Nina Eriksson

During her residency at Bergen Kunsthall’s Live Studio, Nina Eriksson will further develop her ongoing project, SKIN ALL THE TIME. Moving in and out of poetry, sculpture, projection and choreography, the work is a search for the queering potential of repetition in both language and sound.

Over the course of two weeks, Eriksson will experiment with voice and body to generate overlaps, recurrences, and new methods of performing text. This residency comes to support a new direction in her practice, where the artist focuses on the temporal and performative dimensions of her work.

A 2025 graduate of Bergen’s Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), Swedish artist Nina Eriksson has been developing a sculptural practice using materials such as PVC, leather, rope, hardware, and fabrics commonly found in queer kink spaces. The soft sculptures appear in her performance work as co-performers, with whom she interacts in live works such as butch renaissance tear well: GAY JOBS, a piece modelled on a surreal job interview to probe themes of desire, time loops, failure, and their combined potential.

Nina Eriksson’s work is supported by grants from Kulturdirektoratet and Bergen Kommune.