Artist Statement
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.
CV - Henrik Strömberg
Born 1970 in Sweden
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
1994–1997
Camberwell College of Art – B.A. Fine Art 1997–1999
1997-1999
FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts Prague – M.A. Photography, History of Photography
Biennals
2020 Sculpture Non- Sculpture, Light or flexible, Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Changwon, Seoul
2019 | MorphO | Isolation of (portable) pressure, Daegu Photo Biennale Special Exhibition Berlin,
Rosa Luxemburg Kunstverein, Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2019-2020 refraction of
lightness, Fondazione Morra, Palazzo Tarsia Spinelli, Naples, Italy
2019 Vertical
Matter, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery Berlin
2018 forward multiplications, Ann Wolff Prize presentation, Visby, Sweden
2017 echoes in dust, Åplus, Berlin
2017 The Compost, The Federal Foreign
Office, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin
2016 The door, LOGE Berlin
2016 Object Amnesic, The Ephemeral Collection,
Salonistes, Venice
2016 times new roman, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery,
Stockholm
2015 Mashti, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin
2014 to the letter, Der Würfel, Neumeister Bar-Am
Gallery, Berlin
2013 quarter of a kind, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
2012-2013 second life – first place, Konrad Fischer
Galerie, Berlin
2011 Komplexraum #1, General Public, Berlin (with
Ivan Seal)
2010 Vanishing, Galerie SAKS, Geneva
2010 Source, o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst,
Lucerne
2009 Henrik Strömberg, Hässleholms Konsthall, Hässleholm, Sweden
2009 DW, CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö,
Sweden
2003 7 Scenes, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, Sweden
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 In Weiter Ferne so Nah, German Foreign Ministry / Ausgewärtiges Amt : AArtist in Residency Program,
2016-2020 HaL, Berlin
2020 Present Perfect Continuous, 30 jahre Jubileumsaustellung Schloss Plüschow, Berlin
2019 | MorphO | Isolation of (portable) pressure, Daegu Photo Biennale, Rosa Luxemburg Kunstverein, Berlin
2019 Vertikalwinkel, Das Schau Fenster, Berlin
2019 Das Treffen dreier Punkte, Interiors to Being, Berlin
2018 Symbiopoiesis, with Diether Roth and Nam June Paik, Galerie Papillon, Paris
2018 imagine a world where the opposite of light isn't dark, Zona Sztuki Aktualnej, Szczecin, Poland
2017 Intuition to fill emptiness with selected works of Joseph Beuys, at Vadim Zakharov Free- home, Berlin
2017 fontaine b. presentation together with selected works by Jannis Kounellis and Man Ray at Åplus, Berlin
2017 Thirdness, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2016 Lady Dada Kalam, Kunsthaus KuLe, Berlin
2016 NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2016 Kollision, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2016 Geheimnis, Kunstverein Potsdam, Potsdam Berlin
Bibliography (selection)
2020 Ducato Prize catalogue
2019 Das Treffen dreier Punkte, Interiors to Being, Berlin
2018 Texte zur Kunst, "bildstrecke", sketches for the compost, HEFT NR. 111 / SEPTEMBER 2018 „AMERIKA“
2018 DOC! Photo Magazine Vol. Q8, Issue #43 - selected works in reference to works by Man Ray ISSN: 2299-2855
2018 VERK. Magazine - feature with text by Linda Bergman
2017 Artipoeus, podcast by Susie Kahlich - "echoes in dust"
2016 Object Amnesic, The Compost, artist "fanzine" with writer Jens Soneryd
2016 Mashti, monograph, published by Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
2016 39 Null Magazine, feature / text by Felix Fiedler, Spring issue
2014 Blind Spot Magazine, 20 year anniversary issue
2013 LOFT Bookazine, feature / text by Saskia Neuman
2007 Source, Fanzine, design by Adi Ehrat
2003 7 Scenes, catalogue, 2003
Grants / Scholarships
2020 BUP Book Award 2020 (prize and book publication)
2020 Shortlisted for Ducato Prize 2020
2020 Alexander Tutsek-stiftung, Munich Germany (grant)
2019 Fondazione Morra, Naples Italy (residency and solo show)
2017 Ann Wolff Prize, Visby, Sweden (prize and solo show)
2017 AArtist residency, The Federal Foreign Office, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin (residency and solo show)
2016 Berlin Senat Research Grant for Statues project (grant)
2010 Sitterwerk Foundation, St. Gallen, Switzerland (residency)
2007 Konstnärsnämnden, "Source", Malmö, Sweden (project grant) 2007 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris,
2006 Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Schloss Plüschow (residency)
Collections
Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy
Alexander Tutsek-stiftung, Munich, Germany
Ann Wolff foundation, Visby, Sweden
Christine Symchych Collection, Milwaukee, USA
Kultur Hässleholm, Hässleholm, Sweden
Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Schloss Plüschow, Germany Region Skane, Skane, Sweden
La Luxembourgeoise SA, Luxemburg
Representation
Artist Liaison - Chiara Valci Mazzara
Fondazione Morra, Napoli
Dorothee Nilsson Gallery, Berlin