Galerie Michael Janssen in Berlin

„I am interested in people‘s reason for being and the drive to carry on and get ouf of bed every morning. I admire the enthusiasts, the people who try again and again, often banging their head against the wall; the different outlets people have for creating meaning, be it sausage eating, weightlifting, singing or acting as corpses. I sympathize with stuttering, stumbling and singing out of tune and I am fascinated by the weird and the beautiful, the vast and strange variety of human endeavours.“
This, in a few words, ist the basic concept behind the work of Trine Lise Nedreaas, the fil rouge uniting her unusual and disturbing visions of life.
Nedreaas is concerned with the absurd and with how unusual normality really is. She is inspired by human bizarreness and the things that surround her. She primarily uses film and video, installations and performance to create an aesthetic of the grotesque.

Nedreaas approaches people‘s stories and curious news items in a critical spirit and studies them like an anthropologist, seeking to grasp their deeper meaning. She collects information from various sources like books and the internet until she has a thorough, overall vision of the subject in question, managing to keep the work‘s fresh and natural appeal, whilst avoiding mere intellectual lucubration. She builds her work, allowing people to relive the emotions and melancholy of her ideas and dig up their most profond meaning. Obsessed by passion, manias, blindness, worry, her art is about contradiction, about the subtle beauty of the non-canonical.

Excerpt from „Discovery of an unusual reality“ by Maria Chiara Valacchi in Trine Lise Nedreaas - Skip_intro .08, Shin Srl, 2009
In her new film Trine Lise Nedreaas presents the great Mac Donaldi, King of Soap Bubbles. A mystical Mac Donaldi appears as a god-like being, a master of his own universe. Omnipotent yet playful he creates mesmerizing smoke-filled bubbles that hover in the air before their brief existence draws to an inevitable close with a pop and a puff of smoke.

Trine Lise Nedreaas (*1972 in Bergen, Norway) lives and works in Berlin. Nedreaas has shown her work in institutions and galleries in Europe and the US. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Kunstverein Schwerin (solo), New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville KY (solo), IDLE BY, COMA - Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, public performance and installation event, Berlin (solo); Just Do It, Collection Lambert, Avignon; Lights on, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; The Good and the Bad Mogadishni, Aarhus, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (solo), Luxe Gallery, New York (solo). Upcoming in 2009 are Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston MA; Vigelands Museum, Oslo (solo) and Luxe Gallery New York (solo).