Åsa Maria Bengtsson
Hantverkaregatan 12
211 55 Malmö, Sweden
phone +46 40 97 31 95
cellphone +46 70 723 03 50
e-mail: asamaria.bengtsson(at)comhem.se
homepage: www.asamariabengtsson.se

Education
Grafikskolan Forum, Malmö, Sweden 1982-1987

upcoming exhibitions / projects
2012 Eskilstuna Art Museum
2012 Galleri 21 Malmö, Sweden
2012 Stavanger New Concerthall, public artwork

Ongoing exhibition at Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE

solo exhibitions / projects (selected)

2011


2009

FRÄMMANDE, performance/installation i allén utanför Moderna Museet i Malmö
DUNKERS KULTURHUS, Other Spaces, with med Tamara Malmeström de Laval and Charlotte Perdersen (DK)
FERMENTITY, shortfilm
PLATS FÖR TANKE, Karlskrona Arthall 2010
PLATS FÖR TANKE, Trollhättan Arthall

INIFRÅN KINA, Galleri Format, Malmö
FLYGANDE MATTOR public commission art work in Helsingborg
PLATS FÖR TANKE, Malmö Museum, Fotografins Rum, SE
FERNFELD, http://fernfeld.de, exhibition on the internet with images from China


2008

By light, lightfestival, Slottsparken, Malmö, SE
Cappadocia Turkiet, videoscreening
809 INIAF International Art District in the Three Gorges area, China, video installation

 

2007

FÅR JAG LOV documentary, a film about everybodies right to be included
Malmö Sculpture Park 2007, Stortorget, Malmö SE - the sculpture HOME
STEAM - Performance in Varberg SE
Virserums Konsthall - Meltingpot SE
TRÄ Virserums Konsthall SE, out-door installation - ROOTS

FLOW (35 mm film in cooperation with Ewa Cederstam) has been shown at:
St Johns, New Foundland, Kanada
Kapstaden Syd Afrika
Hela Sveriges Filmfestival Jokkmokk SE
New European Film Festival, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
International Environmental Film Festival, Barcelona, El Prat de Llobregat, Tortosa & St.Feliu de Guixols, Spain
ICA, London UK
IFEMA Malmö
SVT (Swedish Television) 19/4

 

2006

[luftrum] The Arthall in Trollhättan SE
Culture Day and Night in Varberg, video projection outdoors SE
[just water] THE ARTHALL / HAMNMAGASINET in Varberg SE
FLOATING CARPET, public art commission work, mosaic in Trollhättan SE
LUFTRUM, Galleri 21, Malmö SE

FLOW (35 mm film in co-operation with Ewa Cederstam) has been shown at:
The Filmfestival in Gothenburg
Filmhuset in Stockholm
Laholms Filmfestival
Cinema Spegeln and Cinema Royal (BUFF) in Malmö
Cinema Panora, Malmö
The Malmoe Festival
The Filmfestival in Umeå (honorary mention for the best dokumentary)
Uppsala Filmfestival
Cinema Capitol Varberg
the World Underwater Film Festival in Antibes, France
TEMPO filmfestival in Stockholm
nominated for the STHLM.DOC-price.
SVT2 (Swedish Television)11/11 och 24/12 2006

Trailerfilm for BUFF (35 mm) was shown during BUFF in Malmö

 

2005 The tide is high, videoinstallation in a church Dieppe, France
2004 BOX KRAFTVERK, Kramfors, SE
2003 Galleri Valfisken, Simrishamn, SE

UNDER COVER, Dance/Performance outdoors, Malmö SE
2002

Galleri 21, Malmö [just water], SE
Galleri Rostrum, Malmö, video and sound installation "Make it happen", SE
Victoriateatern, Malmö with Pelle Ossler (musician) and Bob Hansson (poet) "En krokig kväll", SE

 

2001 Tomarps Kungsgård installation indoors and outdoors, SE
GRILLA VILLA [burning down the house, performance in Hästveda, SE
Out of Sync, video - and sound installation, Gloucester Cathedral and The Guildhall, Gloucester, UK
2000 Skånes Konstförening "Doften när ingenting stämmer" Malmö, SE
1999

Malmö Arthall Auditorium ART ATTACK - video-screening, SE
Galleri Gerthel, Malmö, "How to tell a story", SE

 

