The world’s largest mechanical bass drum pedal, five metres tall. Interactive sculpture with moving parts. It gives away a subtle bell-like sound when in movement.
Year: 2014
Technique: Stainless steel
Dimensions: 6 x 3 x 5 m
Public commission for the municipality of Lerum, Sweden
An exhibition consisting of five oversized suitcases and a two channel video installation. In a personal way, all the works reflect upon places, travelling, origin and nostalgia. Every suitcase hosts a miniature art exhibition space inside. Suitcase 1 shows an installation with an animation, »The warmest winter in 250 years«.
Suitcase 2 shows another animation, »The tallest mountain in Europe«. Suitcase 3 shows another animation, »The city I live in«. Suitcase 4 shows yet another animation, »All the dead I’ve seen«. Suitcase 5 shows a photo exhibition entitled »Airport chapels«. It is a series of architecture documentation, documenting airport chapels – the prayer or meditation rooms that are to be found in most international airports. Also included is »The trip to America«, a slideshow with narration.
Finally, a two channel video installation is completing the show. It is »Immigrant Song«, in which, on one screen, Berlin-based drummer Hannes Lingens plays a variation of the drum groove from Led Zeppelin’s »Immigrant Song« using firework rockets as drumsticks. On the other screen fireworks on a night sky go off in synchronization with the drumbeats from the first screen.
Year: 2009
Technique: Plywood, fittings, cloth, paint, LCD-screens, media players, photo, LED-light, video, animation
Dimensions: 150 m2 (179.4 yd2)
The Collectors retells a story about the Collyer brothers, who lived as recluses in New York City during the first half of the 20th century. Newspaper clippings, archive photographs, text and animated reconstructions are kept in filing cabinets. All together they speak about solitude, collecting mania and a stubborn fight for acceptance.
The Collyer brothers collected almost anything. When they died a hole had to be made in the roof to get in and clean the place out. Fifteen pianos, three tailor’s dummies, the chassis of a T-ford, a dinosaur egg, an early x-ray equipment, the jawbones of a horse, five violins, Christmas trees, two organs, fifteen thousand books about medicine, pinup pictures, baby carriages and more than six tons of newspapers were among the things removed from the house.
Year: 2007
Technique: Plywood, plexiglass, pianos, oranges, mirror, light fittings, dvd
Dimensions: 40 m2 (47.82 yd2)
Year: 2023
Technique: sculpture, animation, video, photography
Dimensions: 30 m2 (35.88 yd2)
Eight pictures in a room, like in a museum; most of them show angels with fire burns. Faint sound of choppers, barely audible. Night time tar was distributed on the floor to get the proper smell.
Year: 2003
Technique: Photo collage on prepared canvases, wood, paint and sound
Dimensions: 160 m2 (191.36 yd2)
Making the Immortal is a poetical/political non-fiction film and installation by Anna Viola Hallberg and Björn Perborg exploring man’s quest to be remembered. This is made via the life and work of a portrait painter who passed away half a decade ago, Bror Kronstrand. Once an acclaimed artist who travelled the world extensively, today he is almost completely forgotten.
Making the Immortal is a subjective work where two artists reflect upon the traces of a third. The project is predominantly built upon archive material that has been reformatted to the selected narrative(s). Private photographs, newspaper clippings, objects, 16 and 35 mm film are taken further through video, photography, slideshows, facsimiles and enlarged segments of letters.
Year: 2013
Technique: Archive photographs, swivel frames, book, trunk, videos, wallpaper, slide projections
Dimensions: 150 m2 (179.4 yd2)
Interactive video installation in the shape of an ordinary kitchen. As doors and drawers are being opened it is not cutlery, cups or gravy boats that are exposed but a selection from Cuisine Bizarre’s extensive production of cooking shows.
Collaboration with Frans Einarsson. Realised with the support of Konstnärsnämnden, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
Year: 2014
Technique: Kitchen, monitors, magnet switches etc.
Dimensions: 160 x 60 x 210 cm (63 in x 23.6 in x 82.7 in)
All my clothes exhibited with a tag for every piece of clothing.
Year: 2003
Technique: Clothes, signs, museum display cases
Dimensions: variable
Exhibition in an old harbour storehouse at Slussen, Orust, Sweden, addressing the anatomy of a broken heart as well as the artist’s working conditions. Among the exhibited works are the animated film Money And The Video Artist, Procrastination, the video sculpture Nesting Box, Entertainment, the crucifix and a recorded lecture about the public commission Bass Drum Pedal.
Year: 2019
Dimensions: 80 m2
Retrospective installation at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, including early performance based monitor works like Entertainment and the Tumble dryer, playful religious symbology in Flygfän, Crucifix and Aiport Chapels as well as the more recently animated observation reports.
In Stories From the Suitcase a David Attenborough-like voice-over guides us through five such stories presented inside a blown-up sculptural scenography. The interest for meta-art and artists’ economic conditions is represented in Money And the Video Artist.
Finally, a couple of brand new works are also shown. The Cuisine Bizarre Kitchen is an interactive video installation made in collaboration with Frans Einarsson and with the support of Konstnärsnämnden, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Most of the works had never been shown in Sweden before.
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 126 m2 (151 yd2)
Exhibition in the Icelandic pavilion at the rural Alma Löv Museum of unexp. art. Some of the works shown are the animation All The Dead I Have Seen, the video sculpture Nesting Box, the sound piece Meditation Tape, the crucifix and the outdoor sound sculpture Balancing The Books.
Year: 2017
Dimensions: Dimensions variable
Sculpture with an umbrella and an animation projected onto a postcard.
Year: 2014
Technique: Umbrella, iron pipe, video projector, postcard
Dimensions: 140 x 200 x 107 cm (55.2 in x 78.7 in x 42.1 in)
Year: 2019
Technique: Video, animation HD
Duration: 0.52 min
Suitcase studies is a group of suitcases, where every suitcase hosts a miniature art exhibition space, complete with light, parquet and white walls. Among the miniature exhibitions are a series of architecture documentation, documenting airport chapels – the prayer or meditation rooms that can be found in most international airports and an animation based video installation, where the video projection is simulated by small LCD screens. The exhibitions in the suitcases reflect upon phenomena like origin, nostalgia, traveling and migration.
Year: 2008
Technique: Suitcases, mdf, glass, backlit photos, lcd-screen etc.
Dimensions: Dimensions variable
Crucifix with a jumping jack. Pull the string and the crucified man will lift his legs and raise his head.
Year: 2002
Technique: Wood, tempera, sheet metal and mechanics
Dimensions: 196 x 120 x 22 cm (6.43 ft x 3.94 ft x 0.72 ft)
Replica of an electrical chair, scale 01:01, made out of some 13000 Lego bits.
Year: 2004
Technique: Lego
Dimensions: 100 x 76 x 150 cm (3.28 ft x 2.49 ft x 4.92 ft)
Sculpture with sound from the exhibition »Death – An Exhibition about Life«, an outdoor exhibition organised by Liljevalchs in Stockholm during the summer of 2016.
Year: 2016
Technique: Plywood, wood, vinyl, cloth, speakers, media player och electronics
Dimensions: 122 x 302 x 45 cm
Voices: Emma Jansson, Alexandra Shabo
Courtesy of Alma Löv Museum, Östra Ämtervik
