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ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG

artist/curator
Critical Imagination | Interdisciplinary Practice | Exhibition as Medium | Spatial Inquiry




Anna Viola Hallberg is an artist/curator working at the intersection of materiality, memory, and spatial narrative. Her interdisciplinary practice integrates artistic production with curatorial strategy, positioning exhibition-making as both medium and method. Through immersive environments and conceptually rigorous projects, she challenges habitual modes of seeing and engages contemporary art as a site of critical reflection. Hallberg’s work investigates temporality, identity, and the politics of space through installation, sculpture, text, and collaborative formats. Grounded in research and critical theory, her projects balance intellectual precision with tactile and sensorial awareness. She approaches exhibitions as discursive structures—spaces for dialogue, experimentation, and cross-disciplinary exchange. Her installations often unfold as layered spatial narratives that invite active participation rather than passive spectatorship. Through subtle interventions and carefully constructed atmospheres, she creates conditions for intimate encounters that question permanence, authorship, and collective memory. Hallberg has curated and contributed to exhibitions, residencies, and public programs across independent art spaces and institutional contexts, consistently foregrounding emerging voices alongside established practitioners.

Hallberg's practice, explores the relationships between embodiment/experience and audio-visuality, spatiality and time, through discursive and immersive video-based installations. Hallberg works with subordinate thematics from a documentary point of departure focusing on experiences and emotions. At times connecting the material with archival discoveries as well as collaborating with others. Hallbergs practice approaches performance as a ritualized act of presence - as an invocation of week resistance, avoidance, entanglement and co-becoming becomes part of the methodology, working across moving image, sound, text, photography, and site-sensitive installation, creating temporal and/or time based works shaping and reshaping the other as they interact. Approaching space as a ritualized act of presence - both as a sites for fieldwork and for exhibition formats. The works poses questions on co-existence in the complexity referred to as shared society. They asks us to rethink entrapment and ways forward in togetherness. Currently based in Stockholm Sweden, the video centered installations as well as other iterations taking on more curatorial aspects are presented both nationally and internationally. In video installations her methodology in anchored in physical immersive space-narrations where the space itself toghther with video, sound, photography, and text brings forward a discussion on the documentary of experience, remembrance, and emotions rendering collective memory/affect and the work for social justice

"My work - as an artist/curator - interacts with specific communities, while addressing social or political contingencies and by this, taking on a critical stance towards public space/sphere an in the process relating to existential matters for the individuals as well as through society"



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Hallberg instigated WAP/C (2023/25), BKN/Björkö Konstnod (artist/curator) at Björkö in the northern archipelago of Stockholm and was its lead artistic director (2020-2025). The Previously she was the curator and co-founder of AiRS (2014-19/2023), Socially Engaged Art Residency at Skovde Art Museum, Sweden. Hallberg curated projects (2020-2025) such as CityArtlab(2010-11) Mural 2012 (2012), Distancio (2017-21), Magnitude (2022), The Sea That Surrounds us (2022), Trickle (2023) and Lucid Dreams (2025) as well as Walking As Practice/WAP (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)

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ANNA VIOLA HALLLBERG

Artist/Curator


Abbrevations: (C) = curator, (A) = artist, (+) = collaboration





2026-25



- August 2026, WAP26 - Entanglement and Proximity with Janice Jensen as co-curator, Stockholm, Sweden - May 2026, keynote, Rurban Talks, Mariestad, Sweden (A)
- May 2026, Title TBA, performance ritual, Rurban Talks , Mariestad, Sweden (A)
- April 25 2026, Guest lecturer with Janice Jensen, Walking Art and Community Based Practices, WALC course (A/C) - March 2026, State of Mind (selec photograf from installation)w Karlsson Rixon in Kropp. Ideal, blick, frihetem> at Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden (A/group show), 7 mars 2026–17 januari 2027
February 2026, Walking Is Also Space chapter co written A. Skånberg in "One by Walking Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies" Bloomsbury Publishing
- February 2026 Saint Signe - reliquiae collocatione, performance ritual, Galleri 5A, Norrtälje, Sweden
- December 2025, once whispered, the loss of two, text based thought image for Dark Envelope Publishing Series, Sweden (A)
- November 2025 Consequences (video) Amistad/Vänskap at Huerto Ruano, Lorca, Spain (A/group show)
- September-October 2025, Lucid Dreams, BKN/Björkö, Sweden (C)
- October 2025-2027, member of working group for Nodes of WALC together, Europe (A/C)




