'Rooted' featuring Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg at Ravinen, Sweden

12 February 2026

Until 17 May, Ravinen presents 'Rooted' featuring Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg.

Every year since 1951, the Edstrand Foundation has awarded one of the largest art scholarships, making a substantial contribution to the evolving art scene in and around Sweden. The Foundation has supported generations of artists in their practice by giving them the means to focus on their artistic development. This anniversary exhibition therefore also celebrates 75 years of art history and offers insight into how sustained interest and engagement in art can benefit society.

The 20 artists selected to represent the Foundation’s unique achievements all attest that the process of creating art is far from linear or predictable. On the contrary, this exhibition as a whole indicates connections across vast distances in both time and space. The artistic contributions transform the architectonic rooms into active zones, where the statements made by the works flow back to the worlds they came from and will be linked to in the future. The nature of the exhibition medium is such that the works will blend with each other, and new constellations will give rise to new relationships and circular temporalities.

Mixing animation, sculpture and sound, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg create psychologically charged scenarios dealing with human and animalistic desires. Since 2001, Djurberg has developed a distinctive style of filmmaking, using clay animation to dramatise the basest of natural instincts from jealousy, revenge and greed, to submission and lust. Her partner, the musician and composer Hans Berg, conjures up the atmospheric sound effects and scores the hypnotic music for Djurberg’s animations and installations.

Find out more via Ravinen here.

Image: Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, The Mad Tea Party, 2004, Stop Motion Animation with Music © Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Courtesy Lisson Gallery