Born in 1968 in Trondheim, Norway, Knut Åsdam lives and works in Oslo. Using a wide variety of media, including photography, installation and sound, Knut Åsdam explores modernist architecture’s impact on human beings, both physically and psychologically. In his work, humanity is reduced to a ghostly presence, belittled by the oppressive grandeur of brutal buildings and capitalist spaces. It is often pushed out of the photograph’s frame, as if erased from the Megalopolis. Viewers re-enact this disappearance within Åsdam’s installations. They are trapped: defenseless prey lost in the meanders of a mental labyrinth.

Knut Åsdam has had recent solo exhibitions at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2007), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern art, Oslo (2006), FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (2006) and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2005). His work has also been shown as part of Manifesta 7, Trento – Alto Adige, Italy (2008), “Into me/out of me” at MOMA/P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006), The 2004 Busan Biennial, South Korea as well as the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003). Knut Asdam has represented Norway in the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and the Melbourne International Biennial (1999).

He is represented by Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grünert Inc, New York and Galerie Serge le Borgne, Paris.