Nordic Pixel Forest is an all-encompassing video- and sound installation situated in the middle of the Ekeberg forest, above the park’s water pond. It consists of 24.000 LED-lights that make up 3600 eightfolded pixels / LED-points, displayed through artificial shells hung from 400 steel wires that come down from a net mounted in the tree crowns - 7 meters above the ground. Each singular LED-point pojects a part of a video image in constant motion accompanied by music. 

Through Nordic Pixel Forest, Pipilotti Rist has created a comprehensive and multi-sensory installation which allows for the viewer to not only see and hear - but also to interact and experience her video on a physical level. Weaving their way through the forest of strands, colours, light and sound, the viewer is inserted into the video itself as it is being displayed. Instead of simply observing, the viewer is allowed to step inside the fragmented pictorial landscape and merge with it. 

Nordic Pixel Forest is the second artwork by the artist to be made for Ekebergparken. The first artwork, Nordic Hiplights, was unveiled in the autumn of 2022. 

The installation is on every day between 7AM and 11PM. Different lightness levels change with the sunlight throughout the year. 

Project Lead and Engineering by Kaori Kuwabara, Sound collaboration by Roland Widmer, Seraphin Basedau and Nike Dreyer.

The artist thanks the above and the following for their splendid collaboration:

Danielle Küchler-Flores (video), David Lang, Remo Weber (install), Nike Dreyer (management), Dorothea Drayer (net engineering), Glen Reed (arborist), Cristallux and Schnick Schnack Systems, Hauser & Wirth, Magnus Borgen and Stian Østvik (electrical installation), Tangen & Co (fake stone), Soundscape Studios / Robin Støckert, Trym Lauritzen (CEO, Ekebergparken), Jørn Hagen (Maintenance and install, Ekebergparken, Kristina Aurore Kvåle (Head of Mediation, Ekebergparken), Ina Johannesen Dibley (Curator-at-large, Ekebergparken), Christian Ringnes (Initiator and Chairman of the Board, Ekebergparken). 

How to get to Nordic Pixel Forest.

© Courtesy of the Artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine / BONO.

Photo: Florian Holzherr

Portrait of the artist: Ekebergparken