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About


Born 1973 in Stockholm, Sweden
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

For Martina Hoogland Ivanow photography means working with the unconscious, with the technique, but also with reality. In her images, she seeks to create a room for the viewer, rather than asking questions instead of providing the answers.

The photographic process is based on non-linear documentation of social structures and has become an exploration of different behavior patterns and how the self relates to the world. An interest in opposites and human relationships is common to both new as well as earlier works.

Martina Hoogland Ivanow´s images are a visual meditation on distance, both physical and emotional, of closeness to a subject and remoteness from a place. This focus is always apparent in her gorgeous and mysterious photographs in which she often uses dark contrasts.

Martina Hoogland Ivanow´s pictures are visual poetry, now and then keeping hold of a strophe, captured in shadows and fog. The dark, mesmerizing aesthetic of her images conveys a heightened presence, real and simultaneously poetic. 

Second Nature


 

 

 

Far too close


 

 

 

Early Reading


 

 

 

Speedway


Satellite


 

 

 

Circular Wait


 

 

 

Elephant and Castle


Publisher: Kningdisk 2011

Elephant & Castle is a musical work created by composers Matti Bye and Mattias Olsson. It is a journey through forgotten landscapes and a visit to an abandoned amusement park, to the sounds of an underwater orchestra playing broken barrel organs and strange instruments from a sunken ship.

The album was created in relation to the photographic work of Martina Hoogland Ivanow. Her images were used for inspiration during the recording sessions, as a visual partition for the music.The result is presented in a stunningly beautiful box with a vinyl record, a phonograph cylinder, and fourteen photographs.

http://www.kningdisk.com

CV


Education

2019-2022 Materialities, post-master, part-time, KKH, Stockholm, SE

2015–2016 Fotografins och Videokonstens Historia, Konstfack, Stockholm, SE

1993-1996 BA Fine Art, Major in Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York, US

1992-1993 BA Fine Art, Major in Photography, Parsons School of Design, Paris, FR

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2024

With Eyes Sensitive for Green, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2023

With Eyes Sensitive to Green, Galleri Duerr, Stockholm, SE

2022

Interbeing, Early Reading, Brillo Växthusbaren, Stockholm, SE

2021

Interbeing, Rikstolvan, Österlen, SE

Circular Wait, Showroom, Charlotte Lund, SE

2020

Early Reading, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2016

Circular wait, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

Circular wait + Satellite, Next level Gallery, Paris, FR

2015

Circular wait, GUN Gallery, Stockholm, SE

2014

Reenactment, Historiska Museet, Stockholm, SE

Speedway, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

2013

Härifrån till verkligheten, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE

2012

Far too close, Hermes Foundation, New York, US

2010

Far too close, Swedish Photography, Berlin, DE

Satellite, GUN Gallery, Stockholm, SE
Satellite, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

2008

Far too close Fotografins hus, Stockholm, SE

Far too close Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, SE

2006

Speedway Curator Space, London, UK 

The white series Teater Galleriet, Uppsala, SE

2005

The white series Centrum för Fotografi, Spegeln, Malmö, SE

2004

Speedway Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm, SE

2001

Sumos Secret Gallery, New York, US

2000

Sumos Dazed & Confused Gallery, London, UK 

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2024

Springbrunn, Galleri Duerr, Stockholm, SE

2023

Interbeing, MONA, Tasmanien, AU

2022

Second Nature, Signal Absence-Teaching Drum, Stockholm Konst, Slakthusområdet, SE

Vårkollektion, Konstkompaniet, SE

Entangled- Strömholm, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

Tyst Vår, Nordiskt fotografi, curated by Greger Nilsson, SE

2021

Interbeing, Early Reading, Far too close, Photofestival, Sopot, PL

imMaterilaities, Weld, Magnethuset, Spökparken, Stockholm, SE

2019

Interbeing, Eldmarknaden, Mossutställningar, Stockholm, SE

Berör mig, Early Reading, CFF/ Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE

Fashion Photography, Curated by CF Hill, Bank Hotel, Stockholm, SE

In dialogue with Strömholm, Dorothee Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE

Published, Hasselblad Foundation/ CFF, Stockholm, SE

2018

Published, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothemburg, SE

Mossans Marknad, Stockholm, SE

2016

Fryspunkt/Freezing Point, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, SE

2014

Different Distances, Aperture, New York, US

2013

Other Fictions, Photographic Center, Copenhagen, DK

Different Distances, Scandivania House, Washington, US

Different Distances, Swedish Photography, Berlin, DE

2012

Behind the Visuals, Inthegallery, Copenhagen, DK

Distances Differentes, The Swedish Institute, Paris, FR

Unseen, Gun Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2007

Assemblage, Fotomässan, Stockholm, SE

2006

Sophie Calle visits Bill, Knut, Lars-Åke & Ulla, Mossutställningar, Stockholm, SE

