Atle Østrem, is an artist from Stavanger, Norway. He now lives and works in Oslo.
Østrem’s work often explores the crossing point where beauty meets ugly, combining the best of both worlds. Suprimitive, gourmet garbage and "beaugliful" are some of the fancy phrases used to describe his style.
The iconic characters are both playful and dark, childlike and thought-provoking. They inhabit an interior world and capture those often fleeting elements of daily life and emotion that can truly show us what it means to be human once we shine a spotlight on them.
Atle Østrem does not consider himself a street artist nor a fine artist, but something in between. Something "beauglyful".
