ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG
artist/curator
Critical Imagination | Situated Knowledge | Mediated Presence| Spatial Inquiry | Exhibition as Medium
Hallberg instigated and curated:
WAP residency program and WAP Cohort (2023-). BKN/Björkö Konstnod, an art node in the Northern Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden (2020-25). AiRS a Socially Engaged Art Residency at Skovde Art Museum, Sweden. (2014-19/23)
Hallberg curated projects in Sweden 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)
A Note Walking >>>
My artistic and curatorial practice investigates the relational conditions through which presence, subjectivity, and community are constituted. Engaging with situated communities, the work responds to the social and political contingencies of the public sphere while exploring lens-based and embodied practices as modes of relational inquiry. Drawing on an ethics of reverence, care, and attunement, I examine processes of co-becoming through which bodies, images, technologies, and environments are mutually implicated. My projects seek to create conditions for encounter rather than representation, attending to the ways meaning, agency, and belonging emerge through entangled relations. In doing so, the work addresses existential questions not as individual concerns alone, but as collective and ecological processes of living together. (av, july 2026)
Anna Viola Hallberg's artistic and curatorial practice unfolds across installation, moving image, sound, text, embodied practice, and collaborative production. Working between independent artistic research and projects developed with and for other artists, she investigates how artistic encounters are shaped by spatial, social, and material relations. Her practice explores the exhibition not simply as a framework for presenting work but as a medium through which knowledge, dialogue, and collective experience are produced.
Collaboration is central to Hallberg's methodology and critical position. Rather than treating it as a supplementary mode of production, she approaches collaborative processes as sites where authorship, agency, and responsibility are continuously negotiated. The movement between artistic and curatorial practice is therefore not disciplinary but methodological, with exhibition-making functioning equally as a form of research, experimentation, and public engagement.
Grounded in documentary methods while remaining attentive to the instability of memory and lived experience, Hallberg develops spatial installations that combine moving image, photography, sound, text, archival material, and sculptural interventions. Documentary images are rarely presented as fixed evidence; instead, they become points of departure for exploring how personal testimony intersects with collective memory and broader social, historical, and political realities. Her installations resist linear narration, constructing spatial and temporal situations in which meaning emerges through the interaction between image, body, site, and audience.
Embodied practice recurs throughout Hallberg's work as a mode of attention and relational inquiry. Whether through performance, site-based research, or collaborative processes, the body operates as a means of negotiating vulnerability, resistance, care, and co-becoming. Space is approached not as a neutral container but as an active participant in the work: a material, social, and affective environment in which encounters unfold. Through interdisciplinary and site-sensitive methodologies, Hallberg investigates how artistic practice can cultivate forms of attentiveness that foreground coexistence, interdependence, and the ethics of inhabiting shared worlds.
Across her practice, Hallberg is concerned with the existential dimensions of living together: how memory is carried, how presence is mediated, and how communities are formed through acts of listening, witnessing, and participation. Her work proposes the exhibition as a temporal and relational structure in which collective memory, embodied knowledge, and social imagination are not simply represented but continuously rehearsed, negotiated, and made public.
SELECT 2026-25
- Publication, chapter, “Walking With: Presence, Entanglement, and Situated Planetarities as Methodology”,
for Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal, in progress publ. fall 2026
- Curator, “WAP26-Entanglement and Proximity”
