Peter Stridsberg born 1994 in Gothenburg. Lives and works in Umeå, Sweden. He received his master's degree at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2019.
In recent years, as a visual artist, I have worked with photographic stagings and installations where I have investigated the importance and function of the landscape in our lives. Since I moved back to Umeå in northern Sweden in 2021, I have wanted to make visible and explore what the concept of landscape means to us humans during the ongoing green transition in North Sweden. The urban landscape constantly develops and expands towards nature and around where I put my feet. Some communities are prioritized and enriched with assets and resources while others are shut down. The topic of changes in places arouses my curiosity to understand how the place, the geographical surface, characterizes us and what function it has for me as a new resident and for others.
In the studio I work with different scenes in parallel on both a small and large scale. These are based on own research through different literary perspectives that illuminate questions about place, nature and social construction, but also more idea-based and visual issues at current exhibitions.
The work process includes both the construction of scenographies and installations with parts of homes that are built up in different landscapes or with more staged documentary works from different geographical locations to which I seek a relationship, but the starting point is the same for me. Because even if I temporarily visit places or build them up as fictional realities in the landscape, I am always faced with the positioning between city and country, nature and culture, place and landscape, man and origin. The work becomes a way for me to approach and recreate the border that both makes visible what we are facing in relation to the landscape but also a way to understand something bigger outside of us.
Photo: Anna Berglund / Nordic Watercolor Museum
Biography
Education
2022 - Urban and countryside development through artistic processes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, SE
2017 - 2019 Master degree in Fine Art at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, SE
2014 - 2017 Bachelor degree in Fine Art at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, SE
2013 - 2014 Experimental Photography, Fotoskolan Munka, SE
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Ongoing or upcoming exhibitions
30 / 5 - 19 / 6 - 2025, Solo exhibition, Galleri Moment, Ängelholm
3 / 5 - 6 / 5 - 2025, Group exhibition, Supermarket, Stockholm
25 / 3 - 25 / 5 - 2025 Solo exhibition, Riche, Stockholm ​​​​
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Previous exhibitions
6 / 12 2024 - 25 / 1 2025, Solo exhibition, Örnsköldsviks museum and konsthall
2024 Group exhibition, Galleri Lokomotiv, Örnsköldsvik
25 / 10 - 15 /11 2024- Temporary Public Art Exhibition, Höstljus, Umeå kommun
27/7 - 17 / 11 2024 Group exhibition, Museum of Science, Trento, Italy
2024 - Group exhibition, Botniasalong, Västerbottens museum, SE
2024 Group exhibition, Konst åt alla, Hjåggsjö bygdegård, Vännäs, SE
2 / 12 2023 - 13 / 1 2024, Solo exhibition, Nässjö Konsthall, SE
2023 Solo exhibition, Härnösands Konsthall, SE
2023 Warsalongen, Group exhibition Tomtebogatan 30, Above Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2023 Our Scenery, Solo exhibition, Lidköpings Konsthall, SE
2022 Forecast Diaries, Solo exhibition, Stockholm School of Economics, SE
2022 Selfportrait, Group exhibtion, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE
2022 Forecast, Solo exhibition, Klippans Konsthall, SE
2022 Blicka/Gaze, Duo exhibition with Maria Friberg, Umeå Konsthall, SE
2022 The new landscape, Solo exhibition, Kumla Konsthall, SE
2021 The border between nature and the scene, Solo exhibition, Reykjavik Photography Museum, Iceland
2021 La lumière du Nord, Group exhibition with Maria Friberg ,Thomas Broomé
Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Curated by the Swedish Institute in Paris, France
2021 Group exhibition, Kliger Art Gallery, Lund, SE
2020/2021 As I remember, Solo exhibition, Rotundan, Kalmar, SE
2020 BPAC PHOTO, Group exhibition, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2020 Three scenes, Solo exhibition, Mimers Konsthall, Kungälv, SE
2020 Drawing on paper, Group exhibition, Casinot XXH, Malmö, SE
2020 Plat (where you stand), Solo exhibition, Galleri Alva, Umeå, SE
2019 Way home through the edge of the sky, Solo exhibition, Galleri Gerlesborg, Bohuslän, SE
2019 Meanwhile, Group exhibition, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, SE
2019 Meanwhile, Group exhibition, Master degree show, exhibition, Bildmuseet, Umeå, SE
2019 High Coast Art Festival, Group exhibition, Örnsköldsvik, SE
