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.
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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.
CV
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
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
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
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
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 Publishing2015
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, 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
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
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