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Henrik Strömberg


About


Henrik Strömberg (*1970, Schweden) lives and works in Berlin

„I work with the idea of metamorphosis, decay and the transformation of materials; sculptural objects and their photographic documentation, as well as the deconstruction and transformation of the photographic image itself. Combining seemingly disparate images and objects, I initiate a process in which the object or image is removed from its context, its referent and expected narrative; I further explored this through the arrangements and combination of works; with the intention to create ambiguous narrations, formations of details, or a kind of temporary entropy.

The subjects of my imagery, depicting scenes, spaces, elements, figures, or abstract shapes are less significant than my wish to prompt a deeper sense of reflection, a grasp of the intangible, or a glimpse of the other.“

object amnesic: a compost manifesto


Henrik_Strömberg, Lines Drawn, 2021, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Gallery Weekend 2022
Henrik Strömberg, on surface, 2021, solo exhibition, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin

Vertical Matter


Parts from Places


The series Parts from places, 2011, were made from found fragmented topographic maps and photographic negatives.
By piecing together the different parts of the maps approximate locations were unveiled and possible to locate. Henrik Strömberg went on several walks to these locations making photographic record of the journeys in and around the specific places. Rather than presenting a photographic documentation of the journeys and places, the resulting large format negatives were cut up and collaged together with the different fragments of the maps to again obscure their origin and function. The idea of the map and the photograph, as exact mediums to describe the outside world, transforms into camouflage of their own form.

Statues


CV


Education

1999 FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts – MA Photography, Prague, CZ 

1997 Camberwell College of Art, London Institute – BA Fine Art, London, UK

Teaching

2022 Guest lecturer class of Cultural contents, contemporary art and photography, Joongbu University, Chungnam, Seoul, KR

2021-2022 Tutor, lecturer with Prof. Sofia Hultén for the class: Bild, Raum, Objekt, Glas, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle, DE

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2023

Bygones be bygones or: what’s hidden in the snow will come to light by thaw, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, DE

2022

Limbs, strata and edible seeds, K.P. Art Centre, Seoul, KR

object amnesic: a compost manifesto, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2019

Refraction of lightness, Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia, Fondazione Morra, Napoli, IT

Vertical Matter, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2018

Forward multiplications, Ann Wolff prize presentation, Visby, SE

2017

Echoes in dust, Åplus, Berlin, DE

The Compost, The Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, DE

2016

The door, LOGE, Berlin, DE

Unseen Art Fair, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

Times New Roman, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, SE

Object Amnesic, The Ephemeral Collection, Salonistes, Venice, IT

Mashti, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2015

To the letter, Der Würfel, Berlin, DE

Quarter of a kind, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE

2012

Second life – first place, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, DE

2011

Vanishing, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, CH

2010

Hässleholms Konsthall, SE

Cirkulations Centralen, Malmö, SE

2009

o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst (with Barbara Davi), Lucern, CH

2007

Hotel Europa (with Jonas Raam), Galerie Visite Ma Tente, Berlin, DE

Wartesaal, Perla Mode, Zürich, CH

Galerie Rose-Marie, Malmö, SE

Source, Galerie 5213, Berlin, DE

2005

Remains, Galerie 5213 Berlin, DE

2004

Mellantider, Installation at Kirseberg Church, Malmö, SE

2003

7 Scenes, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2024

– Duo show – Hanging on a thread , Henrik Strömberg and Eduard Kiesmann, ÅPLUS Contemporary, Berlin, DE

RIZZ/MAXX ’24, curated by Erik Nordenhake, Dorothee Nilsson gallery, Berlin, DE

2023

Random Papers, 14°N 61°W, Espace D’art Contemporain, Fort De France, Martinique, FR 

2022

Sailors of the land, Buzzer Reeves, Berlin, DE

Vergoldet, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, DE

Vergoldet – at Chateau Nyon, Geneva, CH

2021

untitled multiplikations, Lage Egal, Berlin, DE

2020

Far away so close, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE

Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Seoul, KR

2019

Morph – isolation of (portable) pressure – DAEGU Photo Biennale in Berlin, DE

2018

Vertikalwinkel, Schau Fenster, Berlin, DE

Symbopoeisis (with Diether Roth and Nam June Paik, Curated by fontaine B. and Jens Soneryd), Galerie Papillon, Paris, FR

2017

Thirdness, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

AIPAD Photography Show, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, NYC, US

