The Library Talks with Nils Norman
Nils Norman is an artist living in London and Amsterdam. He has created the new interior for the Rietveld / Sandberg library, located in the basement of the Fedlev building.
Norman works across the disciplines of public art, architecture and urban planning. His projects challenge notions of the function of public art and the efficacy of mainstream urban planning and large-scale regeneration. Informed by local politics and ideas on alternative economic, ecological systems and play, Norman’s work merges utopian alternatives with current urban design to create a humorous critique of the discrete histories and functions of public art and urban planning.
He has participated in various biennials worldwide and has developed commissions for SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY; London Underground, UK; Tate Modern, UK; Creative Time, NYC and the Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. He is the author of four books amongst which ‘Edible Park’ published by Valiz and Stroom Den Haag, and ‘An Architecture of Play: a Survey of London’s Adventure Playgrounds’.