Espen Kluge

Espen Kluge was born in Norway 1983, is a visual artist, composer and designer.

Espen Kluge is a polymath of renaissance proportions: A composer, a visual artist, and a creative coder. You may recognize his name as the composer behind the musical score for the Norwegian television show Who Killed Birgitte? As with his film scores, Kluge’s portraits series - which he has titled Alternatives - provides us with a thoughtful lens into the nuanced world of human emotion.

Espen has a fascination for the inward, exploratory and meditative yet chaotic qualities of the creative process, he believes this is, at least in part, a product of his own dealings with problems of bipolar disorder before successful treatment. He has a broad interest in many types of creative work, and he is active in several categories of it, and he likes to approach it by adding a sense of unfamiliarity, typically by using programming languages or tools/software that he is unfamiliar with, or setting up digital systems that adds elements of randomness into it.

His visual art tends to gravitate towards portraiture where the human face is used as a canvas for exploration and improvisation in code or otherwise. Fascinated with the link between the manipulated experience of reality that he experienced through his illness and the warping of human face on a digital canvas.

Inward exploration is central in all of Espens work, in his music and visual art, aiming his creative lens towards the spontaneity and semi randomness that occur in moments of improvisation. Espen composes music for Film and TV, his composition can be heard on most streaming platforms.