Hans Petter Bjørnådal holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from Bergen Arkitekt Skole (2003) and studies in social anthropology, applied landscape ecology and history of philosophy. Bjørnådal explores architecture through an artistic and social anthropological approach and creates complex projects that have relevance for people and people's experience of the world in our modern society. As an architect and artist, he works project-based and often in collaboration with students or other artists through various forms of collaboration and workshops.
Bjørnådal is concerned with sustainability and how to promote culture, landscape and narratives in a new way that is in harmony with nature. Bjørnådal has run his own architectural studio since 2007, has received a number of awards for his work. He was represented in the Nordic Pavilion during LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA in 2016. He is currently involved with the sculpture project Art in Hattfjelldalen which is a collaboration with Tomas Colbengtson, an art project in public space outside Grønnåsen School for Tromsø municipality, and the project Spheres which was exhibited during the VENICE BIENNALE 2021 and which will be presented in Kristiansund Kunsthall in February 2022.