SOCIALLY ENGAGED/WALKING


::: WALKING AS PRACTICE (WAP23-25) >>>
::: THE UNFOLDING STORY OF OVER 100 BEDS (A+), Björkö, Sweden 2020-2023
::: BJÖRKO KONSTNOD/BKN (A/C+) 2020-2025 >>>
::: AiRS (C) 2014-2019, 2023 >>>
::: ORGANISM (A+), 2018-2019 with Camilla Wessman
::: GOLD EARTH DOME (A/C) 2016 >>>
::: BJÖRKÖ IS SOMEONES KAMCHATKA Workshop (A) for Konstnärscentrum Öst, BKN, Björkö Sweden (June 12, 2023)
::: FIELD TRIP to Indonesia; Jakarta and Yogyakarta for Skövde Art Museum , April. Berg Duo Bandung for filming punk scene May, (2023)
::: MURAL 2012 (C) 2011-12
::: CALM (A/C+) 2010-11 >>>



VIDEO BASED INSTALLATIONS



::: IMPERIAL DIFFERENCE (A) 2015 >>>
::: RECURSIVE DISTANCE, TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE (A) 2015>>>
::: BETWEEN THE TWO OF US, TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE (A) 2015>>>
::: OUTPOST, TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE (A) 2015>>>
::: BETWEEN THE TWO OF US (A) 2014>>>
::: MAKING THE IMMORTAL (A+) 2011/2014>>>
::: MOMENT: Grimmered (A+) 2012 >>>
::: STATE OF MIND (A+) 2006-2008 >>>
::: RESONANCE (A+) 2005-2006>>>



SINGLE CHANNEL WORKS


::: CURRENT (A+), 2024
::: CONSEQUENCES (A), 2023

TOUCHING TIME (A+) 2021
::: ESTRID (A) 2019
::: MAKING THE IMMORTAL (A+) 2013
::: RANCOROUS CALL (A+) 2006
::: STATE OF MIND PROLOGUE (A+) 2006




CURATORIAL


::: WAP25 Program,(C)
::: WAP25 - Passion, Supermarket curators Berg Duo with John Schuerman
::: WAP24, Program, Berg Duo (se), Antonia Aitkens (au), John Schuerman (us)
::: RADICAL SOFTNESS, (C/A+), Program, Björkö, Sweden Jan-Feb 2024 >>>
::: WAP23, Program co-curators Ami Skånberg (se)
::: BOOGIELAND(C), @ Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden (C+) 2024
::: TRICKLE (Rännil Konst i ån) (C) Norrtälje, Sweden (C+) 2023 >>>
::: MAGNITUDE PROGRAM (C) BKN, Sweden 2022 >>>
::: THE SEA THAT SURROUNDS US (C) Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden 2022 >>>
::: DISTANCIO (C), Region Jönköpings Län, Sweden 2018-2020
::: BECOMING LANDSCAPE (A, solo) DasEssZimmer, Bonn, Germany 2023 >>>






EXAMPLE VIDEO




TOUCHING TIME (2021)
Collaboration with Oona Hyland (IR)
One ch video, eng narrator



SWAP ARTIST @ SPACES, CLEVELAND OHIO, US
Conversaton on exhibition IMPERIAL DIFFERENCES




COLLECTION


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Collaborations:
Berg Duo with Ami Skånberg (se) 2023-25, Oona Hyland (ir) 2021, Irina Anufrieva (se/by) 2011, Camilla Wessman (se) 2017-19, Björn Perborg (se) 2006/2011/2014, Madeleine Hatz (se) 2016, A Karlsson Rixon (se) 2005-12, Carolina Falkholt (se) 2011




BERG DUO - AV. Hallberg och Ami Skånberg 2023-25


They moved between studio based and the outdoor practice. Walking is an integral part of their work. It intersects lens and embodied practices, towards reconfigurations of subjectivity by visualizing possible futures.
Concepts of in-between and the state of becoming are central and their work is relates to artistic research on care, proximity, and responsibility. Berg Duo works at the intersection of interdisciplinary (walking, lens and embodied art practice and theoretical inquiry. In addition to walkig related projet BERG are working on two video, sound, photograhy exhibitions/installations: "BUOYANCY" (2026) "EMBODYING HASHIGAKARI - Immanent Encounters With Bridges" (2025). The later filmed during public Suriashi events in a number of locations. They have made works in Sweden, Germany, Italy, Finland, Indondonesia and Japan. Their text "Walking is Also Space – Walking Beyond Distance" for the anthology by OnebyWalking, 2025
Togerther they initiated WAP/Walking As Practice (Program and Collelctive) >>>
Portfolio on WAP >>>


