https://asacederqvist.com Åsa Cederqvist Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:57:46 +0000 https://asacederqvist.com en https://asacederqvist.com/Logo Sat, 26 Jan 2019 20:44:19 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Logo https://asacederqvist.com/Footer Sat, 26 Jan 2019 20:44:19 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Footer ©1998–2021 all rights reserved https://asacederqvist.com/Home Sat, 26 Jan 2019 20:44:14 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Home https://asacederqvist.com/Info Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:56:15 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Info <img width="5464" height="8192" width_o="5464" height_o="8192" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22f0c0b3d4b8bd57b1db1de8550190f11c26144f1322a24ac1bab0194cc328f6/_D2A3763.jpg" data-mid="237841056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22f0c0b3d4b8bd57b1db1de8550190f11c26144f1322a24ac1bab0194cc328f6/_D2A3763.jpg" /> photo: Anders Bergön From the artist talk in the exhibition Through the Marrow of the Skin at Växjö konsthall August 27, 2025 <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2be27e6cf99bd705c4cfe205048a28ed0873f717f61ebb9fc4d407fd178bc9b9/IMG_9460.jpg" data-mid="237841085" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2be27e6cf99bd705c4cfe205048a28ed0873f717f61ebb9fc4d407fd178bc9b9/IMG_9460.jpg" /><img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8d06b1204d17b19e7911f311251894238961d373ba09d3dceeacb47eff66bf9/IMG_9458.jpg" data-mid="237841082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8d06b1204d17b19e7911f311251894238961d373ba09d3dceeacb47eff66bf9/IMG_9458.jpg" />photo: Mauro Angelantoni From the opening of That which carried me at Bonniers Konsthall april 30, 2025 About Åsa Cederqvist (b.1975) received her MFA at Konstfack in 2000. Her work has a performative foundation and is expressed through video, sculpture, installation and performative add-ons, so called extensions, as well as in an interface incorporating all these elements. We are impoverishing the earth, and we don’t feel good about the inconceivable mistakes that are made daily in the zeal of efficiencies and measurability. We are expected to act rationally when we are instinctively driven animals, still communicating through gut feel. With my work I want to reach beyond this efficiency trap. I want to wake up sleeping senses, call it intuition, spirituality or presence, that would connect us beyond the rational and anthropocentric world we now live in. We are nature after all. Åsa Cederqvist works with film, installation, sculpture and performance, in an interface between fiction - documentation, haptic -conceptual, ambigious - rational. Åsa continues to build works with a specific personal mythology from the interest in therapeutical methods, behavioural science and collaborative processes. Her work moves between documentary field studies, staged live performances, physical interaction, which all aim to push the expectations of formats, aestetical hierarchies and modes of expression. Through the act of playing, and study of knowledge production, personal growth, behavioral science and the use of expectations and suspense, my on-going practice if set to manifest the importance of physical understanding and a non-rational and multi-layered communication. Inherent lies the investigation of everyday magic, meaning making, spatial drama and co-creative processes. For the past five years, Åsa’s artistic practice has focused on the conditions and opportunities of the act of playing, and how&nbsp;to engage in uncontrolled situations, new materials and approaches. A result from this is the work Mama Dada Gaga which portrays three generations of women in a multi-disciplinary work, and also the exhibition Some Kind of Metabolism at Katrineholms Konsthall in 2018. Åsa Cederqvist has a background as a director of commercials and music videos (2004–), as an artistic director in multiple art educational projects as well as senior lecturer in art at Textil, Konstfack (2010–2020). In 2016-17 she received the IASPIS residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. She was one of the participating artists at the MOMENTUM 10 biennale in Norway 2019 and in Borås Art Biennale 2021. → PDF Contact This website will provide you with a brief overview of the dynamics and diversity of Åsa Cederqvist. If you have any furher questions about Åsa Cederqvist and their works, don’t hesitate to contact me.