Selected Works
En Caul still # 2, 2024 Print on dibond 91 x 60 cm 36 x 23 ½ in Edition of 1
En Caul, still # 3, 2024 Print on dibond 60 x 91 cm 23 ½ x 36 in
Vertebra # 2 Thoracic, 2023 Dibond 61 x 91.4 cm 24 x 36 in
Vertebra # 1 Cervical, 2023 Didond 61 x 91.4 cm 24 x 36 in
Vertebra #3 Thoracic Cage, 2023 Dibond 61 x 91.4 cm 24 x 36 in
Levitation # 1 Suspended Weight, 2023 Dibond 144.78 x 217.17 cm
Levitation #2 Stretched Heave, 2023 Dibond 144.78 x 217.17 cm
Levitation #3 Contracted Arc, 2023 Dibond 144.78 x 217.17 cm
Levitate, 2023 Lycra, galvanized steel tubing, connector clamps, MDF Onsite Elastic membrane size: 300 * 150 * 105 cm Installation size: 300 * 475 * 210 cm
Strained Resilience II, 2023 Lycra, galvanized steel tubing, connector clamps, construction wood Onsite Elastic membrane size: 930 * 335* 750 cm Installation size: 930 * 335* 1000 cm
Malin Bülow
Born 1979 in Jönköping, Sweden Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Bülow's work resides at the intersection of textile, performance, installation, and sculpture, centered on the equivocality around the body, its borders, and norms. It evolves around two main components: elasticity and fluidity. Her installations, always site-specific, utilize flexible materials stretched into monumental sculptures, creating tension between the venue's architecture and setting and traditional representations of bodies in classical sculpture.
Seeking to induce a symbiotic relationship between body and membrane, Bülow aims for their coalescence. The movements and postures of the dancers are consequences of the highly elastic nature of the membranes, resulting in forms emerging as a finely tuned interplay between the membrane, the body, and the rigid geometry that anchors it. Each form is a transitional state, evolving like elastic sculptures with compositions that change almost imperceptibly, akin to the slowness of the dancers' movements.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Gallery TM51, Oslo (NO)
Trafo Kunsthall, Asker (NO)
2023
Rosendal Teater, Trondheim (NO)
Piero Atchugarry Gallery / Pablo Atchugarry Foundation, Miami (US)
Haugar Art Museum, Art Night, Tønsberg (NO)
2022
Plassen, Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter, Molde (NO)
2021
Vigeland sculpture park, Oslo (NO)
2020
Oslo Opera House, Oslo (NO)
Galleri B O, Oslo (NO)
2019
Babel visningsrom for kunst, Trondheim (NO)
2018
SOFT galleri, Oslo (NO)
LABAE - Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Snekkersten strand, Helsingør (DK)
B O Project Space 3, Oslo (NO)
2016
RAKE visningsrom, Trondheim (NO)
2015
One Night Only Gallery, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO)
Public Collections
Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon (FR)
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, (SE)
Past Exhibitions
Strained Resilience
Fundación Pablo Atchugarry Miami
February 18th - July 29th, 2023
Exhibiting for the first time at Miami’s Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Norwegian based artist, Malin Bülow (born 1979, Sweden) presents, Strained Resilience, a solo exhibition operating at the convergence of installation, sculpture, and performance art. The exhibition introduces two site-specific elastic interventions, including a vertical installation of a body suspended within a membrane on the brink of rupture, and another giant translucent membrane that produces an interstitial layer creating a horizontal static tension between two opposing walls where moving bodies continuously shape-shift to suggest a resistance to given forms.