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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.“

News

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

Academic Positions

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

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

Education

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

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

Publications (Selection)

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

Ducato Prize 2020 – Catalogue

Texte zur Kunst, “bildstrecke”, sketches for the compost, 2019

Das Treffen dreier Punkte, Interiors to Being, Berlin, 2019

DOC! Photo Magazine – selected works in reference to Man Ray 2018

VERK. Magazine – feature with text by Linda Bergman 2018

Artipoeus, podcast by Susie Kahlich – “echoes in dust” 2017

Object Amnesic, The Compost, artist “fanzine”, together with writer Jens Soneryd 2016

Mashti, monograph, published by Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin 2016

39 Null Magazine, feature / text by Felix Fiedler, Spring issue, 2016

Blind Spot Magazine, 20 year anniversary issue, 2014

LOFT Bookazine, feature / text by Saskia Neuman, 2013

Source, Fanzine, design by Adi Ehrat, 2007

Source, Artist Book, 2007

Einladung, catalogue, published by Schloss Plüschow, 2006

7 Scenes, catalogue, 2003

Places To Go People To See, book, Ed. Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2001

Awards, Grants and Residencies

Kemmler Foundation Investigation Grant, Berlin, Germany 2023

Stiftung Kunstfond Research Stipendium, Bonn, Germany 2022

Nominated – third finalist – for the Photo-Text Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France 2022

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

Alexander Tutsek-stiftung, Munich, Germany 2020

Fondazione Morra, Residency, Naples, Italy 2019

AArtist in Residency, The Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany 2017

Art Prize of the Ann Wolff Foundation, Sweden 2017

Berlin Senat Research Grant for project Statues, Germany 2016

Sitterwerk Foundation, Residency, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2010

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

Grant for project Source, Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden 2007

Konstnärsnämnden, “Source”, Project Grant, Malmö, Sweden 2007

Cité Internationale des Arts, Residency, Paris, France 2007

Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Residency, Schloss Plüschow, Germany 2006

Collections

Art’us Collective Collection, Berlin, Germany

Nicoletta Rusconi Collection, Milan, Italy

M+M Collective, Basel, Switzerland

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

Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany

Ann Wolff Foundation, Sweden

Christine Symchych Collection, USA

Kultur Hässleholm, Sweden

Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Schloss Plüschow, Germany

Region Skane, Sweden

La Luxembourgeoise SA, Luxemburg

Solo Exhibitions

– Duo show – Hanging on a thread , Henrik Strömberg and Eduard Kiesmann, ÅPLUS Contemporary, Berlin, Germany 2024

Bygones be bygones or: what’s hidden in the snow will come to light by thaw, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany 2023

Limbs, strata and edible seeds, K.P. Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea 2022

object amnesic: a compost manifesto, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery Berlin – Solo show during gallery weekend 2022

Refraction of lightness, Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia, Fondazione Morra, Napoli, Italy 2019

Vertical Matter, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2019

Forward multiplications, Ann Wolff prize presentation, Visby, Sweden 2018

Echoes in dust, Åplus, Berlin, Germany 2017

The Compost, The Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany 2017

The door, LOGE, Berlin, Germany 2016

Unseen Art Fair, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2016

Times New Roman, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2016

Object Amnesic, The Ephemeral Collection, Salonistes, Venice, Italy 2016

Mashti, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2016

To the letter, Der Würfel, Berlin, Germany 2015

Quarter of a kind, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, Germany 2015

Second life – first place, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2012

Komplexraum #1, (with Ivan Seal) – General Public, Berlin, Germany 2012

Vanishing, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland 2011

Hässleholms Konsthall, Sweden 2010

Cirkulations Centralen, Malmö, Sweden 2010

o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst (with Barbara Davi), Lucern, Switzerland 2009

Hotel Europa (with Jonas Raam), Galerie Visite Ma Tente, Berlin, Germany 2007

Wartesaal, Perla Mode, Zürich, Switzerland 2007

Galerie Rose-Marie, Malmö, Sweden 2007

Source, Galerie 5213, Berlin, Germany 2007

Remains, Galerie 5213 Berlin, Germany 2005

Mellantider, Installation at Kirseberg Church, Malmö, Sweden 2004

7 Scenes, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, Sweden 2003

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

RIZZ/MAXX ’24, curated by Erik Nordenhake, Dorothee Nilsson gallery, Berlin, Germany 2024

