Noemi
Sjöberg

Noemi Sjöberg (1978)

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Noemi Sjöberg (1978) is swedish, grown up in Paris (France) and currently lives in Barcelona (Spain). .

Statement

Noemi Sjöberg (1978) is swedish, grown up in Paris (France) and currently lives and works in Barcelona (Spain). The alteration of reality, the human condition as time goes by and traveling are the axis of Noemi Sjöberg's work. She has worked in Japan, Iran, USA, Egypt, India, China and Mongolia. Far from exoticism, traveling is a mental state that allows her to face a foreign reality in which the senses are sharpened; a place from where to interrogate the environment and the presence of oneself; a limbo where the real and the unreal, the private and the public, the ordinary and the extraordinary are confused. Simplicity, depth and rigor characterize her work, as well as the balance between control and hazard. Both in her installations and videos she lets the viewer endorse the narrative part and be carried by streams of images and sounds, magnifiying the senses. With her photography she experiments with various mediums and techniques transforming the usual reading of still image that becomes for the observer a three-dimensional and physical experience.

Interviews

November 2024 New special issue of WomenCinemakers with an article featuring my film Freedom (2024) and my work in general

Décembre 2021 IHOI La Réunion France d'outre-mer Novembre 2021 LINFO.RE La Réunion France d'outre-mer May 2021 VOTV Granollers Spain December 2020 Idoia Hormaza de Prada para Flux, festival de vídeo de autor Barcelona Spain May 2020 Galería Uxval Gochez Barcelona Spain January 2020 El Temps de les Arts Barcelona Spain September 2019 Festival Silhouette Paris France

Education

1997- 2002

Master of Fine Arts with honours, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts d’Aix en Provence (France)

Solo Exhibitions

2023 2 of May 2023 Solo video exhibition program "Funny games" at , Dimarts de vídeo, curated by Dones visuals, Santa mònica, Barcelona, (ES)
2021 10th of December Inauguration of the site specific artwork "Femme plurielle (Plural woman)", Parvis des droits de l'homme et de la laïcité, Champ fleuri,Saint-Denis (FR)
2021 11th of November Inauguration of the site specific artwork "Terre à l'horizon (Land in sight)" at the Lazaret de La Grande Chaloupe during the commemoration day of the indentured workers (Travailleurs Engagés), Saint-Denis (FR)
2020 Dec 15th 2020 -Jan 10th 2021 - Monographic video exhibition at Flux, Festival de vídeo d'autor, Arts Santa Mònica Barcelona Spain

2020 Nov 14th - Dec 17th 2020 - Solo exhibition “Cambios de lugar” at Galería Uxval Gochez, Loop City Screen program Barcelona (SPA)
2020 January 1st, 2020 - Mars 31st, 2020 A matter of perception, "Parallel worlds", Skanstull metro station Curator: Nilo Amlashi, Stockholm Sweden
2019 21 of October screening of various videos from 2004 to 2019 by Noemi Sjöberg, Flux Club at the Antic Teatre (SPA)
2018 August 29th, Official Opening of the site specific art work "Plongeon" for the site Pont du Garigliano with the support of Embellir Paris the City of Paris and Mosa, Paris (France)

2018 From 1st of June to 31st of July Solo exhibition "Close distances" at Agencia de Tránsitos Culturales, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (SPA)
2014 Becoming beauty at Academia de Belles Arts de Sabadell Fundacio Privada, Sabadell (SPA)
2013 More than ten years of travels, Sala Regas, Centre Civic Pont Major/ Día Internacional de l'Art, Bòlit, Girona (SPA)
2009 Little me, Ca l’Estruch, Sabadell (SPA)
2007 En Mouvement, Espacio Caminal, Barcelona (SPA)
2006 Verrückung, Espacio Caminal, Barcelona (SPA)
2004 Leitmotiv, Espacio Caminal, Barcelona (SPA)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