&nbsp; mail@asacederqvist.com +46(0)736 99 99 28 Copyright All works, words and images are copyrighted by Åsa Cederqvist. These low resolution images are for viewing purposes only. It is illegal to save, reproduce or distribute any of the images in any way. If you are interested in using an image please contact Åsa Cederqvist. &nbsp; &nbsp; The site is designed by Lina Forsgren https://asacederqvist.com/News Tue, 21 May 2019 13:08:19 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/News Exhibitions &amp; performances 2026 21-26 april RUB! an exhibition curated by Paola Bjäringer @Misschiefs in Stockholm. Part of Stockholm Art Week program. September group exhibition&nbsp;Träsket, kyrkan och fästningen, in Tingstäde on Gotland, Sweden 2025April 30 - June 15 Det som bar mig [That which carried me], group exhibtion at Bonniers Konsthall, StockholmMay 24 - Aug 31, Sept 13 - Dec 28 Moder [Mother], group exhibtion, Rian design musem, Falkenberg June 12 - Sept 13 Through the Marrow of the Skin, solo exhibtion at Växjö konsthall April 9 - 11Laval Virtual, with Meadow space / Untold garden, Laval, France January 21 Visioner i Norr steg 2 [Vision of the Nort step 2], presentation of Team VEX take on Umeå municipality’s plan Tomtebostrand at Ark Des, Stockholm 2024 Dec 5 Presentation Phantom Sensations at the symposium on Artistic Research; Hurricanes and Scaffolding, UmArts, Umeå This year has been moslty dedicated to my public commission Mycelia Sklerotia, and the co-creative process I had designed as part of it. The rest of my time is spent on writing and working on reserach for coming exhibitions and projects next year, 2025. 2023 November&nbsp; Residency at Rupert’s in Vilnius, Lithuania, with fellow interdiciplinary artist Janna Holmstedt and our collaboration Holi Biont.&nbsp; Oct 21 2023 - January 28, 2024 Solo exhibition&nbsp;Att praktisera det osäkra/&nbsp;To Excerise the Uncertain at Eskilstuna konstmuseum. Oct 4 - Oct 22&nbsp; Showing Giga-annum as part of Fleeting Figures produced by Untold Garden, and is a part of London film festival exteneded program.August 23 - August 25 In need of protection, group exhibtion curated by Katja Schröder at Goethe institute, Stockholm May 20 – September 30 Vävda rum (Woven places), Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar (The National Association of Swedish Art Societies). Swedens first larger AR based exhibition, which will take place around Sweden. Curated by Ulrika Flink. June&nbsp; Eyelander, Intercult. Read about&nbsp;the project here! 2022 Oct 13&nbsp; Seminar / opening of Symbiotic Pathways, Hanaholmen, Helsinki, Finland Oct 13 2022 - Feb 19 2023 Symbiotic Pathways, exhibition Hanaholmen, Finland Oct 6 - The autumn collection, The Art Company, Sweden August 27 - Sept 11 Öppna Dörrar, Hospitalsparken i Ulleråker, Uppsala, Sweden July 22-24 Kalbjärga filmfestival, filmscreening and exhibition, Fårö, Sweden Aug 19 - Public commission for Folkets Park Heby, in collaboration with Public Art Agency Sweden &amp; Folkets Hus och Parker. To be inagurated in August 19th, 100 year after the park itself was inagurated. <img width="1629" height="2344" width_o="1629" height_o="2344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d20612aeec2cec5c39e929c1e115dcb486f652f3ded404efba6bf41b44f5b06/Sala-Allehanda-2021-12-10-side-5.jpg" data-mid="132328480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d20612aeec2cec5c39e929c1e115dcb486f652f3ded404efba6bf41b44f5b06/Sala-Allehanda-2021-12-10-side-5.jpg" /> 2021 Jan - JulyArtist-in-Residence at Gustavsbergs Konsthall Jan 22 - March 13 Aaa-oou-umm at Taverna Brillo, Stockholm May 29 - July 4States of