BRYNHILD BYE-TILLER is an artist and a photographer based in Levanger, Norway, whose practice spans photography, participation, video, text and artist’s books. Her work alternates between narrative expression in photography, the collection and processing of documentary material, activism, exploring structures and networks of care and participatory methodologies mainly based on Photovoice. Recurrent themes in Bye-Tiller’s practice include women’s lives and rights, migration, democracy, American politics and Palestine, with a particular focus on social justice. By engaging directly with diverse groups, Bye-Tiller creates both a space and a process of reciprocal communication and exchange, through which participants, partners and the artist can explore and clarify aspects of their own lives, experiences or environments. These processes culminate in public, site-specific and ephemeral works.

Since recently relocating to rural Levanger, Bye-Tiller has continued her work with photography and participation, branching forms of expression. The context has shifted from the city to a smallholding. The work has evolved toward a site-specific and ecological practice. Questions that previously revolved around truth, trust, narratives of people, and social conditions have increasingly become investigations of place as a historical and material archive, a laboratory for participation, as well as a site of remembrance. Current projects (re)use excavated and found materials at Bakkan to explore connections between participation, sustainability, community and the processing of grief. This includes Bye-Tiller’s most recent site-specific project, Remains Of An Orchard, A feast at Innherred, Best Before September and Felt Without an End.

Bye-Tiller has exhibited widely across Scandinavia, Europe and internationally, including KUNTSI, Museum of Modern Art Vaasa, Nandor Mikola Gallery, Vaasa in the First Triennial of the Collaborative Arts in Finland, Al-Tireh street, Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, Palestine, The Nordic House, Reykjkavik, Iceland, Studio 44 Stockholm, Heimdal Art Association, Nord-Trøndelag Kunstmuseum and Wergelandshaugen Art Center. Her publications include several artist’s books, most recently #skyvtilbake1, #skyvtilbake2 and #skyvtilbake 3 (2023). Bye Tiller’s work has been supported by: Arts Council, Norway, Nordic Culture Point, Norwegian Representative Office Al-Ram PS, OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Intercult SE and The Swedish Art Societies, Platform FI, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development NO, Norwegian Cultural Fund, The City Council of Trondheim, Trøndelag County Council, Nord-Trøndelag County Council, Sør-Trøndelag County Council, Vederlagsfondet, NBK NO, The Fritt Ord Foundation NO and Torstein Erbo's Gift Fund NO. As Co-founder and Chair of the non-profit organization BEAT FFKK, Bye-Tiller continues the legacy of artist Eli Anne Tiller in supporting female artists. In her role as cultural producer, and chair of the regional Artist Union, she worked extensively to develop, support, and promote artist-run organisations, including Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim and the Norwegian regional exhibition Trøndelagsutstillinga, LevArt at Levanger municipality, and the art festival Trondheim Open, alongside Art in Nordland-Artistic Interruptions and Artscape Nordland, Nordland county. Today, she is the artistic director and responsible for Bakkan visningsrom for kunst, an artist-run space for art in Levanger, Norway.

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ADDRESS: Brynhild Bye-Tiller, Børsåsvegen 74, 7609 Levanger, Norway.

Org. nr. 987 939 176

EMAIL: brynhildbye (at) online.no

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