Random Papers, 14°N 61°W, Espace D’art Contemporain, Fort De France, Martinique 2023

Sailors of the land, Buzzer Reeves, Berlin, Germany 2022

Vergoldet, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin, Germany 2022

Vergoldet – at Chateau Nyon, Geneva, Switzerland, Curated by Harald Theiss 2022

2022 Book presentation and site specific installation „object amnesic – a compost manifesto“ at the exhibition „moss or a study of chasms caused by living under boreal conditions“, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin Germany

2021 untitled multiplikations, Lage Egal, Berlin Germany

Far away so close, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany 2020

Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Seoul, South Korea 2020

Morph – isolation of (portable) pressure – DAEGU Photo Biennale in Berlin, Germany 2019

Vertikalwinkel, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany 2018

Symbopoeisis (with Diether Roth and Nam June Paik, Curated by fontaine B. and Jens Soneryd), Galerie Papillon, Paris, France 2018

Thirdness, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2017

AIPAD Photography Show, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, NYC, USA 2017

Market Art Fair, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2017

Unseen Photo Fair, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2016

Perceptions, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2016

Kollision – Im Labyrinth der unheimlichen Zufälle, Bethanien Haus, Berlin, Germany 2016

AIPAD New York, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, US 2016

Art Brussels, Neumeister Bar-Am, Belgium 2016

Transient Material, HAUS AM LÜTZOWPLATZ, Berlin, Germany 2015

6&6 ES 16 Off Space, Zürich, Switzerland

Drama, Salon 1, Berlin, Germany

Frames, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland

Bodybuilding, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, Germany

SUER GAZ, Zagreus Project, Berlin, Germany

Summershow at Griffins, Uferhalle, Berlin, Germany

L’Age d’Or, General Public Berlin, Germany

DAWN OF THE HERMETICS, Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany

JAHRESGABEN, Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany

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

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

Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Schloss Plüschow, Germany

Wassup, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria

Yoshiki Hishinuma, Concept Tokyo, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan

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

Placements, Galerie 5213 Berlin, Germany

Konst i Hessle, Hässleholms Konsthall, Sweden

Press

In 2019 Henrik Strömberg was part of the exhibition Morph-Oat the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in Berlin as a special edition of the Daegu Photo Biennale, curated by Italian curator Chiara Valci Mazzara.

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Henrik Strömberg participated in the special edition of the Daegu Photography Biennale in Berlin in 2019 at the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz as the first international project of Daegu Photo Biennale abroad.

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Press review in the Elle Kora magazine about Henrik Strömbergs participation in the Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition in Berlin in 2019.

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Henrik Strömbergs solo exhibition Refraction of Lightness at the Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia in Naples. The exhibition consists of site-specific installations and a series of glass sculptures and volumes, created by the artist during his three-month artist residency at the Morra Foundation, in collaboration with the Avella Laboratory in Naples.

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The exhibition Refraction of Lightness by Henrik Strömberg at the Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia in Naples, curated by Chiara Valci Mazzara and Loredana Troise, is the result of the collaboration between Morra Foundation and the Avella Laboratory as part of a three-month artist residency in 2019.

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Henrik Strömberg’s work Ecosystemas part of the solo exhibition Refraction of Lightness at the Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia, home of the Shōzō Shimamoto Association in Naples after his artist residency in Naples, upon invitation by the Morra Foundation.

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The solo exhibition Refraction of Lightness by Henrik Strömberg at the Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia in Naples, curated by Chiara Valci Mazzara and Loredana Troise.

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Press review of the solo exhibition Refraction of Lightness at the Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia in Naples as a result of Henrik Strömbergs artist residency at the Morra Foundation in 2019.

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Henrik Strömbergs solo exhibition Refraction of Lightnessat the Shōzō Shimamoto Association in Naples as part of his three months long artist residency upon invitation of Giuseppe Morra at the Morra Foundation in 2019.

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Artist portrait of Henrik Strömberg in the Tagesspiegel about his artworks in the exhibition The Compost(2018).

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As part of the artist residency at Casa Morra, Henrik Strömberg participated in the exhibition Refraction of Lightness at the Palazzo Spinelli Tarsia in Naples (12 October 2019 – 31 January 2020).

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