PRESENTATION "Black-Market Truths: Performative Wisdom in Passion, Grief and Madness", with Perormance Philosophy at XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome August (2024)
FIELD TRIP to Japan Berg Duo Kumano Kodo, Kyoto, Tokyo July(2024)
WALKING AS PRACTICE/WAP24/WAP23 PROGRAM(C+/BERG DUO), BKN, Sweden, 2023/2024 >>>
SITE SPECIFIC PUBLIC PARTICIPATORY WORKS AND VIDEO , 2023-25
(Suriashi for series was made for an installation Embodying Hashigatari
Title: Suriashi for Björkö
Date: Sept 5th, 2023, Sweden
Participants: artists from WAP23
Video from part 1, Wooden Pathway/bridge
Img above is from part 2. Road side.
A community walk was made on December 3rd, 2023 as an inaguration of a site for a qr based art walk o Björkö, BKN ART WALK.

Title: Suriashi for Norrtälje
Date:June 30 - August 14 2023, Sweden

Participants:general public (about 100 participants)
Site: Faktoribron (bridge in central Norrtälje). Official innaguration of Trickle Art In the River Norrtäje. Public participation via QR code during the exhibition. >>>

Title: Suriashi for Bonn
Date: August 11
Participants: Public Participation
Site: Clemens-August-weg, Bonn Germany
Part of exhibition Becoming Landscape at DAS ESSZIMMER – Raum für Kunst+ >>>

----- Title: Sculpture You >>>
Date: September 1-9, UK
Site:Stephens House and Gardens in The Sky is Moving Sideways. Curated by Rebekah Dean

Title: Suriashi for Rome
Date: 4 August at 8-8.40am
Site: Ponte Fabricio (Tiber Island Bridge), the oldest bridge in Rome, built in 62 BC. by Lucius Fabricius
Invited co-walker:
Context: World Congress of Philosophy >>>

Title: Centennial Walk >>>
Date: August, 2024
Site: Tiber Island Bridges, Rome + Stephens Garden London +
Invited co-walker: Rebekah Dean, John Shuerman, Eli, Mark
Context: World Congress of Philosophy

Title: Sculpture You (walking score)
Context: Open air exhibition /sculpture trail "The Sky is Moving Sideways"
Date: Sept 1-9
Venue: Stephens House & Gardens, London (uk)
Curator: Rebekah Dean

Title: Suriashi for Tokyo
Date: July 2, 2024
Site: Tokyo University, Komaba campus, Japan
Invited co-walker: CY CHEUNG

Title: Suriashi for Kyoto
Date: July 9th, Japan
Site: Taihei-kaku, Shin-en Gardens, Heian Jingu, Kyoto, Japan Solowalk by Ami Skånberg in public space.

Title: Suriashi for Ise
Date: July 20st, Japan
Site: Hiyoke-bashi, Ise Jingu Geku, Outer Sanctuary, Japan
Invited co-walkers: Danubak Matalaq and Chiahung Yang Activists from Taiwan

:::CURRENT (A+) (screendance/essay film)
Fesival Videodanza, Puerto Rico, April 2024
Screendance Festival, Sweden, April2024
Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden, April 2024
Wicklow Screendance Laboratory, Ireland, March 2024
Almaty Underground Screening Series Kazakhstan, Jan 2024
::: WAP25, Walking As Practice Program, BKN, Björkö, June 15 - July 7, 2025 ::: Co-curated together with John Schuerman "Walking With Passion", WAP25/WAPC @ Supermarket Independent Art Fair, April 2025 ::: "A Tread of Scores" or "The Unfold" Relay based international walking score series taking place at Stephens House and Gardens, London, United Kingdom, Shannon River, Limerick, Ireland + web based, 2025
::: "Sculpture You" at the sculpture trail/open air exhibition: "The Sky is Moving Sideways", Stephens House & Gardens, London (uk). A sculpture trail by curator Rebekah Dean. BERG DUO presents SCULPTURE YOU a wakling score, Group Show. Sept 2024 >>>

::: WAP24, Walking As Practice Program September Edition, BKN, Björkö, Sweden Aug 15-Sept30, 2024
::: At World Congress of Philosopgy, CENTENNIAL WALK, Rome, Italy, August 1st, Berg Duo >>>
::: At World Congress of Philosopgy, UNMADNESS, Rome Italy,August 7st, Berg Duo part of invited session with Performance Philosophers >>>


--- VIDEO WORKS by BERG DUO, 2023-24 (in addition to the videos of participatory work)

