Overview
Yngvild Saeter’s tactile, sculpted objects are made using motorcycle parts, metal rivets, chains and pieces of fur. These deeply personal works connect to the artist's involvement in the punk and straight edge movement and a near-death-experience during surgery a couple of years ago. They form strange, highly visual, hybrid shapes that defy categorisation and her shield-like wall objects become a kind of urban altarpieces or coats of arms belonging to various subcultural families.
 
The objects also contain sculpted parts resembling spines, skeleton parts and ribs. These shapes are like moulded sensations of the artist’s own bones, joints and muscles relating to the artists heightened consciousness of her own body and fragility post-surgery. They also resemble sacred objects, which could have been found in the Sedlec Ossuary or in a set by HR Giger. Yngvild Saeter’s work deal with life and death but also endurance and metamorphosis.
 
Yngvild Saeter (b. 1986, Norway) graduated from Valand Academy in Gothenburg in 2014. She has also studied social and cultural anthropology as well as political science at the University of Oslo. In 2019, Yngvild Saeter received the Sigvard and Marianne Bernadotte Art Award in Sweden. 
 
Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Norwegian Sculptor's Society, Oslo, Norway (2022); Larrie Gallery, New York, USA (2022); Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); and Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter, Molde, Norway (2017) to name a few. Likewise, Saeter has been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway (2023); Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2022); MISSCHIEFS, Stockholm, Sweden (2020); and Orange Garden x Postmasters Gallery, Rome, Italy (2019). 
Exhibitions
Installation shots
Works
  • Ad Astra
    Ad Astra
  • Scio
    Scio
  • Non Est Hic
    Non Est Hic
  • Axis Mundi
    Axis Mundi
  • In Risu Deorum
    In Risu Deorum
  • Finis Coronat Opus
    Finis Coronat Opus
  • The Auryn (Altar XXIX)
    The Auryn (Altar XXIX)
  • Mother (Altar XXVIII)
    Mother (Altar XXVIII)
  • Agripa
    Agripa
  • Trinity (Altar XXV)
    Trinity (Altar XXV)
  • Ered Luin (Altar XXVI)
    Ered Luin (Altar XXVI)
  • Bat'leth (Altar XXVII)
    Bat'leth (Altar XXVII)
  • Nangijala
    Nangijala
  • Carl Conrad Coreander
    Carl Conrad Coreander
  • Hikaru Sulu
    Hikaru Sulu
  • Montgomery Scott
    Montgomery Scott
  • Miramis
    Miramis
  • Redux (Altar XIX)
    Redux (Altar XIX)
  • Snowmane
    Snowmane
  • Misty Chair
    Misty Chair
  • Xander
    Xander
  • Giles
    Giles
  • Thestral Light
    Thestral Light
  • Artax
    Artax
  • Balthazar Bux (Altar XXI)
    Balthazar Bux (Altar XXI)
  • Shai Hulud Light
    Shai Hulud Light
  • D'Artagnan
    D'Artagnan
  • Argo
    Argo
  • Redux
    Redux
  • Spectre
    Spectre
  • Spike (Altar XVIII)
    Spike (Altar XVIII)
  • Valient
    Valient
  • Dobby (Altar XX)
    Dobby (Altar XX)
  • Cypher Light
    Cypher Light
  • Rhineheart Light
    Rhineheart Light
  • Shadowfax
    Shadowfax
  • Morpheus (Altar XXI)
    Morpheus (Altar XXI)
  • Brego
    Brego
  • Lancelot Table
    Lancelot Table
  • Valkyrie Chair
    Valkyrie Chair
  • Alpha (Altar VI)
    Alpha (Altar VI)
  • Warrior Angel (Altar VII)
    Warrior Angel (Altar VII)
Press
Events