September 12th screening of "Correspondence" in the sound/film program "Remembering Phill Niblock: Sound and Moving Image", Programa Museo Vostell, Malpartida, Filmoteca de extremadura, Caceres, ES

September 25th screening of "Correspondence" in the "Musicvideoart!" program, Cinéma l’Univers de Lille Programa Museo Vostell, Malpartida, Filmoteca de extremadura, Lille, FR

From 26th of october until 23 of March 2025, group exhibition "Territoires mouvants", 12e édition, Talents Contemporains, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France

2023

1 of December 2023 > 17 December 2023 Three video art works selected for FLUX 2023. Festival de vídeo d’autor: A medida que pasa el tiempo (As time goes by) (2017), Entre cel i terra (Between earth and sky) (2023)), Self-portrait (continuous change) (2020)) El Born CCM, Barcelona, Spain

20 of October 2023 > 14 jan 2024 Exhibition of the video and sound installation "Correspondence" at the group exhibition La poésie n'est pas un luxe. C'est une nécessité vitale. Les Instants Vidéo, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

27 of September Projection of the video "Tehran" at Cinéma L’Univers - Lille, Carte Blanche à Heure Exquise , Lille, France

2022

Opening on Halloween Oct 31- Nov 20 "Game fields", Video art work, at the group exhibition BALLOTS NOT BULLETS, curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes at WhiteBox , New York, USA

26 août - 04 septembre 2022, One euro to jump now, Video art work, at Festival International du Film de Nancy,Nancy, France

20th of May, One euro to jump now, Video art work, in the opening of Rooftop films,New York, USA

03 of March until 27/03/2022 "Game fields" Video art work, in the exhibition Kvadrennalen Retorikkabinett’s Video room , Färgfabriken , Stockholm (SE)

2021

14th od December - 9th of January 2022 "Like themselves" Video art work, in the exhibition Flux video capsa , Barcelona (SP)

“One euro to jump now “ Mixed-media artwork selected for the XI Biennal d'Art de Girona at Casa de Cultura de la Diputació de Girona OCT 2021- January 2022 , Girona (SP)

August 12th screening of "Like Themselves" and August 16th screening of "Public Wash-House" at The 45th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt , Weiterstadt(GER)

Sunday 27 of June “Parallel worlds” selected by the judges (Jenn Ellis (curator), Ying Tan (Senior Programmes Manager, Collections at Art Fund) and Richard Morrissey (Deputy Director JD Malat Gallery) for the May Fair Art Weekend Showreel taking place at The May Fair Hotel, London, UK

On the 22/05 from 11:00 am - 21:45pm Exhibition of the site-specific art installation "Revolutions per minute" by Noemi Sjöberg at the old textile factory Fábrica de les Arts Roca Umbert during the public art event "MUA, Mostra d' Art Urbà"

20th of May Premiere of Public wash-house at “Traverse video”, Toulouse, France

5th of May (8.pm online) Premiere of Like themselves at k67. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen on the programme Distributors / Filmform

2020

Dec 1-5th 2020 - “Summer day” at Festival Tous Courts, International Experimental Short Film competition Aix-en-Provence France

Nov 15th 2020 - “Game fields” and “Summer day” at The International Festival Les Instants Vidéo, La Friche Belle de Mai Marseille France

28 août - 6 septembre 2020 - Game fields at: Festival International du Film de Nancy Nancy France

June, 2020 Show of the video art work "Beijing" in the first edition of the festival "Seek the sun" Online France

May 16, 2020 Show of the commissioned public art work "Revolutions per minute" 9a Mostra d’Art Urbà, de Roca Umbert (MAU) Granollers Spain

POSTPONED TO 2021 Due to COVID-19

March 6, 2020 - May 3, 2020 Show of the video "Tehran", Väderlekar Västerås konstmuseum Curator: Film i Samtidskonsten och Filmform Västerås Sweden

2019

5th of December screening of the video "Game fields" ALTERATIONS COMPETITION | 31 AGUILAR FILM FESTIVAL Aguilar de Campoo Spain