2018 The space between you and me, Solo exhibition, Göteborgs Konstförening, SE
2018 Listening to the sound of the shell, Group exhibition, Nykyaika Photographic Centre, Tampere, Finland
2018 The space between you and me, Solo exhibition, Teatergalleriet, Kalmar, SE
2017 Helsingborg Art Week, Group exhibition, Helsingborg Art Week - Helsingborg, SE
2017 Group exhibition, Mossutställningar, Stockholm, SE
2017 Bachelor degree show , Galleri Konsthögskolan, Umeå, SE
2016 Group exhibition, Dageu Photo Bienale, South Korea
2016 The story behind the photograph,Solo exhibition, Röstånga Konsthall, Röstånga, SE
2016 With thoughts that summarize the words in a sentence to stand tall,Solo exhibition, Galleri Konstnärscentrum Väst, Göteborg, SE
2016 Jury-judged group exhibition, Landskorna Photofestival, Landskrona, SE
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Public Commissions
2024 Sketch proposal for public art work, Sports hall Larslunda, Strängnäs kommun, SE
2023 Sketch proposal for public art work, Carehome, Solhaga, Sundsvalls kommun, SE
2023 Sketch proposal for public art work, Mälarsjukhuset, Region Sörmland, SE
2023 Sketch proposal for public art work, Hagavikskolan, Växjö, SE
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Scholarships and awards
2024 Mobility support for field studies for upcoming project, Konstfrämjandet Västerbotten
2024 Travel scholarship to Lofoten, Konstfrämjandet Västerbotten
2023 Nominated and awarded with a scholarship municipality scholarship, Umeå Kommun
2022 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, scholarship for young artists
2022 The Swedish Artists’ Committee, One year working grant
2022 The Swedish Artists’ Committee, Crisis Scholarship
2021 Travel scholarship, Konstfrämjandet Västerbotten
2021 The Swedish Artists’ Committee for Professional Artists - Crisis Scholarship 3
2020 The Swedish Artists’ Committee for Professional Artists - Crisis Scholarship 2
2020 The Swedish Artist's Committee for International Cultural Exchange
2020 Helge A:xson Johnssons Stiftelse
2019 The Swedish Artists’ Committee’s Assistant Scholarship to assist Maria Friberg
2019 Helge A:xson Johnssons Stiftelse
2018 Otto och Charlotte Mannheimers Fond
2017 Nominated for Young Nordic Photographer, Portfolio Review, Landskrona Photofestival
Collections
Museo Nazionale della Montagna "Duca degli Abruzzi" CAI Torino, Swedish Public Art Agency Sweden,
Konstenheten Västra Götalands regionen, Region Halland, Region Jämtland Härjedalen, Region Stockholm,
Region Östergötland, Region Västerbotten, Region Sörmland, Nässjö kommun, Kalmar kommun,
Umeå Municipality, Apotekets Konstförening and private collections
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Teaching
2024 Guest teacher and examiner, Umeå Konstskola
2023 - ongoing Teaching and technician in Photography on 20% at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
2021 Guest lecturer and individual tutoring for students, Fotolinjen, Östra Grevie
2020 Guest teacher with workshop for students at bachelor's/master's level, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts
2020 Art School Munka, lecturer and teaching for summer course participants in photography
2020 Fotolinjen, Östra Grevie Folkhögskola, Guest lecturer and individual tutoring for students
2019 Guest lecture, Gerlesborgsskolan, Bohuslän
2019 Guest lecturer and individual tutoring for students, Fotolinjen, Östra Grevie Folkhögskola
2018 Guest lecturer and individual tutoring for students, Fotolinjen, Östra Grevie Folkhögskola
2018 Guest lecturer and individual tutoring for artist students, Konstskolan Munka,
2016 Guest lecturer and individual tutoring for artist students, Konstskolan Munka
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Artist in Residence
2021 Nordic Watercolor Museum, 7 dagar, Skärhamn, SE
2019 One month residence on Gerlesborgsskolan, Bohuslän, SE
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Published in exhibition catalog, newspapers and magazines
2024 The mountain Touch - A Journey to Healing nature, exhibition catalog, p 22 - 28, MUSE, Trento, Italy
2023 Peter Stridsberg – Our Scenery, Lidköpings konsthall, review by Bo Borg, A Online culture magazine
2022 The mountain Touch, exhibtioncatalog, p 20 - 24, Museo Nazionale Della Montagna, Torino, Italy
2022 ”We expand the opportunities for each other”, interview p 40 - 41, Västerbottens Kuriren, Umeå
2020 Moments that only remain as memories fill the Rotunda p. 29, Barometer, Kalmar
2020 The power of the flower in the time of the coronation, recession, p. 22, Västerbottens Kuriren, Umeå
2019 Meanwhile,Examcatalog, p.98 - 103, Umeå, SE
2018 Stridsberg’s search for spaces in our two worlds, the Barometer, Kalmar
2017 The empty room, No. 06 - pp. 69 - 71, Photography, Norway
2016 Current photographer exhibits in South Korea, Helsingborgs Dagblad