Ida Ekblad (b. 1980, Oslo) is an artist working in different mediums – painting, sculpture, filmmaking, poetry and prints. When sculpting she uses found objects, collecting materials from containers and scrapyards. ”The materials and found objects function as reminders of our time’s mass produced and industrial abundance, which have been spared its fate to rot in a container and instead been merged into new entities.” (Bonniers konsthall, 2010)

Ida Ekblad is presenting a solo show this summer at Kunsthall Zürich, her largest solo to date.

Group shows include: Faithless Pictures, National Gallery, Oslo, 2018; University of Disaster: National Pavilion of Bosnia & Herzegovina, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice (2017); Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, 2015; Unshelling and Shelling again, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, 2014; Shattered Preface, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, 2014; Champs Elysées, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013; Revolution: John Chamberlain, Ida Ekblad, Christina Streuli, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, 2013; ILLUMInations, curated by Bice Curiger, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice (2011); The Garden of Forking Paths – An Outdoor Sculpture Project on the Blum Family Estate in Samstagen, Migros Museum, Zurich, 2011; Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2011; Younger Than Jesus, curated by Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman, New Museum, New York, 2009; Dark Continents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2008.