MATS HJELM, Artist
Norrstigen 41, SE 181 31 Lidingö,
Sweden
Education
1991 University
of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Finland: Design Leadership (Nordplus- scholarship)
1990 - 91 University of Stockholm, Sweden: philosophy and aesthetics
1989 - 90 Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA: Graduate studies, Sculpture
1985 - 89 National College
of Art and Design, Stockholm, Sweden: MfA in Sculpture
Selected solo shows
2007 Brändström
& Stene gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Röda
Sten, Gothemburg, Sweden
Vox/Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, Curator: Celia Prado
Kulturhuset K1, Stockholm, Sweden, Curators: CuratorLab Konstfack
2003 Galerie
im Taxispalais, Insbruck, Austria
BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
Gallery 21, Malmö, Sweden
2002 Index
-The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Baltic
Art Center, Visby, Sweden
2000 Gallery
Kari Kenetti, Helsinki
Gallery 21,
Malmö, Sweden
Gallery Index,
Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Uppsala
Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
1998 Gallery
Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
1997 Gallery
Index, Stockholm, Sweden: ”White Flight”
1996 Gallery
Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden: ”Karma 2000” with Mikael Lindgren
1993 Statens
Konstråd, Sweden: ”Swedish Weapons” public commission
2006 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, Curators: Magdalena Malm, Pia Kristoffersson & John Peter Nilsson
2005 National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, Curators: Eugeny Umanski, Irina Tchesnokova
& Stephanie Benzaquen
2004 Criss-cross, Nordic and Baltic film, NIFCA, Various locations world-wide, Curators: Thierry Jousse,
Åsa Nacking, Cristina Ricupero, Mats Stjernstedt and
Cilla Werning.
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway, ”Tusenfryd”, Curator: Göran Green
2003 The new Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA, Curator:
Thomas Collins
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, Curator: Bo Krister Wallstrøm
Danish Film
Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark: European Film & Video Art
2002 Charlottenborg,
Denmark: Fundamentalisms of the New Order, Curators: Larsen, Brandt, Ricupero
2001 Nederlands Foto Instituut/ Rotterdam Film Festival, The Netherlands, Curator: Frits Gierstberg
Yokohama Triennale, Japan, Curator:
Shinji Komoto
Le mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada:
”Projects for a Revolution” Curator: Jan-Erik Lundström
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, England,
Curator: Göran Green
2000 Cranbrook
Museum, USA: ”Agitated Histories”, Curator: Irene Hofmann
Liljevalchs
Art Center, Sweden: ”CRAC, Creative
Room for Art and Computing”
Danish Film
Institute, Art & Documentary Film festival: ”Crossing Boundaries”,
Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA: ”Unfinished History”, Curator: Francesco
Bonami
All India Arts
Foundation, New Delhi, India: ”Laterna Nordica”, Curator: Göran Green
Gallery 21, Malmö, Sweden: ”Rörelse”
1998 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA: ”Unfinished History”, Curator: Francesco Bonami / Douglas Fogle
Gallery 21, Malmö, Sweden: ”Skyltfönster”
Stockholm Cultural Capital of Europe
-98, Sweden, ”Seklets Spegel”: Video installation
Stockholm Cultural Capital of Europe
-98, Sweden, ”Enter”, Curator: Johan Abrahamsson
1997 Museé
de l’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France: ”Delta”, Curator: Francesco
Bonami
Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden: ”Ny Nordisk
konst i moderna bildmedia”, Curator: Erik Broman
1996 Färgfabriken,
Stockholm, Sweden: ”Vox Humana”, Curator: Jan Åman
Nordic Art Center, Helsink, Finlandi:
”Breaking Eyes”, Curator: Tapio Mäkelä
1995 Tidsvåg
Noll, Gothenburg, Sweden: ”Vox Humana”, installation
Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden: ”Ana Logos”
(Special exhibition) Curator: Elisabeth Haitto
1993 Electronic
Café International: Various projects with teleconferencing for the Venice
Biennale
Recent reviews and articles
Clemens
Poellinger
Milou
Allerholm ”En
politisk röst...”
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 7 May 2005
Kim
West ”Om
en apokalyptisk ton...”
U-N-I-O-N, Sweden, 2 - 2005
Nils Forsberg, ”...och början på en ny”, Expressen, Sweden, 11 May 2005
Conny
C-A Malmqvist,
”Med ett befriande Allvar”, Kvällsposten, Sweden, 18 Dec 2003
Jelena
Zetterström,
”Stilsäker bildpoesi”, Sydsvenskan, Sweden, 16 Dec 2003
Birgitta
Rubin,
”Jag har skapat...”, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 13 Sept 2003
Anders
Sjögren,
”Fadern, sonen och våldsandan”, Västerbottens-kuriren,
Sweden, 12 Sept 2003
Martin
Schibli,
”Är vi bara fångar...”, Helsingborgs Dagblad, Sweden,
6 March 2003
Florian Pumhösl
”Mats Hjelm:
Trilogie” Springerin, Austria, 1 March 2003
Lars O Ericsson
”Ett fullbordat
farväl…” Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 31 Aug 2002
Henry Lehmann
”Videos pushing
still out of photo fest” The Gazette, Canada 15 Sept 2001
Jérome Delgado
”Pas de révolution”
La Presse, Canada 15 Oct 2001
Jean-Claude
Rochefort ”Un potentiel
révolutionnaire insaisissable” Le Devoir, Canada, 23 Sept 2001
Lars O Ericsson
”Konsten att
stjäla en film” Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 14 Feb 2001
Leena Honkavaara,
”Kuvia ja väkivaltaa
isältä pojalle” Helsingin Sanomat, Finland, 21 Dec 2000
Ingela Lind,
”Mats Hjelms…”, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 16 Sept 2000
Lars O Ericsson,
”Konstens betraktare...”
