Artist Gallery

Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Currently living and working in Stockholm.
Originally constructing engineer, changing career in 1991 into arts, and since 1994 specializing in animated videos, which have been screened at numerous occasions worldwide. Represented with videoworks for instance at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

ARTISTIC EDUCATION
1999-2000 Royal Collage of Art, Video Department, Stockholm
1994-1999 University Collage of Arts, Crafts & Design, Art Department, Stockholm
1993-1994 Birkagården, Art Department, Stockholm
1991-1993 Gotland Art School

STATEMENT BY CECILIA LUNDQVIST
My fascination in animation as a way of artistic expression revolvs mainly around the fact that film is a form of time. This means that during a certain time I am allowed to tell the things I would like to say, using both pictures and sound. For me, animation is the ultimate way of expressing. To draw and tell. Something that is also very interesting is if you compare animation and live film. For the animator absolutely nothing happens by chance, he/she has total control all the way. My films are personal, but in a distant way, perhaps because they are animations and not live film.

CV
Cecilia Lundqvist, b. 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden

Selected solo exhibitions & screenings:
2004 Play_gallery for still and motion images, POWER PLAY, Berlin, Germany
Blackbox Video, Norrköping, Sweden
VKS, Toulouse, France
Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden
Borås Art Museum, MOVE, Sweden
Teatro Odisséia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Screening with J Tobias Anderson
2003 SCREEN, Bildjournalen, SVT2, Swedish National Television
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Screening with J Tobias Anderson, curated by Claudio Caldini
2002 YEANS artspace, Gothenburg, Sweden
Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Moderna Museet c/o Artnode, CONTEMPORARY FILM & VIDEO, Sweden
Borås Art Museum, CONTEMPORARY FILM & VIDEO, Sweden
Bildmuseet, CONTEMPORARY FILM & VIDEO, Umeå, Sweden

Selected group exhibitions & screenings:
2005 Le Cube, Paris, France
2004 Centre Culturel Suedois, BALANCING ACTS, Paris, France
Moderna Museet, BLICK, Stockholm, Sweden
Studio Stefania Micetti, THE COLD EYE, Rome, Italy
Paris/Berlin International Meetings, France & Germany
The Chateau, MISE EN SCENE, Glasgow, UK
Perth Biennale for Electronic Arts, Australia
Moderna Museet, MODERNA BY NIGHT, Stockholm, Sweden
VIDEO ZONE2, International Video Art Biennal, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003-2005 Riksutställningar, SHOW UNIT, Sweden
2003-2004 OLD HABITS DIE HARD TOUR
2003 Kunst-Werke Berlin, ANIMATIONS, Germany
House of the Lords of Kunstat/House of Arts, MOVIES WITHOUT CINEMA, Brno, Czech Republic
Sparwasser HQ, OLD HABITS DIE HARD, Berlin, Germany
Kunstraum Walcheturm, WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?, Zürich, Switzerland
Norrköping Art Museum, OM – NARRATION IN SWEDISH CONTEMPORARY ART, Sweden
The Changing Room, PAST STANDING, Stirling, UK
Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Edsvik Konst & Kultur, ARGHH, Sollentuna, Sweden
Play_gallery for still and motion images, Fair Play, Berlin, Germany
Paris/Berlin International Meetings, France & Germany
The Hermitage, ELECTRIC CURRENTS, S:t Petersburg, Russia
The Video Art Foundation, 25 HRS, Barcelona, Spain
dLux Media Arts, d>ART03, Sydney, Australia
LAB, THE SOUND OF VIDEO, Copenhagen, Denmark
Chiangmai University Art Museum, SWEDISH ART, Thailand
2002 Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden
Chiangmai University Art Museum, THE SWEDISH ART WEEK, Thailand
Moderna Museet, COLLECTED CONTEMPORARIES, Stockholm, Sweden
NOASS, SNOWFLAKES, Riga, Latvia
The Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Moderna Museet & Riksutställningar, KONSTMOBILEN
Kornhausforum, >>REPLAY<<, Basel, Switzerland
Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001-2002 BLICK TOUR
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ANIMATIONS, New York, USA
2001 Center for Contemporary Art, VIDEO AGAINST VIDEO, Kiev, Ukraine
Enköping Art Hall, Sweden
adHocArts.org @ Side Street Live, VIDEACY, Los Angeles, USA
Cuchifritos Art Gallery, UNHEARD OF, New York, USA
Paris/Berlin International Meetings, France & Germany
SHOOT ON TOUR - MOVING PICTURES BY ARTISTS
Moderna Museet, Stockholm & NIFCA, Helsinki, BLICK
2000 Kunsthalle Wien, NORDEN, Austria
Malmö Art Hall, SHOOT - MOVING PICTURES BY ARTISTS, Sweden
Kino Riga, KRIS TAPA TAPA, Latvia
Index, BY THEMSELVES, Stockholm, Sweden
Titanik Gallery, REALM OF THE SENSES, Turku, Finland
Filmform, OLD SCHOOL VS NEW SCHOOL, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Moderna Museet, BLICK, Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Electronic Arts, NORTH ANIMA, Sweden

Selected festivals:
2004 International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Videoex, Zürich, Switzerland
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
L’Alternativa, Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, Spain
International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary
Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
2003 Bauhaus University, BACKUP_FESTIVAL.NEW MEDIA IN FILM, Weimar, Germany
Cordoba Animation Celebration, Argentina
Videotage, MICROWAVE FESTIVAL, Hong Kong
International Short film Festival g-niale, Stralsund, Germany
Unimovie, Pescara, Italy
Dissonanze, Rome, Italy
2002 EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
VIPER, Zürich, Switzerland
Videotage, MICROWAVE FESTIVAL, Hong Kong
Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany
Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden
International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary
2001 Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
Videoex, Zürich, Switzerland
Bauhaus University, BACKUP_FESTIVAL.NEW MEDIA IN FILM, Weimar, Germany
2000 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland
Videoex, Zürich, Switzerland
Media City, Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
1999 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland
Fantoche, Baden, Switzerland
Leeds Film Festival, UK
Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, Champ Libre, Montréal, Canada

Artistic education:
1999-2000 Royal Collage of Art, Video Department, Stockholm, Sweden
1994-1999 University Collage of Arts, Crafts & Design, Art Department, Stockholm, Sweden

Videography:
2004 Power Play
2003 Smile
From the Beginning
2001 Emblem
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2000 Absolutely Normal
Beware of Playing Children
1999 Chips
Souvenir
Rebus
Chain Reaction 1-56
1998 Party
1997 Disco
Trim
1994 The Girl and the Dog

Awards, grants & commissions:
2004 Artist in Residence, Nifca Nordic Air, Hollufgård, Odense, Denmark
2003 2nd Price, Fair Play Festival, Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2003 Participant of the International Jury, International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2003 Nomination for "Diesel New Art", Diesel, Sweden
2002 2-years working grant, Konstnärsnämnden (The Arts Grant Committee), Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Artist in Residence, Network North, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2000 Jury's 2nd Nomination in Video, Dreamcatcher, Kiev, Ukraine
2000 Working grant, Konstnärsnämnden (The Arts Grant Committee), Stockholm, Sweden

Represented:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Source, Video Magazine of Contemporary Art - Issues 11, 12

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