About

Elias Forberg (b. 1993) is a Norwegian artist based in Oslo. His practice transforms private shame, self-loathing, addiction and exposure into paintings, mixed media works, airbrush images and digital environments.

Forberg’s work often begins in intimate spaces: the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, the living room. Rooms associated with safety and routine become stages for self-destruction, dependency, sexuality, loneliness and psychological collapse. Drawing from diary material, Norwegian black metal, folklore, pornography, personal mythology and destructive rituals, he turns private experience into symbolic images that resist comfort and resolution.

Recurring figures such as dogs, demons, knights, ruins and distorted bodies act as witnesses, protectors, enemies and fragments of the self. The dog, in particular, appears as a silent presence inside the chaos — loyal, anxious, loving, unable to save the artist from himself.

Rather than using provocation as spectacle, Forberg uses discomfort as a method. His work asks what happens when the hidden parts of a life are made public, and when the viewer becomes implicated in the act of looking.

His website, digital archive and interactive projects extend this practice beyond the canvas, treating the digital space as a living artwork rather than a traditional portfolio.