Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg ‘Who Can Resist a Crying Wolf?’ – Louisiana Channel

23 May 2025

“The animals or the people aren’t actors. They are symbols of different meanings and feelings.”

Meet the artist duo Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, who use clay animation to explore human beings’ deepest and maybe most secret feelings and desires.

“We’re not teachers. You get more for not understanding that much, because what you think you understand if anyways just limited to your mind,” Nathalie Djurberg explains from her home and studio in Göteborg, Sweden. Mixing animation, music, and sculpture with her partner in art, Hans Berg, she has been creating disturbing and alluring video works and sculptures for more than two decades.

During her studies as a visual artist, Nathalie Djurberg started to feel like art was a hoax and “not what my fantasy had promised art to be,” as she puts it. That is when she found animation: “It was basically just vomiting out desires and things I did not understand,” she says and continues: “It didn’t become art until I made a turn around and asked myself why I needed to do that.”

Read more of Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg interview with Roxanne Bagheshirin for Louisianna Channel here.

Image: Portrait of Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, © Djurberg & Berg, photographed by Wynrich Zlomke.