KRISTINA MUNTZING
SWEDEN 2015-2016 I live and work in berlin on a stipend from iaspis, 6 months at bethanien ,6 months at kw run sunshine socialist cinema( ssc ) together with kalle brolin since 2011 apoteksbolaget. represented -statens konstråd -kalmar konstmuseum- göteborgs konstmuseum. WWW.KRISTINAMUNTZING.COM KALLE BROLIN SWEDEN Kalle brolin is an artist working with video, installation, writing and music. He has shown works in a number of art biennials, writes cultural critique for the newspaper fria tidningen, and works with a solar powered outdoors cinema, the sunshine socialist cinema - kristina muntzing's project collaborator. |
SONAL MITHAL
INDIA sonal mithal holds a ph.d. In landscape architecture at university of illinois at urbana-champaign. Her work treats the phenomenon of landscape as temporal—that which is being constantly produced by environmental and social forces, which themselves are in constant flux. Her paintings represent geological processes—that occur over a large time span—such as sedimentation, erosion, decay, and ruination using techniques that emulate those processes. Using techniques of layering and obliteration, she creates visual narratives to represent landscape production that negotiates politics of erasures, appropriation, and displacements of and by people through history. SONALMITHAL.WORDPRESS.COM PEOPLEFORHERITAGECONCERN.COM/ |
MARTIN DAHLQVIST
SWEDEN Martin dahlqvist cv born 1978, education: mfa valand college of art, gothenburg2004-2009 kanazawa college of art, japan 2007 soloshows: flux, ljung castle 2016, mors mössa, gothenburg “doppelgänger” 2010, “the white album” gallery rotor , gothenburg, 2009,”maintainance” gallery rotor 2 , gothenburg 2006 group shows: hidden art malmö 2015, hidden art ljung 2014, gallery thomassen, gothenburg 2014,”if memory serves” uag gallery, irvine, california 2013, “seven chapters” gothenburg arthall 2009, moscow international biennale for young art 2008. DAHLQVISTM.BLOGSPOT.SE |
ANNA WESSMAN & MARKO CESAREC SWEDEN (text by eva may) to communicate, to define oneself in relation to others and be recognized, some of our most fundamental desires, are always caught up in complex power relations. The interplay between these power relations in the public sphere and a groupʼs or individualʼs position in society is one of the main themes in anna wessmanʼs works, which span over drawing, video, sculpture, installation, and many other media. By combining the individualʼs memories with history, she catches an important discussion that is about the borders – or rather, the overlaps – between the personal and the political, the private and the public. These overlaps are clearly seen in the works in which wessman is concerned with the history of womanʼs shifting position between the private sphere, to which she “traditionally” belongs, and the public, in which she has been invisible during most of modern history. This is why the concepts of longing and the absent are both personal and political in the works. These works investigate how the position of women in society has changed during the twentieth century. Her possibilities for communicating in the public sphere, how an image of her identity is constructed, and how this construction influences her life experience. This spans from the voice of authority in the police report in “tableau 1901” (2008), which hides the woman it is about, but reveals between the lines her poverty and powerlessness, to the image of the strong pippi longstocking that was popular in the post-war years, which many women felt (and feel) forced to mirror, e.g. At the work place (”lena född 1943 i sverige” (2009)).the work ”zugehörigheitsgefühl” (2009) focuses directly on communication in the public sphere in contemporary sweden. Wessman put up posters in the streets of malmö, with an image of a swedish “hembygdgård”(a red wooden house) and a text that encouraged the reader to write to her about her feeling of belonging. But the text was only in arab. The work points not only to the exclusion of certain groups in the public space, but also to the construction of history and memory. The artist is using the red wooden house as an image of “swedish” – an image, which is highly constructed around the idea of “authenticity”, an idyllic and romanticised past. Here, another and more subtle question is asked to the arab-speaker: how do you construct your memory –or how is it constructed for you through officially sanctioned images of history? Wessman is encouraging us to recapture the public sphere – to speak and say our opinion. This is seen e.g. In her frequent use of the microphone. This call is directed especially to those who are not always allowed to speak or those who speak softly. Marko Cesarec : Been involved in a number of exhibitions and events for a long time.with a focus on painting, drawing and also installations and objects.currently working on the installation "universe".a work without limitations in size or location, that is constantly changing.part of the work was on the mini event in istanbul and venice in autumn 2015. Seeking a balance with nature that breaks down all the theories and solutions may seem imperfect. Like having an opinion and daring to understand its opposite. A moment never repeats itself. Next moment turns into something else. It's about human existence. http://www.markocesarec.se/ |
SANYUKTA SHARMA
INDIA I was born in 1985, in india and have lived here since. Working between delhi, mussoorie and kolkata. I completed ba in english hons. From lady sri ram college, du. I completed a certificate course in television and diploma in film direction and screenplay writing from film and television institute of india, pune. Since 2014 i have been working as a freelance filmmaker and working on my own audio and visual art projects.- 1. Tashi delek, short narrative fiction film, 10 minutes, completed in year 2011. – screened in iffi, goa, 2012 & cameraimage, poland, 2012- 2. Soja rajkumari, song sequence film, 5 minutes, completed in year 2012 – screened in idsffk, kerala, 2013 - 3. A dream animal, short narrative fiction film, 23 minutes, completed in year 2014.- best director, national students film awards, march 2015- best sound design, national students film awards, march 2015- best sound design, cut in film festival, tiss mumbai, 2014 |
ANUPAM SAIKIA
INDIA Anupam saikia, a visual and performance artist from assam, india completed my bfa (painting) from govt. College of art and craft, assam and mfa (painting) from sn school , university of hyderabad. Apart from being a prolific painter i am also an active performance artist who uses intervention as a way to reflect on contemporary political issues. I won the young talented artist award 2013-2014, nezcc, ministry of culture, govt. Of india. In 2016 i participated in the piramal art residency organised by piramal art foundation , mumbai , participant of the kolkata international performance art festival in 2016 and khoj peers share program 2016. Indeed i recently finished a group project titled “future collaboration” at italian embassy cultural centre, new delhi. |
OLA ÅSTRAND
SWEDEN represented: among other moderna museet, malmö museum, gothenburg art museum statens konstråd exhibited widely in sweden and other parts of the world curated several exhibitions at gothenburg art museum, malmö art hall,varberg art hall and seaport warehouse ,gothenburg art hall,borås art museum,ystad art museum and museum of moderna art, malmö OLAASTRAND.BLOGSPOT.SE OLA-ASTRAND2.WEBNODE.SE |
[TAXI] INDIA
Sourav roy chowdhury & suman samajpati have been working collaboratively as ‘taxi’ since 2007. Taxi employs photography, hand-painted photography, video and sound as the forms of their visual expression. Suman studied fashion and textile design at national institute of fashion technology, kolkata and received a diploma in graphic design from birla institute of liberal arts in kolkata. Sourav completed his ma in political science at burdwan university. Their works have been exhibited in india and abroad and have also been selected in numerous international festivals in usa, uk, spain, russia, macau, cuba, germany, bosnia & herzegovina, poland, france, macedonia and the netherlands including noorderlicht photofestival 2012. They have also participated at the 16th biennial of cerveira 2011, portugal. They live and work in kolkata, india. |