Frode Felipe Schjelderup

Born 1982 in Colombia.
Lives and works in Stavanger, Norway.

Schjelderup’s practice emerges from a deep engagement with the visual and affective vocabularies of metal music, not as surface reference but as internalised structure. His works operate as extensions of a lived subcultural logic, where brutality, repetition and negation are treated not as themes but as conditions. Image-making becomes an act of embodiment, in which sonic intensity and existential weight coalesce into a visual field marked by starkness and precision.

Employing deliberately elementary tools and self-imposed constraints, Schjelderup pursues a methodology of refusal. Across portraits, clock-themed explorations and serial works, repetition functions less as aesthetic device than as a form of persistence—an insistence on returning to what resists resolution. His drawings, while immediate and unadorned, are acts of quiet aggression. They occupy a space that is neither illustrative nor symbolic, but durational and affective.

Central to his practice is an ongoing investigation of marginality, otherness and power, approached without concession to moral simplification. His works inhabit an oppositional stance toward institutional legibility, privileging personal mythology and subcultural fidelity over normative coherence. In doing so, Schjelderup constructs a body of work that is not simply positioned against the art world but structurally disengaged from its terms.