b. 1983 in Carlshamn lives and works in Stockholm and Blekinge
”To excavate photography – to extract from it a something
that is neither photograph nor non-photograph, and yet
belongs to both categories – is to disembowel modernity
itself, to turn what seems so certain and incontestable
inside out and available for further inspection. It is, in
other words, a political act.”
Geoffrey Batchen
I predominantly work with moving and still images usually deriving from different photographic methods. With the base in queer- and photo history/theory. Deconstructing and fragmentizing, sometimes both physical, social and psychological borders. The aim of my work is to exist in an interdisciplinary space outside the realm of the linguistic structures. Resting in the gap between the performative act and the Symbolic order.
Collecting materials from different spaces, both physical and non physical, placing them together with a ritualistic and intuitive method, in whatever material or non-material, transformational objects and installations occur. Just like on my retina.
Education
2014
Bachelor- & Master’s degree in Fine Art, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 300 hp
2007
Preparatory art school, Konstlinjen, Nordvästra Skånes Folkhögskola, Munka Ljungby
2005
Preparatory art school, LKD, Lund
2004
Courses at Malmö- and Lund University:
Gender studies I & II
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Ljusavtryck//Light Imprints, Strindbergsmuseet, Stockholm
2023
Avtryck // Imprints, Katarina Kyrka, Stockholm
2022
Travers l'un et l'autre // Within and through each other, Artworks
2020
Av, näst intill, Equator Art, Stockholm
2019
Som ett upplöst minne, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2014
In i föreställningarna, genom bakom bilden, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
2013
Studie av ögonblick, Galleri Pictura, Lund
2012
I think only positive thoughts, Black box, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2011
I sort of fuck the food, Galleri Fisk, Bergen
Jag liksom knullar maten, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
2008
Äga rum, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
Konstsalong, Stadsteatern/Kulturhuset
2023
Vintersalong, Nacka Konsthall
Soup & Sound, New York
Galleri Eldhunden, Stockholm
2022
Pontonen Aquatix (Fluke Stockholm/ARTmovement), Stockholm
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
Galleri Eldhunden, Stockholm
2021
Supermarket Art Fair, Gallery NOS, Stockholm
Vagnhuset, Malmö
Gallery Yö, Helsinki
2016
Rågsveds Kulturhus, Stockholm
2014
Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen
Master exhibition, Konstakademien, Stockholm
2013
Taverna by FUMF, Hemliga Trädgården, Stockholm
See-saw II, Temporära Konsthallen, Stockholm
See-saw, Verkstad, Norrköping
Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm
2012
Bachelor exhibition, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Rundgang, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien
2011
Galleri Wachtmeister, Karlskrona
2009
Spring exhibition, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2008
Sylt i morgon – sylt igår, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2007
Admission exhibition, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Spring exhibition, Konstlinjen, Munka Ljungby
The department of Gender Studies, Lund
2006
Ladyfest, Inkonst, Malmö
2005
Spring exhibition, LKD, Lund
2004
Design colonies, LKD/Lunds kommun, Lund
Light installations, LKD/Lunds kommun, Lund
Performance
2023
Soup & Sound, New York
2022
Vagnhuset, Malmö
2011
Jag liksom knullar maten, Galleri Fisk, Bergen
2008
Vårutställningen, Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
Mellanrummet, Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
Screenings
2022
With Un Programme, Kulturföreningen Kungen (Backbeatbolaget), Sandviken
Visuals
2022
Visuals for Un Programme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrROw6MATk
Grants
2022
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
Grant (arts & crafts), The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2021
Grant (arts & crafts), The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
Residency, Swedish Institute, Marais, Paris
2020
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
From The Royal Academy of Fine Arts:
Residency and travel grant, Hôtel Chevillon, Grez-sur-Loing
Axel och Eva Lindmans Fund
P O Winqvists Fund
Anne-Marie Hökerberg-Hechts Fund
2019
Blekinge region´s cultural grant
The Foundation of Ingvar och Katarina Backhamres memory
2014
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
Brucebo Travelgrant
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts graduation grant
Boberghs fund
Thérèse och Knut Anderssons fund
Reuterskiölds fund
2013
Solstickefonden
2011
Wilhelm Smiths Fund
Represented
Private Collections
Press
Omkonst, 2019
http://www.omkonst.com/19-ivarsdotter-marketta-billvik-carolina.shtml#
Omkonst, 2014
http://www.omkonst.com/14-konsthogskolan-examensutstallning.shtml
KOBRA, 3D-skrivare, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukHopa0vacw
Konsten.net, 2012
http://konsten.net/varutstallningar-pa-kungl-konsthogskolan/
Publications
2014
Words Don’t Come Easy, FUMF
ISBN 978-9979-72-678-4
2013
In i föreställningarna, genom bakom bilden, an edition of 10 numbered copies.
ISBN 978-91-637-3342-0
2011
Jag liksom knullar maten, an edition of 100 numbered copies in collaboration with Rebecka Bebben Andersson
ISBN 978-91-633-9109-5
Contact
carolina.billvik@gmail.com
__visual__poetry__