Matias Faldbakken

Matias Faldbakken (b.1973) sources and re-contextualizes images from advertising, literature, art history, and pop culture, and manipulates mass-produced objects to examine how visual information is endlessly multiplied, transmuted and undermined in the digital age.

habitat extends an invitation to Faldbakken to study the mass-productivity of certain mapped square meters.

Faldbakken has been the subject of many important one-person exhibitions, including a survey at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo (2017–2018); Le Consortium, Dijon; WIELS, Brussels; The Power Station, Dallas; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen; Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen; IKON Gallery, Birmingham; and The National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, Oslo. His work is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The National Museum of Art, Oslo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; The Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon; and The Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo.