“My art often emerges from encounters with the familiar in my everyday life. A loaf of bread that becomes a bread festival. A bucket of earthworm compost that, when observed over time, the metabolism of these humble but diligent earth-makers becomes an exploration of the quiet magic of soil in the making. Last year’s radishes, cleared from my vegetable garden, reappear as radical fibreforms, hollowed out by microbes during the dark winter months.

I delve into the story of the Norwegian rømmekolla—the lactic acid culture that has connected people, animals, soil, and bacteria across generations. I listen to the birds, asking for a translator to tell their story of diminishing food sources, habitat loss, and decline.

Through these grounded gestures, I translate complex and often abstract questions about the relationship between nature and culture into tangible, sensory, and poetic experiences.

Fermentation lies at the heart of my practice, both as a biological process and as a metaphor for transformation. I am inspired by bacteria’s capacity for elegant, collective change and I expand this inquiry through what I call social fermentation in my socially engaged projects.

I work across film, interactive installations, performative workshops and lectures. Throughout, I seek to illuminate the interdependence of humans, nature, and culture, and to draw attention to the Earth as a living organism.

Through my art, I aim to awaken the senses and deepen our sense of belonging and agency within the natural world. Small, attentive gestures can shift larger systems, like a trim tab subtly 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 unfolds. My practice unfolds at the intersection of aesthetic and ethnographic research, microbiology, and a gentle form of activism resembling homeopathy. Ultimately, it seeks to cultivate a deeper awareness of our entanglements with our senses, with one another, and with the living Earth.”

Eva’s work opens poetic and sensory processes that inspire transformation, where new perspectives are explored and materialised. Her artistic practice has evolved into a symbiosis of aesthetic and ethnographic research, microbiology, homeopathy, and gentle activism, merging the aesthetic and poetic with the political.

She runs a cultural smallholding on Engeløya in North Norway, featuring a guest studio and an artist-in-residence programme grounded in ecological thinking and practice. Eva holds an MA in Arts & Ecology from Dartington College of Arts, England. Her works have been exhibited at a number of galleries, art venues and film festivals in Norway and abroad, including MoMa in New York, DOX in Prague, Kiasma in Helsinki, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo and the Northern Norwegian Art Museum in Tromsø and Bodø.