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 collected 1.500 kg of garbage along the coastline of Norway the 19th of September. The plastic waste is mounted on a fish rack in Svolvær, gradually filling up the rack. HESJE is the Norwegian word for a rack
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
The first group of passengers from Hurtigruten could witness the nordic lights while mounting the EcoArt work HESJE. The passengers had picked plastic garbage from the coast of Bodø during the day, and now, they could put some of it on the fish rack in Svolvær. Plastic vs fish….
An enormous effort has been made by Hurtigruten’s passengers and crew, making the coast line of Norway 1.500 kilos “cleaner”. 11 ships participated in this fleetwide beach cleanup, and the waste will be part of Lise Wulff’s EcoArt project HESJE (Norwegian for fish rack). If the plastic pollution of our oceans continue iwhth the speed we have today, there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans in 2050 The project urge all people to make a difference by minimizing the use of plastics, not throwing waste in nature, and picking up waste. Thanks to the support of Miljødirektoratet and Hurtigruten […]
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 beach cleaning. The plastic waste will be mounted on a fish rack during the week to come. As the ships are entering the harbor of Svolvær, passengers will put the waste on the rack (called HESJE in Norwegian), and the rack will be gradually filled up. 1 piece of beautiful […]
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.
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 order to visualize the amount of plastic that is in our oceans. Here follows some photos from the trip: The fish rack below is situated in Svolvær. It is among the largest ones. Normally, the fish is hanging to dry from February/March to May/June, but this one still had fish heads […]
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 nature needs our care. This one is situated in the mountains of Rondane in Norway.
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 now under preparation to become new vineyards . White for the snow in the Andean mountains, red for the passion for the nature and its fruits, and a soft, pink yarn for care and thoughtfulness
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, Berit Inger Øen, head of culture in the municipality, Bitte Skage, Bærum kommune’s advisor for art and culture, and Wenche Berg-Olsen from MIK. The jury’s statement (Norwegian): Verket juryen har valgt fanger opp både det å være en del av et system – innenfor gitte grenser – og det å […]
A large and powerful stone is ubicated at the edge of a mountain side in Hemsedal. The area is wild and beatuiful, but also tamed by human interventions like skiflitfs and slopes. A net of yarn covers the stone. See the “making of” and “skiing to” the Woven Stone here>>> The color of the yarn – acidic bright green – makes the stone look alien from a distance. Coming up close, the viewer will see that the color is exactly the same as the brightest moose on the stone. The natural is multiplied into the unnatural. The work creates bonds […]
“Woven Stone” is an eco art work by Lise Wulff. A large and powerful stone is ubicated at the edge of a mountain side in Hemsedal. The area is wild and beatuiful, but also tamed by human interventions like skiflitfs and slopes. A net of yarn covers the stone. The color of the yarn – acidic bright green – makes the stone look alien from a distance. Coming up close, the viewer will see that the color is exactly the same as the brightest moose on the stone. The natural is multiplied into the unnatural. The work creates bonds between present, past […]
“Woven Stone” is an eco art work by Lise Wulff. A large and powerful stone is ubicated at the edge of a mountain side in Hemsedal. The area is wild and beatuiful, but also tamed by human interventions like skiflitfs and slopes. A net of yarn covers the stone. The color of the yarn – acidic bright green – makes the stone look alien from a distance. Coming up close, the viewer will see that the color is exactly the same as the brightest moose on the stone. The natural is multiplied into the unnatural. The work creates bonds between present, past […]
Velkommen til åpning av verket “Woven Stone”, i Hemsedal, lørdag 23. april kl. 13.00! Kristin Krohn Devold står for åpningen. Du finner frem ved å ta Tindenheisen opp, da svever du like over verket. Vi skilter vei fra toppen av bakken og ned. Info in English >>> Woven Stone er et miljørelatert kunstprosjekt ved billdekunstner Lise Wulff. Det knytter bånd mellom natur og kultur, mellom fortid og fremtid. Videre skapes et nytt sted, et nytt turmål, og en identitetsmarkør. Kunstprosjektet gjennomføres i samarbeid med Destination Hemsedal. Verket innvies lørdag 23. april kl. 13 av Kristin Krohn Devold. Publikum inviteres […]
The Scream from Nature is an eco art project which aims to raise consciousness about the relationship between humans and nature. The project is a contemporary interpretation of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece the Scream, in which the iconic anxiety-ridden face is recreated outdoors in nature, with a variety of materials. See a 3 minutes video about the project or visit the project’s web site! Munch wrote several texts about the Scream motif, the most poignant among these being: “I felt a huge unending scream course through nature”. Now, over 100 years later, we hear another ”scream” from nature: droughts, forest fires, floods, earth slides, extreme weather, melting glaciers, rising […]
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 Norwegian arts and crafts magazine Kunsthåndverk 2/2015. “Some Day, I’ll go my own Way” 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 just outside Banská Bystica. The project was supported by […]
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 lake of Semsvann in the bright Norwegian summer night, as part of the Asker kulturfestival.
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.
A beautiful red tree along the path resulted in a small work; “Woven Autumn”.
Exhibition at Berger Museum, Norway, automn 2014. The lake outside the old factory building is part of an art work inspired by the production that used to be inside; namely weaving. The water and the wooden boards have now 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. Woven Water will be on the lake for one year, to be able to follow it through the seasonal changes.
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 going. You can follow the project on Facebook, and you are welcome to make your own Scream contribution and share on the same Facebook page or on Instagram #thescreamfromnature.
In the city center of Sandvika, Norway, five green trees are lighting up the dark – giving promise for the spring to come. A collaborative work together with Danish artist Dorthe Søndergaard, spring 2013. Placed in a colorless area of the city, surrounded by grey buildings, the green trees and the colorful carpets below them, changed the environment completely, creating a more dynamic and energetic ambience.
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.
Group exhibition summer 2012. The exhibition did not take place within the safe concrete walls of the Arts Centre, but in the wild and overgrown wooded area in front of the Art Centre’s entrance and on the steps down to the waterfront. These outdoor areas were transformed into an organic and process oriented exhibition space at the mercy of the climate and seasonal whims. The works took the form of site-specific visual interventions in the landscape and focused on themes such as displacement, identity, absence, protection, and as the title refers to, a paradise lost. During the summer of 2012, a total of 15 works created by 22 artists were […]
As part of the UN Safe Planet Campaign, and the Ahoj-project by ArtMill, Lise Wulff installed the sound piece “Signs of Life” in the sculpture garden of Museum Kampa, Prague, in 2012. Just as the sound is rising from the ground, so does the tree – both of them providing their individual signs of a living Earth. In this site specific piece, sound is streaming from the ground, from a hidden speaker. The piece communicates with the auditory sense of the attentive visitor. No visual sign is given to attract the attention. Still, the carefully selected placement under the […]
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 Ahoj! Raft project aimed at raising awareness on plastic and chemical pollution issues. Lise Wulff took part during her stay at ArtMill, together with Barbara Benish, Leslie Moyer and Stephen Amato-Salvatierra.
The tree was sick and needed to go. Slowely the pieces were put back together – inevitably ending up different than before. See the development of Reassembled through time and season here >>
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”.
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 just outside Banská Bystica. The project was supported by the Slovakian Ministry of Culture and ArtToday, and Mexican Carlos Carmonamedina curated the exhibition.
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 the aim of establishing an outdoor gallery just outside Banská Bystica. The project was supported by the Slovakian Ministry of Culture and ArtToday, and Mexican Carlos Carmonamedina curated the exhibition.
