ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG
CONTEMPORARY ART AND INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM STUDIES
The collaborate process is an important part of Hallberg’s practice. Anna Viola Hallberg and Annica Karlsson Rixon are collaborating on an installation trilogy Resonance, State of Mind and Code of Silence dealing with socially and culturally constructed identity-based groups in contemporary society. Currently they are producing a book on State of Mind which is also part of Karlsson Rixons Phd dissertation in Artistic Research. Hallberg has also worked with artists, dancers and filmmakers such as: Madeleine Hatz (US/SE), Bjorn Perborg (SE), Christine Bergman (US), Dorte Olesen (SE), Barbara Hammer (US) and Mia Engberg and Ira Anufrieva (BY/SE).
Hallberg is working as a curator for the city of Mariestad for 2012 it is a communal mural project with 4 cities in Skaraborg region and two in Mexico. During 2011 it was CityArtLab/Stadslaboratoriet Mariestad a temporary kunsthalle was established to host the core of the exploratory social sculpture. As part of this Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg was brought on to provide a critical voice with an international summer program located in the city.
Anna Viola Hallberg graduated 2003 from, Stockholm University, Sweden. Hallberg has a B.A in Curatorial and Cinema Studies with a M.Sc in International Museum Studies, University of Gothenburg, 2008. Writing her thesis on contemporary art in museum exhibitions outside the paradigm of the art institution. She is also a graduate of Stockholm Film School. She has worked both in experimental documentary film as well as in advertising in the US (New York) and Sweden. Her works and has been shown in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Germany, Spain, Serbia, Turkey, US, Canada and Sweden. From a museum studies perspective general issues of access and collecting are of interest as well as the transition between contemporary art and heritage concerns from both Cultural and Natural perspective. Highlighting conditions and criteria for contemporary art in such a context. The two disciplines, Museum Studies and contemporary art are not to be regarded as separate entities rather as aspects of the public space being examined.She is socially and politically engaged artist interested in innovative public practices and collaborations.
Hallberg is a member of KRO/Swedish Artists National Organization
Interview by Jules Rochielle, SPAN (August, 2011) >>>
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Title: October Revolution Factory (documentation of performance)Resonance, installation
(installation, video 2 ch, sound, photography)
Resonance, conversation
(installation, single ch, HDV, sound, photography)
State of Mind
(installation, video 8ch, sound, photography)
State of Mind - Prologue
(single ch, HDV)
Code of Silence
installation/site specific, work in progress (video, photography, sound)
Consolation
(street art, stencil, single ch slideshow, sound HDV)
Rancorous Call
(found footage, animation, single ch, sound HDV)
As The Carney Goes
(video single ch, color, sound, DV)
Just Drive
(16 mm, color, stereo)
Curatorial/Interventions/Performances
Title: Light/Dark Minsk
Performance: Anna Viola Hallberg (SE) & Ira Anufrieva (SE/BY)
Duration: 20 minutes
A tribute to Marina Abramovic and Ulay's performance Light-Dark (1977)
Leaving Your Traces/Lezzie Think Tank
Think Tank and video workshop traveling with State of Mind , 2008-2010
Aview Nomad Gallery
Exhibitions in collaboration with galleries/institutions in
Stockholm, St Petersburg, Gothenburg, Kharkiv, Kiev and Minsk, 2008-
Public Projections - Gothenburg
Outdoor projection site in central Gothenburg, 2010-
Projection based Urban Interventions. Text and images surrounds us, commercial companies buy or rent space in the public sphere to
deliver their messages. Public Projections - Gothenburg asks
artists to claim (reclaim)the public sphere and open up a
critical dialog on urban space.
ReTreks, UnSung City
Six South African Video based artist, Temporary Projection site
with six, 9 meeter screens in parking garage, NK Departmentstore,
Stockholm, 2003
Media (web, print, tv, radio)
Resonance, State of Mind, Aview Nomad Gallery >>>
Installation views/soundscapes
State of Mind, sample installation sound >>>
State of Mind, c-prints >>>
State of Mind, installation views >>>
Out of the Box Building Bridges, installation views student exhibition >>>
Collaborations
Annica Karlsson Rixon & Hallberg collaborate in art installations,
curatorial projects and lectures/workshops, 2004->>>
Ira Anufrieva & Hallberg collaborated on a series of performances/
interventions in Minsk during CALM, Y Gallery For Contemporary Art
Carolina Falkholt & Hallberg collaborated on a series of interventions
in Minsk during CALM, Y Gallery For Contemporary Art they also worked
together in Mariestad at CALM, 2011
Madeleine Hatz & Hallberg collaborated on intervention (video interviews)
in conjunction with 911 in New York City.
Bjorn Perborg & Hallberg is working on a videobased project Documentations
Carolina Falkholt makes the last segment of 50 meter Mural
in Mariestad. Work was made by Vita Dumchyute (RU), Ben
Gottesman (US), Anna Gvozdareva (Ru),Mason Nye (US),
Magda Morner (US), Eric Andersson (SE),
Alex Mandych (RU)at CityArtLab.
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Ira Anufrieva & Hallberg, Light/Dark Minsk
