Per Kristian Nygård crams a grassy valley into an Oslo gallery

The green landscape, with patches of soil visible and wispy blades of grass, appeared at one stage to be growing up the sides of the white gallery walls. The grass seed sprouted in the damp soil over the duration of the exhibition, and the lawn was tended and watered daily to create a moist growing environment. Photography is by Jason Olav Benjamin Havneraas. The piece, which appeared as if an oversized lump of turf had been crammed into a tiny room, was on show during August. «Visitors are confronted with their own intuitive and physical response to the experience of entering a space where everything’s wrong but feels right,» he said. Related story: Olafur Eliasson fills modern art museum with «giant landscape» of rocksThe Trondheim-based installation artist – whose work explores the limitations and possibilities of space – constructed the unlikely landscape as an antithesis   to the organised architectural environment. Norwegian artist Per Kristian Nygård attempted to bring the outside inside with this installation that involved building grassy mounds inside an Oslo gallery (+ slideshow). Smaller hills rose and fell around a row of narrow windows, so as not to block the sunlight from the space. The edges of the work creeped out onto the dark grey floor of the reception area, as if inviting gallery visitors in for a hike across the miniature landscape.