About

Natalie TSYU is an artist and researcher working between Oslo and Tokyo. Her practice centers around sound as a material of perception, memory, and relational awareness. In her work, sound acts as a delicate archaeologist of place—unveiling layers of presence, history, and disappearance without ornamentation. It mirrors each macro and micro process of our fleeting encounters with landscapes and with each other. Through listening—speaking, singing, whispering, touching, and being silent—we begin to enter a space where the boundaries between body, place, and time dissolve. Each sound, whether visible or invisible, becomes a thread connecting personal and collective memory.

Natalie’s work often emerges through fieldwork, performance, kinetic sculpture, sound installations, and printed matter. She explores how sound escapes fixed composition and instead creates evolving sonic ecologies. Her kinetic and responsive objects function as site-specific instruments, activated by presence and shaped by absence. In these works, sound materializes as a form of visual art—situated at the threshold where those who cannot see can hear, and those who cannot hear can see.

In parallel with her studio-based work, Natalie engages in long-term research projects that explore how sound can trace the unseen and preserve landscapes under threat of erasure. Her ongoing research project, [Matter]iality of Memory – Tracing Invisible Roots in Hokkaido, supported by the JREX fellowship, examines the social memory and sonic traces of sacred Ainu sites. Prior projects include DUNKE-DUNK, an artistic research initiative reconstructing the experience of northern presence in coastal Norway. Supported by The Norwegian Barents Secretariat, the project facilitated transdisciplinary exchanges around landscape, memory, and resistance.

In 2022, she received a Japanese Government Scholarship for Un(mute) performance: Developing an Artistic Methodology for Ontological Instruments, which investigates the lineage of Japanese sound art (1980–2000) and its spiritual-material resonances. In 2023, she was awarded the Hirayama Ikuo Culture and Arts Award 平山郁夫文化芸術賞 for her work bridging cultural memory and artistic experimentation.

Natalie is a graduate of The Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her works have been exhibited internationally at Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen), Spriten Kunsthall (Skien), Roots&Arts Shiraoi (Japan), ONA Project Room (Tokyo), Komagome SOKO (Tokyo), 3x3 Art Space (Tokyo), JCCAC (Hong Kong), and Above the Clouds Gallery (London), among others.

For Natalie, sound is not just a sensory event—it is one of the most essential ingredients of being. In places of endless noise streams, she listens for the fragments that remain, the ones that speak of what cannot be seen but can still be heard.

ナタリー・ツゥー

オスロと東京を拠点に幅広い分野で活躍するアーティスト、研究者。風景の記憶の探求をテーマに、フィールドワーク、サウンド、パフォーマンス、アートブック、グラフィックなど様々な形態のプロジェクトを行う。歴史的な風景を記憶する方法を発見するために、音を道具として扱う。彼女の活動では、音は視覚的な形をとり、視覚芸術とサウンド・アートの境界線で、見えないものを聞き、聞こえないものを見ることへと導く。

2019年にオスロ国立アカデミーを卒業。ノルウェー北部における”存在”の再構築に関連する芸術的研究プロジェクトDUNKE-DUNKのmメンバー。この研究は2020年にThe Norwegian Barents Secretariatからスポンサーを受け、2023年にVIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Researchに掲載された。日本政府奨学金(Un)mute performance (2022年)日本におけるサウンドアートの歴史（1980-2000）に基づく存在論的楽器の芸術的方法論の開発において平山郁夫文化芸術賞受賞（2023年）

最近の作品は、ノルウェー、ベルゲンのKunsthall3,14で展示されました。Spriten Kunsthall Skien、ノルウェー。ルーツ&アーツ白老、日本; ONAプロジェクトルーム、東京、日本。 JCCAC香港; アバブ・ザ・クラウズ・ギャラリー・ロンドン; イギリス