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Tristan Elísabet Birta
Reykjavík, Iceland
Tristan Elísabet Birta (they/them, b. 1991) is a performance and visual artist working across performance, film, and installation. Tristans work engages with complex and multifaceted topics such as identity, gender and inter-spieces relations through visceral acts infused with a sense of playfulness and a touch of the fantastical.
Tristan Elísabet holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2021) and BA degrees in Fine Art (2017) and Contemporary Dance (2013) from the Iceland University of the Arts. Recent projects include exhibitions and performances at Ásmundasalur (2025), MAS Box (Antwerp, 2025), Kling & Bang (Reykjavík, 2022) and Inter Pblc (Copenhagen, 2021). In 2023, they were nominated for the Motivational Award of the Icelandic Art Prize. Tristan produces music under the alias AfterpartyAngel.
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Publications
Stalking Animals (2026)
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The Artist book Stalking Animals consists of staged scenes and snapshots from the artist's life, incorporating writing, lyrics, drawings, collages, photographs, stills from video works, and documentation from performances. It also includes accounts of animals from the artist's work as a national park ranger. Hybrid characters and taxidermied animals are given voice through real-life text messages, creating eerie yet humorous scenes that reflect on topics such as intimacy, desire, love, identity, infertility, and physical and mental illness and grief.
The book conjures up a fairytalish world where endless twilight makes in-between spaces visible. In this world, human and animal, life and death, feminine and masculine—no binary exists without everything in between. Warnings echo through the pages, mothers, intuition, temptations, how to know which turn to take and which voice to believe?
