Annika Ström

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Annika Ström (* 1964 in Helsingborg ) is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Hove , England . She works in the media of video art , drawing , painting , installation and performance .

Life

From 1991 to 1997 Ström studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen .

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Since the 1990s, Ström has created a work in which she critically examines the position of the artist in the art world and society through the media of video, drawing, painting and performance. In doing so, Ström observes and questions other people, friends and relatives, as well as casual acquaintances, in order to examine interpersonal or social relationships. In her videos she shows excerpts from the conversations combined with short sequences of everyday observations. In the background she sings simple, recurring text phrases in a soft voice to the stereotypical rhythms of a synthesizer . In her videos she always keeps the possibility open to disrupt and counteract events in a funny way in order to stimulate thought processes and question things with humor. Ström also turns existing points of view and stereotypes upside down, for example in her video works Swedish Traveler (1995) and The Swede (2012). Here she deals with the colonialist point of view of a Swedish traveler in Thailand as well as with the common prejudices that a Swede living abroad spreads with relish and excitement about her host country.

Since the 1990s, Ström has also created a series of “artist songs”, mostly short songs with a recurring refrain, which are accompanied by a synthesizer and which the Ström performed during their openings. Strom's “text pieces” are short statements in acrylic paint on paper or canvas. They are characterized by their conciseness, irony and self-reflection when she writes: "i am a better artist than i deserve", "excuse me i am sorry", "oh i want so much to do a political work of art" , "This work refers ton o one" or "this work refers to all male art". The artist's work repeatedly addresses the question of failure, so her songs are memorable, but too short to ever celebrate radio success and they also stand to sound self-made.

Exhibitions

Annika Ström has been invited to numerous international group exhibitions, so her works have been shown in the following institutions:

In addition to regular gallery shows, solo exhibitions of Annika Ström's works were shown in the following institutions:

Works in public collections

literature

  • Annika Ström, LIVE !, onestar press, France (2008)
  • Annika Ström. Call for a demonstration, onestar press, France (2007)
  • Annika Ström, texts, onestar press, France (2005)
  • Annika Ström. manuscript song, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone, I (2000)
  • Annika Ström, Ten New Love Songs, Secession, Vienna, A (1999)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] . Annika Ström discography at Discogs.com.
  2. ↑ [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Philipp Kaiser in a text in the magazine Kunstbulletin about Annika Ströms artist songs. Retrieved March 15, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kunstbulletin.ch  
  3. ↑ [3] . Video of the Schirn Kunsthalle showing the unveiling of a text piece by Annika Ström in Frankfurt on the occasion of the exhibition Playing the City 2 (September 9-26, 2010).

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personal data
SURNAME Ström, Annika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsingborg