Screening of Discrete Matehematics at Musée de la chasse et de la nature, Paris 19th of November at 6 PM.
With support from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, contribution to international exchange.
2024.11.02
The Future Futures Talk Show – Nordic Youth Symposium 2025
Place: Konstfack, Svarta Havet, 2-6 pm
Welcome to an afternoon of presentations, panel discussions and interviews looking at the film medium’s potential for reversing gazes and recentering critical dialogues. Which stories matter today? How can we tell them using video and film?
SCHEDULE:
14:00–14:15 Introduction and welcome
14:15–15:15 On Controlling the Narrative.
Index Teen Advisory Board (Stockholm) in conversation with artist and activist Roxy Farhat
15:30–16:30 How to Tell the Present? PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board (Helsinki) in conversation with artist Vanja Sandell Billström
16:45 –17:45 The Camera as Witness.
PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (Oslo) present their work from the Young Curators Mentorship with Nitja senter for samtidskunst
17:45–18:00 Closing notes
Attending the symposium is free, but you need to book a ticket by sending an email to booking@indexfoundation.se
Fri 13 September 2024, 4 – 11pm, Bolidenvägen 22, Johanneshov (close to T-station Globen)
Programme: Open studios 4-7 pm Opening Big wave small wave 4-9 pm Bar, food, DJ and party 4 pm-late! DJ Horse Kick 7.30-10.30 pm
Opening of Marja Knape’s and Ola Keijer’s exhibition Stor våg liten våg in the project room. An exhibition with sound, sculptural installation and drawings. The exhibition i open 13-21 September, Saturdays and Sundays 12-4pm, other times by agreement.
Slakthusateljéerna was founded in 2010 in Stockholm’s meatpacking district as a studio association and project space for contemporary art. Two years later we moved into our current premises, a few blocks away at Bolidenvägen 22. Today the building houses studios for twenty-five professional artists and a project space for internal and public activities. Slakthusateljéerna is a non-profit organisation that runs on a voluntary and independent basis.
We are: Max Alletzhauser, Shiva Niiko Anoushirvani, Eva Arnqvist, Sven Blume, Johnny Chang, Anaïde Chirinian, Mira Eklund, Katarina Elvén, Beatrice L’Estrade Ehrström, Anna Viola Hallberg, Anna Henriksson, Ludvig Hällje, Anna Högberg, Marja Knape, My Lindh, Katarina Lundgren, mirko nikolić, Anja Olofgörs, Malin Pettersson Öberg, Hans Rosenström, Tova Rudin-Lundell, Vanja Sandell Billström, Teres Selberg, Erik Sjödin.
2024.08.25
Screening of “Park” in film program curated by Filmform
Röda Rosens Allmänna Sammankomst, Högalidsparken, Stockholm 3-9 pm.
The film program is presented in collaboration with Filmform with the theme “Self-organization and the city as a scene”
Screening program from 7:30: – Park (2020) 15 min. Av Vanja Sandell Billström & Lucia Pagano – Odjuret (1953) 5 min. Av Per Olof Grönstrand & Nils Olsén – Aktivering Samtal! (2020) 58 min. Av Mats Eriksson Dunér
Loophole Cinema presentes: The Spectator and the Spectacle.
The program consists of 6 short films which, across genres, explore the importance of the camera in space and its impact on subject and spectator. Loophole is a cinema without a permanent residence that, with a focus on short and experimental films, will create film screenings in Copenhagen and Stockholm. At 7:30 pm in the photo studio at Ryesgade 82, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Screening in the short film section Swedish shorts: Fri 26.1, 5:30, Hagabion 1 Sun 28.1, 10:00, Hagabion 1 Tue 30.1, 7:30, Hagabion 2 Sat 3.2, 2:30, Hagabion 2
2021.09.17
Lagrat liv has been purchased for the Moderna Museet collection
Lagrat liv, video installation, 50 min. loop, 2014.
Artists whose works have been purchased for the Moderna Museet collection within the framework of Swedish Acquisitions 2021 are listed here.
