Malin Bülow works at the intersection of textile, sculpture, and choreography, creating monumental, site-specific performance installations where body, textile, and architecture form an interconnected spatial system. The elasticity and transparency of the textile membrane serve as both material foundation and conceptual force — a medium for exploring the relationship between strength and vulnerability, structure and dissolution.
In her practice, textile and body constitute the raw material, while the host architecture provides the structural framework. The body is shaped in real time through continuous transformation and mutual symbiosis with the textile. By stretching the membranes to the edge of dissolution, Bülow seeks to evoke a tangible tension — a dissonance between fragility and resilience that mirrors our contemporary condition, where elasticity has become both a necessity and a risk across bodily, social, and ecological systems.
Bülow holds an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO, 2016), and a scientific background in molecular biology (BSc) and neuroscience (MSc). This dual foundation informs her sensitivity to the body’s materiality — insights that deeply shape her artistic work.
Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale (FR, 2019), Oslo Opera House (NO, 2020), Malmö Art Museum (SE, 2020), Bodø Biennale (NO, 2022), Vigeland Park (NO, 2021), Lustwarande Sculpture Park (NL, 2021), Piero Atchugarry Gallery (US, 2023), Contextile – Contemporary Textile Art Biennial (PT, 2022), Festival dei Due Mondi (IT, 2025), Artissima (IT, 2024), Færderbiennalen (NO, 2024), and CHART (DK, 2019).
Her work is included in the permanent collections of Malmö Art Museum (SE), MAC – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (FR) and Tecnológico de Monterrey Art Collection (MX).
1: Malin Bülow, Suspension
2: Malin Bülow, Circular Tension
3: Malin Bülow, AER
4: Malin Bülow, Static Tension
5: Malin Bülow, Elastic Bonding