14th of November to end of December show of the photography works "Jump, Essaouira 4" and "Minaret Essaouira/ Shard London bridge" at XXII PREMIO DE ARTES PLÁSTICAS “SALA EL BROCENSE”, DIPUTACIÓN PROVINCIAL DE CÁCERES E INSTITUCIÓN CULTURAL "EL BROCENSE" Cáceres Spain

18-26 of October screening of the video “Shadows”, Magic mix INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION | Block 7 and Shnit DOCUMENTS | INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION | Block 2, Shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, Bern Switzerland

19-20 of October screening of the video “Shadows”, VIII Mostra de Cinema amb la Natura ForadCamp 2019 Figaró-Montmany Spain

September 1 screening of the video “Bubbles”, Festival Silhouette, with Heure Exquise!, Paris (France)

August 29th, Official Opening of the site specific art work "Plongeon" for the site Pont du Garigliano with the support of EMBELLIR PARIS the City of Paris and Mosa, Paris (France)

June 26 screening of the video “Shadows”, KAUNAS Čiurlionis National Museum of Art curator Videoformes, Gabriel Soucheyre Kaunas (Lithuania)

June 25 screening of the video “Shadows”, VILNIUS National Gallery of Art, curator Videoformes, Gabriel Soucheyre Vilnius Vilnius (Lithuania)

June 19 screening of the video “Shadows”, Tel Aviv Jafo Mandel Cultural Center, curator Videoformes, Gabriel Soucheyre Tel Aviv (Israel)

May 31th, show of the video "Shadows", during the program "Dangerous docs" at Rooftop films, METROTECH COMMONS, 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, New York (USA)

May 11th, show of the video "Tehran", during the program "Weather Games: Experiment films adapted for children (0-5 years)" at Zita Folkets Bio, presented in collaboration with Filmform Stockholm (Sweden)

Show of the video “Shadows” at the Festival Internacional de Video Arte de Camagüey (FIVAC) (Cuba)

April 20 Over The Real - Festival Internazionale VideoArte, curator Videoformes, Gabriel Soucheyre Auditorium Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Lucca (Italy)

Show of the video "Shadows" at the International Competition, Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (France)

show of the video "Shadows" at the International Competition, 25th International Short Film Week Regensburg, Regensburg (Gemany)

Show of the video "As time goes by", during the group exhibition "#Pasajes" at C.C.Los Arcos, Sevilla (Spain)

2018

Show of the video "Shadows" 25th Independent Film Festival l’Alternativa,CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporani, Barcelona, (Spain)

December 5th, show of the video "Parallel worlds", during the program "Objets singulier" at Festival tous courts Aix en Provence (France)

September 28th, show of the video "Shadows", curator Proyecto, video art journeys at Escorial, Take Away Process, Madrid (Spain)

From September 17-th until November 2-nd Show of the video "Summer night" at the 17-th INTERBIFEP, International Biennial Festival of Portrait Tuzla 2018, The Center of culture Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegowina)

15th of September Solar Embajadores 18, Sede Plaza Lavapiés at Proyector, Madrid (Spain)

July 14-20 Young Spirit of Europe program of the 25 jubilee at European Film Festival Palić, Palić (Serbia)

May5th “Shadows” will be presented at the Internacional Short Film festival Oberhausen through my distributor Filmform at Lichtburg Filmpalast Star, Oberhausen (Germany)

From June 17 to September 16 group exhibition "BIFURQUER, 20é édition de L'art chemin faisant" curated by Christophe Desforges at l’Atelier d’Estienne, Centre d'art contemporain Pont-Scorff, Bretagne (France)

18th of May and 2 of June show of the video "Shadows" at Oodaaq Festival 2018, Rennes and St Malo(France)

FIAV International Video Art Festival Casablanca FIAV, L’Uzine, Fondation Touria et Abdelaziz TAZI, curator Marc Mercier contemporain (Morocco)

24th International Short Film Week Regensburg, WINDOW TO ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION (Germany)

