Noah Alveberg’s work unfolds as a cosmology—rooted in earth, ritual, and myth—where body and landscape converge into one unfolding field of symbolic force. His practice moves across drawing, painting, assemblage and elemental interventions, constructing portals through which matter, desire, and spirit can pass.
Alveberg’s ongoing preoccupation with bodily landscapes, energetic fields, erotic knowledge, and sacred materiality lends the work its layered complexity. He draws from tantric symbolism, alchemy, kabbalah, and both Greek and Hindu mythologies—not as citations, but as living systems that continue to pulse through the materials themselves. His use of sap, whale bone, volcanic iron, river stones and cinnabar are not illustrative—they are ritual instruments, alive with transmission.
Often working through a process of energetic hatching, erosion, and invocation, Alveberg’s drawings are not designed—they are summoned. He describes this process as “excavating a form that already exists on the other side of the surface.” Gradations emerge like weather. Line becomes rite. The image thickens until it crosses from seen to felt.
At the heart of his work is a subtle and deliberate mapping of soul movements through matter. The body appears only in fragments—highlight, rosette, echo, shadow—but it holds the vertical axis of the work like a column. His landscapes are not depictions, but fields of emergence, charged with erotic, philosophical, and alchemical voltage.
Themes of transmutation, chiasmic inversion, and embodied ritual recur across his practice. His works are thresholds—between dryness and liquidity, between cosmos and cell, between orientation and surrender. Cinnabar becomes quicksilver. Sap becomes glyph. A riverbed becomes a wound through which the Real can breathe.
Alveberg considers himself a channeler of energies more ancient than image. The drop becomes bindu. The sap becomes seed. The glyph becomes body. His task is not to create symbols, but to unearth the pulsation of matter, waiting to be released through force, breath, and precision.
In the current epoch—where the earth itself mirrors human metabolism, and the boundary between psyche and ecology has collapsed—Alveberg’s practice offers not escape, but alignment. His works invite stillness, sovereignty, and transmission.
They do not depict.
They emanate.
CV
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.