Sound Art at Mannaminne 2025. So fun to install this sound piece in the coastal Museum at Mannaminne. The exhibition is running until 31st of August.
Bjurholmsbiennalen 2025 – I ljuset av Sommartriangeln
Glad to be part of this show. Opening the 19th of July.
Paadmaan video event #3
Tallyho, Tallyho I have shot a dodo is part of Paadmaan video event at Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose is a rose. Amsterdam 6th - 7th of October 2024.
Opening at Vasa konsthall, Finland
”we dug in the earth, and…” at Vasa konsthall. 29.8 - 24.9 2024.
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opening tonight 24.5 at DIGITALISEUM, Malmö
HELENA WIKSTRÖM (SE) Seen in the flowing water and heard in the whispering wind…
LADISLAV KOSA (SE) • Floravariationer
Exhibition period 23 May – 14 September 2024
Opening on Friday 24 May at 17:00 - 23:00
Live performance: Friday 24/5 Concert with 19:00 HAZEL´S HOUSE (SE) • DJ BLANNEDANS (SE) will play the during the opening • Saturday 25/5 Concert with 13:30 HAZEL´S HOUSE (SE) • DJ BLANNEDANS (SE) will play during the afternoon.
The exhibition is a part of SOUTHERN SWEDEN DESIGN DAYS 2024
Seen in the flowing water and heard in the whispering wind…
The work of Helena Wikström seeks to go underground - below the surface. She digs dens, creates tunnels and descends below the earth's crust and the surface of the water in search of a space of gravity, a space defined by the attraction of our bodies to the ground. Using gravity as a compass, she draws a vertical map of the seabed which we cannot see. It feels as if the movement, up and down, rethinks a traditional world view, how we have learned to read the world, time, as horizontal. We also find a curiosity about who populates these places, be they real beings or mythological figures. At Digitaliseum, Helena shows film, photo, sound art and papier-mâché sculptures.
upcoming show at Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå
Bottnens Beskaffenhet
3.2 - 10.3 2024
umeå filmfestival 2023
Tallyho, Tallyho I have shot a dodo will be screened at Umeå Filmfestival the 2nd and 5th of December 2023.
Artist in residence - Hallands konstmuseum
Happy to spend some weeks in the west coast of Sweden.
Through Art in Halland's exchange program with the Art Consultants in Västerbotten, the artist Helena Wikström will live and work in Halland between 12-25 September, with Halland's Art Museum in Halmstad as her base. Among other things, she will visit archives, the Artisans' Collective Workshops in Varberg and Halmstad and the Onsala Peninsula with a focus on the place where Mary Wollstonecraft disembarked in 1795. In this way, she will be given the opportunity to immerse herself in what Halland looked like in the past, and at the same time find new connections to our contemporary.
link: Konst i Halland
Sett i det strömmande vattnet.
Opening of the exhibition Älven on Saturday 10th of June with artists Sebastian Adolfsson, Gunilla Åsberg, Helena Wikström and Madelaine Sillfors.
exhibition "Inunder" at Tegen 2 in Stockholm
Sebastian Poras Adolfsson, Gerd Aurell, Fanny Carinasdotter, Simon Gran Danielsson, Maral Mavizi, Maria K Olsson, Mattias Olofsson, Moa Ryman and Helena Wikström
31.3 - 22.4
Open fred-sönd kl 13-17
What is on the other side, beyond the everyday world? Under the surface, the ground, the skin and the consciousness. When we go beyond the boundaries that have been set up.What happens when we stop casually strolling across the lawn and instead lift up the blades of grass to see what's underneath
vadaren / the wader
Mine and Gerd Aurell´s film the Vadaren/ The Wader can now be found in the archive of Filmform.
Västerbotten Regional Art Grant
Very happy to receive Västerbotten regional Art Grant and the beautiful words:
Motivering: Helena Wikström ger sig orädd i kast med nya projekt, bemästrar nya tekniker och berättar nya historier. Genom sina arbeten kommunicerar konstnären ny kunskap, blottlägger tidigare okända sammanhang och kallar på uppmärksamhet kring aktuella frågeställningar. Det pågående projektet om dronten belyser utmaningar kring miljö, exotism, kolonialism, ställer frågor kring bildens trovärdighet och är tänkt att publiceras i bokform.
Helena Wikström är ytterst aktiv och synlig inom regionens konstsammanhang, bland annat som en av grundarna till Galleri Verkligheten, aktiv i Iaspis-gruppen samt ansvarig för programmet på Vita Kuben. Hennes konstnärskap håller genomgående hög kvalitet och är en av regionens mest framstående röster.
Exhibition in Stockholm at Tegen2
I am part of the group show "genom tusen strider och smekningar" at Tegen2 curated by Ida Rödén and Erik Berggren. Up and running until the 16th of October.
I am showing the dodo-mask and a sound piece made in collaboration with Henrik Oja and Lina Hognert.
Artists: Gerd Aurell, Ann-kristin Källström. Britta Marakatt-Labba, Norra kollektivet, Evelina Sondell, Helena Wikström and Ulla-Carin Winter.
