Biography:
Eva Drangsholt lives in Oslo, Norway, and works mainly with experimental art videos and video installations. Her creations come across as profoundly moving, but sometimes also quite disturbing, as she erects perceptual platforms for dissecting and testing psychological and sociological issues. Subjects are often presented through the use of archetypes, and the experiences of identification and estrangement.
Curriculum Vitae
Art Education:
• 2006 – 2008: Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
• 2003 – 2006: Bachelor in Fine Art, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Department of Fine Art (Kunsthøyskolen i Bergen, avd. Kunstakademiet), Bergen, Norway.
• 2002 – 2003: Foundation Fine Art, Oslo tegne- og maleskole, Oslo, Norway.
Solo shows:
• April – May, 2009: WIP:Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
• February – March, 2009: Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden.
• January – February, 2009: Prosjektrommet, Galleri Trafo, Asker, Norway.
• February 2008: Konsthögskolans galleri KHM, MFA-exhibition, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
• March 2005: Prosjektrommet, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Department of Fine Art (Kunsthøyskolen i Bergen, avd. Kunstakademiet), Bergen, Norway.
Group shows and screenings:
• Starting February 2009: ExhibitContainer, 10 international video artists, web gallery VISUALCONTAINER, Italy.
• January – June, 2009: Vestlandsutstillingen 2009, Ålesund, Førde, Stavanger, Bergen, and Haugesund, Norway.
• October – November, 2008: Artoconecto, Miami, Florida, USA.
• October 2008: Transvizualia 008: Mediascream!, The Fear Syndrome, Pomorski Park Naukowo-Technologiczny, Gdynia, Poland.
• September 2008: Fredagsbio, Kopenhagen Contemporary, TTC Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• August 2008: VIDEOPLAY 08, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• June – July, 2008: Biological Imperative, Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
• May 2008: LOOP Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
• December 2007: Transfera, TV program realized for Canal Autor, Madrid, Spain.
• October 2007: Tuscany International Film Festival Visionaria, Piombino, Italy.
• October 2007: MIVICO 07, I Mostra Internacional De Videocreacións De O Condado, Pontevedra, Spain.
• October 2007: Five International Video/Short Films, PI Performance & Intermedia Festival, Szczecin, Poland.
• September 2007: Video Art Review, the 16th European Film Festival DokumentART, Szczecin, Poland.
• September 2007: The Subversive Body Video Show, Raw Tactics, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, USA.
• September 2007: The Subversive Body Video Show, Raw Tactics, Melwood Screening Room in Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Starting June, 2007:Women Directors Cut - edition II - June'07, online film festival curated by Agricola de Cologne, Germany.
• May – June, 2007: Loop Film festival, Barcelona, Spain.
• March 2007: Connect 2007 Festival, Signal-to-Noise, Malmö, Sweden.
• March 2007: Limited Access, curator: Amirali Ghasemi, Azad Art Gallery, Theran, Iran.
• February 2007: Gallery 400, The Captivity Show, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
• February 2007: Gallery 21:24 & Gallery 21:25, Malmö - Oslo, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Visual Art, Oslo, Norway.
• December 2006: Gallery Peep, Malmö - Oslo, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden.
• December 2006: TIFF '06 - Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, Albania.
• December 2006: INPORT - International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallin, Estonia.
• November 2006: Phanteon Experimental 5.0, Pantheon Cultural Association, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• November 2006: III Muestra Int. de Arte Digital ORILLA#06, Museo de Arte Contempor neo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
• November 2006 – March 2007: 2nd On the Road Video Festival, screenings at 119 Gallery, Lowell, Massachusetts, Busboys and Poets, Washington DC, USA, La Caxa, Barcelona, Spain.
• November 2006: LA Freewaves - 10th Biennial Film, Video and New Media Art Festival, Too Much Freedom? Los Angeles, California, USA.
• November 2006: 20th Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig, Germany.
• November 2006: FESTIVALMAU_06, Savagery and Animal Life, Associação de Músicós, Faro, Portugal.
• November 2006: Flex Film, The Second Florida Competitive Experimental Film/Video Biennial, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
• October 2006: DOCUSUR, Festival Internacional de Documentales del Sur, International Southern Documentary Film Festival, Guía de Isora, Tenerife, Spain.
• September – October 2006: Festival Internazionale del Film sull'Arte e di Biografie d'Artista 2006, Asolo International Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy.
• September 2006: Cologne OFF II, Image vs Music - Edition II, online film festival curated by Agricola de Cologne, Germany.
• September 2006: 2nd annual Pixel Pops! Praha 06, C2C Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• September 2006: 5th International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia.
• August 2006: Play IV, International Video Art Festival, (In) Place Of Fear, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• August 2006: 8th International Multimedia Art Festival IMAF 2006, Multimedial Art Studio, Odzaci, Serbia.
• August 2006: 4th Imaginaria Film Festival, Official Selection, Conversano, Italy.
