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Category Archives: EcoArt

Plastic garbage, anyone?


Every night, as the Hurtigruten ships enter the harbor of Svolvær, Lise Wulff is meeting up to collect the plastic garbage from the beach cleanings carried through by the passengers and crew. The plastic is used in the EcoArt installation HESJE. The amount of plastic is overwhelming  

Preparing for the EcoArt project HESJE


In collaboration with Hurtigruten and with the support of Miljødirektoratet and Hurtigruten Foundation, Lise Wulff is doing a large EcoArt project in lovely Lofoten, Norway. Passengers and crew of Hurtigruten will collect garbage along the coastline of Norway the 19th of September. Today, Lise Wulff started out with her own […]

Woven Stone at the top of Norway!


In the nature reserve of Jotunheimen, Lise Wulff did a short time, site specific installation the top of Norway’s highest mountain Galdhøpiggen. 2469 meters above the sea level, a stone was covered with yarn. Just for some hours, as you are not allowed to leave anything behind in the nature reserve.    

Searching for the perfect fish rack


To prepare the upcoming EcoArt project HESJE in collaboration with Hurtigruten, Lise Wulff visited the beautiful islands of Lofoten, Norway. The project consists of two parts; first, Hurtigruten’s passengers and crew will pick garbage along the coastline of Norway. Second, the garbage will be mounted on a fish rack in […]

Woven Stone in Rondane, Norway


To Lise Wulff, her Woven Stones treat the theme of the environmental challenges – in a caring way. For generations, we have woven and knitted clothes of wool to keep our family warm. By doing the same with stones around the world, symbolic reminders are left for the passers by that […]

Woven Stone in Chile


During a visit to the Chilean winery Aresti, Lise Wulff covered a stone found in the vineyards, with yarn in symbolic colors. The stone is a river rock, shaped by the water from the Andean mountains. At some point in time, the river transported the stone to the fields that are […]

Lise Wulff receives art prize


The Art Prize of the Municipality of Bærum 2016 was given to Lise Wulff for her land art project “Some Day I’ll go my Own Way”, during the opening of the exhibition “Borders and Boundaries” in Bærum Kunsthall. The jury consisted of Ana Maria Bresciani, curator at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, […]

Some Day, I’ll go my own Way


Lise Wulff made a net of hemp to cover a carefully selected tree. The work changes continuously with the seasons and with time. In order to survive, the tree needs to overcome the constraints of the net. The installation was presented in the Slovak architecture and urbanization magazine Urbion in 2012 and the […]

“Woven Water” at Semsvann, Asker


Exhibition at Semsvann, Norway, May 2015. The water and the wooden boards have taken the place of the yarn as the threads of the weave. And while the water makes up the backdrop, the wooden boards create the pattern in this carpet of water.   Hundreds of people walked along the […]

Environment art project in Myanmar


350 solar lamps were donated to schools and orphanages in the Inle Lake area, as part of The Scream from Nature project. 70-80% of the population of Myanmar lives without electricity.

Summing up The Scream from Nature


The celebration of Edvard Munch’s 150th anniversary has come to an end. The environment art project The Scream from Nature has engaged people all over the world. Check out the highlights video or see more info on the project here! Even though the Munch150 program is over, The Scream from Nature keeps […]

Finding treasures…


Some old and rusty cable drums stood pushed aside not to disturb the hectic building activities in the city center of Oslo. Some phone calls later, they were on their way to an exhibition. To see how they ended up, check out The Wonders and Wounds of Existence.  

Plastic bottle raft cruising through Prague


A return point for plastic plastic bottles was established in the village center, and quickly the 2000 bottles needed were at place. Using the Junk Raft that crossed the Pacific Ocean in 2010 as a model, a smaller version was build to go sailing on the Vltava river in Prague. The […]

Woven Stones


Wulff has been working with her “Woven stones” since 2008. The same technique has also been used for man size sculptures, iron objects, as well as tree in her work “Some day, I’ll go my own way”.            

Defenders


An old house in Dubravica, Slovakia, had been torn down. Lise Wulff used the old walls for her outdoor installation “Defenders”. The work is part of the outdoor exhibition “Landscape – revisited” in Slovakia. Seven international artists were in 2011 invited for a residency with the aim of establishing an outdoor gallery […]

Perpetuality


A sircular shape is made of found materials and wool from a local sheep farmer in Dubravica, Slovakia. The rhythm of the day, …of the year, …of life The work is part of the outdoor exhibition “Landscape – revisited” in Slovakia. Seven international artists were in 2011 invited for a residency with […]