Contact Information

lisa@lisastrombeck.com

+46-736 52 09 62

Represented by
Martin Asbæk Gallery

Bredgade 23
1260 Copenhagen
+45 33 15 40 45

gallery@martinasbaek.com
www.martinasbaek.com

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    Born 1966 in Andrarum, Sweden. Lives and works in Ny Hammersholt, Denmark and Ystad, Sweden

    Education

    1994-99 Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen
    1992-94 Freie Kunst, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
    1988-89 Art History, Lunds Universitet

    Represented in public collections

    Moderna Museét Sweden, Danish Film Institute, Danish Arts Council, Statens Konstråd/Public Art Agency Sweden, Malmö konstmuseum, Borås konstmuseum, Uppsala konstmuseum, Ystads konstmuseum, Region Skåne, Simrishamns kommun, Aurehøj Gymnasium Copenhagen

    Grants

    Swedish Arts Grants Committe: projectgrant 2001 and work grants 2000, 2006-07, 2018-19, 2022, Danish Art Foundation: travel grants 2004,-05 and production grants 2009,-10,-12,-13,-15,-17,-20, Fredrika Bremer stipends 1998 and 2015, Malmö Konstmuseum stipends 2001, 2016 and 2023, Helge Axsson Jonsson 2017, IASPIS Stockholm artist in residence 2003, IASPIS Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin 2004-05, NIFCA Helsinki 2002, San Cataldo Monastery Italy 2016, Det Danske Institut Rome 2015 and 2019, Det Danske Institut Athens 2023.

    Teaching

    2010-2018 Photography, Kunsthøjskolen in Holbæk Denmark
    2017-2019 Guest teacher, Österlenskolan för Konst och Design, Simrishamn Sweden