1998 ART ATTACK - video-installations in apartments, Malmö, SE
Bergrummet Sofia, Culture capital of the year, (with Gertrud Alfredsson), , Stockholm, SE
1997 Lunds Arthall, E.G.O. [en generös omfamning] (with Gertrud Alfredsson), SE
1996

“Light my fire (Morfeus # 9)“, (with Thore Soneson), Galleri Leger 2, Malmö, SE
Galleri Leger 2, “Me, we and everyone else“ Malmö, SE
"Trädgårdslust" Ystad Art Museum, photoinstallation outdoors in Sövestad, SE
Traffic, "The End" Malmö, SE

 

1995 Galleri Gerthel “When the shit hits the fan“ Malmö, SE
1994 "The dreamer“, (with Thore Soneson), club Razzia, Malmö, SE
Ystad Art Museum, "The death in Ystad", SE
Galleri RIX, Linköping, SE
1993 Malmö Arthall Annex PROJECT VENUS, SE
Sölvesborgs Arthall, SE
1992 PROJECT VENUS Station Skelderhus, Munkaljungby, SE
1991 Installation, Nässjö Culturehouse, SE
1990 Galleri Pictura, Lund, SE
 

 

group exhibitions / videoshows (selected)

2009

FÅR EJ ÖVERTÄCKAS, Eskilstuna Konst Museum, samlingsutställning (Finland-Sverige)
På Kryss – Helsingör, Denmark
From place to place – nyförvärv och projekt, del 2 , Skissernas Museum, Lund


2008

Illuminators, video installation at Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinenburg, Russia
Art is Not Mute - HIT, Gothenburg SE, Uppsala Museum SE

 

2007 Art is Not Mute - ERSTA, the Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújváros, Hungary
ART IS NOT MUTE, Ersta Konsthall, Stockholm SE
ADDO photo in focus Malmö SE
Galleri 54, videoscreening, Gothenburg SE
2006 Galleri 21 "Skyltfönster" Malmö SE
2005 Reunion, Konstlaboratorium, Westfossen, Norway
Pineapple Videobar Malmö Konsthall, IDI Gallery Stockholm and Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg SE - videoscreening
Ladyfest in Lund SE- videoscreening
Rostrum 25 years, Mazzetti, Malmö SE
2004 Videoscreening Cirkulations Centralen, Malmö, SE
FilmBar # 10, Biograf Panora, Malmö, SE
PAVILION: INTERMIX04, Leeds, UK
Kunsthalle Lophem, VOIDS PADS PLACES, Belgium
DRIFT Resonant Cities, radio/internet broadcasting, [just water] - sound, Scotland
publication / rollon- Ystad konstmuseum, SE, "Publish and be Damned" in London, UK, "Traveling Magazine table" in New York, USA
VIDEO OUT, Ekaterinenburg, Russia
2003 Karlskrona Arthall, SE
Museo de Arte Contemporàneo, video installation, Santiago, Chile
Simrishamns film and videofestival, SE
Holga bilder på Café Siesta, Malmö, SE
Galerie Rosemarie, Malmö, SE
"Filmisk Konst" video installation, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, SE
rollon.net/publication Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
2002 Emma Heddich, video-screening, Panora, Malmö, SE
Reflux Archival Process, Strout, UK
Hässleholms Kulturhus, Hässleholm, SE
Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
Kummelfestivalen, outdoor-installation, Kalmar, SE
Heterogénisis, Galleri 18 %, Lund, SE
Dundee Contemporary Arts, (Publication / rollon), Scotland
(SHOOT on tour) Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2001 SHOOT on tour (curatorial)
3. Bethanienhaus, Berlin
4. Borås Konstmuseum, SE
5. Tomarps Kungsgård, outdoor nightscreening, SE
6. Hässleholms Kulturhus, SE
7. Non stop video, videovindue, Copenhagen, Denmark
8. Tapei Artist Village, Tapei, Taiwan
Gloucester Cathedral och The Guildhall, video - och soundinstallation, UK
ANIMA video-screening, Maison de la Culture Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada
rollon.net/publication
Re.projects Space, Stroud. Glos., UK
2000

SHOOT/moving pictures by artists, Malmö Arthall and the cinema Spegeln in Malmö, SE (curatorial, together with Marit Lindberg, Lisa Strömbeck)
SHOOT on tour (curatorial, together with Marit Lindberg, Lisa Strömbeck and Annika Wiström)
1. Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2. Nordicliveart / Paletten, Gothenburg, SE
Hedbergs in Vinslöv, "Aktuell Rapport Sydnytt", SE
Gallery Avivson, video, Paris
Galleri Leger "ADDO" Malmö, SE
NETMAGE, video, Bologna, Italy

