ERIK SNEDSBØL
Erik Snedsbol (real name Erik Snedsbøl) is a Norwegian artist and photographer, born in Sweden 1965. He got Norwegian father and Swedish mother. He grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Lived in various parts of Scandinavia, plus London, Buenos Aires, New York and Paris.
He have always valued physical work. Throughout his upbringing and youth he have been physically active in athletics, cycling, skiing, mountain climbing, and more. The energy that this has given him has been extremely important for his creative work.
More often than not, it has been natural for him to be inspired by things other than specifically art. He think there is a lack of interesting energy and originality in today’s contemporary art, and so he mostly work with people from outside the art scene.
His art and projects is to be consider highly emerging and cutting edge, and involves a whole range of topics such as: edgy modeling, human rights, animal rights, ecology, zoology, gender studies, sexology, sports and fashion.
Béatrice Lambert
SELECTED ACTIVITIES:
Art Studies:
Freelance research studies, New York
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
The National Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen
The National Academy of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires
Blackheath School of Art and Design, London
Exhibitions:
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Studio K, Helsinki
The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Gallery Andersson/Sandström, Sweden
Gallery F15, Jeløy, Moss
New Image Art, Los Angeles
Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg
NOMAD, Brugge, (curator Roland Patteeuw)
ITCA International Triennale of Contemporary Art 08, Prague, (curator Pilvi Kalhama)
KFA Gallery, Berlin, (curator Jukka Korkeila)
Malmö-Dakar, Malmö Konstmuseum, (curator Ousseynou Wade, Göran Christenson)
IBCA International Biennale of Contemporary Art 05, Prague, (curator Jan-Erik Lundström)
Between Skin and Orgasm, Brugge, (curator Roland Patteeuw)
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
BildMuseet, Umeå
Lofoten International Art Festival LIAF-04, (curator Göran Christenson, Tor Inge Kveum)
Moph, Tokyo, (curator Nicolas Trembley)
The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, (curator Maaretta Jaukkuri)
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
The 4th Biennial European Academies of Visual Arts, Maastricht
Collections:
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg
Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs, Oslo
The National Public Art Council, Stockholm
Postgirobygget, ENTRA Eiendom, Oslo
Statoil Art Collection, Norway
Umeå University, Umeå Municipality, Umeå
White Collection, Los Angeles
Various private collections
Former Galleries:
Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Sweden
Galleri Brandstrup, Norway
New Image Art, Los Angeles
Artist-in-residence October 2010 - January 2011