Becoming, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Stockholm, SwedenMay 29 - Sep 26 Deep Listening for Longing, Borås Art Biennale, Sweden June 3 - June 6 imMaterialities, Weld-Magnethuset-Spökparken, Stockholm Aug 28 - Nov 28 Symbiosis, Färgfabriken, Stockholm Sep 18 - Oct 10 Mama Dada Gaga - Det som framträder [that what emerges] Gallery Lars Palm, Sandviken 2020 Jan - August&nbsp; Astrid Holm &amp; co at Kunsthal Rønnebæcksholm, Denmark&nbsp; Feb - March (August) Artist in residence at Open Studio at Färgfabriken Feb&nbsp; Lecture In the Shadow of a Doubt at HDK in Gothenburg&nbsp; Aug 21 - Oct 18 INVITERT N˚3: Åsa Cederqvist &amp; Hanne Friis at KRAFT Bergen, Norway Sep 12 - Sep 13Tomrummets Potential (The Potential of the Void) - a commisson for Stockholm KonstSept 17 - Sept 27 Mama Dada Gaga screens at Videograms at Kaunas International Film festival, Lituania Oct 1 - Oct 18 (smiling) faces at Barklund &amp; co, Stockholm Oct 22 - Oct 24Holi Biont - a collaboration with Janna Holmsted, will hold a session as part of the conference Alliances and Commonalities at Uniarts in Stockholm Nov 5 - Nov 8 Mama Dada Gaga screens at VAFT film festival, Turku, Finland News 2025.04.26I’m really excited to have many people see the coming exhibition at Bonniers konsthall! It’s a well spun exhibition excellently curated by Yuvinka Medina, senior curator at Bonniers konsthall. I look forward seeing many of you there! 2025.04.09This is the year of number 5! I was born 5 x 10 years ago, I graduated from Konstfack 5 x 5 years ago and I just, today, recieved a 5 year working grant. Jippie! Let’s see what this new beginning may bring! 2024&nbsp;I’m part of team VEX working out a plan for Umeå municipality in coordination through Ark Des and Vinnova, Boverket and Hållbara Städer.&nbsp; 2023.10.04I’ve been awarded the Carl Axel Valén grant 2023! Cermony and celebrations takes place at the opening of the exhibtion Att praktisera det osäkra / To Excersice the Uncertain at Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Saturday October 21. Welcome! 2023.07.17An interview I did early summer with Hundhund - read here! 2023.03.08 Happy womens day!&nbsp; This day will have to stay until we find this world being equal. This is still not the fact.&nbsp; 2022.11.11I’m happy to share that I was chosen for a public commission for Kvibergs Park, in collaboration with Göteborgs Konst. Inaguration in 2024. 2022.03.29 A blog post around my collaboration with reserach project Nature at KTH for last years exhibition Symbiosis at Färgfabriken. 2022.02.22 I forgot to share this lil’ video about Symbiosis, Lindéngruppen made for their annual conference. Me and David Nilsson from the reserach project NATURE is talking about our collaboration with an engaged CEO Paul Schrotti. LINK 2022.02.03 The year has just begun, and the pandemic is surrounding us. I’m tired and deliberatly slow, but also hopeful to find a sustainable and graceful methodology to sip through my practice throughout this coming year. Dears, I&nbsp;welcome Thee! 2021.09.04 My new works The Source and The Essence is now installed, together with Ambigious Vanity and Civilization - the Pleasure Principle, and open for the public in the exhibtion Symbiosis at Färgfabriken, Stockholm.&nbsp; You still have time to visit the Borås Biennale until Sept 26th where I have a room full of different objects and film installed.&nbsp; 2021.03.01 I’ve written a short reflection over mental health and artistic practice in relation to the pandemic for the upcoming issue of Paletten! Support them by subscribing or buy your copy! Watch this The dutch based magazine Current Obsession came to visit my studio September 2020. https://asacederqvist.com/Texts-press Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:00:25 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Texts-press TEXTS Living Material Sara Rossling In Natura Frida Sandström &nbsp; To Bend or to BreakJacquelyn Davis The&nbsp;Everyday MagicAnna Sabrina Schmid Purity and Danger - reflections on Åsa Cederqvist’s artistic excavations&nbsp;Camilla Larsson PRESS “We are just