The book’s generous 30 x 30 cm format provides room for photographs that are able to show details exceptionally well. 

Wearing a helmet and protective shoes, Lauluten photographed every single demanding, and often innovative, step in the process in all seasons and types of weather. Constructing MUNCH gives you a unique and fascinating insight into what was required in the way of engineering grit and raw machine power for bringing into reality Norway’s decidedly most prestigious building dedicated to a single artist – the one and only Edvard Munch. 

“At first glance, a construction site can seem chaotic. However, when I look at one, I see exciting patterns, lines and colours that create different moods. These moods are the result of different weather conditions, materials, and lighting. With my education and work experience from construction as well as from being an architectural photographer, I had the necessary knowledge and background to carry out this special project in which the documentary, technical and artistic elements of photography are all accounted for,” says Tove.

As an independent architectural photographer, Tove Lauluten won a tender competition in 2016 for documenting the construction process of the Munchmuseum. The pictures serve as an historically important visual account and artistic documentation of what, in the field of art, is the most important part of the world’s cultural heritage that Norway as a nation has under its management.

Constructing MUNCH also contains three essays with one each written by the architects at estudio Herreros, their Norwegian partners LPO Arkitekter and the Munchmuseum itself.