About/Contact

Linn Obrestad is a multidisciplinary artist working across experimental film, visual art, and poetic documentary. With a background spanning fine art, biotechnology, anthropology, programming and cultural studies, she approaches her subjects from multiple perspectives. A landscape, for instance, can be habitat, data, memory, property, resource and home at the same time. Her work often begins in the tension between these different ways of knowing and describing a place.

Her practice is informed by complexity-sensitive artivism, a working methodology she has developed with Hilde Iren Dølheim for engaging with complex issues through layered narratives, situated inquiry, material thinking, and hybrid forms of sense-making.

Her ongoing project Extractions examines the cultural, ecological, and psychological impacts of resource extraction through long-term, collaborative, and research-driven processes. Her work has been presented internationally in film festivals, exhibitions, galleries, and cross-disciplinary platforms, where art, ecology, and science converge in dialogue.

Selected education
MA Art and Design, University of South-Eastern Norway
MA Cultural Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway
BFA, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
BA Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. Biotechnology, University of Inland Norway

Memberships
Member of The Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts (Norske Kunsthåndverkere, NK)
Member of The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (Norske Billedkunstnere, NBK)
Science New Wave Luminary

Contact
E-mail: linnobrestad@gmail.com.