    Exhibitions

    2025
    ommon Creatures–Bewildering Beasts, KH7 Artspace, Århus (June)
    Människor och andra djur, Ystads konstmuseum (A group show I curate, opening May)
    2024
    The Pet Show, Fotografiska Shanghai, China (opening December)
    Best in Show, The Momentary, Bentonville, USA (opening November)
    Hund i Lund, Galleri Kammaren, Lund
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Sketch, Arden Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    2023
    Best in Show, Fotografiska, New York (opening September 22)
    Inhabitants, University of Oulu, Finland (in connection with the (Un)common worlds conference
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Vargåkra Gårds Konsthall, Hammenhög
    Merchandise, Memorabilia og Moneter, Skjold Contemporary, Copenhagen
    2022
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Cat, Galleri Specta, Copenhagen
    The Pet Show, Fotografiska, Tallin
    2021
    The Pet Show, Fotografiska, Stockholm
    We Are Animals, Kunsthal Rotterdam
    Mobil Utomhus Bio, Folkets Hus Lidköping
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    2020
    Mammals/Hierarchies, Ringsted Galleriet (solo)
    Animals in Art, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
    Billboard Istanbul, curated by Hanne Lise Thomsen, Public Space Istanbul
    Septemberutställningen, med Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    2019
    Solidaritetssalonen, Rønnebækholms Kunsthal
    Summer in The City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Om og Om Igen, Koldinggade 12, Copenhagen
    2018
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Consolation, Galleri Image, Århus (solo)
    2017
    The Last Trees, Galleri Fagerstedt, Stockholm, (solo)
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
    100 Kvinder på Kro, Carlsbergbyens Galleri, Copenhagen
    Co-Existence – exhibition at the Living with Animals conference, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
    2016
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Fra videokunst til billedkunst, Nivaagårds malerisamling, Nivaa DK
    Hverdagsbilleder, Randers Kunstmuseum, Randers
    2015
    100 Kvinder på Kro, Byens Kro, Copenhagen and Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro
    In Bed, Tjörnedala Konsthall, Baskemölla (solo)
    Summer in the city, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Par i konst, Vargåkra gård, Hammenhög
    Light Tricks, Galleri Fagerstedt, Stockholm (solo)
    2014
    Ind i skabet, Bakkehusmuseét, Frederiksberg
    Lige i skabet, Svends Bibliotek and Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Hem Längtan – Vardagens ideologi och estetik, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden
    The Beginning is Always Today, Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden
    To Have or Have Not, ACC Galerie, Weimar
    2013
    Hurra, Pop-up Gallery, Venice, Los Angeles
    Seoul International Shortfilm Festival, Korea
    The Beginning Is Always Today, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norge
    Out to Sea, Trapholt, Kolding
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    To have or have not, Halle 14, Leipzig
    Re.act.feminism, with Women down the Pub, Akademi Der Künste, Berlin
    Video, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Minne av sol, Krognoshuset, Lund (solo)
    2012
    Re.act.Feminism with Women down the Pub, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
    Animals do it, Instant Herlev Institute, Copenhagen (solo)
    Uniform, Vinge, Malmö (solo)
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Filmform news, Cinemateket, Stockhulm and Oberhausen International Kurzfilmfestival
    Fokus Video Art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
    2011
    Zoo, Werkleitz Biennale, Halle
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Dyredamer, Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg
    Terrain Video, Holstebro Kunstmuseum
    2010
    In Your Hands, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen (solo)
    Paris Photo, with Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Dog is my co-pilot, Spinderihallerne, Vejle
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Volta Basel, with Martin Asbæk Gallery, Basel
    Opening Show, Odense Kunsthall
    Derrida’s Katze, Kunsthaus Kreutzberg, Berlin
    2009
    In Memory of All Those Who Work Without Ever Getting a Reward, Åbo Konstmuseum, Finland (solo)
    Paris Photo, with Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Summer in the City Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Works at work with Women down the Pub, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
    The Other Tour, with Women down the Pub, boat tour around Copenhagen
    Malmö Konstmuseum meets the Swanljung collection, Malmö Konstmuseum
    Andre Stemmer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
    Site Natura, Tjörnedala Konsthall
    Sample #2, Deutsche Künstlerbund Projektraum, Berlin
    Biograf, Röhska Museét Göteborg and Borås Konstmuseum
    2008
    New Friends, Uppsala konstmuseum (solo)
    In Memory of All Those Who Work Without Ever Getting a Reward, Pixel, Copenhagen (solo)
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen
    Sample #1, Deutsche Künstlerbund Projektraum, Berlin
    Et blik på det fremmede, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
    2007
    In Memory of All Those Who…, Konstnärshuset Stockhulm and Galleri Fem, Lund (solo)
    Zoo, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
    Konstfeminism, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Projects, Copenhagen
    Distant Relations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde
    Emergency room, (curated by Colonel) PS 1/MOMA, New York
    X Years, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Bremen
    2006
    I’m your boss” -and other dreadful scenarios, Martin Asbæk Gallery (solo), Copenhagen
    Människor och Djur, Ystad konstmuseum (solo)
    Emergency Room (curated by Colonel), Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin
    Strategic Questions, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; De Appel, Amsterdam
    Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Projects, Copenhagen
    Artists Migration, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
    Konstfeminism, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
    Janssons frestelse, Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
    Cultural Perceptions and Cultural Clash, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
    2005
    Es war ja nicht alles schlecht, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (solo)
    Six Perspectives on an Archive, Index/Kulturhuset, Stockholm
    Konstfeminism, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg
    U3 Tunnel, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
    Baltic Raw, Hafencity, Hamburg
    QTV, TV-TV, Copenhagen Art Channel
    2004
    Contemporary Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (solo)
    Scandinavian Sparks, 278 Space, Beijing
    Tomorrow II, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen
    Ballroom Blitz, Galleri Gimm & Eis, Copenhagen
    2003
    Den ömma punkten, Sub Bau, Gothenburg (solo)
    Mothers of Invention, with Women Down the Pub, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Vienna

