Artists // Helena Blomqvist // Vita:
Helena Blomqvist
*1975, Smedjebacken, Sweden
The Swedish artist Helena Blomqvist integrates both humans and animals in her photo collages, thereby creating a surreal—and sometimes distressing—world. These snapshots of life are reminiscences of Tim Burton’s film, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Infantile horror figures move across abstract arrangements of rooms, as well as through time. The artist uses different media, including photography, painting, needlework and collage, to create images with a coherent appearance and visual effect.
Blomqvist, in reference to her well-known series, The Dark Planet, writes: “The dark planet is about the magical, fantastical and surreal; larger than life moments in photographs that takes you to an alternative world. The themes are dreams, yearning, vulnerability, loneliness, death, the supernatural, and the threatening darkness of the night.”
www.helenablomqvist.com
2000 - 2002
School of Photography and Film, Gothenburg University, MFA
1997 - 2000
School of Photography and Film, Gothenburg University, BFA
2009
The Dark Planet, Felleshouse, Swedish Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Le Petit Soldat, Linköping Artgallery Passagen, Linköping, Sweden
The Last Golden Frog, Kungsbacka Artgallery, Kungsbacka, Sweden
2008
The Last Golden Frog, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
The Dark Planet, Sundsvall Art Museum, Sundsvall, Sweden
The Last Golden Frog, Angelika Knäpper Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
The Dark Planet, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
The Dark Planet, Knäpper + Baumgarten, Stockholm, Sweden
The Dark Planet, Trollhättan Art Gallery, Trollhättan, Sweden
First women on the moon, Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden
2005
Basement, Kalmar Artmuseum, Sweden
2004
First women on the moon, Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden
The Dark Planet, Knäpper + Baumgarten, Stockholm, Sweden
Folkets Hus och Parker, Swedish tour
2003
First women on the moon, Centre of Photography, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
The Museum of Work Norrköping, photography price
2007
Hasselblad foundation San Michele grant
2005
2 years Workinggrant The Arts Grants Committee
2004
County Council of Dalarna, Culturegrant
2003
Stockholms City Culturegrant
Helge Ax:son Johnson grant
2002
Anna Lisa Thomson grant
Workinggrant The Arts Grants Committee
2001
Fredrika Bremer grant
2000
Hasselbladfoundations Grez-zur-Loing grant
Moderna Museet , Stockholm, Sweden
Hasselblad foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden
County Council of Dalarna, Sweden
Uppsala artsociety, Uppsala, Sweden
Folkets Hus och Parker, Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish general artsociety , Stockholm, Sweden
Borås Art Museum, Borås , Sweden
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