About

The essential theme in my work is the inseparable relation between space, self and body. My work is mainly site-specific: large scale installations, clinging closely to the architecture of the exhibitions space. I prefer working with simple materials such as wall paint or paper, which I process in different ways, charging its everyday expression with a quality of poetic ambiguity.
Working manually, my hand leaves traces in the material bearing witness to the physical act of the work itself, evoking an echo within the viewer. These traces also tell about the time spent producing the work, a contrast to the ephemerality implied by the fragile materials.

Annika Vilhelmson

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Born 1979 in Göteborg, Sweden
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden

Education
2015-16                       

Project Studies for Professional Artists, glass, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm

2012 

Going Public - Art and Design in the public realm, Konstfack University College of Arts,

Craft and Design, Stockholm

2003-2008                

Five-Year Programme in Fine Arts (MFA), Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2000-2003                

Göteborgs Konstskola
1999-2000                 

KV Konstskola, Göteborg

Grants

2023

Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 2 years working grant

2021

Helge Ax:son Johnssons stiftelse

International exchange/Swedish Arts Grants Committee

2019                            

6 months residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris/Royal Academy of Fine Arts

2015                            

C L Kinmansson’s travel grant/Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2011                             

Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 1 year working grant

2008                          

Ernst, Julius och Adine Ekelin’s fund

Fam Gustaf Tobison’s fund

Seth Linné’s fund

2007                           

Sigrid Fridman’s fund

2006                           

Stellan, Sten och Märta Hähnel's memorial fund
2002                          

Eric Ericson's foundation

Exhibitions

2024

Det tycks finnas en viss närhet

LÅMA, Göteborg, Sweden

2023

Be Mine

ccap, Stockholm, Sweden

2018                           

Översikt/Process/Minne
 LAC, Kållandsö, Sweden

Gelitin + Annika Vilhelmson
Stereo Exchange, Köpenhamn, Denmark

2017                           

Åtkomst
Galleri Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden

2014                           

famnad:fjärmad:förändrad, del III
Toppen, Stockholm, Sweden

2013                           

Läge (Kontinuerlig förhandling)

Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, Norway
2013                           

Inverted Space
Galleri 54, Göteborg, Sweden
2010                           

Utanför, strax intill
Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg, Sweden
2008

Kungliga Konsthögskolans Vårutställning
Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden

2007

A room of its own, Magisterutställning
Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden
Stipendiatutställning Eric Ericsons stiftelse
Konsthallen Mimers hus, Kungälv, Sweden