Nomadic international walking arts program, Stockholm Archipelago, (co-curator Janice Jensen) August
- Public Art Walk, "Walk With Me", For Rurban Talks
(available online via qr code), Harbor, Mariestad, July
- Keynote, “Walking With: Presence, Entanglement, and Situated Planetarities as Methodology”,
in Arte e Alteridade: Práticas Decoloniais, Museologia e Cidadania em Perspetiva Transnacional
Museu da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém do Pará, Brazil, June 3
- Keynote, “Möjliggörande infrastrukturer: förtroende och etik för ömsesidigt beroende”
Rurban Talks, Dacapo, Mariestad, Sweden, May
- Keynote, “Walking With: abundance and care to surrender”
Walking Art and Community based practices, WALC online course, April 25
- Curator, Segredo do Artesão performance and videoinstallation
by Portuguese artist Rui Mourão, Weld and Slakthusateljéerna, Stockholm, Sweden, May
- Publication, chapter “Furrow in the Soil, Tear in Time: Walking as a Method of
Epistemic Rebellion and Political Aesthetics 121 Press, Hägersten, Sweden, 2026/TBA
- Publication, chapter “Walking is Also Space” in One by Walking:
Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies”, Bloomsburg, co-author Ami Skånberg, March 2026
- Artist, “Consequences”, 1 ch, dual video projection
exhibition “Amistad”, Huerto Rumano, group exhibition, Lorca, Spain, Nov 2025
- Performance Ritual Saint Signe - reliquiae collocatione, Galleri 5A, Norrtälje, Sweden> February 2026
- Reading, once whispered, the loss of two, for Dark Envelope Publishing Series, Sweden Dec 2025
- Curator “WAP24-Waking As Passion – Embodied Thinking"
Nomadic international walking arts program, Stockholm Archipelago, June
- Co-curator, WAPC Walking arts Cohort/Consortium/Collective
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, April
- Curator “Lucid Dreams”
LAWS artists from Los Angeles with guestartists fr Stockholm, BKN, Björkö, Sweden, Sept-Oct
- Curator and Director, BKN art node
Björkö Sweden Jan-May (ie 2020-2025 full year)
- Liason, Walking Arts and Local Community (WALC) as a Node representative for WAPC
LENSBASED
INSTALLATIONS
::: IMPERIAL DIFFERENCE, 2 ch, sound 2015 >>>
::: RECURSIVE DISTANCE - TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE 2 ch, sound , 2015>>>
::: OUTPOST - TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE (A), 2015>>>
::: REMINICENCE, 2 channels, 16.31 min, 2015 + 4 tiled (b/w) street
posters of Bror Kronstrand, Anna Viola Hallberg, General San Martin and José Gonzales) >>>
::: BETWEEN THE TWO OF US - TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE (A), 2014>>>
::: MAKING THE IMMORTAL (A+), 2011/2014>>>
::: MOMENT: Grimmered (A+), 2012 >>>
::: STATE OF MIND (A+), 2006-2008 >>>
::: RESONANCE (A+), 2005-2006>>>
SINGLE CHANNEL
::: LANDSCAPE YOU, 2025 (w Ami Skånberg) for group exhibition Outlandish by Rebekah Dean
::: SCULPTURE YOU, 2024 (w Ami Skånberg for group exhibition
Sculpture Trail, The Sky is moving sideways by Rebekah Dean)
::: CURRENT (w Ami Skånberg), 2025 >>>
::: CONSEQUENCES, 2023
::: FAKK THE SISTEM (w Ami Skånberg) 2023 >>>
::: SYSTEMET SUGER (w Ami Skånberg) 2023
::: TOUCHING TIME (w Oona Hyland), 3 min 2021
::: ESTRID AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, 2019
::: ACCUMULATION, 20.34 min, 2014
::: MAKING THE IMMORTAL(w Björn Perborg), 2013
::: RANCOROUS CALL (w Björn Perborg), 2006
::: STATE OF MIND PROLOGUE (w A. Karlsson Rixon), 2006
CURATORIAL
PUBLIC REALM PROJECTS
The project are often i rurban, rural or non conformative context
:: WALKING AS PRACTICE (WAP26) >>>
::: WALKING AS PRACTICE (WAP23-25) >>>
::: BJÖRKO KONSTNOD/BKN, Artnode with 205 visiting artists, Björkö, Sweden 2020-2025 >>>
::: BKN ART TRAIL, Björkö QR Code based sculptures on site, in addition to sound and video works, 2025
::: RADICAL SOFTNESS, (C/A+), Program, Björkö, Sweden Jan-Feb 2024 >>>
::: AiRS, Skövde Art Museum Residency PROGRAM2014-2019, 2023 >>>
::: TRICKLE (Rännil Konst i ån) (C) Norrtälje, Sweden (C+) 2023 >>>
::: MAGNITUDE PROGRAM, BKN, Björkö Sweden 2022 >>>
::: MAPPING SOCIAL ART PRACTICES for Skövde Artmuseum with field trips to Jakarta and
Yogyakarta, 2023 - Yangon, Myanmar, 2019 - Lisbon, Portugal, 2016 - Havanna, Cuba, 2015 -
Saint Petersburg, Russia 2014. Insitutional visits, NGOs, and around 15 studio visits per city.
Selecting one artist to work in Skövde. The prepatory time about 6 months was a low
residency prepairing artists for project in Sweden.
