BIO

Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg
They are based on Brännö and in Stockholm, Sweden.


The collaboration started in 2004 as they initiated a trilogy casting light on aspects of socially and culturally constructed identity-based groups in contemporary society. The three installations Resonance, State of Mind and Code of Silence bring the artists specific interests together. Karlsson Rixon & Hallberg collaborate in art installations, curatorial projects and lectures/workshops among them the LTT Project and Public Projections. They also run a nomadic art gallery AVIEW NOMAD GALLERY. >>>

Annica Karlsson Rixon’s and Anna Viola Hallberg’s work is based on documentary explorations with interviews and portraits as the point of departure. The photography, video and sound based works are often presented in spatial installations interlocked with seminars or workshops. They explore aspects of conditions such as belonging, community and network from the point of departure manifested in the junction of photography and moving images. Concepts of group and group identity are central.

Annica Karlsson Rixon received a Master of Fine Art in 1997 from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Her undergraduate studies was accomplished at the Nordic School of Photography in Stockholm, Sweden 1988. Currently she is participating in the doctorial program at the School of Photography, at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Gothenburg. Karlsson Rixon held a professor position at the School of Photography, University of Gothenburg, 2003 - 2007. She has exhibited extensively since the early 1990´s.

Anna Viola Hallberg graduated 2003 from the Curatorial Program, Stockholm University, Sweden. Hallberg has a B.A in Cinema Studies from Stockholm University and is a graduate of Stockholm Film School with a MA in International Museum Studies, University of Gothenburg, 2008. Writing her thesis on contemporary art in museum exhibitions outside the paradigm of the art institution. Since 2005 her work is often in the collaborate format and has been shown in Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Germany, Spain, Serbia, Turkey, US, Canada and Sweden

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::: Full CV (Aug 2010, pdf) Annica Karlsson Rixon >>>

::: Full CV (Aug 2010, pdf) Anna Viola Hallberg >>>

Above: Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg
Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine, 2009
(Photo: Xenia Nicolskaya)

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