::: LANDSCAPE YOU, 2025 (for group exhibition Outlandish by Rebekah Dean)
::: SCULPTURE YOU, 2024 (for group exhibition Sculpture Trail, The Sky is moving sideways by Rebekah Dean)
::: CURRENT (A+) 2023 >>>
::: CONSEQUENCES (A) 2023 >>>
::: FAKK THE SISTEM (A+) 2023 >>>
::: SYSTEMET SUGER (A+) 2023
OTHER, workshops, publications, presentations
WALKING IS ALSO SPACE (C+/BERG DUO) for OneByWalking, Korpo, Finland (April, 2023)





ANNA VIOLA HALLLBERG

Artist/Curator

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<B>IMPERIAL DIFFERENCES</B> <BR> SPACES Gallery, Cleveland Ohio<br> <br> Channel 2: Overlap Between Two<br> Trt: 20 min<br> Format: hd video with sound, 2.35:1 (cinemascope)<br> Language: English and Russian (eng subs)<br> <br> <br> Channel 1: Borderland<br> Trt: loop (pre amble to Overlap Between Two<br> Format: hd video with sound, 2.35:1 (cinemascope)<br>
<b>MAKING THE IMMORTAL</B> <BR> Gallery Konstepedemin, Gothenburg, 2013<br><br><br> <p>Year: 2013/14<br> Duration: 9 min<br> Camera: Bror Kronstrand <br> Artists: Anna Viola Hallberg and Bjorn Perborg<br> Based on footage from the private archive of the Bror Kronstrand <br> from the archive at Vadsbo Museum, Mariestad, Sweden<br> Scanning 16 and 35 mm: SVT<br> Theatrical mix: Gustaf Berger, Auditory</p> <p>Making the Immortal is a poetical/political non-fiction film and installation by Anna Viola Hallberg and Bjorn 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 traveled the world extensively, today he is almost completely forgotten.</p> <p>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.
IMPERIAL DIFFERENCES <br>Recursive Distance <br> Lulea Konsthall <br> <br>Typologies of Silence is a set of social situations where the discourse has been submerged as if there is something that needs to remain hidden. The narratives explore the path between fact and fiction in order to obtain status. In Hallbergs work this leakage is explored up on as she brings forward and critiques the fragile state of the subject, intertwined with contemporary contingencies touching up on geopolitics, rememberance and status within society. <br><br> Series include BETWEEN THE TWO OF US, OUTPOST, RECURSIVE DISTANCE and MEMORY.
</B>TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE<br>MEMORY</B><br>Installation view, Museo del la cuidad, Queretaro<br> parial view of Tipologias del silencio, 2015 <br><br> Kronstrand made this journey primarily to see the city of the Aztec. He started out in November 1923 and left Mexico in January 1924. At the time Veracruz was a major port of entry for European immigrants today. The same district today is frequented by the cargo trains with immigrants from the south “La Bestia”. Kronstrand made a number of portraits of prominent people during his stay in Mexico City. Memory is the leakage between Kronstrands and Hallberg's journey in Mexico in two different centruries. <br><br> Typologies of Silence is a set of social situations where the discourse has been submerged as if there is something that needs to remain hidden. The narratives explore the path between fact and fiction in order to obtain status. In Hallberg's work, this leakage is explored upon as she brings forward and critiques the fragile state of the subject, intertwined with contemporary contingencies touching up on geopolitics, remembrance, and status within society. <br><br> Series include BETWEEN THE TWO OF US, OUTPOST, RECURSIVE DISTANCE, and MEMORY.
<b>ORGANISM</b><br>Prototype<br><br><br> <p>Prototype of counter-public response to the dramatic lack of studio spaces in Stockholm. The concept developed by MONUMENT STUDIOS can be implemented in rural areas as in outer and inner cities. ORGANISM was initiated as a social art project with rhizomatic and sociocratic methodologies at the crossroads of sustainable, and affordable art studios and possibilities to show art, interlinked with responsible urban planning and counter-publics. <br><br>In the spring of 2020 we are looking into building a consortium to see if we can take the idea into reality. The volumes are constructed from sustainable materials and based on a circular economy. They are semi-permanent <em>urbanartgardens</em> where the artists follow the cluster as they reach a new destination. This way continuity in production is maintained and the peer group remains more stable. The studio dimension is constructed to give the best possible environment for the artists to affordable rent. <br><br>The in-between spaces are used for art production and exhibitions and are set up to embrace public interlocutions. We see the meetings with policymakers and public officials as an ongoing intervention to present new perspectives on art and artists in society. Collaboration between Anna Viola Hallberg and Camilla Wessman.</p>
