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Siv Bugge Vatne
Oslo, Norway
Siv Bugge Vatne (b. 1975) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oslo. She holds an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the National Museum, Kunstnerforbundet, KUBE Art Museum, and Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, and she has created several public art commissions in Norway.
She is participating with an independent book related to her latest project, Unknown Alphabet. The project explores the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, particularly its large foldout diagram. The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th-century book written in an undeciphered code that has puzzled researchers for centuries.
Through detailed drawing studies and artistic analysis, Bugge Vatne investigates the manuscript’s visual and linguistic structures in an attempt to build a new context for understanding its mysteries. The project presents the results of a long-term process of decoding its symbols, diagrams, and possible alphabet through drawing, scale, and close observation. Blending scientific inquiry with artistic interpretation, her works invite viewers into an exploration of botanical imagery, hidden patterns, and complex diagrams.
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Unknown Alphabet (2026)
ISBN–ISBN 978-82-694776-0-3
The book presents studies of the enigmatic imagery and ciphered text from the large foldout in the Voynich manuscript.
Very little is known about the manuscript, which has been carbon-dated to between 1404 and 1438. Both its cipher and many illustrations resist comparison to known traditions.
By making hand-drawn copies, the artist traces patterns, symbols and connections, revealing echoes of medieval medicine, alchemy and natural philosophy.
Unknown Alphabet explores uncertainty as a method, where making, seeing, and interpreting merge into a slow process of transformation.