 

1999

Pusan Metropolitan Museum (Malmö Konsthall), South Corea
The Pineapple Project Room, Malmö, SE

 

1997

“Midwinterlight“, Helsingborg, SE
Breanäs Kulturhus, “Stone memory“, (with Thore Soneson), SE
Limit -53 Vikingsbergs Museum Helsingborg, SE
Konst i Växthus, "Oral Faces", Hammenhög, SE

 

1996 Lund Art Gallery, Lund, SE
" The book as an object“, the Rööhska Museum Gothenburg and the Bild Museum in Umeå, SE
1994 The Artfair in Sollentuna, SE
1993 The Arthall of Höör, SE
1991 “Culturesummer" in Tranås, Eksjö, Nässjö, Vetlanda, SE
Galleri Glemminge, SE
Sydnytt 2 Malmö Konsthall, -91-92, SE
1990 Hörby Museum, SE
"Skulptur Linero", outdoor-installation in Lund, SE

 


2009
2007
1998
1995


set design

video for the play HUSET
the film “searching for the militant code“, by Thore Soneson and Michael Johansson 2006
Set designer of the film “MAN“, by Thore Soneson 1998
Set designer of the multimediaplay “PASSION“, Malmö Arthall Auditorium 1995
Set designer of the Poetry Festival in Malmö, 92-94

other projects

 

2008 Artist in recidence, 809 INIAF International Art District in the Three Gorges area, Kina
2005 Under kursen Ljus i nattlig stadsmiljö: fullskaleprojekt i Ängelholm och Helsingborg
2004 Artist in residence i Dieppe, Frankrike
2003 KONST PÅ DANSENS ARENA - DANS PÅ KONSTENS ARENA - DVD-produktion för Konstfrämjandet

participates in:
rollon.net, art at internet
LARM - soundarchive



public art Comissions

2011 Ongoing public art work art Stavanger New Concerthall - the Amfietheatre, Norway
2011 Scetch mission, public artwork in the Museipark, Eskilstuna
2010 Scetch mission, public artwork, Stavanger Concert Hall, Norway (6 competing artists)
2010 Scetch mission, public artwork for Staffanstorps Hus AB, Magnolia Park
2010 Scetch / precvalification, Minnesmärke, Köping
2010 Public Art commission for The National Public Art Council Sweden - Attunda Tingsrätt
2009 FLYING CARPETS, Helsingborg
2008 LIQUID CARPET, By Light,, Slottsparken, Malmö (temporary installation)
2007 HOME, Malmö Skulpturpark Stortorget - skulpturen (temporary installation)

2006 FLOATING CARPET, mosaic outdoor in Trollhättan SE
1997 Breanäs stone-sculpture (together with Thore Soneson)
Bostadsrättsföreningen Hemtrevnad, Hantverkaregatan 12, concrete and glass 1994
Kvarteret Trasten i Arlöv, concrete sculpture 1992
Strandbaden, stone sculpture 1991
Vårdskolan ni Lund, concrete relief 1987

 












represented

Helsingborgs Museum, Statens Konstråd, Malmöhus Läns Landsting, Malmö Kommun Malmö Museum, Malmö Konserthus, Tyresö Kommun, Jönköpings Läns Landsting, Linköping Kommun, Simrishamns Kommun, Varbergs Kommun, Skissernas Museum Lund

grants

2010 for the shortfilm FERMENTATION:
Film i Skåne, The Swedish Arts Comittee, Filmcentrum Syd
2007 Sparbanksstiftelsen (för projektet PLATS FÖR TANKE)
2006 Fast eller Flytande (35 mm dokumentär):
Svenska Filminstitutet, SVT, Konstnärsnämnden scen/film, projektbidrag 2003 samt ett antal olika bidrag/stipendier från bla Letterstedska fonden 2003, Film i Skåne, Film i Dalarna.