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden 16 Sept 2000
Fred Andersson,
”Ett Kusligt…”,
Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden 16 Sept 2000
Francesco Bonami,
”Mats Hjelm”, Flash Art, Italy, Mars - April 1999
Michelle Grabner,
”Unfinished History” Frieze, England, May 1999
Sussanne Skog,
”Stålblanka termer”, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 19 June 1998
Laurent Goumarre,
”Delta”, Art Press, France, February 1998
Philippe Réginer,
”La fin des certitudes artistiques”, Journal des Artes, France, December
1997
Lars O Ericsson,
”Minerad historia” Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 27 September 1997
Daniel Birnbaum,
”Genom Vindrutan”, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 11 April 1997
Agnete Nordenankar,
”Slingrig Filmkonst” Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 4 April 1997
2006 ”Modernautställningen” Moderna Museet, Stockhom, Sweden
2005 ”Deliverance” Vox/Historiska Mueseet, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 ”Tusenfryd”
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Oslo, Norway
2003 ”Mats
Hjelm, Trilogy” Galerie im Taxispalais, Austria / Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden
”Somewhere Better Than This
Place”, The new Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati,
USA
2001
”NFI News”, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam,The Netherlands
”Yokohama Trienneal of Contemporary
Art”, Yokohama, Japan
”Le mois de la Photo á Montreal”, Montreal,
Canada
2000
”Agitated Histories”, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, USA
”CRAC, Creative
Room for Art and Computing”, Liljevalchs Art Center, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
”Unfinished History”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
”Enter”, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
”Delta”, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
”Ny nordisk
konst i moderna bildmedia”, Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden
”Breaking Eyes”,
Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
”Breaking Eyes”, Nordic Art Centre,
Helsinki, Finland
”Electra”, Henie Onstad kunstsenter,
Oslo, Norway
1995
”Tidsvåg Noll”, Tidsvåg noll, Gothemburg, Sweden
”Ana logos”, special exhibition, Stockholm
Art Fair, Sweden
1994
”What’s in your mind”, Museum of Polytechnics, Stockholm, Sweden
”Årskatalog”,
Statens konstråd, Sweden, Year book
1993
”Baltic Pathways” Tallin – Helsinki, Finland
Own writings
2001
Sander & Shekh ed. ”We are all
Normal”, Black Dog Publishing Ltd. 2001, ”War, Art and
Intelligent Machines”
1998 Sandqvist ed. ”Nomadologin”, Skriftserien Kairos No. 4, Royal Academy of Fine Arts och Raster Publ. 1998:
”Krig konst
och intelligenta maskiner”
Grants / Public commissions
(selected)
Swedish Film Institute, Sweden: Support
for developing ducumentary film
2005 - 10 Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden: 5 year work grant
2005 Swedish
Television, Sweden: Support for documentary film
2002 - 03 IASPIS, Sweden: Residency
2001 - 02 Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden: 2 year work grant
IASPIS, Sweden: Support for exhibition
at Yokohama triennale
1998 IASPIS,
Sweden: Support for exhibition at Walker Art Center / MCI in USA
1997 - 98 IASPIS, Sweden: Support for exhibition in Paris and Helsinki
1996 Konstnärsnämnden,
Sweden: Project support
Konstnärsnämnden,
Sweden: Work grant
1993 I
13 ”Dalaregementet”, Sweden: Public commission
1991 Nordplus,
Sweden:Ffor studies in Finland
Helge Axelson-
Johnsson, Sweden: Work grant
1990 American-
Scandinavian Foundation, Sweden: Thord Grey Memorial Scholarship
Pindar National
Juried Competition N.Y., USA: Second Prize Winner
Academic work and lectures (selected).
2005 National Museum of History, Stockholm, Sweden: Seminar on Contemporary Art
2004 Royal Academy of Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden: Lecture on Film theory
2004 National
Museum of History, Stockholm, Sweden: Seminar on spiritual space
2004 Royal Academy of Art/ Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden: Lecture in Photo presentation
2003 Högskolan
för Film & Fotografi, Gothemburg, Sweden: Lecturor and Visiting Artist
2001 Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Kopenhagen, Denmark: lectured on Film
& Art theory
2000 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, USA: Visiting Artist
1995 - 97 Royal Academy of Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden: Teacher at the Video
department
1996 - 97 Nordic Art Center/ Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki,
Finland: Conducted
survey in Art
& Information in the Nordic countries
Center for
Creative Studies, Detroit, USA: Visiting Artist
1995 - 96 Built and programmed ”Art Node”, an Artist database, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Royal Academy of Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden: Lecturer in Art and
New Media
1993 National College of Art and Design, Sweden: workshop in ”Information
Design”
Academy of
Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland: Visiting Artist.
1992 University of Industrial Art, Helsinki, Finland: Lectured in Communication
theory
1991 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, USA: Visiting Artist
University
of Industrial Art, Helsinki, Finland: Lectured on Art & Culture
University
of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA: Visiting Artist
Center for
Creative Studies, Detroit, USA: Visiting Artist
Works in collections:
Malmö Art Museum, Uppsala Art Museum, Borås Art Museum and Statens Konstråd. Private collections in
Sweden, Finland, Holland and USA.
Gallery Representation:
Brändström & Stene gallery
Hudiksvallsgatan
6
113
30 Stockholm,
Sweden