::: BKN ART TRAIL, Björkö QR Code based sculptures on site, in addition to sound and video works, 2021
::: THE SEA THAT SURROUNDS US, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden 2022 >>>
::: DISTANCIO, Region Jönköpings Län, Sweden 2018-2020
::: GOLD EARTH DOME 2016 >>>
::: MURAL 2012, Mariestad, Götene, Lidköping, Skövde 2011-12
::: CITY ART LAB - MINSK, 2010-11 >>>
ART SPACE
::: Segredo do Artesão, performance, video installation and public conversation,
Rui Mourão (pt), Weld + Slakthusateljéerna, Stockholm (May 2026) >>>
::: BOOGIELAND, @ Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden 2024
Curator “Malaga Kubiak Personal Film Festival”, Norrtälje + Björkö August 21-27, 2023
::: ISLAND OF BLISS, Summer Exhibition, BKN, Björkö, Sweden, 2022
::: HEALING POWERS (aka PUNK NATURE), @ Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden 2022
::: OUT OF ROCK, Summer Exhibition, BKN, Björkö, Sweden, 2021
::: Reclaiming Meaning, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Skövde Art Museum, curator, July 2- Aug 26
::: WITH IN OUR SELFS solo exhibition with Anastasia Vepreva (Russia), Art Museum, Skövde, Sweden, September 2014
WORKSHOP ON SHARED SPACE
::: BJÖRKÖ IS SOMEONES KAMCHATKA, For KC ÖST at Björkö, Sweden, June 2023
::: LEZZIY THINK THANK, inconjunctino with exhibitions of STATE OF MIND tour, with support from Swedish Insitutute among other it was held with local communities Stockholm, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Charkov, Kiev, Berkley, Saltzburg, Gothenburg, 2008-201
FIELDTRIPS grant/commissioned)
Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, Portugal, Cuba, Lebanon, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine Austria, Mexico, US, India
EMBODIED
WALKING ART
::: A Note Walking WAP26 >>> ::: Walk With Me, Public Art Walk,
for Rurban Talks(available online via qr code), Harbor, Mariestad, July-, 2026 >>>
::: Saint Signe - reliquiae collocatione, performance ritual, Galleri 5A, Norrtälje, Sweden 2026
::: Once whispered the loss of two, reading, Uppenbarelse Kyrkan, Hägersten, Sweden, Dec 2016>>>
::: Once - Walking With Cancer Columbarium:
Engelbrekts Kyrkan (Dec, 2025) - Gustav Vasa kyrka (Jan, 2026) - Högalids Kyrkan (May, 2026)
::: Walkig Ritual , Performance Ritual,
For Rurban Talks(Infrastructure and Freedom), Dacapo Mariestad, Swedeb October 2025
::: Walking a bridge of desire, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 2014 >>>
ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG AND AMI SKÅNBERG
BERG DUO (2023-25)
Berg Duo moved between studio based and outdoor practice. Walking is an integral
part of their work. It intersects lens and embodied practices, towards reconfigurations
of subjectivity by visualizing possible futures. Concepts of in-between and the state of
becoming are central and their work is relates to artistic research on care, proximity, and responsibility.
They worked at the intersection of interdisciplinary walking, lens and embodied art practice
and theoretical inquiry.
Berg Duo initiated WAP/Walking As Practice (Residency Program 2023-25 at BKN, Björkö Sweden) >>>
Visual portfolio >>>
INSTALLATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, FIELDTRIPS
::: Black-Market Truths: Performative Wisdom in Passion, Grief and Madness,
at Perormance Philosophy at XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome August (2024)
::: FIELD TRIP to Japan Berg Duo Kumano Kodo, Kyoto, Tokyo July(2024)
::: Embodying Hashigakari Immanent Encounters With Bridges (2025)
Filmed during public Suriashi events, same soundscape for all passings.
Installation in a circle with vido turned inwards, varies in size from
small screens to projections. 7 video channels, 1 sound channel
::: Co-curated together with John Schuerman Walking With Passion", WAP25/WAPC
@ Supermarket Independent Art Fair, April 2025
::: A Tread of Scoresem> or The Unfold Relay based international walking
score series taking place at Stephens House and Gardens, London, United Kingdom,
Shannon River, Limerick, Ireland + web based, 2025
::: FIELD TRIP to Indonesia May (2023)
::: Walking is Also Space – Walking Beyond Distance for the anthology by OnebyWalking, Bloomsbury, 2026
::: Walking is Also Space workshop for OneByWalking conference, Korpoströn, Finland, April, 2023
::: CURRENT (screendance/essay film)
Fesival Videodanza, Puerto Rico, April 2024
Screendance Festival, Sweden, April2024
Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden, April 2024
Wicklow Screendance Laboratory, Ireland, March 2024
Almaty Underground Screening Series Kazakhstan, Jan 2024
A series of Suriashi walks was made in seven locations for the installation Embodying Hashigatari
Ami Skånberg led the walks and Anna Viola Hallberg filmed always from the same
low angle with the walker coming directly towards the hand held camera.
Title: Suriashi for Björkö
Date: Sept 5th, 2023, Sweden
Participants: artists from WAP23
The community walk was made on December 3rd, 2023 as an inaguration of a
qr based art walk o Björkö, BKN ART WALK.
Title: Suriashi for Norrtälje
Date:June 30 - August 14 2023, Sweden
Participants: general public (about 100 participants)
Site: Faktoribron (bridge in central Norrtälje).
Official innaguration of Trickle Art In the River Norrtäje.