another material”Interview by Ewan Wedell at www.hundhund.com (2023-05-30) [---] “I wondered what she explored in her work. "Human behavior, our instincts, and our herd behaviours. But also how we are just another material." What do you mean about humans just being another material? I asked. "Well, I’m often thinking about the fact that our bodies are also just materials, tissues of various kinds. And early without any hierarchy of materials I think of this. How we, when die we will come (back) to make up parts of the earth again, when our bodies organically blend into the particles. Its also a trick of placing humans in another scale/role, become less of a dominant species. A way of letting the anthropocentric view shift to see things from another angle." Do you feel you have a single conceptual thread that you can trace through your work? "That would be my interest in circularities and cycles, both in nature and in how our bodies transform over time through what we eat and what we are being exposed to. But also about being vulnerable. We know that we die every second, and also need not to pretend we know more than we know, sort of. I often come back to a praisal of a kind of ughh-language / expression. Where one fools the rational part of the brain and lets another sensibility take over. Which I think might be the greater self really, beyond the rational, molded, model of oneself. I want my works to be experienced as if they were in constant creation. As is life and us, always in a becoming." [---] “Konst som en gemensam upplevelse”&nbsp; interview by Mathias Jansson, in&nbsp;Konstperspektiv (1-2023) <img width="3305" height="2336" width_o="3305" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce264bdfb053ae045762494ade7c10aa7c8f41349e1094a03596c493a8d785ec/Konst-som-gemensam-KP-1-23.jpg" data-mid="192469789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce264bdfb053ae045762494ade7c10aa7c8f41349e1094a03596c493a8d785ec/Konst-som-gemensam-KP-1-23.jpg" /> “Lek och lärdomar på Gustavsbergs Konsthall” <img width="1239" height="1754" width_o="1239" height_o="1754" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/329fee27fa31eb092d9e3ba8969f97d761ec23f84a294c2f6d2a44e1d6c8fda1/Recension-Lekfull-Asa-Cederqvist-pa-Gustavsbergs-konsthall---DN.SE.jpg" data-mid="132558074" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/329fee27fa31eb092d9e3ba8969f97d761ec23f84a294c2f6d2a44e1d6c8fda1/Recension-Lekfull-Asa-Cederqvist-pa-Gustavsbergs-konsthall---DN.SE.jpg" /> “Interview”&nbsp; by Veronika&nbsp;Muráriková for Current Obsession Magazine “Tilblivelser” Siri Mayer on the exhibition Invitert N˚3 Åsa Cederqvist &amp; Hanne Friis for Kunstavisen.no (2020) “I «Mama Dada Gaga» er hele universet en sydende smeltedigel av skapelse og destruksjon, hvor ingenting har en fast identitet, men alt er underveis, på vei mot noe annet. Cederqvist er ikke opptatt av hva kvinnen er, men av hva hun kan bli. Vi kan kalle det for kvinnelige «tilblivelser», for å låne et begrep fra filosofen Gilles Deleuze.” “Morskap som høykunst”Anna Tyrdahl for Subjekt on Mama Dada Gaga in Momentum 10 (2019):&nbsp; “En av skattene i Momentum Kunsthall er Åsa Cederqvists rørende video «Mama Dada Gaga». På en tv-skjerm som stiger opp fra en sandhaug midt på gulvet, spiller den 33 minutter lange videoen med kunstneren selv, i en slags absurd «Ryan Trecartin-verden» med sin datter og sin mor. Mens de tre damene danser på en gressplen i like silikondrakter, kan man ikke unngå å tenke over livet. Barnet, den voksne kvinnen og den eldre kvinnen. Hun som fødte henne som fødte henne. Sammen sminker de seg, leker en lek hvor de føder barn etter tur, diskuterer livets begivenheter og spiller hverandre på gestaltpsykologisk vis. Cederqvist har laget en dyptdykkende, vakker video om morskap. Feminismens selvpålagte oppgave har lenge vært å skrive den kvinnelige erfaring inn i høykunsten. Cederqvist gjør det. Det skal sies at videoen er en del av en stor installasjon som okkuperer halve salen i andre etasje på Momentum Kunsthall, men disse oppleves mer som kulisser for filmen. Det er ikke noe