New Nordic Tigers

New Nordic Tigers

Multidisciplinary performance installation, Nørrebrohallen, 2017
Performers, costume designers, choreographers from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Greenland, Sweden, Island and the Faroe Islands

New Nordic Tigers is a large-scale, interdisciplinary exhibition that imagines a fictional future: a unified Nordic nation-state. Spread across ten installation environments, the exhibition investigates the possibilities and paradoxes of togetherness, identity, and political imagination in a region often seen as homogenous—yet deeply diverse.

Each installation features white-lacquered sculptural works, activated by live performers who engage with the objects, the space, and each other. Through movement, dialogue, and interaction, they explore what it might take—not just symbolically, but structurally and emotionally—to build a shared nation.

Some performers work silently, collaboratively drafting a city plan for the new state; others enact rituals of governance, intimacy, or conflict resolution. Suspended in one of the central rooms is a monumental, 13-meter-long inflatable tiger—a playful yet haunting symbol of ambition, fragility, and the tension between unity and autonomy.

The tiger is both protector and threat: a mythical creature embodying the fierce hope of collectivity, and the volatile struggle it takes to sustain it.

New Nordic Tigers draws on traditions of socially engaged performance art, immersive installation, and political fiction. The work asks: What binds us? What divides us? And what must be invented, surrendered, or remembered in order to truly belong together?