“Vanja Sandell Billströms and Reza Hazares, one of the artist duos in the project Shared History*, built their artistic collaboration on sharing stories. Their method of exploring different interpretations of “shared history” was to take turns being the listener and the narrator. Questions about privileges, responsibilities and how both memories and bodies are deformed by living under pressure as a result of stress or exile, were central points of departure from which their personal stories are told.
With the in Sweden so-called refugee crisis in 2015 as a starting point, we take part of two different perspectives that show personal contemplations in the middle of a historical event. In Winzip Senses, the feeling of isolation plays a big role. The walls of the apartment and everyday objects are given new ambiguous meanings and become both a security and a wall to the outside world. When we are currently experiencing a completely different crisis, a pandemic that forces us to physically shield ourselves from each other, we can see the film from a new horizon and open up for new readings of the stories that are told. ”
Färgfabriken is an art venue in Stockholm, Sweden. Winzip Senses is available on Färgfabriken’s website until the 21th of January 2021: fargfabriken.se
*The Shared History project was a collaboration between Färgfabriken, LCCA in Latvia and the Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Poland, co-financed by the EU’s Creative Europe program.
Stockholm International Film Festival has since the start together with the Swedish Film Institute presented one of the biggest short film awards called 1 KM film to a promising new director who will get the chance to film a new short film .
1 KM Film Tue 17th of Nov, 5 pm, Bio Mauritz, Filmhuset
National Competition 5 Sat 24/10 at 3 pm, Reginateatern, Uppsala Short film festival Play: 19-25 October
2020.09.27
The 33rd Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy
The film Park has been selected for the program SHORT DOCS: MICROCOSMOS The Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy (Finnish: Rakkautta & Anarkiaa) is a non-competitive film festival held since 1988 in Helsinki, Finland, yearly in September. The festival promotes the artistry of filmmaking, the inventive, visually stunning and controversial new films, revealing the promising talents of tomorrow. The festival was named after the 1973 Lina Wertmüller film Love and Anarchy.
27.9. at 4.15 Kinopalatsi 10, Helsinki
2020.08.20 – 2020.08.30
Park in group exhibition at Färgfabriken, Stockholm.
Manifestation Lövholmen – About sixty artists and creators participate in an initiative to draw attention to Lövholmen as a cultural hub in Stockholm. The former industrial area has for more than 25 years functioned as an important production site for culture, but today Lövholmen is undergoing and facing major changes.
20 – 30 of August Thursday to Sunday: 11 am – 4 pm Färgfabriken, Lövholmsbrinken 1, Stockholm
2020.05
”The Photographer” is referenced in a text by Eric Sundevåg: ”Fotografiet och det rituella”
”Vi blir bjudna på en oväntat underhållande resa genom ljudets värld, som lämnar oss med en musikalisk upplevelse, trots att filmen inte innehåller någon musik. Det känns uppenbart att filmarna haft en tydlig vision av ljudets roll i sin skapandeprocess och att de vågat ge ljudet en central plats för berättandet. Ljud, framför allt inom dokumentärfilm, är ofta nedprioriterat och används många gånger som en sista lösning för att binda ihop handling och utformning. Denna film gör motsatsen.”
Thank you, the best sound designer Claes Lundberg! And thank you Tempo and Momento Film!
2020.02.05
PARK is nominated to Tempo Short Award!
Tempo Documentary Festival is the largest festival of its kind in Sweden. This years festival tkaes place in Stockholm between 2 – 8 March.
Screenings: Sat 7 March, 1:30 pm at Bio Rio. Sun 9 March, 1:00 pm at Victoria.
2019.12.10
PARK is nominated to Best Swedish Short Competition!
PARK is a short documentary by Lucia Pagano and Vanja Sandell Billström. The film is now in the prestigious competition at Göteborg Film Festival.
World premiere: the 26th of January, Göteborg, Sweden.
2019.09.10
Participating artist at the inauguration of Mindepartementet, Stockholm.
17.00 – 00.00, Mindepartementet, Royal Institute of Art, Slupskjulsvägen 26A, Stockholm, Sweden.
On the september 10 the Royal Institute of Art inaugurates the Mindepartementet, the school’s new location at Skeppsholmen for teaching and research in moving image, photography, performance and sound art. The evening is celebrated with a festival filled with performance, film and installations.