Market Art Fair, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, SE

2016

Unseen Photo Fair, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

Perceptions, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

Kollision – Im Labyrinth der unheimlichen Zufälle, Bethanien Haus, Berlin, DE

AIPAD New York, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, US 

Art Brussels, Neumeister Bar-Am, BE 

2015

Transient Material, HAUS AM LÜTZOWPLATZ, Berlin, DE

6&6 ES 16 Off Space, Zürich, CH

Drama, Salon 1, Berlin, DE

Frames, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Bodybuilding, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE

SUER GAZ, Zagreus Project, Berlin, DE

Summershow at Griffins, Uferhalle, Berlin, DE

L’Age d’Or, General Public Berlin, DE

DAWN OF THE HERMETICS, Bar Babette, Berlin,  DE

JAHRESGABEN, Lage Egal, Berlin, DE

17 STEPS DOWN, 8 FLIGHTS UP, St Gallen, CH

Fotografi i Fokus, Malmö Photography Biennal, K3, Malmö, SE

Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Schloss Plüschow, DE

Wassup, Fotogalerie Wien, AT

Yoshiki Hishinuma, Concept Tokyo, Aoyama, Tokyo, JP

Das Kabinett der fiktiven Realitäten, Galerie Visite Ma Tente, Berlin, DE

Placements, Galerie 5213 Berlin, DE

Konst i Hessle, Hässleholms Konsthall, SE

2012

Komplexraum #1, (with Ivan Seal) – General Public, Berlin, DE

Publications (selected)

2022 

Vergoldet/Doré, Catalogue to the two chapters group show, Edited by Karin Scheel – Schloß Biesdorf- D -Berlin With works by: Henrik Strömberg and other artists, DE

2021

object amnesic: a compost manifesto, 300 page book publication, Blow Up Press, BUP award publication together with Jens Soneryd and essay by Chiara Valci Mazzara

2020

Ducato Prize 2020 – Catalogue

2019

Texte zur Kunst, “bildstrecke”, sketches for the compost

Das Treffen dreier Punkte, Interiors to Being, Berlin, DE

2018

DOC! Photo Magazine – selected works in reference to Man Ray 

VERK. Magazine – feature with text by Linda Bergman 

2017

Artipoeus, podcast by Susie Kahlich – “echoes in dust” 

2016

Object Amnesic, The Compost, artist “fanzine”, together with writer Jens Soneryd 

Mashti, monograph, published by Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE

39 Null Magazine, feature / text by Felix Fiedler, Spring issue

2014

Blind Spot Magazine, 20 year anniversary issue

2013

LOFT Bookazine, feature / text by Saskia Neuman

2007

Source, Fanzine, design by Adi Ehrat

Source, Artist Book

2006

Einladung, catalogue, published by Schloss Plüschow, DE

2003

7 Scenes, catalogue

2001

Places To Go People To See, book, Ed. Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, DE

Awards, Grants and Residencies

2023

Kemmler Foundation Investigation Grant, Berlin, DE

2022

Stiftung Kunstfond Research Stipendium, Bonn,DE

Nominated – third finalist – for the Photo-Text Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR

2020

Blow Up Press, BUP Book Award 2020, Warsaw, PL

Alexander Tutsek-stiftung, Munich, DE

2019

Fondazione Morra, Residency, Naples, IT

2017

AArtist in Residency, The Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, DE

Art Prize of the Ann Wolff Foundation, SE

2016

Berlin Senat Research Grant for project Statues, DE

2010

Sitterwerk Foundation, Residency, St. Gallen, CH

Tree Project, Award from Save The Children Foundation, London, UK

2007

Grant for project Source, Konstnärsnämnden, SE

Konstnärsnämnden, “Source”, Project Grant, Malmö, SE

Cité Internationale des Arts, Residency, Paris, FR

2006

Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Residency, Schloss Plüschow, DE

Collections

Art’us Collective Collection, Berlin, DE

Nicoletta Rusconi Collection, Milan, IT

M+M Collective, Basel, CH

Public Art Agency – Swedish Ministry of Culture, Statens Konstråd, SE

Fondazione Morra, Naples, IT

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, DE

Ann Wolff Foundation, SE

Christine Symchych Collection, US

Kultur Hässleholm, SE

Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Schloss Plüschow, DE

Region Skane, SE

La Luxembourgeoise SA, LU