23.03.2026 - 14.04.2026
Jenny Berg
Jenny Berg's installations, objects, actions and texts are connected in non-linear sequences of events. The stories unfold on multiple levels, and the potential that exists in different ways of perceiving reality is a consistent interest. Her work revolves around existential questions, and recurring themes are what is experienced as the boundary between different phenomena, the contact surface, the area of exchange.
In several previous works, she focuses on the human difficulty in accepting ourselves as part of a cycle, our dysfunctional attempts to enter into it, our hubris and lack of humility, but also the love and longing in these attempts. She is interested in desires that seem too big, and what happens to them in an artistic process.
Jenny was on residency here on Velferden in March / April 2026. This is what Jenny writes about her stay:
“I am staying three weeks at Velferden , mainly I am outdoors, at the mine dump in Sandbekk and wide
The Blåfjälls mines. My work consists of sketching three-dimensionally in the landscape, based on impulses
from the surroundings, work with sculpture and movement and film what I do. There are many rainy days
Sokndal saw this year and the weather changes quickly, I get to follow the weather app and find times when it's possible
movie. It is often physically demanding to move around with camera equipment and other things
material. The resistance makes me very aware of the surroundings and myself in it, sometimes there is
there is interaction and sometimes we are in conflict, or I project interaction and conflict
April 5, 2026
You get tired of seeing me line up my equipment in the sand and turn on the sun like that
overexposed and witnesses. I continue up the row, don't interrupt because nothing says it's coming
better opportunities to change it, it's entirely up to you. Finally, I turn around in front of the camera
and scratches angrily with the spade after me so that there is a sharp mark. The sound is muted on the recording
the spade barely because of the wind, but there it cuts in the ear and I feel like I'm both
hörs och syns för mycket, beter mig provocerande. Just when I'm on my way to turn off my picture
You turn the camera off so that the colors appear again. Behind the camera stand I see you too
made tracks, big paws with chlorine over the sand and into the thicket.
April 8, 2026
Today you put a clear ray of sunshine straight on my chest. It was nice but also a bit embarrassing
problematic, it makes me look divine, like a bright yellow apparition ahead
bergväggen, or almost AI generad. So it's not you who's the problem, it's me.
Sleep well, see you tomorrow.”
Jenny received support from the Swedish National Council for Arts for the production stay.
Photo 1 © Hanna Biørnstad
Photo 2 - 7 © Jenny Berg