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.“
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object amnesic: a compost manifesto









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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.






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1999 FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts – MA Photography, Prague, CZ
1997 Camberwell College of Art, London Institute – BA Fine Art, London, UK
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
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
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
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
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
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