2006 Buffs vinjettfilm: Svenska Filminstitutet, Film i Skåne, Kodak, Nordisk Film Postproduktion
1997 - 2007 10-årigt arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
1994 Projektbidrag, Konstnärsnämnden
1993 Richard Björklunds stipendiefond
1991 Lengertz kulturpris
1991 Edstrandska stiftelsen
1995 Arbetsbidrag, Konstnärsnämnden
1992 Arbetsbidrag, Konstnärsnämnden
1989 Malmö Kommuns stipendium
1989 Arbetsbidrag, Konstnärsnämnden
1987 Ellen Trotzigs stipendium
1987 Bror Ejves fond
1987 Startbidrag, Konstnärsnämnden
1986 Skånes Konstförenings stipendium
1985 Turéns Stipendiefond

cataloques / published / biography

2009 Får ej övertäckas, catalogue for exhibition at Eskilstuna Art Museum
2009 Plats för tanke, catalogue for exhibition at Malmö Museum
2008 809 INIAF, catalogue for exhibition in China
2008 Airport Koltsovo, catalogue for exhibition in Russia
2006 [bara vanligt vatten] - [luftrum] katalog till utställningar i Varberg och Trollhättan
2006 Fast eller Flytande visades på SVT den 11/11, 24/12 2006, 19/4 2007 OCH 1/6 2008.
2005 Reunion, katalog till utställning i Vestfossen, Norge,
2005 The tide is high, katalog till utställning i Dieppe Frankrike,
2004 Heterogénisis nr 41 2002, nr 46-47
2001 The Gloucestershire/Galleri 21 Malmö Art Exchange, katalog till utställning med samma namn
2000 SHOOT / moving pictures by artists, katalog till festival med samma namn
1999 Contemporary Art of Southern Sweden, katalog till utställning med samma namn, Syd Korea
1998 BILJOURNALEN, 21/10 Swedish Television
1997 E.G.O. [en generös omfamning], katalog till utställning med samma namn, Lunds Konsthall
1996 Heterogénisis nr 17 oktober
1996 Tidningen 90-tal nr 19
1993 Tidskriften Beckerell nr 3
1993 PROJEKT VENUS, katalog till utställning med samma namn, Malmö Konsthalls Annex
1987 Sydnytt Malmö Konsthall, katalog till utställning med samma namn

other film / video

2006-2010 VIDEO TILL MALMÖ KONSTHALL:

RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER 2010
PASCALE MARTINE TAYOU 2010
POLIS, POLIS, POTATISMOS 2010, om Maj Sjöwall
PETER FELDMANN 2010
HREINN FRIDFINNSSON 2008
EVERYTHING MUST HAVE A NAME David Shrigley 2007.
A SWIFTLEY TILTING PLANET Sarah Sze 2006-2007

2007 FÅR JAG LOV a movie about the everyones right to belong. On behalf of Virserums Konsthall.
2007 BIG JUMP, video in Barcelona, Spain on behalf of The Anna Lindh Foundation
2006 FLOW (35 mm film made together with Ewa Cederstam) has been shown in several festivals abroad and in Sweden. Has been shown on SVT four times. Did the honorable mention for best documentary at the Umeå International Film Festival in 2006, when it also was nominated for STHLM.DOC price.
2006 Trailer film (35 mm) for BUFF (filmfestival) was shown during the the festival in Malmö

curatorial activities

2008 PLACE OF THOUGHT exhibition at Malmö Museum, Room for Photography
2001 SHOOT on tour, international tour with the film / video festival
2000 SHOOT / moving pictures by artists, film and video festival, Malmö (with Marit Lindberg and Lisa Strömbeck),
1987-1989 Leather Factory Gallery Activities
1987-1994 Gallery Rostrum Gallery Activities

educational activities

2010 Open Workshop at Malmö Arthall
2010 Stadsdelskonstnär / pedagogic project with a school in Malmö, Malmö Konsthall2008
2008 Tutor in a light-project at Kulturen in Lund at the Stage and Theater Technology at K3, Malmö University
2008 Turin Youth Forum 2008, leader at an international workshop in Turin, Italy (through The Anna Lindh Foundation)
2006 Lecture at SLU in Uppsala at an international conference on water and a number of lectures on my own art at art schools, etc..
Miro and Educational Project (scrap sculptures) for children, Malmö Konsthall (1994)
Pedagog on Sculpture Project for children under Malmö Art Exhibition Halls YTKRAFT over three months
About theroom - Short project at Alnarp country munity architectural training
Teacher at Scanian Painters School for a year
Teacher in graphics, sculpture, etc. on Folkhögskola - Munka Ljungby Folkhögskola, 1 years and Östra Grevie, in different periods (in the 90s)
Twelve years as instructors in ceramics, painting, krokie mm in the 1980s