28 of January 2018 Show of the video "Shadows" at IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Bright Future (The Netherlands)

Invisibles at The Gallery Agency for Cultural Transit (agencia·tc), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain)

2017

Invisibles at The Gallery Agency for Cultural Transit (agencia·tc), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain)

Festival tous courts /EXPERIMENTAL COMPETITION in Aix en Provence (France)

2016

Ciudad jardin, Fundació Perramon, Ventallo (Spain)

2015

Kortfilmdagen, SL:s konstavdelning, curator Frida Cornell,Filmform, Skanstulls Metro station, Stockholm (Sweden)
Woman. Equal and Different,space ON ART, Rome (Italy)
Videoblanket, Shangai (China)

2014

FESTARTE, MAAM – Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove_ Space Metropoliz (Italy)
FestArte videoart Festival - Twinning Sacandinavian/italy - 2 artists and videos - curator Lorena Benatti, Rialto Sant'Ambrogio, Roma (Italy)
Show of the collection of videos Becoming beauty at Academia de Belles Arts de Sabadell Fundacio Privada Sabadell (Spain)
BALLADS, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Sala la Trasera, Madrid curated by La Videotheque (Spain)

2013

BIENNAL D'ART JOVE DE L'ACADÈMIA DE BELLES ARTS DE SABADELL, obtuvo el tercer premio, Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell Fundació Privada Sabadell (Spain)
Ecrans voyageurs Le TGV en 50 secondes, CO.AR.CO (Avant programme), Marseille Provence 2013, Capitale Europeenne de la Culture, La Ciotat (France)
Pati LLimona, Screen festival, Loop, curated by Estudio Nomada/ Arnout Krediet Barcelona (Spain)
IX Feria de Arte Contemporaneo de Arevalo (Spain)
IKFU, JONKOPINGS LANS MUESUM, curated by Tim Reed Jonkoping (Sweden)
IKFU, VANDALORUM, curated by Tim Reed Varnamo (Sweden)
Black Box, curated by art:screen, Kulturhuset Borgen,Gislaved (Sweden)
Miradocs, Casa Elizalde, curated by Indoc, Barcelona (Spain)

Streaming online of "Becoming beauty" ARTE creative

2012

Cervantes Institute of Berlin, Videoakt, LiminalB, curated by F. Matelli (Germany)
Gallery ARHIS, Festival Videoholica, Selection Oodaaq 2012, Varna (Bulgaria)
Now&After'12, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia)
[.BOX] Videoart project space , Selection Oodaaq 2012, Milan (Italy)
Sélection Oodaaq 2012 at Visual container + Festival du film insulaire (Groix) + Festival international de Cine (Villa de Leyva)
Sélection Oodaaq 2012 at CASINO - Forum d'Art Contemporaim, Luxembourg (France)
Foradcamp, obtuvo el segundo premio, Nou casino de Figaro (Spain)
Inund'Art 2012,obtuvo el segundo premio, Casa de Cultura de Girona, (Spain)
Galeria H2O, Loop Festival, LiminalB, Barcelona (Spain)
L'Oeil d'Oodaaq, projections aux Portes Mordelaises : Que voir?, Rennes (France)
Selected Artist for the exhibition "Mulier, Mulieris 2012" at MUA, MUSEO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE (Spain)

2011

Laboratorio Sensorial, LiminalB, Guadalajara, (Mexico)
Radio-System – audio sin orillas presenta: Primera instalación colectiva de radioarte y arte sonoro AIR / EAR en Cabal 2333, San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina y en la radio del Centro Cultural España Córdoba, (Argentina)
Videoakt International Videoart Biennal, Amister Hotel, Loop fair, curated by LiminalB, Barcelona (Spain)
Triennale di Milano, FestArte Video Art Festival, Milan (Italy)
Teatro Delle Muse, Ancona Festarte Videoart Festival, (Italy)

