Gunilla Leander
Operates in Sweden and internationally with video, sound works, installation art and paintings.
Phone: +46 702 496060
Email: kontakt at gunillaleander.com
Homepage: www.gunillaleander.com
Solo and Group Exhibitions, Film Festivals and Commissions:
2024
– ”CUZCO UNDERGROUND CINEMA FESTIVAL”, Cuzco, Peru, October 2024, Official Selection
– ”Ciudad del Este Independent Film Festival”, Paraguay, September 2024, Official Selection
– ”11° FICLAPAZ – La Paz International Film Festival, Bolivia, September 2024, Official Selection
– ”Grand Écran Film Festival”, Paris, France, August 2024, Official Selection
– ”Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival 2024”, England, February 2024, Official Selection
– ”My Irrational Garden”, Solo exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden, January 2024
2023
– ”Near Nazareth Festival”, Afula, Israel, Finalist November 2023
– ”Geneva International Film Festival”, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2023, Official Selection
– ”Budapest Movie Awards 2023/24”, Budapest, Hungary, Official Selection
– ”British Indie Festival Film & Music”, London, September 2023, Official Selection
– ”shorts@fringe” at the Azores Fringe Festival, Portugal, June 2023, Official Selection, Award Winner, Audience Awards 2023
– ”7th Hollywood World International Film Festival-23”, Bangalore, India, Official Selection – Honorable Jury Mention
– Exhibition ”Växlande Vind”, (”Changing Wind”) at Slipvillan, Stockholm, Sweden
– ”7th Indian World Film Festival-23”, Hyderabad, India, Official Selection – Special Festival Mention
– ”Busan New Wave Short Film Festival”, South Korea, Finalist
– MDT, via Filmform and the master’s program in choreography, ”All Under”, Stockholm, Sweden
2022
– ”11th Delhi Shorts International Film Festival-22”, India, Official Selection
– The National Hall, Uppsala Castle, Rikssalen, Sweden; Interactive installation
2020
– ”Kurant Kino x Open Out Festival”: Each, Other | Kurant, Norway
2019
– Asphalt painting in a school yard, Hands-on Art, Stockholm, Sweden
– ”Där var då Här är nu”, Gallery Blå Kulan, Mörbylånga, Sweden
– Hands-on Art, workshop at Wip:sthlm, Sweden
2018
– Tolv Kvadrat – Edö Konstgalleri, Sweden, with Ulf Aneer
– Almstedt ram, Sweden
2017
– Härnösands konsthall, Sweden
2016
– Södertälje konsthall, Sweden
2015
– Wounded Galaxies Festival at Indiana University Cinema, USA
2014
– Nordic Focus at the 9th XPOSED film festival, Berlin
– The 12th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria, International competition
– ’Universal Body’ presented at Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden
2013
– Delhi International Film Festival 2013, India
2012
– New Zero Art Space/ International Multimedia Art Festival, Yangon, Myanmar
– Perspectives 2012, International festival for creative music, Västerås, Sweden
– Presentation of the short film ’Farmorland’ with discussions about Öland, Then and Now, Öland, Sweden.
2011
– BLICK, Växjö, Sweden, art film festival
2010
– Konstpiloten, workshop with High school students for exhibition in Vasaparken, Stockholm
– GAPE, Gaffel Art Park Event, Gävle, Sweden
– Supermarket, Stockholm
2009
– T-A-P-E, Arnhem, the Netherlands
– Single non-commercial screening at the Musée des beaux-arts, Décadrage. Curator: Brent Klinkum.
– Cisternfestivalen, Svanö, Sweden
– ’Photo and Moving Images in the public sphere’, evening program with Gunilla Leander, in conversation with Catrin Lundqvist at The National Public Art Council Sweden, Stockholm
2008
– ’Seven Waters’, permanent video installation, commission, Storsjöbadet, Östersund, Sweden.
Commissioned by The National Public Art Council Sweden.
2007
– Exhibition TRIGG, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
– NOASS Festival, Riga
– Cinema Lux (Boucles d’or with the Frac Basse-Normandie). Curator Brent Klinkum
2006
– Video installation ’All Under’, BAC – Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden, Solo exhibition
– Emirates Film Competition, Abu Dhabi
– In/Between; Localize, Stamsund, Lofoten, Norway
– Friktioner/Friction, International performance festival, Uppsala, Sweden
2005
– Video installation ’All Under’, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Solo exhibition
– Haninge konsthall, Stockholm, Solo exhibition
– Skanstulls Tunnelbanestation, Stockholm, Solo exhibition
– Nemo Film Festival, Paris
– Fundatia ARTeast Foundation, Tirgo Mures, Romania
– Östersunds konstvideofestival, Sweden
2004
– International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition
– Bilbao Film Festival, International Competition
SJP exhibition, Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo, Japan
– Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan
– Repetition, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
– Högtryck, Galleri ID:I, Stockholm
– Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Japan
– The Mongolian Television
2003
– All Under, Uppsala Internationella Kortfilmsfestival, Sweden
– Östersunds konstvideofestival, Sweden
– ’Man Hunt – An investigation and construction of the Real Man’, Beeoff / Splintermind, in cooperation with Rosan Bosch
2002
– Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
– Ander show, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
2001
– Alphabet, London, Solo exhibition
– Omori Belport Art Exhibition, Tokyo
