The Bærtling Foundation promotes constructive art through support to artists.

The Bærtling Scholarship 2025

Essle Zeiss's ability to create constructions from beams, cables, weights, and counterweights that form fields of tension and activate both bodies and spaces. Through pulleys and blocks, she challenges the law of gravity and transforms simple acts of balance into artistic expressions that unite principles of physics with poetic precision. The result is works experienced as both fragile and solid, temporary and enduring.