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Critical Imagination | Interdisciplinary Practice | Exhibition as Medium | Spatial Inquiry
Anna Viola Hallberg's practice unfolds across installation, moving image, embodied practice, sound, text, and collaborative production, examining the conditions through which artistic encounters emerge. Operating between independent artistic research and projects developed with and for other artists, her work considers how spatial, social, and material relations structure perception, participation, and collective experience.
Rather than treating collaboration as a supplementary mode of production, Hallberg positions it as both methodology and critical inquiry. Questions of authorship, agency, and responsibility are negotiated through processes that privilege exchange, situated knowledge, and shared forms of making. The movement between artistic and curatorial practice is therefore not disciplinary but methodological, with exhibition-making functioning as a site of research as much as presentation.
Grounded in documentary methods while remaining attentive to the instability of memory and lived experience, Hallberg develops spatial installations that combine moving image, sound, photography, text, and sculptural interventions. Archival materials frequently intersect with embodied narratives, producing environments in which individual experience becomes entangled with broader social, historical, and political structures. Her installations resist linear narration, instead constructing temporal and spatial situations in which meaning is continuously negotiated between work, site, and audience.
Embodied practice recurs throughout Hallberg's work as a mode of relational inquiry, where vulnerability, resistance, avoidance, and co-becoming are understood as material conditions rather than symbolic gestures. Likewise, space is approached not as a neutral container but as an active participant—simultaneously a site for fieldwork, exhibition, and social encounter. Through site-sensitive and interdisciplinary methodologies, Hallberg investigates how artistic practice can generate forms of attention that foreground coexistence, interdependence, and the politics of shared space.
Whether working independently or in collaboration, Hallberg approaches artistic production as a process of constructing discursive environments in which perception, remembrance, and affect are continually reconfigured. Her work proposes the exhibition as a temporal structure through which collective memory, embodied knowledge, and social imagination can be rehearsed, negotiated, and made public.
"My work - as an artist/curator - interacts with specific communities, while addressing social or political contingencies and by this, taking on a critical stance towards public space/sphere an in the process relating to existential matters for the individuals as well as through society"
Hallberg instigated WAP/WAPC (2023/25), BKN/Björkö Konstnod (artist/curator) an art node in the Northern Stockholm Archipelago and was its lead artistic director (2020-2025). The Previously she was the curator and co-founder of AiRS (2014-19/2023), Socially Engaged Art Residency at Skovde Art Museum, Sweden.
Hallberg curated projects (2020-2025) such as CityArtlab(2010-11) Mural 2012 (2012), Distancio (2017-21), Magnitude (2022), The Sea That Surrounds us (2022), Trickle (2023) and Lucid Dreams (2025) as well as Walking As Practice/WAP (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
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BERG DUO (2022-25)
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Based in Stockholm and Mariestad, Sweden
◊ Msc, International Museum Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden
◊ Ba, Cinema and Curatorial Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
◊ Studio: Slakthusateljeerna (Stockholm)
◊ Member of KRO/Swedish Artists National Organization
◊ Member of WAP/Walking As Practice Cohort >>>
Member Node of WALC via WAPC >>>
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BECOMING LANDSCAPE (solo) DasEssZimmer, Bonn, Germany 2023 >>>
TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE (solo) Museo de la Cuidad, Queretaro, Mexico, 2014 >>>