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2017.01.13 – 2017.02.12
SOLO SHOW AT GALLERI BOX
UTSIKTERNA
Vanja Sandell Billström
13/1 – 12/2
Opening reception Friday the 13th, 6-9 pm.
2016.10.04
Receiving one-year-grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
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2016.10.04
Guest lecturer at the BFA programme in independent filmmaking, Akademin Valand, Göteborg
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2016.05.13 – 2016.05.21
Opening for Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris’ video installation ”Penelope and Lucinda”
Penelope: Anna Kinbom
Lucinda: Iris Smeds
The Swimmer: Sanna Taune
Art Director: Angela Woda
Videographer (Penelope): Vanja Sandell Billström
Videographer (Lucinda): Lucia Pagano
Editor: Nick Garner
Research Assistant: Evan Bailey
Exhibition Response: Jasmine Hinks
Exhibition Scenography: Joanna Nordin
Academic Seminars: Annika Wik and Josefine Wikstrom
The work is shown as part of Mejan Residents‘ exhibtion FOOTERING NOTES.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/159004277833512/
Opening of Exhibition at Galleri Mejan,Skeppsholmen.
5pm – 8pm
Exhibition continues until Saturday 21st May
Open weekends 12pm-5pm and weekdays 12-6pm
Galleri Mejan, Execrisplan 3, Stockholm.
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2015.10.16
Guest lecturer at the BFA programme in independent filmmaking, Akademin Valand, Göteborg
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2015.09.01 – 2015.11.01
Map of the new art, Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection
Venezia – Fondazione Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Almost 7,000 artist with 10×12 cm artworks from Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton’s global art project. The exhibition includes collections from more than 40 nations and native peoples representing the five continents.
The book ”Archive of Visions and Actions – Contemporary Art from Sweden” presents 214 artworks by 227 Swedish artists together with introductory texts to the artist and their artworks. The book contains essays by project architect and collector Luciano Benetton, curator Paula von Set and art critic Dan Jönsson. Editors: PhD Art Historian Jacon Kimvall, curator Paula von Seth and journalist Sven Carlsson.
Opening: Monday, 31 August 2015, 7 pm
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2015.04.16 – 2015.04.19
Supermarket Art Fair
Tor – Fre 12.00–20.00, Lör – Sön 11.00–20.00. Svarta Huset, Telefonplan, Stockholm.
Inbjuden av Verkstad: Rum för konst att visa videoverket ”Lagrat liv”. I samband med detta förhandsläpps boken Rum för konst ‘9-15 där jag bidragit med en text.
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2015.04.16 – 2015.04.19
SUPERMARKET ART FAIR
Invited by Verkstad: Rum för konst to show the video intstallation ”Lagrat liv”. In connection to the event there will be a pre-launch of the book ”Rum för konst ‘9-15” where Vanja is one of the contributors.
Thu-Fri 12–8 pm, Sat-Sun 11-8pm. Svarta Huset, Telefonplan, Stockholm.
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2015.04.10
RELEASE PARTY FOR THE FILM MAGAZINE Filmögon
Screening of works by:
Annika Eriksson | Patrik Eriksson | Maria von Hausswolff | Carl-Henrik Svenstedt | Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans | Vanja Sandell Billström
Contributors to the magazine: Ehab Aljaby, Gert Aspelin, Bianca Maria Barmen, Axel Berger, Nina Bondeson, Kalle Brolin, Kira Carpelan, Malte Conrad, Peter Dacke, Martin Dahlqvist, Annika Eriksson, Patrik Eriksson, Christina Erman Widerberg, Erik Hemmendorff, Lisa Jeannin, Dan Jönsson, Tamara de Laval, Johanne Lykke Holm, Szilvia Molnar, Kristina Müntzig, Vanja Sandell Billström, Rolf Schuurmans, Annika Svenbro, Carl-Henrik Svenstedt, Isabel Theselius, Mim Tosting, Benjamin Wagner, Joel Widerberg, David Zimmerman.
Facebook-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/387993184733909/
7 pm, Industrigatan 26, Malmö.
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2015.03.19
INTERVIEW IN VIDEOFOCUS STIGMART10 ART REVIEW 12th EDITION.
http://issuu.com/stigmart10press/docs/stigmart_videofocus_special_edition_0913d9a6da771d/4
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2015.02.28
Moder Blod #1 2015
5 pm, Tellus Bio, Stockholm
Screening of the film ”What there is”. Vanja will be present for a Q&A. To attend, please sign up at: http://goo.gl/forms/dWIvx4OaH3 Welcome!
Tellus Bio, Vattenledningsvägen 46, 126 33 Hägersten, Sweden
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2015.01.22-2015.02.02
LET ME TELL YOU A STORY
Göteborgs Konsthall
New video art from the Nordic countries is exhibited at Göteborgs Konsthall as part of the Gothenburg Film Festival in 2015. The exhibition is open January 22 to February 2. The first edition of a long term cooperation between Göteborgs Konsthall and the film festival, the exhibition is called “Let Me Tell You a Story” and includes works by artists from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & WORKS:
Salla Tykkä: Giant (2014)
Vanja Sandell Billström: Det Som Finns (2014)
Lene Berg: Gompen og andre beretninger om overvåking i Norge 1948-89 (2014)
Sille Storihle & Jumana Manna: The Goodness Regime (2014)
Laura Horelli: A Letter to Mother (2013)
Eva Tind: This Is Not The End of The World (2014)
Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir och Markús Þór Andrésson: Time and Time and Again (2014)
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3 december 2014: ”What There Is” is screened at Filmbar #13, 6.30 pm at Skånes Konstförening, Bragegatan 15, Malmö.
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20 – 26th of October 2014: The film ”What There Is” is in the competition for Best Swedish Short at 33rd Uppsala International Short Film Festival.
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17 – 19th of October 2014: In conjunction with the Survival Kit Festival in Umeå and the Bothnia Biennal in Vasa the films What There Is and The Photographer is being screened at the Art Boat Weekend curated by Galleri Maskinen.
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27th of September – 12th of October 2014: Solo show at Verkstad – Rum För Konst, Norrköping.
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15th of September 2014: Screening of ”The Photographer” at Prosecco e Pop Corn, Bari, Italy.
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27 August 2014: Film screening and talk at Norrköping Art Museum. 5-8 pm.
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1-3 August 2014: Group exhibition at Stockholm Music & Arts, curated by Maria Lind, Ulrika Flink and Amanda Newall. Publication ”Guidance”, edited by Hans Carlsson.
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June 2014: Art magazine Paletten #296 (Peeping Tom p. 28)
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1 Juni – 31 August 2014: Three months recidency program at Norrköping Air.