7-9:30 pm. Monbijougatan 17, (enter through the courtyard). Organized by: FilmCentrum Syd, Grand Öl & Mat and Folkets Bio Malmö with support from ABF Malmö & Malmö Stad.
Winzip Senses (Hazare/Sandell) is going to be screened in the National Competion at the 37th Uppsala International Short Film Festival.
Screenings: Swedish short film 1 Wedneday 24th of October at 5 pm. Saturday 27th of October at 1 pm.
The full programme will be published on their website in the beginning of October: www.shortfilmfestival.com
2018.05.05 – 2018.06.03
Winzip Senses is screened at Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, Gdansk.
In addition to the exhibition Shared History with works by Ibrahim Mouhanna and Agnieszka Wołodźko, Rezas and my film “Winzip Senses” is being screened at St. John’s Centre in Gdansk.
St. John’s Centre, 50 Świętojańska Street, Gdansk Open daily 10 am – 6 pm
2018.05.05 – 2018.08.19
SHARED HISTORY – GROUP SHOW AT FÄRGFABRIKEN
With: Valeria Montti Colque, Hala Alnaji, Vanja Sandell Billström och Reza Hazare.
Opening the 5th of May, 11 – 5, talk at 2.30 pm.
Location: Färgfabriken, Lövholmsbrinken 1 , 117 43 Stockholm
Shared History is a cross-disciplinary project with the goal of critically connecting and artistically interpreting the different reactions on the refugee situation that are strongly affecting, shaping and dividing the European Union, on both a political and domestic level. With a Baltic scope, the project’s creative research process will approach issues such as policy making, judicial and geographical borders, statistics, identity, public opinion and post-truth information related to migration and integration in Sweden, Poland and Latvia.
The exhibition Shared History opens in Färgfabrik’s project rooms on May the 5th. The exhibition shows two installations processed during several months of collaboration between the artist Valeria Montti Colque and the architect Hala Alnaji, as well as the artists Vanja Sandell Billström and Reza Hazare.The architect Hala Alnaji and the artist Valeria Montti have explored how the relationship with nature is connected with integration and with people’s thought and dreams of feeling at home. What does the ”Swedish nature” mean to those who recently arrived in Sweden?
The artists Vanja Sandell Billström and Reza Hazare creates a collective view based on questions of privilege, responsibility and how both memories and bodies are deformed by living under pressure as a result of stress and refuge.
The designers Gabriel Maher and Isabel Mager stand for a graphic deconstruction of the project application. By dissecting the bureaucratic graphical interface, the idea of measurable culture and its instrumental purpose is clarified.
2017.11.23
Guest lecturer at the BFA programme in Independent Filmmaking, Akademin Valand.
2017.09.30
FILM SCREENING AND TALK BY VANJA SANDELL BILLSTRÖM
In addition to the group show: ”Dörren i muren” på Konstfrämjandet, Östergatan 9A, Malmö. Part of Malmö Gallery Night.
2017.09.08
“DÖRREN I MUREN” (The Door In the Wall)
Group show at Konstfrämjandet, Östergatan 9A, Malmö, Sweden. Participating artists: Vanja Sandell Billström, Monika Marklinger, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Goldin + Senneby. Curators: Kalle Brolin och Hans Carlsson.
Opening reception 8th of September, kl. 17-20. The show will be open until the 7th of October.
“Dörren i muren” is an exhibition concerned with artistic method, based on close readings of the complete works of writer Sven Lindqvist (b. 1932). The exhibition revolves around the artistic, philosophical and rhetorical methods of Lindqvist, which are here compared to modes of working in the context of contemporary art. [read more…]
2017.02.15:
Receiving the 3 years studio-grant of Stockholm Municipality .
2017.02.12
ARTIST CONVERSATION BETWEEN KARIN SANDBERG AND VANJA SANDELL BILLSTRÖM
This weekend is the last chance to see the video work Utsikterna(in english: The Views). In addition to this there will be an artist conversation between Karin Sandberg and Vanja Sandell Billström, Sunday February the 12th, at 2. pm.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
