We are very excited and honoured to present Nona Limmen as our official artist for Roadburn 2025. If you attended the 2024 edition, you may have noticed her captivating exhibition, with her ominous work hanging throughout the frames of the 013 venue.
Nona is an independent, acclaimed photographer, and her main body of work comprises striking, thought-provoking photography standing on its own as towering “homages to the twilight hour,” as she has described them before. However, she has also provided work for other pivotal artists such as Chelsea Wolfe, Dool and Phoebe Bridgers.

Her art explores mythology, symbolism and psychology – essentially, the hidden elements of human nature. We all carry unconscious parts of our personality with us, but we try to actively keep them in check. The result is always an imposing force of nature, as the work she has made for Roadburn 2025 clearly shows. It was a case of immediate bonding – “the worlds of Nona Limmen and Roadburn absolutely belong together,” says Roadburn’s artistic director Walter, “intertwined as they are in their depictions of imagination and connection.”

Nona also told us “The world we currently live in oftentimes feels like a big storm; that feeling of heaviness that often looms over us as it plays out on both personal and collective stages. A storm is like an elusive and indefinable realm. One of the abysmal depths, raging winds and bending shadows, seemingly only existing in order to dismantle and destroy. It is a perilous place where uncertainty and disruptive forces prevail. Yet, it is not necessarily something to be feared.

“Beyond the swirling chaos, there is stillness, and within that stillness, you come face to face with powerful archetypal energies, impalpable as shadows. Like liminal beings, they reside on the delicate borders between worlds, darkened around the edges as if by smoke. They possess many forms and carry a tenacity in their bones that is ever-present. They don’t fear the chaos. Instead, they embrace it and stare into the swirling darkness with a firm gaze. Centred, like the eye of the storm, they become one with the ancient elements. From the inside out, from the below to the above.

“It symbolises a glimpse into my own journey in embracing the tempest of the unknown, one that ultimately became the inspiration and driving force behind the artwork. In a time of chaos and storms, I hope it can be a doorway to that world of stillness for others too.”

Models: Björg Halldórsdóttir & Svala Jóhannsdóttir