Public participation via QR code during the exhibition.
Title: Suriashi for Bonn
Date: August 11
Participants: Public Participation
Site: Clemens-August-weg, Bonn Germany
Part of exhibition Becoming Landscape at DAS ESSZIMMER – Raum für Kunst+ >>>
Title: Suriashi for Rome
Date: 4 August at 8-8.40am
Site: Ponte Fabricio (Tiber Island Bridge), the oldest bridge in Rome, built in 62 BC. by Lucius Fabricius
Context: World Congress of Philosophy
Invited co-walker: Rebekah Dean, John Shuerman,Cy Cheung Eli Belgrano, Mark
Title: Suriashi for Tokyo
Date: July 2, 2024
Site: Tokyo University, Komaba campus, Japan
Invited co-walker: Cy Cheung
Title: Suriashi for Kyoto
Date: July 9th, Japan
Site: Taihei-kaku, Shin-en Gardens, Heian Jingu, Kyoto, Japan
Solowalk by Ami Skånberg in public space.
Title: Suriashi for Ise
Date: July 20st, Japan
Site: Hiyoke-bashi, Ise Jingu Geku, Outer Sanctuary, Japan
Invited co-walkers: Danubak Matalaq and Chiahung Yang Activists from Taiwan
COLLECTIONS
::: State of Mind (full video and photography installation) in collection
Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, Hallberg/Karlsson Rixon, 2016
::: Efterbild/After Image, Neon, Folkets hus och Parker, placed at Lidköping Folketshus, 2013
::: State of Mind, Marian, Mariana, Kir, Valeria, St Petersburg, 2007*, C-print 106×76 cm,
Länskultur, Gävleborg länsmuseum, Gävle, Sweden, Hallberg/Karlsson Rixon, 2013
::: State of Mind, Muchabad and Alona, St Petersburg, 2007 , C-print 131×106 cm,
Länskultur Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden, Hallberg/Karlsson Rixon, 2013
::: State of Mind, Marina, Senya, Lena, St Petersburg 2007, C-print 93,5×76,5 cm,
Göteborg Art Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden, Hallberg/Karlsson Rixon, 2008
::: Rancorous Call, Art Video Screenings archive/Art Screen, w. B. Perborg, Örebro, Sweden 2008
::: State of Mind Irina, Ilja, Sveta and Oksana, St Petersburg, 2007, Stena Foundation, Gothenburg, 2008
RESIDENCIES
::: BKN, Fellowship studio, 2020-2025 (CURATOR of residency, exhibitions + CURRENT, WAP etc)
::: SWAT, SPACES, Cleveland, Oh, Us, 2015 (5 weeks) IMPERIAL DIFFERENCES
::: Vandalorum/Region Jönköping, Värnamo, Sweden, 2015 (3 weeks) ACCUMULATION
::: Nordic Watercolor Museum, Hallberg/Perborg, Skärhamn, January 2015 (2 weeks) MAKING THE IMMORTAL
::: ProArte/Nifca, St Petersburg, Hallberg/Karlsson Rixon, artist 2006 (8 weeks) STATE OF MIND
COLLABORATIONS
PER PROJECT
WAPC (collective/cohort/coalition) - WAP26 with Janice Jensen (de) - Lucid Dreams with Susannah Mills and Rick Gradone - WAP23, Wap24, Current, etc with Ami Skånberg (SE) ie Berg Duo - Organism with Camilla Wessman (SE) - Thomas Oldrell (SE), Touching Time with Oona Hyland (IR)- Gold Earth Dome with Madeleine Hats (SE) - Resonance, State of Mind and MOMENT: Grimmered, with A Karlsson Rixon (SE) - Making The Immortal, Rancorous Call, Space Invaders - Agents Disarming Public Space and Melancholy & Absurdity with Björn Perborg (SE).
PER YEAR
LAWS Residency Program/Susanna Mills (us) 2026, Janice Jensen (de), Susannah Mills and Rick Gradone (us) 2025/26, Berg Duo with Ami Skånberg (se) 2023-25, Oona Hyland (ir) 2021, Camilla Wessman (se) 2017-19, Madeleine Hatz (se) 2016, Björn Perborg (se) 2006/2011/2014, A Karlsson Rixon (se) 2005-12, Carolina Falkholt (se) 2011, Irina Anufrieva (se/by) 2011
ANNA VIOLA HALLLBERG
Artist/Curator
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◊ 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 >>>
◊ For full CV, previews and collections please contact the artist
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BECOMING LANDSCAPE (solo) DasEssZimmer, Bonn, Germany 2023 >>>
TYPOLOGIES OF SILENCE (solo) Museo de la Cuidad, Queretaro, Mexico, 2014 >>>
ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG
artist/curator
Based in Stockholm and Mariestad, Sweden