LARS SILTBERG Lars Siltberg was born 1968 in Stockholm, he lives and works in Stockholm. He works with video and sound. His works consists of researches within the broad field of human existence. His interest in psychological driving forces like willpower and cognitive needs is merged with physical challenges and bodily reconstructions. This is indicative of Lars Siltberg's analytic approach, his way of choosing a subject and studying it within the parameters of a strictly defined set of circumstances. His method has been called artificial empiricism. The subject can be seen as the phenomenology of experience - the way in which we engage with the world through our senses. In Siltberg's work such an equilibrium can exist for just a fleeting moment. Whatever synthesis the artists aims for, his artificial constructs cannot retain it. This gives his work the character of an infinite struggle. In the end this might be the best way of approaching it: as an attempt to investigate a set of empirical ”What if?” - questions imagined by the artist. After all, empiricism can be the method of advanced scientific (and in this case artistic) research - as well as the most basic form of human interaction with the world. /Frans Josef Pettersson The CV selection below is incomplete. Please see news section for more updates. SELECTED GROUPSHOWS 2010 Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France 2010 Testimony, Tensta Konsthall, Sweden 2010 Unlimited Reality, Gogol Festival, Kiev, Ukraine 2010 Go with the wind, Kunsthal 52, Den Helder, The Netherlands 2010 Pandoras Box, Galleri Verkligheten, Performance with Anastasia Ax. Umeå, Sweden. 2010 Le Temps de Corps... Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris 2009 Playground Feeds first at STUK Kunsthalle Leuven, Belgium 2009 I love Malmö, Kumu Art Museum Tallin, Estonia 2008 Tapis, coussins & video, La Rochelle International Film Festival, France 2008 Multitasking, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany 2008 Multitasking, Stedelijk Museum s'-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands 2008 La Filature, Mulhouse, France 2008 Take Action, Museum of World Culture, Göteborg, Sweden 2008 Moving towards a balanced earth, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa 2007 Multitasking, NGBK, Berlin, Germany 2007 Commercial Break, Mega, St:Petersburg, Russia 2007 Tanzklasse, Ausstellungszone of Progr, Bern, Switzerland 2007 Kurzfilmtage/Filmform, Oberhausen, Germany 2006 Eccentrics, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany 2005 Corps étranger, Le Quartier - centre d'art contemporain de Quimper, France 2005 Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France 2005 New Photography, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden 2005 Manipulationer, Södertälje Konsthall, Sweden 2004 Transat Vidéo, Caen, Normandie, France 2004 Beauty of failure/Failure of beuty, Miro Foundation, Barcelona 2004 Balancing Acts, Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris 2004 Gods becoming men, Frissiras Museum, Athens 2003 Beaufort Triennale, Oostende, Belgium 2002 Lothringer 13, Balance, Munich, Germany 2002 Molecules in motion, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland 2001 The 49:th Venice Biennale, Plateau of Humankind, Italy 2001 Roppongi Thinkzone, (Mori Art Center Workshop), Swedish Style, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Le Printemps De Touluouse, France 2000 Our friends from the north, UH-galleries/Art & Design Gallery, London 2000 Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma Artmuseum, Finland SELECTED SOLOSHOWS 2006 Milliken, Stockholm, Sweden 2005 Musée Géo Charles, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France 2004 Milliken, Stockholm, Sweden 2004 Galleri Box, Göteborg, Sweden 2004 Feldkirch, Johannitterkirche, Austria 2003 Uddevalla Konsthall, Uddevalla, Sweden 2002 Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2002 Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden 2000 Margaret Harvey Gallery, Hatfield, (solo within groupshow; Our friends from the north). 2000 Galleri Bakkeliti Bambi, Helsinki, (solo within larger groupshow; Some parts of this world). 2000 Zinc Gallery, Stockholm COMMISION 2005 Extras, permanent photography- and videoinstallation at Dramatiska Institutet University Collage of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre, Stockholm. Commisioned by Statens konstråd - The National Public Art Council Sweden. EDUCATION School of Photography and Film, University of Göteborg: 1997-1999 Master of photography 1993-1996 Bachelor of photography School of Journalism and Communication, University of Göteborg: 1991-1992 Media and Communication Theories School of Music and Musicology, University of Göteborg: 1991-1992 Music and Media SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS still NOT UPDATED!! 2003 Aftonbladet, newspaper text 2002 Göteborgs Posten, newspaper exhibition review 2002 Svenska Dagbladet, newspaper exhibition review 2002 Dagens Nyheter, newspaper exhibition review 2002 Fotografisk Tidskrift, journal text Kristina Hermansson 2002 Art of tomorrow, Edward Lucie-Smith, artbook 2001 Glänta, photography and journal text insert 2001 Printemps De Septembre, exhibitioncatalogue, text Val Williams 2001 49:th Venice Biennale, Plateau of Humandkind, exhibitioncatalogue, text Mats Stjernstedt 2001 The Wall Street Journal Europe, text Frederika Randall 2001 Arena, journal text Sonia Hedstrand 2001 Dagens Nyheter, newspaper text Lars O Ericsson 2001 ZOO Magazin, with attached DVD 2000 FACE, Zinc Gallery publication text Eric van deer Heeg 2000 Our friends from the north, exhibitioncatalouge 2000 Rauma Biennale Balticum, exhibitioncatalouge 2000 Some parts of this world, exhibitioncatalogue 2000 Glänta, journal nr. 2 2000 ZOO Magazine, with attached DVD 2000 Helsingen Sanomat, exhibition review text Anu Uimonen 2000 Aamulehti, exhibition review Taava Koskinen 1999 ZOO Magazine, with attached DVD 1999 Kvällsposten, exhibition review Conny C-A Malmqvist 1999 Sydsvenska Dagbladet, exhibition review Pontus Kyander 1998 stART’98: Art in the streets/Catalouge, Morning faces 1997 Utblick Landskap, journal Landskapets grammatik nr: 4 1996 ArtGenda, exhibition catalogue, The Cabin 1996 Glänta, journal nr: 1-2 1996 Ord och bild, journal nr 2