i veien med det. Å se på videoen omkranset av dette underlige objekt-miljøet tillater at man kan absorberes i Cederqvists univers.” “Cederqvist besjunger divan” Sinziana Ravini for Kunstkritikk on Mama Dada Gaga in Momentum 10 (2019) Flash Art Andreas Schlaeger review for Flash Art on Momentum 10 (2019): “.. it is the large video installation Mama-Dada-Gaga (2018) by Swedish artist Åsa Cederqvist that most preoccupies me in this show. The artist, her mother, and her daughter perform each other, constantly switching their roles, in both realist and fantastical settings and with props that include a soft version of Munch’s famous scream. Hilarity ensues, yet her reflections on notions of performance, expectation, vulnerability, and becoming are not only sincere but moving. ” <img width="1861" height="2776" width_o="1861" height_o="2776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72491afe4bf24900f87358c615d97a42ad5be96e22a675288687db962bc8ab72/Katrineholms-Kuriren_181013.jpg" data-mid="48276395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72491afe4bf24900f87358c615d97a42ad5be96e22a675288687db962bc8ab72/Katrineholms-Kuriren_181013.jpg" /><img width="2291" height="3078" width_o="2291" height_o="3078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88723732e71ca9aa2e21d8398bdd3dea8a14d739309fa70cd51aed012cef2c3d/160827_JonkopingsPosten.JPG" data-mid="132558245" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88723732e71ca9aa2e21d8398bdd3dea8a14d739309fa70cd51aed012cef2c3d/160827_JonkopingsPosten.JPG" /><img width="1181" height="1717" width_o="1181" height_o="1717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af919a492bc461c28c399f41ec4dfe96b9c4d9db1e31408af018cdfea9968fd0/Jinkipings-Posten-17.-Sep16side-2.jpg" data-mid="48275478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af919a492bc461c28c399f41ec4dfe96b9c4d9db1e31408af018cdfea9968fd0/Jinkipings-Posten-17.-Sep16side-2.jpg" /> <img width="511" height="731" width_o="511" height_o="731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0d3c11a4f3117e238b5837216a94da57e49a2bcbd4d030f7350c20a5c038c5c/DN_13-mars-2016.JPG" data-mid="48274877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/511/i/e0d3c11a4f3117e238b5837216a94da57e49a2bcbd4d030f7350c20a5c038c5c/DN_13-mars-2016.JPG" /> <img width="1510" height="958" width_o="1510" height_o="958" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/840c087eaad7c6c076953025027e0f8f1eb86953cd1dde77e3eeb4d3c128a4b0/140215-Vasterbottens-kuriren.jpg" data-mid="47245379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/840c087eaad7c6c076953025027e0f8f1eb86953cd1dde77e3eeb4d3c128a4b0/140215-Vasterbottens-kuriren.jpg" /><img width="1535" height="2125" width_o="1535" height_o="2125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcce0cd61871ff8af6f36c93cb1955f0566b6d62876cf526f3e76ff1aef51d3a/TimeOut_Barcelona_april_2013.jpg" data-mid="48275978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcce0cd61871ff8af6f36c93cb1955f0566b6d62876cf526f3e76ff1aef51d3a/TimeOut_Barcelona_april_2013.jpg" /> <img width="2320" height="1619" width_o="2320" height_o="1619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/661b39f2a26d26209ac568d590f09f0ef0e4e7143e9d862e4c62b22f5eb539cb/2010_DarkerThanNight_Mexico.jpg" data-mid="47245378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/661b39f2a26d26209ac568d590f09f0ef0e4e7143e9d862e4c62b22f5eb539cb/2010_DarkerThanNight_Mexico.jpg" /> and more.. https://asacederqvist.com/Works Tue, 21 May 2019 12:18:28 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Works Works https://asacederqvist.com/Exhibitions Fri, 24 May 2019 11:43:01 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Exhibitions Exhibitions https://asacederqvist.com/Commissions-1 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:57:46 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Commissions-1 Commissions https://asacederqvist.com/Films Fri, 24 May 2019 11:44:34 +0000 Åsa Cederqvist https://asacederqvist.com/Films Films This page is under construction. 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