Biography, statement and cv
Bjørn Wangen, visual artist
Born in Oslo, Norway. Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.
Master of Fine Arts with specialisation in digital media (MFA) at Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg 2011.
BFA, The National Academy of Fine Arts, Trondheim, Norway 1988.
Lecturer at Malmö University College.
- Worked with the Wanås youth project, The Wanås art foundation 2009, 2010 and 2011.
- 3rd price at CyberMovie, Moscow Film festival 2001 for the digital work "Print me".
- CTHEORY multimedia Canada, ”Digital Dirt” issue
- Worked with the Pineapple project room between 1998 and 2005
- Member of the Electrohype advisory board 2001 - 2004
- Assistant for artist Ola Billgren from 1987 - 1994
Texts about my work in:
Bydler, Charlotte: Cyberrymdens nybyggare (Hjärnstorm magasin 71/72 2002)
Lynch, Garrett: Net Art Review 2004
Mentioned in Dixon, Steve: Digital performance, a history of new media in theater, dance, performance, art and installation. (MIT press Leonardo series 2007).
Statement
In my works conflicts can be found between the illusory space and the actual space, between intentionally shaped representation and concrete matter. These conflicts are not to be resolved, rather, they inform or are informed by the uncertainty of genre. My works might be seen as sculpture, installation, drawing, performative or process-based, or something in between. With a starting point in a notion of body, the works form a basis for an ongoing investigation on the relations between visuality and touch.
Exhibitions and grants
2011
Galleri Rostrum, Malmö
The Wanås Foundation, Wanås Youth Project, Sweden
Master graduation show, Röda Sten, Gothenburg
2010
Term project, Valand, Gothenburg
Art after work, galleri Rostrum, Malmö
Espacio Enter, Canary Islands
2009
Term project, Valand, Gothenburg
Espacio Enter, Canary Islands
T-A-P-E, Made in Arnhem, Holland
FAD, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2008
Aura, Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden
UTOPIA, Vienna, Austria
Signal, Malmö, Sweden
Art Tech Media, Cordoba
VAD, Girona, Spain
MOVE, Coruna, Spain
Live Herring, Jyväskylä, Finland
2007
FILE2007, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2006
Broadway film and media centre, Nottingham, UK
2005
ID:I gallery, Stockholm
TEKS, Trondheim, Norway
Live Herring, Jyväskylä, Finland
2004
ICECA Bangkok, Thailand
2003
Aura Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden
lD:I gallery, Stockholm
Viper2003 video-lounge section, Basel, Schweitz
n5m4 media library, Amsterdam
Peam2003 Pescara electronic artists meeting, Pescara, Italy
ICECA first international new media festival, Chiangmai, Thailand
UnitedNet-Works mobile archive
Lunds konsthall
2002
"Funk und Mutoids", Bergstüb'l projekte, Berlin
"Hommage á Ola Billgren", Galerie Leger,Malmö
"Malmö", galleri F15, Moss, Norway
"Face to Face", a Pineapple curational event at
RAP(RefluxArchivalProcessor), Re.projects Artspace, Stroud(Glou), U.K.
"Look at me" web project at Svenska Dagbladet
2001
Reflux #7 one-night event at Re.projects Artspace, Stroud, U.K.
"Between Pop and Politics", The Pineapple at B-16, Birmingham, U.K.
CyberMovie net.art division of Moscow Film Festival
Between Pop and Politics The Pineapple at Re.projects, Stroud, U.K.
Reflux #1 one-night event at Re.projects Artspace, Stroud, U.K.
2000
White night - white heat Akershus Art Center, Oslo, Norway
Kabusa Art hall, Ystad, Sweden
Nachladen SparwasserHQ, Berlin
”Sydnytt”, Vinslövs Art Society, Hässleholm, Sweden
Electrohype 2000 Malmö
1999
Viper festival for video, film and new media, Schweitz
”Euro-ride”, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
”Gruppe X”, Porsgrunn Art Society, Norway
South city drawings The Pineapple, Malmö
Rollon multiple shop Malmö
And so on..
Galerie Leger, Malmö, Malmö Konsthall
Isidor gallery, Malmö, Project in Gamlebyen (PIG), Oslo
”Volvo- ich rolle”, Westwerk gallery,Hamburg, Germany
(with artist Peter Dacke) ”Enola alonE”, Malmö Art Museum KM II
”Five young painters ” Galleri Glemminge, Sweden ”Malerei 2000”,
Malmö Art Museum KM II ”Malerei 2000”, Hamburg, Germany
”Scandinavian sextet”, Galerie Leger, Malmö
”Pictures at an exhibition”, the Art hall in Höör,
Grants
2005 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 2-year working grant
2000 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 2-year working grant
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 1 year working grants at three occasions during the nineties
1993 Rickard Björklund grant fund, Malmö
1995 Malmö municipal art grant
Public art at The University Hospital MAS, Malmö and collections at Drammens kunstmuseum, Norway and the Art counsel of the Swedish Government.