Who is Pøbel?
Pøbel comes from Jæren. Pøbel became known when he and his artist friend Dolk decorated abandoned buildings in Lofoten in the 2000s. In this way, they took street art out into the countryside and helped to spark debate and highlight the migration from rural areas. At this time, street art was also a metropolitan phenomenon. As an art genre, it was challenged by Pøbel, who moved the metropolitan phenomenon out into nature and rural areas. Pøbel is a storyteller with a strong involvement in politics, especially in centralisation, privatisation of natural resources and relocation.
Although he has been profiled several times in national and international books and media (including the New York Times), he has always remained anonymous since the start of his artistic career in the early 2000s.