2010

Le musee des beaux-arts de Caen, Caen, curator Brent Klinkum (FRA)
Optica Festival, Galerie Carla Magna, Paris (FRA)
FestArte VideoArt Festival, Torre Maggiore di Villa San Rufolo during Ravello LAB - International Colloquium, a forum about cultural policies (ITA)
FestArte VideoArt Festival, MACRO Testaccio, La pelanda (ITA)
FUSO Festival, Lisbon (PT)
Oslo Screen Festival (NOR)
Territori de Lleida, (comission) Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida (SPA)
The third eye is open, LiminalB, La Nave Spacial, Sevilla (SPA)
Femmes Artistes, Les temps forts d’Heure Exquise, Auditorium Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille (FRA)
Musicvideoart #5, Heure Exquise, Maison Folie du Fort, Mons-en-Baroeul (FRA)

2009

Levitation, Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund (SWE)
De dagar som går, Bio Harlekin, Norrkopings Konstmuseum, Verkstad - ett rum för Konst, Norrköping (SWE)
LiminalB Video Selection, Espacio Enter, Tea de Tenerife, Canarias (SPA)
Festival de Video Arte Internacional "VFF", LiminalB, Ambato (ECU)
II Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camaguey, LiminalB (CUB)
Show of the video Tehran, in “Human nature”, curator Heure Exquise!, Ars ElectRonica 2009 Festival für Kunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft,Linz (AUT)
Show of the video Tehran, in “AudioVisions” curator Barbara Held i Katherine Liberovskaya, Espai Ubú, LOOP Festival, Barcelona (SP)

2008

Out of Place, Filmform, Biografen Sture, Cinemateket Stockholm (SWE)
Videoakt, International Video Art Show, LiminalB, Glogauair, Berlin (GER)
Transit, LiminalB, Kforumvienna Hall, Vienna (AUT)
Transit, LiminalB, Loop Festival, Ego Gallery, Barcelona (SPA)
Diva, Digital and video art fair, Galery Isabelle Hurley, LiminalB, Paris (FRA)
Au Féminin, Heure Exquise, Auditorium du Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille (FRA)
Festival Premiers Plans, Angers (FRA)

2007

Outside/ Inside, Normal Art Gallery, Teater Scenario, Stockholm (SWE)
54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (GER)
Festival du Nouveau cinéma de Montréal (CAN)
Ecoutez les zimages, Lac de la Reunion (REU)
Paisajismos, Espacio Abisal, Bilbao (SPA)
Prix de la création vidéo, Videoformes, Clermont- Ferrand (FRA)

2006

The « Mobile Video Library» de F.Gygi, Museum of Modern and contemporary art, Rijeka (CRO)
4ème Festival du Cinéma Iranien en Exil, Cinéma La Clef, Paris (FRA)
Polly Maggoo, GMEM, Intramuros, Marseille (FRA)

2005

22th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (GER)
Wro Biennale (PL)
Festival de Arte Electrónico de Bogotá, curator Jean Paul Fargier (COL)
Cinema Festival, Bangkok (THA)
Rien à voir, Les Instants Chavirés, Paris (FRA)

2004

Les 8 èmes Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, La Grande Halle de la Villette (FRA/ GER)
Les Instants Vidéo de Manosque, les saisons numériques, Cinéma MK2 bibliothèque, Paris (FRA)
17ème Festival des Instants Vidéo, La Compagnie, Marseille (FRA)
Loop Festival, Metrònom, Fundació Rafael Tous d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (SPA)

2003

Symphosium «At home/ Not at home ? Artist in residence around Tokyo now», Museum Pola Annex, Tokyo (JPN)

Live video and sound Performance

(Besòs River, in collaboration with the musician Juan Matos Capote)

2009 Optosonic Tea, Loop Festival, Espai Ubu, Barcelona (SPA)

Video Dance

(Enter, in collaboration with the dancer Constanza Brncic)

2009

The Festival IDN, Image, Dance and New Media, Mercat de Les Flors och Caixa Forum, Barcelona (SPA)
The International Video Dance Festival of Le Breuil (FRA)

Documentary