– GAS, Gotheburg Art Sounds Festival, Sweden
2000
– Stardust Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
– Video to the Wire concert, Royal Festival Hall, London
– Sansung Park, South Korea
– Brustbilder, coordinated by the International Womens University, Lubeck
– The film Universal Body seen in: Seoul, Århus Television – DK, Filmkontakt Nord Arkiv – DK, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Media Dance video festival, Stocholm, Royal Festival Hall -London, SEKT – Stockholm
– Observatori 2000, multimedia festival of Art in Valencia
– Million Voices 2000
1999
– Kongju Cultural and Art Hall, South Korea
– Universal Body, Uppsala Internationella Kortfilmsfestival, Sweden
– Interlap-Project, Germany
– SEA, Stockholm Electronic Arts 1999
1998
– International Nature Art exhibition, South Korea
– Insyn, Stockholm Kulturhuvudstad 1998
– Konstautomaten, Stockholm Kulturhuvudstad 1998
– Eventa 4, Uppsala, Sweden
1997
– Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden, Solo exhibition
1996
– Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Solo exhibition
– Kulturens Vinduer, Köpenhamn Kulturhuvudstad 1996
– Eventa 3, Uppsala, Sweden
– R2GO, Muu gallery, Finland
1995
– Outpost Biennale, Venedig
1994
– Galleri Knabro, Copenhagen, Solo exhibition
– Blue Bodies, Galleri Offside, Stockholm
– Stockholms Läns Museum
1994-1999
– Photos and illustrations to books about »Rosa« by Barbro Lindgren
1992
– Galleri Jan Wallmark, Stockholm, Solo exhibition
1991
– Västerås Konstnärsförening, Västerås, Sweden, Solo exhibition
Video works, selected:
2022 ’Bodily Signs’, short film
2016 ’Transparent’, short film / video installation
2016 ’Handover’, short film / video installation
2016 ’Kitti Kitti Bang Bang’, short film / video installation
2013 ’PAYOFF’, short film
2012 ’CUT’, short film, remake
2011 ’Farmorland’, short film
2010 ’Closed Book, chapter 22/4’, short film
2009 ’Closed Book, chapter 19/5’, short film
2008 ’Seven Waters’, video installation for two monitors
2005 ’All Under’, video installation of three projections
2004 ’Palpus’, short film
2003 ’If Life Was a Movie’, short film
2003 ’All Under’, short film
2002 ’Operation Restore Hope’, interactive video work
2002 ’Time Korea’, video installation
2001 ’With Swedish Eyes’, short documentary
1999 ’Universal Body’, short film in cooperation with SUEN
Projects:
2001 – 2004 DIAN, Digital Interactive Artists Network
Project Manager together with Gerhard Mantz, Berlin, an international experimental site for online art.
In this project artists from around the world explored the Internet’s potential.
1997- 2001 Primates
An exploration of man’s instincts and their impact on modern man.
The project consists of; An exhibition, a Swedish and an English version of the CD Primates, and a website.
Represented:
Statens Konstråd
Stockholms Läns Landsting
Bankgirocentralen, Stockholm
Upplands Väsby kommun
Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Syd Korea
Bibliography, selected:
Several exhibition and film catalogs around the world, 1991 – present day
Volym Konsttidningen 2016-12-15, (review)
Härnösands Allehanda 2016-12-14, (review)
SVT Nyheter Södertälje, 160827
Ölandsbladet, 120705, (interview)
Arbetarbladet, Gefle Dagblad, 100909, GAPE
Kirse Junge-Stevnsborg, Statens konstråd, 2009
Dagens Nyheter, 090812, (review)
Länstidningen, 080905
Länstidningen, 070809, 070803
Radio Jämtland, 070727, (interview)
Svenska Dagbladet, 070210, (review)
Ljusnan, 070124, (review)
Arbetarbladet, 070120, (review)
Gefle Dagblad, 070120, (review)
Hufvudstadsbladet, Helsingfors, Nalle Valtiala, mars 2006
Gotland Allehanda, 060308, (review)
GT, 060224, (review)
Gotland Allehanda, 060224, (review)
SVT1, februari 2006, (interview)
Sveriges Radio Gotland, februari 2006, (interview)
Konsten, februari 2006, (review)
Inrikes, nr1 2006
Mitt i Haninge, 051025, (interview)
Dagens Nyheter, 050423, (review)
TV4, april 2005, (interview)
Sveriges Radio P1, Kropp & själ, maj 2005, (interview)
The Online Magazine of SWR2 RadioART, maj 2003
Aftonbladet, 030422
Flash Art International, 030417
Vestmanlands Läns tidning, 030204 (review)
Essay ’Multimedia Art Works of Gunilla Leander’ by Ross Hunter, Greenwich University, London 2002
Konsten, augusti 2002, (review)
Radio Match, Kalmar, 990208, (interview)
TV4 riks, 990205, (interview)
Radio P4, 990229, (interview)
Radio Stockholm, 990229, (interview)
Metro, 990128, (interview)
Svenska Dagbladet, 990127, (interview)
Dagens Nyheter, Leif Zern, 990122, (review)
Östran, 970823, (review)
Barometern, 970823, (review)
Avisen, 970906
Jyllandsposten, 961117, (review)
Politiken, 961014
Dagens Nyheter, 960706, (review)
Svenska Dagbladet, 960214
Dagens Nyheter, På Stan, 960216
Dagens Nyheter, 941125, (review)
Vestmanlands Läns tidning, 910906 (review)
Sting, nr7 1990. (artist portrait)
Member of:
Swedish artists association, KRO
BUS, Visual Arts Copyright Society in Sweden
Filmform – The Art Film & Video Archive
Filmcafé
FilmCentrum
Education, selected:
2012 – 2012 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, project programme
2001 – 2004 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Art teaching:
2007 – 2008 Lecturer, video, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2004 – 2005 Teacher, graphic design, web design, Långbro Folkhögskola, Stockholm
2005 – 2009 Course leader, graphic design and drawing