2005

The shadow in the shadow, Museet for Fotokonst, Brandt, DK

Fashination Museum of Film, Photography and Television, UK

2004

Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

2002

Jam, London/Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, JP

2001

Jam, London/Tokyo, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK 

1999

Silver and Syrup, V&A Museum, London, UK 

1997

9 Women Photographers Alleged Gallery, New York, US

Film Festivals / Screenings

2023

Interbeing, Swedish experimentalfilm & video art, Filmform, Milano, IT

2022

Interbeing, Swedish experimental film & video art, Image Forum, Tokyo, JP

Second Nature, 35 mm, Kalbjärga Filmfestival, Fårö, SE

Signal Absence-Teaching Drum, 35 mm, Kalbjärga Filmfestival, Fårö, SE

2021

Interbeing, Pori Film Festival, FI

Interbeing, Practice Resurrection, OONA Festival, Under Tallarna, Järna, SE

2020

Interbeing, Crossroads program 4, San Francisco Cinemateque, US

2019

Interbeing, Vancouver Filmfestival, CA

Interbeing, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DE

Interbeing, Rotterdam international filmfestival, NL

2018

Interbeing, Filmform, Stockholm, SE

Interbeing, Kulturhuset, Klarabiografen, Stockholm, SE

Interbeing och Early Reading, Kalbjärga Filmfestival, Fårö, SE

2015

Annelise Frankfurt, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DE

Annelise Frankfurt, Filmform’s news program, Bio Rio, Stockholm, SE

Annelise Frankfurt, 34th Uppsala Internationella Short Film, SE

Annelise Frankfurt, 32nd Kassel Documentary Film and video festival, DE

Publications (selected)

2023

Peripheral Vision: Images from the Fringe of Europe, Magnus af Pedersen/CFF. Release The Swedish Institut in Paris (Institut suédois)

2019

Mamma, Hanna, Martina; paintings by Mamma Andersson, photo-essays by Hanna Moon and Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Space books

Early Reading, Art and Theory Publishing

2015

Circular Wait + Satellite, Livraison books and Art and Theory Publishing

2014

Shadows Illuminated: the photography of Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Paper journal

Speedway, Hot shoe

On Speedway, Art magazine

Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Montem

Vital konst på sommarlojt Gotland, Bo Madestrand, DN Kultur

Banar väg i mörkret, Dagens arbete

Martina Hoogland Ivanow: Abgründe der Seele, Art Berlin, DE

Speedway, Livrasion Books

Speedway, The Kinsky

Catalogue FOUR, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery-Swedish Photography, DE

2013

Där verkligheten möter drömmen, Kulturnytt, SVT

Gåtfullheten attraherar och irriterar, SvD Kultur

2012

Far too close, Dossier

2011

Catalogue ONE, Swedish Photography, DE

Elephant and Castle, Kningdisk

2010

Satellite, Art Lover

Introduction by Greger Ulf Nilson, The Chronicle 

Elephant and castle, Imag 

Lång bort och nära, Fotografiskt tidskrift 

Far too Close, SteidlMack, 

Far too close, OjodePez 

2007

Far too close, Blindspot 

2005

Hit and run, reading Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Modern Painters 

2004

Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Contemporary, The photography issue 

Sportens mörka spår Dagens Nyheter söndag 

2003

Oil wrestling Another Magazine 

2002

Svenska Dagbladet 

Att ställa sig på kanten, Fotografisk tidskrift 

2001

Tokyo woe Time Out, London 

2000

Sumo, Dazed & Confused Magazine 

Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Photo District News

Awards, Grants and Residencies
2022-2025
Three year working Grant, The Swedish writers fund
2020-2021

Two year Working Grant, Swedish Art Council, SE

2019

Swedish Art Council, Project Grant for the film Original Play, SE

2018

One year Working Grant, The Swedish writers fund, SE

2016-2018

Stockholm Studio Grant, Glasbruksgatan, SE

2015

Circular Wait, The Swedish Photobook of the Year, SE

2014

Swedish Art Council, support to Circulair Wait book, SE

Längmanska Kulturstiftelsen, Circular Wait book

2011-2013

Two year working Grant, Swedish Art Council, SE 

Hasselblad institute, Stipend and residency, Grez-sur-Loing

2010

Satellite, winner of Scanpix Photo Award 

2009-2010

IASPIS studio Grant, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

2007

One year working Grant, Swedish Art Council, SE

2005

Sleipnir 

Collections

Public Art Agency SE

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Swedish Institute, Art Collection, SE

Filmform, The Art Film & Video Archive

Karolinska sjukhuset

Museet for Fotokonst, Brandt, DK

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK