Annika Stridh is GlogauAIR resident
from April, 2023 to June, 2023
Annika Stridh is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends painting, construction, and performance to create immersive installations. Her work aims to investigate the objectification and redistribution of collective nostalgia and the commodification of Americana kitsch.
Meet the Artist
During her residency at GlogauAIR, the artist plans to collect objects and ephemera to create an installation that combines found material, photography, and painted media. Her focus is on exploring the materiality of home and interior life within a city, and the relationship of these objects to nature and broader socio-political movements that define a place and community. Based in New York City for the duration of the residency, the artist will further explore the similarities between NYC and Berlin.
Statement
Annika Stridh is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends painting, construction, and performance to create immersive installations. Her work aims to investigate the objectification and redistribution of collective nostalgia and the commodification of Americana kitsch. In recent years, she has been incorporating recycled objects and material into her practice in order to examine the excesses of consumer culture.
GlogauAIR Project
I plan to collect objects and ephemera in order to create an installation combining found material, photography, and painted media. I am interested in the objects that reflect the materiality of home and interior life within a city, and the relationship of these objects to nature and broader socio-political movements that define a place and community.
I will be based in New York City for the duration of the residency, and I plan to further explore the similarities of NYC and Berlin. I will pay close attention to the physical and symbolic vignettes framed by layers of culture, architecture, aesthetics, and nature that grow out of the vacant pockets left behind by radical change. These layered networks reflect the ephemerality of both cities and are symbolic of the loss and subsequent rehabilitation of the land, buildings, and communities.
Installation, Painting, Perfomance, and Photography
CV Summary
Education and practice
- Community Member, Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY 2021-present
- Studio Member, Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY 2020-2021
- M.A. IN FINE ART ART, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, Sweden, 2015-2017
- B.A. IN FINE ART AND ART HISTORY, Oberlin College, Ohio, 2010-2014
Exhibition history
- NÁTTÚRULEGA – SÍM GALLERY, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2018
- LEAVIN’ THE LIGHTS ON – ELECTRIC PICNIC MUSIC FESTIVAL, Stradbally, Ireland, 2018
- FOOL’S GOLD – BILDMUSEET UMEÅ, Sweden, 2017
- FRIENDLY SABOTAGE – UMEÅ ARTS GALLERY, Sweden, 2017
- MENTAL ORGASM – UMEÅ ARTS GALLERY, Sweden, 2016
- NET PHOTO FESTIVAL – DAEGU PHOTO BIENNALE, Daegu, South Korea, 2016
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