Moderna Museet, Sweeden
John Peter Nilsson, curator
Denn es ist schön zu leben, 2006
9’46”
Film tranferred to DVD, color, sound
Copyright Nathalie Djurberg
Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery, New York and Gió Marconi, Milan
The animated figures are made of plasticine and they move around in drawn or crudely built sets. The format is similar to that of children’s TV programmes and there is an undeniable feeling of being a child again as we watch. The world is vast and contains exciting new things. Soon, however, we realise that the exciting new things have a dark and threatening side.
Nathalie Djurberg was born in 1978 in Lysekil, Sweden and received a master's degree at the Malmö Art Academy. Djurberg has had solo shows at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, at the Prada Foundation, Milan; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland and Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Tate Modern, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. In 2008, she was awarded the Carnegie Art Award, a scholarship for young artists. Djurberg lives and works in Berlin.