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The Waiting Room, 2002

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In the works of the Swedish artist duo, Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström, the intricate mixture of technological brilliance and socio-political sensitivity often dazzles the viewer - and one of their latest series of work, "Pep Talk" is no exception from that rule. It consists of four columns, each crowned by a hemisphere, whereupon different sets, or scenarios, are projected, displaying groups of individuals involved in the activity of cheering and holloing. As in other pieces by the artists, such as "Earthquake" and "Looped Incubator", the spheres constitute tiny microcosms, where fragments, or extracts of real life situations are highlighted and brought to the attention of the viewer. It is a world where a world is observed, and - as in Foucault's epistemological analysis - the gaze generates power. A recurrent theme in Bigert and Bergström's pieces is to dissolve the confines between video art, sculpture, and performance art.
   

1962 Lars Bergström born in Stockholm
1965 Mats Bigert born in Stockholm
1986 Collaboration Bigert & Bergström

Education

1985-90 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm

Grants

2000 IASPIS, Stockholm
1999 ISPstudios, New York
1994-95 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Solo Exhibitions

2006 "The Last Supper", New York School, NY
The Vera List Centrer for Art &Politics
2005 "Last Supper", Milliken, Stockholm
2004 "4 for four", Milliken, Stockholm
2003 "Ditigital Spaces", Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld
2002 "Triviality Inverted", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2002 "The Waiting Room", Zinc Gallery, Stockholm Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Yeans projectroom, Gothenburg
99/2000 "Peptalk", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
1999 "Peptalk", Galleri Axel Mörner, Stockholm
1998 "Climate Chambers II", Schwedischer Pavillion, EXPO 98 in Lissabon, Portugal
1997/98 "Love is in the air", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
1997 "Terapi Taxi", Galerie Ursula Walbroel, Dusseldorf "h-Project", Melbourne, Australien
1996 "Bubblegum Pink", Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm "Bubblegum Pink", Galerie Gebauer und Thumm
1995 "Climate Chambers", Kabelfabriken, Galleri Anhava, Helsinki "LOOP", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (P)
1994 "Climate Chambers", mit Riksutställningar, Wanderausstellung: Atlas copco, Galleri Lars Bohmann, Stockholm; Buskerud Kunstnersenter Drammen (Galleri Riis), Oslo; "Pulpfabriken" (Galleri Stefan Andersson), Umea; Konstens Hus Luleå
"Kabelfabriken" (Galleri Annhava), Helsinki
1993 "Amygdala", Galleri Eklund, Umea
1992 "Supercells", Galleri Lars Bohman
1990 "Biosfär III", Galleri Riis, Oslo

Group Exhibitions

2006 Nelson Gallery, UCD avis, San Fracisco
2005 "No man is an island", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
IDFA-International Documentary Filmfestival, Amsterdam (Silver Bear competion)
2004 "Copy-art.net", IBID proj., ICA. London
"Making Differences", Historiska Museet, Stockholm
"Berlin North", Contemporary, Artists from the Nordic Countries in Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2003 "Svezia Extra <-> Ordinaria", Change+Partner Contemporary Art
"Break", New Swedish Design, Palazzo Isimbardi, Milan
Outlook - International Art Exhibition, Athen, Griechenland
"What is Important? 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art", Stadtgalerie Kiel; Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, Germany, Kunsthall Bergen, Norway and further venues in Lithuania, Finland, Poland and Germany.
"Contemporary Art from Sweden", European Central Bank Frankfurt/Main
"In/Out", Trafo, Budapest
2002 "Over the Moon", Kunstamtkreuzberg, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2001 "ZONE", Swedish style at Mori Art Center, Tokyo
"The future is now!", Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Denmark
"Utopien heute?", Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, Germany
Yokohama Triennale, Japan
2000 Korean Biennial, Seoul, Korea, curated by René Block "Circus circus", Norrtölje Konsthall, Norrtölje/Sweden, Barbacka Konsthall, Kristianstad/Sweden
Norrtälje Konsthall, together with Carl-Michael von Hausswolff
Artspace 1%, together with Carl-Michael von Hausswolff
"no vacancies", Berlin
1999 "Surveying the landscape", Lombard Freid Gallery, New York "Game Over". Watari Um, Tokyo
1998 "Deathwatch", INSYN, Cultural Capital project, Stockholm98
1997 "Des Histoires en Formes", Le Magasin, Grenoble "Umedalens Skulptur 97", Galleri Stefan Andersson
"Performa 97", zusammen mit Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
1996 "Comp in Box", Galleri Anhava, Helsinki "Files", Bunker Vierte Etage, Berlin
"Original Copy", Kunsthalle, Helsinki
"INTERPOL", Färgfabriken, Stockholm
"Disneyland after dark", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Rauma Biennal, Rauma Art Museum
"Geben und Nehmen", Schloss Pluschow
1995 "Disneyland after dark", Uppsala Konstmuseum
1994 "Erzig", Moderna Museet, Stockholm "What`s in your mind", Technisches Museum, Stockholm

Links

www.bigertbergstrom.com
www.uks.no/uksforum
www.crac.org

   

Bigert & Bergström

Barbara Thumm
Dircksenstr. 41
10178 Berlin, Germany

+49-(0)30-28 39 03 47
+49-(0)30-28 39 04 57
info@bthumm.de
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