    Show Unit, travelling exhibition, Riksutställningar , Sweden

    Lost in Tomorrow, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca

    Limes, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Santiago de Chile

    Nordic Live Art, Gothenburgh Art Museum, Gothenburg

    In Reality, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

    Open Source, Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm

    Out to Grass, Galerie Koch & Kesslau, Berlin
    Fast Video, Cinemateket, Copenhagen
    Women 2003, billboard project in Copenhagen
    The Tender Spot, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Bremen (solo)
    2002
    Videovindue, YNKB, Copenhagen (solo)
    Rent-a bench with Women Down the Pub, billboard project in Los Angeles
    Hjemme igen, Arken – Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
    Gossip, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
    Art is More Expensive Than Hot Dogs, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
    Coming!, Zone/Mori Art Center , Tokyo
    DK, Galerie de l’école d’art, Perpignan
    A Room Of One’s Own, with Women Down the Pub, Secession, Vienna
    Eukabeuk Event – Swedish Art Weeks, Chiangmai University Art Museum, Chiangmai
    Je t’aime moi non plus, touring Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing; Kunsthall Bergen, Bergen; Museum het Domein, Sittard; ESAP, Perpignan; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and Metronom, Barcelona
    2001
    Resting Place, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin (solo)
    Der dritte Sektor, with Women Down the Pub, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
    Aftenskolen, with Women Down the Pub, Galleri Signal, Malmö
    Dansk Video Manifesta, Kunstforeningen Gammelstrand, Copenhagen
    Ideologia-Nordic Art 2001, Röda Sten, Gothenburgh
    Quality Street, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen
    Get That Balance, K3, Kampnagel, Hamburg
    My Generation, Atlantis Gallery, London
    New Premises, Gallery Muu, Helsinki
    2000
    Hvilerum, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen (solo)
    Wonderful Copenhagen, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel
    Wir wollen daran glauben, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
    Filmform – old School vs. New School, Galleri Artnode, Stockholm
    Big Torino – biennale arte emergente, Torino
    Galleri Artnode, Stockholm
    9 fra det Kongelige Danske, UKS, Oslo
    SHOOT on tour, Living art Museum, Reykjavik; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Borås Konstmuseum
    SHOOT – Moving Pictures by Artists, Malmö Konsthall and Cinema Spegeln, Malmö
    Inscriptions, Galleri Enkehuset, Stockholm
    1999
    Blick, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
    Private Parts, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
    Andebølle – Ama’r, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen
    Exit, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
    Videokunst aus Dänemark, Galerie Voges und Deisen, Frankfurt am Main
    1998
    Hemma, Galleri Box, Gothenburg (solo)
    Spin-Off, Filmhuset, Copenhagen
    Bösartig, Kino Klick, Berlin
    Nordic Nomads, White Columns, New York
    Artgenda Review, Stadtgalerie , Kiel
    Presenting LAB, The Pineapple, Malmö
    Efterårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
    What’s Going On?, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, NY
    Videorama – For Lovers Only, Depot, Vienna
    Artgenda, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
    Boomerang, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
    Nuit blanche – scènes nordiques les années 90, Musée d’art Moderne, Paris
    1997
    Country, Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen (solo)
    Frauen und Tiere, Offener Kanal, TV Hamburg
    Zones of Disturbance, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
    Stofskifte, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
    Politisk Kunst, Kørners kontor, Copenhagen
    Video-97, Fylkingen, Stockhlm
    1996
    I’ll Do, with Andrea Creutz, Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen (solo)
    Mission : Impossible, Bricks & Kicks, Vienna
    Bank T.V, Bank, London and Manchester
    Up Date, Turbinehallen, Copenhagen
    1995
    Loveliest, Galleri Saga Basement, Copenhagen (solo)
    Convoy, Turbinehallen, Copenhagen

    Written

    Ömsesidigt beroende, Sara Arvidsson, Fotografisk Tidskrift #4/2022

    https://www.idoart.dk/blog/mammals-hierarchies-interview-med-lisa-stroembeck

    https://edgeofhumanity.com/2021/02/26/the-dying-trees-at-backakra-beach-sweden/

    Ljus för liten tall, Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl, Konstnären 3 2020

    https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000008659318.html

    Kristina Möster Nilsson https://statenskonstrad.se/konst/ljus-for-liten-tall/

    https://www.featureshoot.com/2017/08/dogs-bed-humans-photographed-lisa-strombeck/

    http://muybridgeshorse.com/2017/05/11/lisa-strombeck/

    Christine Antaya, Sydsvenskan 18/4 2019

    Torun Börtz, Ystad Allehanda, 20/4 2019

    https://kunsten.nu/journal/til-troest/

    https://kunsten.nu/journal/huden-vi-bor/

    http://www.jyllands-posten.dk/protected/premium/kultur/anmeldelser/billedkunst/ECE8480715/hverdagens-levende-billeder/

    http://www.omkonst.com/14-konst-och-feminism.shtml

    https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/05/lisa-strombeck-uniform/

    Dyrisk og dyrebar – kæledyr i et samfundsvidenskabeligt lys, Publisher: Nyt fra Samfundsvidenskaberne 2013

    Uniform, Blow Photomagazine issue nine 2013, Ireland

    Claus Granath, Sydsvenskan, 10/1 2013

    Michael Jeppesen, Information 9/6 2011

    Billedkunstneren, frontpage by Women down the Pub, nr.2 june 2011

    Plats, Poetik och Politik, editors Elisabet Haglund and Linda Fagerström, Skissernas Museum Lund

    Unrealised Potential, curator Mike Chavez-Dawson, www.cornerhouse.org/books

    Paris Photo, De L’air, No 45 Automne 2010

    Lisa Strömbeck, Ha-young Kim, Photo+ November 2010

    www.kunsten.nu/artikler/artikel.phpmachineraum+hanne+nielsen+birgit+johnsen+dog+is+my+copilot+spinderihallerne

    Die Katze und der Poststrukturalist, Andrea Heubach, Tierbefreiung no 67 Juni 2010