AIR Niederösterreich
Happy to spend April in Krems an der Donau at AIR neiderösterreich.
AIR niederösterreich
studio space
Retake a place - Reuse a space
Happy to be part of this project and now in Rome between the 9.11 - 19.12 2021.
Circolo scandinavo is happy to have the opportunity to offer 5 grants in the frame of Retake a place, reuse a space, a one-year cultural project supported by Kulturkontakt Nord. Through our collaboration with Stalker, a collective practice based in Rome, Circolo Scandinavo invites 5 Nordic artists and researchers to join local inhabitants, artists, architects, and experts, for a collective exploration of unused or abandoned urban sites in the Eternal city.
The project aims to create connections between the specificity of the local situation and a global context from an ecological, social, cultural, and economic point of view. The artistic processes will be in the centre of a collective exploration producing interdisciplinary connections and allowing for unexpected meetings and new perspectives on crucial global challenges.
The residence is part of the local cultural project, La Zattera (The Raft) and the Scuola di urbanesimo nomade (School of Nomadic Urbanism), led by Stalker and part of the cultural season of the City of Rome. Participants from both the Nordic region and Italy will have the possibility to develop artistic projects and knowledge building, with focus on reuse of existing urban sites, in parallel with the activities offered by the cultural program of La Zattera.
The situation of Rome will be used as a starting point because of its specific long history of reusing urban heritage, from monuments and historical events to small pieces of marble spolia in a church wall or ruins turned into parks and artificial landscapes. The project is a collaboration between Circolo Scandinavo, Stalker, South Iceland Biennal and Umeå school of architecture/UMARTS. Several collateral activities will take place on South Iceland and Umeå in 2022.
Group show in Karis, Finland.
Opening the 11th of August. A group show with members from the artist run space Verkligheten in Umeå.
Umeå kommuns konststipendium 2019
Mottog Umeå kommuns konststipendium 2019 med den fina motiveringen:
”Berättelsen är central i Helena Wikströms konstnärskap och den gestaltas med hjälp av olika medier och metoder. Ibland arbetar Wikström solo, ibland i samarbete med andra.
Det är inte alla konstnärer som efter en kurs i animation ger sig på att göra en hel dokumentärfilm, men det gjorde Wikström!
Resultatet blev den historiska dokumentären ”Radio Black Peter” som senare sändes på SVT under bästa sändningstid. Dokumentärfilmen och projektet resulterade också i en utställning med titeln: ”Pussel och pirater” på Västerbottens museum 2018. Utställningen vittnar om ett omfattande konstnärligt forskningsarbete om de första radiopiraterna i Sverige 1952 och den lilla byn Lomsjö i Västerbotten.
Som alltid då Wikström gestaltar något, så gör hon det med stor känsla och kunskap om både material och rumslighet.
Hennes arbete har under de senaste åren rört sig mellan många olika teman och uttryck.
Från projekt som exempelvis; ”Emergency Exit” till projektet; ”The Bubble Floats Before”. Delar ur ”Emergency Exit” visades i Umeå konsthall 2015 under titeln ”Radioskugga”.
Här tar Wikström med oss in i ”The Corner House” i Riga, där hon låter fotografi av ljusreflexer från exitskyltar berätta delar av stadens historia. ”The Bubble Floats Before” är en videoinstallation som bygger på dialog mellan konstnären själv och den brittiska roman- och novellförfattaren Mary Shelley (1797-1851).
Ett psykologiskt möte mellan två kvinnor, vars liv och tankar flätas samman.
En poetisk och mångbottnad videogestaltning. Verket visades senast i London 2019.
Förutom ett starkt och särpräglat konstnärskap är Helena Wikström en drivande kraft bakom Umeås konstscen. Detta bland annat genom sitt mångåriga engagemang i det konstnärsdrivna Galleri Verkligheten och som konstnärlig ledare för Vita Kuben på Norrlandsoperan.”
Arbetets Museum Norrköping
OPENING: DOKUMENTÄRFOTOSALONG 2019
Sat 7th of sep 2019
Kl: 14:00 - 15:30
I participate with three photos in this exhibition at Arbetets Museum in Norrköping.
Arbetets Museum
FUBAR exhibition
I will take part in this group show in The Crypt Gallery in St Pancras New Church where I will show my film The bubble floats before.
Radio Black Peter
The documentary film Radio Black Peter can now be seen on SVT play until the 18th of June.
https://www.svtplay.se/video/20344278/radio-black-peter
A radio historical documentary that tells the story about how the first radio pirates in Sweden, two woodsmen from Lomsjö challenged the swedish radio monopoly while the Swedish Security police where chasing them throughout the northern Swedish forests.
producer: Therese Högberg, Bautafilm
directors: Helena Wikström, Simon Öhman-Jönsson
photography: Simon Öhman-Jönsson
animation: Helena Wikström
music: Henrik Oja
editor: Fredrik Oscarsson, Bautafilm
A co-production between Bautafilm, SVT and Film i Västerbotten. With support from: ANIDOX: LAB, Nordisk kulturkontakt mobilitetsstöd.