NORWAY: Since recently relocating to rural Levanger, Brynhild Bye-Tiller continues to work with photography and participation, but in new ways that investigate Bakkan as a historical and material archive, and site of remembrance.

Before relocating to Levanger she was alternating between a narrative expression, in photography, collecting and processing documentary material and activism, through socially-engaged methodologies. 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 working directly with diverse groups, Bye-Tiller opens both a space, and a process of reciprocal communication and exchange, whereby both participant and artist clarify aspects of their life, experience or environment, culminating in public, site-specific and sometimes ephemeral projects.

Bye-Tiller has exhibited across Scandinavia, Europe and broader global contexts, to include the Wergelandshaugen Art Center, Studio 44 Stockholm, Heimdal Art Association, Nord-Trøndelag Kunstmuseum, Nandor Mikola Gallery, Vaasa in the First Triennial of the Collaborative Arts in Finland, Al-Tireh street, Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, Palestine, KUNTSI, Museum of Modern Art Vaasa. Publications include several artist’s books including the latest #skyvtilbake1, #skyvtilbake2, #skyvtilbake 3 (2023), and as Co-founder and Chairman of the non- profit organization BEAT FFKK, Bye-Tiller continues the legacy of artist Eli Anne Tiller in support of female artists. In her role as cultural producer, and chairman of the regional Artist Union, Bye-Tiller has worked extensively to develop, support and promote artist-run organisations, including Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim and the Norwegian regional exhibition, Trøndelagsutstillinga, LevArt, Levanger municipality, and the art festival Trondheim Open, alongside Art in Nordland-Artistic Interruptions and Artscape Nordland, Nordland county.