• July 2006: State of Exception, Studio 27, San Francisco, USA.
• June 2006: Festival Images Contre Nature/P'Silo, Marseilles, France.
• June 2006: 34. Festival Der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria.
• May 2006: Anymous Performance VII, Festival Media Section, Galerie Mìsta Plznì, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
• May 2006: 16th International Video Festival Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
• May 2006: European Media Art Festival, EMAF 2006, Osnabrück, Germany.
• May 2005: Bachelorutstillingen, Kunstrom, Bergen, Norway.
• May 2006: Documenta Madrid 06, Short Films Original Documentary Section, Madrid, Spain.
• April 2006: Norwydeo 2, Laznia Centra for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Polen.
• April 2006: Belle Arte Lamia 2006, Kafodeio Orfeas, Lamia, Greece.
• April 2006: 2nd Athens Video Arts Festival, Athens, Greece.
• March 2006: Silverlake Film Festival, Arclight Cinemas, Hollywood, California, USA.
• March 2006: John Skis or Sally Swims, screening from the UKS' video festival at Landmark, Bergen, Norway.
• February – March 2006: Technologized Bodies / Embodied Technologies, Art Interactive Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• February 2006: John Skis or Sally Swims, video festival at Unge kunstneres samfunn (Young Artists' Society), UKS, Oslo, Norway.
• February – September 2006: Vestlandsutstillingen 2006 (annual juried exhibition for the western part of Norway). Exhibition sites in Norway: Haugesund, Ålesund, Florø, Stavanger, Stord, Bergen.
• February – October 2006: Art Tech Media 06, Spain. List of screenings: Feria De Arte Contemporáneo Arco 2006, The Assembly Hall, Madrid; Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Tenerife, The Canary Islands; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, MACUF, Coruna; Museo Vasco Artium, Vitoria; Museo Da2, Salamanca; Centro Párraga, Murcia; BilbaoArte, Bilbao; Casa Asia, Barcelona; CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporónia de Barcelona; Museo Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
• October 2005: NORWYDEO - an evening of Norwegian video in San Francisco, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Fransisco, USA.
• September 2005 – July 2007: Third Annual Eu-Stuart.si Student Intermedia Festival, organized by Artists Association Galerija GT and Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenija. Screened at Šola uporabnih umetnosti FAMUL STUART, Ljubljana, Slovenia; KUD France Preseren, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Studentska Arena - MINI KINO, Ljubljana, Slovenia; MC Dravograd, Dravograd, Slovenia; IF Museum Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland; Kukabar Club, Poznan, Poland; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland; MMC Velenje, Velenje, Slovenia; Rdeca Ostriga, Škofja Loka, Slovenia; Šola uporabnih umetnosti FAMUL STUART, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Celica, Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Festival Videorats, Celje, Slovenia.
• January + February 2005: Snack on Art, Time Warner Networks, weekly TV programme based in New York City, New York, USA.
• December 2004: CINE FANTOM 2 - Russian Alternative Cinema, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• November 2004: Best of the Kansk Festival 2004, video screening Club Blue Phantom, Cinema Wick, Moscow, Russia.
• October 2004: The competitive program of the 3rd International Kansk Video Festival, Studio Videodom, Moscow, Russia.
• October 2004: Bryant University Video Festival, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA.
• September 2004: 6e Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique Montréal (MIVAEM), Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada.
• September 2004: 3rd International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia.
• February 2004: Can'art du CROUS, Petits et grands d_lires vid_ographiques, Theatre Trioletto, Montpellier, France.
• November 2003: 17e Rencontres Video Art Plastique, Le Centre D'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair/Caen, France.
Performance:
• November 2003: Universe And A Grain Of Rice, Landmark, Bergen, Norway.
• October 2003: Mandala; in co-operation with Verdensteateret, Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway.
Painting:
• June 2005: Summer Exhibition, Galleri Steen, Oslo, Norway.
Grants:
• December 2008: Exhibition support (Mobilitets stöd), Nordic Culture Point (Kulturkontakt Nord).
• November 2008: Project support, Arts Council Norway (Norsk kulturråd).
• October 2007: Travel grant, Norsk filmvederlagsfond (Norwegian governmental agency supporting film production).
• December 2006: International Support, OCA - Office For Contemporary Art Norway (Norwegian governmental agency supporting contemporary art practices).
• December 2006: Travel grant, Norsk filmvederlagsfond (Norwegian governmental agency supporting film production).
• May 2006: Travel grant, Norsk filmvederlagsfond (Norwegian governmental agency supporting film production).
Awards:
• 2007: The Oslo Phone Book selected to be among the best 10 films submitted in the section "VisionArt, Visual Arts in Movement" at the Tuscany International Film Festival - Visionaria, Siena, Italy.
• 2006: Diplomas with commendations issued for All Shall Be Well and The Oslo Phone Book, 34. Festival Der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria.