Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg standing outdoors together

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg

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blue octopus model placed in dirt
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg standing outdoors together

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg

“It always starts with an unanswered question. It’s an exploration every time - trying to find what you’re really looking for.”

Fantastical forays of shame and desire.

In fabulously weird animations, Djurberg and Berg balance child-like imagination with grotesque violence to explore dark facets of human psychology and animalistic desire. Djurberg creates the animations and installations, handcrafting characters and backdrops from materials such as clay, plasticine, fabric, wire and paint. Berg then scores technopop-come-classical soundtracks to amplify the complex emotional charge of the films’ disorientating storylines. Image and sound coalesce in playful-yet-unnerving artworks which envelop their viewers in strangely seductive environments. Inspired by fol...

Bio

Nathalie Djuerberg was born in 1978 in Lysekil, Sweden, and Hans Berg was born the same year in Rättvik, Sweden. The pair have practiced as a duo since 2004.

At Auction

In 2020, original sculpture Crocodile, Egg, Man (2012) sold in a Buttowskis' auction for €1,600,000 - a staggering 46 times its estimate.

Did you know?

Aside from providing soundtracks for the duo's animations, Hans' sets have kept revelers dancing in some of the world’s best-loved underground nightclubs.


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