Noah Alveberg’s practice unfolds as a cosmology of embodiment. Working across drawing, painting, and materially charged assemblage, he brings bodies, animals, geological matter, and celestial diagrams into the same field, treating them not as separate motifs but as manifestations of a shared morphogenesis. Solar maps, feline patterning, bodily thresholds, mineral eruptions, and landscape forms recur throughout the work as structurally related signifiers through which consciousness, matter, and force become legible to one another.
Central to Alveberg’s work is the idea that form emerges through crossing. Rivers of cinnabar, sap, malachite, volcanic iron, and other earth-derived substances do not illustrate nature; they cut through and reconfigure the image. These crossings act as determinations, interruptions, apertures, and disclosures: they occlude the figure even as they open it, producing a visual language in which embodiment is never fixed or self-identical, but traversed by deeper ontological currents. In this sense, the work treats matter as both medium and signifier — not inert support, but an active field of inscription.
His recurring use of solar diagrams, silver discs, and circular structures draws on the symbolic logic of the bindu, the yantra, and the mandala, while remaining grounded in a contemporary inquiry into representation, science, and the body. The circle appears not simply as a celestial form, but as a figure of origin, containment, and the unmanifest; an ordering field through which eruption, differentiation, and recognition can take place. Across the works, spotted bodies, sunspots, apertures, and dark nodes function as productive negations: sites where the image fails to coincide with itself and therefore becomes more charged, more interior, more alive.
Alveberg’s materials are integral to this logic. Silver leaf, bole, coal, gouache, cinnabar, shellac, malachite, and volcanic iron oxide are used not for effect alone but for their semantic and energetic density, as in Soma (silver leaf, bole, coal and gouache), The South Atlantic Anomaly (volcanic iron oxide from Snæfellsjökull, gouache, silver leaf and Armenian bole), Giug d.25 (malachite and coal), and Women hold up half the sky (cinnabar and shellac). These substances carry geological, bodily, and ritual associations while remaining rigorously formal: they are agents of pressure, flow, sedimentation, charge, and transmutation.
Drawing from tantric philosophy, alchemy, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and mythic thought, Alveberg constructs images in which the body is neither an identity marker nor a stable representation, but a site where world and earth, consciousness and matter, signifier and force intersect. His works stage recognition not as transcendence of the material, but as its intensification: a remembering through matter, where the figure encounters its own non-identity and the image becomes a threshold between manifestation and what exceeds it.
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DOB: 31/05/1990
Based in: Oslo, Norway
Education
BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London | 2009–2012
Drawing studies under Guro Giske | 2004–2006
Solo Exhibitions
Gjengangere: Psyche ist ausgedehnt, weiss nichts davon, Galleri A-minor, Oslo | 2015
Sol, Galleri A, Oslo | 2012
DESCENT, Galleri A, Oslo | 2010
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Juleutstilling Vinter, Fineart, Oslo | 2022
Syndere i Sommersol – Kollektiv Sommerutstilling, Fineart, Oslo | 2018
A-Laget UTVALG Sommer, Galleri A, Oslo | 2018
A-Laget UTVALG Jul, Galleri A, Oslo | 2017
Finearts Juleutstilling, Fineart, Oslo | 2012
A-Laget UTVALG Julen, Galleri A, Oslo | 2012
Finearts Juleutstilling, Fineart, Oslo | 2011
A-Laget UTVALG Julen, Galleri A, Oslo | 2011
A-Laget UTVALG Sommer, Galleri A, Oslo | 2011
A-Laget UTVALG Vinter, Galleri A, Oslo | 2010
A-Laget UTVALG Sommer, Galleri A, Oslo | 2010
A-Laget UTVALG, Galleri A, Oslo | 2009
Galleri Nordstrand, Oslo | 2008
Collections (Selected)
Swedbank FIRST Securities | 2010
NHO – Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise | 2009
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services | 2009
iSurvey – Offshore Surveyors | 2008
Film & Media
Contributing Artist – LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution (2024)
Directed by Nini Myhrvold & Dr. Espen Folmo
Multi-award-winning animated documentary exploring cultural and psychological evolution. Alveberg contributed three original artworks featured throughout the film. LOOK UP received Best Feature Documentary at the Cannes World Film Festival, London Movie Awards, and Hollywood Gold Awards, among numerous international recognitions.
Talks & Presentations
“Yoga as an Instrument for Self-Regulation”
The Oslo Body Psychotherapy Conference (OsloMet) | October 05, 2024
Workshop exploring the relationship between breath, movement, and the autonomic nervous system. Focus on exhalation and forward bends as tools for state regulation, with real-time HRV tracking through pulse bands.
“The Anatomy of the Subtle Body”
International Summer University, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) | August 19, 2023– A Comparative Exploration of Reich’s Seven Segments and the Seven Chakras.