation slowly emerges.

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“Through my art, I seek to awaken the senses and deepen our sense of belonging
and agency within our natural world. Small, attentive gestures can shift larger
systems—like a trim tab quietly redirecting the course of a ship.
I am drawn to these nearly invisible processes of change:
fermentation, the exchange of breath, and other subtle
forces through which transformation
slowly emerges.”

“Through my art, I seek to awaken the senses and deepen our sense of belonging and agency within our natural world. Small, attentive gestures can shift larger systems—like a trim tab quietly redirecting the course of a ship. I am drawn to these nearly invisible processes of change: fermentation, the exchange of breath, and other subtle
forces through which transformation
slowly emerges.”

Eva Bakkeslett is an artist, curator, and cultural activist whose practice explores the interconnectedness of humans, nature, and culture as a living organism. Her work centers on communication across species boundaries, bacterial cultures, and fermentation, both as a biological process and as a poetic and political metaphor for transformation.

Eva holds an MA in Arts & Ecology from Dartington College of Arts in England. Her work has been exhibited at galleries, art institutions, and film festivals in Norway and internationally, including MoMA in New York, DOX in Prague, Kiasma in Helsinki, the Autumn Exhibition in Oslo, and the Northern Norwegian Art Museum.

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Latest project

Wormworks

Highlighted Projects

In the exhibition I participated with two works: The film Bee talks about the im

Really excited that my project co-curated with Heli Aaltonen has received Oppstart funding from Nordic Culture Point! This means that 10 great people are able to meet on Engeløya from the 8th-the 13th of June to shape this project and bring it into the world.

The Conference of the Birds is an interdisciplinary and socially engaged art project focusing on the loss of birds. Birds are messengers of environmental problems. Only in Europe, 421 million birds have disappeared during the last 30 years. We want to create a travelling, art-based exhibition that migrates northwards, like the birds. This will manifest as a series of community-based events in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and North-Russia.

Selected Works