Lap-See Lam – the fourth recipient of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award – is presented in a major solo exhibition. Through the use of various media, the Swedish artist explores history, myths, and the present through atmospheric storytelling. The exhibition will include spatial works as well as new pieces.

Lap-See Lam works across a wide range of media, including video, installation, sculpture, and performance. She explores questions of identity, migration, and belonging through narratives that emerge from the Chinese diaspora in Europe.

Lam’s multilayered practice weaves together history, myth, and technology. She creates atmospheric worlds where cultural heritage and the contemporary meet, and where traditional forms of storytelling—such as Cantonese opera and shadow play—intersect with digital media.

The exhibition at Henie Onstad will be Lam’s largest presentation in Norway to date, featuring two large shadow-play works installed together for the first time as a unified spatial installation, in addition to new works created especially for the exhibition.

The exhibition is curated by Isabella Maidment and Xiaoyu Weng.