Throughout her career Maria Lindberg has utilized a wide variety of media ranging from text, video, drawings, sound, artists’ books, found objects and paintings. Starting out from the early contemplative and process based work addressing architecture and individuals, Lindberg’s work has continued to explore relationships in time, endless or capsuled, and what consequence it may have through the challenge and desire of disappearance.
A strong advocate of the economy of simplicity, with her choices of material being basic and with objects recycled from the everyday, Maria Lindberg’s film- and video always endure in real time, with certain actions being monitored until they lapse or reach completion. This is executed in the film Friday the 13th, featured in the exhibition: a 5 hour car drive from the artist’s home to the opening reception of the museum where she herself was exhibiting, filming the road left behind, handing over the new work at the arrival.
Maria Lindberg’s work has been displayed at several well-known art institutes, galleries and biennials in Scandinavia, Europe and the USA. Futura in Prague is currently showing a broad selection of the artist’s productions, having compiled for the first time works from the mid-1980s until the present day. The curator and the initiator of the exhibition is Mats Stjernstedt, director of Index, the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.
The project was organized through the support of :
Iaspis
The year-round exhibition plan of FUTURA is supported by:
Ministerstvo kultury ČR, Magistrát hl.m. Prahy
Thanks to:
Imarmitaliani, Embassy of Sweden, Moderna Museet
Main media partners:
Radio Wave, Umělec, Flash Art
Media support:
Pragueout, Artmap, Artyčok.tv, Radio 1
Technical equipment partner:
Samsung