<b>RESONANCE</b><br>Uppsala Art Musuem<br><br><br> <p>Resonance explores the installation as a medium for a documentary on artists and their reflections on the boundaries of; informal networks, the image of the artist, responsibility, position in the contemporary society as well as in a historic perspective. Resonance is a documentation of the contemporary art scene based on filmed portraits, photography and interviews with artists, curators and art historians who have, in one way or another, made an impression within the art world. The installation entails two segments one called Resonance, Installation and the other Resonance, Conversations.</p> <p>Artists: Anna Viola Hallberg & A Karlsson Rixon<br> Year: 2005-06</p> <p><b>Resonance, Installation</b><br> 1) Dual projection with sound<br> Duration: 11m 53s<br> Media: HDV projection from server (b/w)<br> two projectors, two screens, each 365 x 205 cm stereo, four speakers<br> Language: Swedish and Danish.<br><br> 2) Private Premises<br> Media: Portraits of each artist, fiber prints (b/w), 90 x 72 cm, wooden frames</p> <br><br> <p><b>Resonance, Conversations</b> <br> (Monitor + Process photographs)<br><br> 1) Monitor with sound<br> Media: HDV 16:9 (b/w)hard drive media player<br> three headphones<br> Runtime: 1h 21m 11s, loop<br><br> 2) Process photographs<br> Media: 20 fiber prints (b/w), 27 x 47 cm<br> passepartout, metal frames</p> <br><br> <p>Resonance, Conversations is a 1 h 20 m video piece with the ten participants talking, and twenty documentation photographs from the process of making the project. It poses questions concerning life choices, strategies and power and presents thoughts on professional identity as well as possibilities and ideas for cooperation within the field of contemporary art.</p> <br><br> <p>Appearing in Resonance: Annika Eriksson (SE/Berlin), Annika von Hausswolff (SE/Gothenburg), Annika Larsson (SE/New York), Maria Lind (SE/Stockholm), Annika Lundgren (SE/Berlin), Tone Olaf Nielsen (DK/Copenhagen), Ann-Sofie Sidén(SE/Berlin), Annika Ström(SE/Hove), Gitte Villesen(DK/Berlin) and Annika Öhrner (SE/Stockholm).</p>
STATE OF MIND<br>Gothenburg Art Museum <br><br><br> <p>The installation was on tourbetween 2008-2012, it was a self organized project by the artists with different funding for various steps in the process of making the project and for each exhibition.<br><br> Title: State of Mind<br> Artists: Anna Viola Hallberg and A Karlsson Rixon<br> Media: Installation, 11 color photographs (c-prints), seven monitors (sd), and one projection (hd) with sound (stereo).<br> Duration: 7 x 35 min of interviews, running independently (7 loops), 1 x 30 min backdrop (loop)<br> Voice: Russian, English, Swedish<br> Subtitles: English & Russian<br> Original installation: 65 square meters, black box video installation + wall space for 11 large format photographs.<br> Production year: 2008 (2006-2008)<br> <br><br> State of Mind Exhibitions:<br> Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2016<br> Space Taiga, St Petersburg, Russia, 2012<br> The Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2011<br> Gallery Fotohof, Saltzburg, Austria, 2011<br> Moderna Museet, The Moderna Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2010 – January 2011 (Discursive version)<br> Y Gallery for Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus, March 2010<br> The Kharkov Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine, July-August 2009<br> Art Arsenal/Gogol Fest 09, Kiev, Ukraine, September 2009<br> Gothenburg Art Museum, Sweden, September-November 2008<br> ROSPHOTO, St Petersburg, Russia, September-October 2008<br> Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden, July-August 2008<br> </p>
MOMENT: Grimmered <br>Gavle Konsthall, 2012<br>(parital view) <br><br><br> Title: <b>Brothers </B><br> Series: MOMENT: Grimmered<br> Meidia: 3 chanell video loop, no sound, 3 built in 40 inch monitors<br>Installation consists Brothers (3 ch video), a grid with more than 200 snapshots from the house, a series of altered faximiles from the archive, and a photograph of the archive, the remains of the expropriated farm. <br><br> Collaboration: Anna Viola Hallberg & A Karlsson Rixon <br>

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ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG

artist/curator

Based in Stockholm and Mariestad, Sweden





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◊ Msc, International Museum Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden
◊ Ba, Cinema and Curatorial Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
◊ Studio: Slakthusateljeerna (Stockholm)
◊ Member of KRO/Swedish Artists National Organization
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