Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken and brother of film director Stefan Faldbakken.
Matias Faldbakken’s practice centres around the collision between the artist and the object, his works follow a precise conceptual procedure with trivial gestures of vandalism, appropriation and poetry.Inspired by minimal and conceptual art of the 1960’s and 70’s, with its deconstructive focus on the object and the gallery space, Faldbakken criticizes the ideology of the white cube spac