    Katzen essen Insel auf, Jungle World nr. 07/10, 18 Feb 2010

    Samtidskunstens vilkår og potentialer, Unge kunstnere og kunstformidlere, 2009

    http://www.sydsvenskan.se/2009-07-16/pionjarer-per-bat

    En anderledes tur på Københavns kanaler, Politikken 14/8 2009

    http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com/archives/urban/index.php?page=2

    Med kunsten på Havnerundfart, Børsen, 19/6 2009

    Kanalrundfart med nyt fokus, Information 15/7 2009

    Brudarna tar plats i Byn, Matilda Gustavsson, Sydsvenskan 7/8 2009

    Natur/Kultur i samklang, Anja Degerholm, Ystad Allehanda, 22/8 2009

    Välbeprövade grepp på naturens roll, Tor Billgren, Sydsvenskan 27/8 2009

    Moraalisia voittoja ja retkahduksia, Hanna Lamnaouer, Turun Sanomat, 23/6 2009

    Hundekunster, Torben Sangild, Politikken, 8/11 2008
    Om makt- och herrelöshet, Mikael Mildén, Djurens Rätt nr 5-6 2008
    Förnedring och maktspel granskas, Katarina Wadstein Macleod, Svenska Dagbladet 27/9 2008
    Strategic Questions: Has Man a Function in Universe?, Gavin Wade, BookWorks Publishing London
    Duktig Vovve, Carolina Söderholm, Sydsvenskan, 2/3 2008

    Nepal-Danish women’s groups for inclusive campaigns, The Kathmandu Post, 25/12 2007

    Kunstneren som opdagelsesrejsende, Mads Damsbro, Information 7/5 2007
    Intimitet og køn, Rune Gade, Nybrud – dansk kunst i 1990erne
    Loss and Longing, Andreas Schlaegel and Angela Rosenberg, BE Magazine, autumn 2006

    Svenske hjerters uro, Eva Pohl, Berlingske Tidene 18/5 2006

    Janssons Frestelse, catalouge Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art

    Konsten tar plats utanför storstan, Dan Jönsson, Dagens Nyheter 25/2 2006

    Djuren är väl också människor, Carolina Söderholm, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 20/2 2006

    Människor och djur, catalouge Ystad Konstmuseum, ISBN 91-87258-56-0

    http://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/ledarkronika/asapetersen/article10876777.ab

    Who’s the Storyteller, KUNO/ Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki

    Es war ja nicht alles schlecht, catalouge Künstlerhaus Bethanien, ISBN 3-932754-64-6

    Es war ja nicht alles schlecht, Photography Now, aug-sept 2005

    http://kvinfo.dk/webmagasinet/udsigt-til-indsigt

    Strategisk korrekt, Halvor Haugen, Billedkunst Norge

    Mennsker laver kunst – ikke køn, Mai Misfeldt, Berlingske Tidende 2/12 2004

    Da konen kastrerede grisen, Lilian Munk Rösing, Information, 6/12 2002

    Udsigt til indsigt, Maria Gry Bregnbak, webmagasinet Forum, www.kvinfo.dk

    VIEW- Feminist Strategies in Danish Visual Arts, ISBN 87-7514-098-5, Informations Forlag, DK

    Tender Spots, Rainer B. Schossig, Bremer Zeitung, Febr. 2003

    Women Down the Pub/Rent-a-Bench, Flash Art, no 228, Jan/Feb 2003

    Interview with Women Down the Pub, Passepartout 11, 2003

    Women 2003, catalogue, Informations Forlag 2003

    Dossier Kopenhagen – Lisa Strömbeck, Simon Sheikh, Kunstbeeld – tijdschrift voor beeldende kunst Nederlands, no 5, 2001

    Lisa Strömbeck – A woman under the influence, Rebecca Kimbrell, Katalog – Journal of Photography and Video, spring 2001

    Herstories tour, Sanne Kofoed, MAKE, summer 2000

    Kvindelige kunstnere fortæller historie, Berlingske Tidene, 19/8 2000

    Feministisk Havnerundfart, Jyllands Posten, 14/8 2000

    Yours Truly, Jacob Fabricius, Pork Salad Press 2000

    En blund hos Lund, Politikken, 9/6 2000

    Man kæler da med kæledyr, også i soveværelset, Rune Gade, Information, 7/6 2000

    Kunst: Når kæledyr knalder brikker, Camilla Stockmann, Nat & Dag, June 2000

    BIG Torino 2000 – biennale arte emergente exhibition, catalouge, May 2000

    SHOOT – Moving Pictures by Artists, catalouge for the Malmö film festival, feb 2000

    Exit 99, catalouge for Det Kongelige danske kunstakademis afgangsudstilling, 1999

    Nordic Nomads, Andrea Kroksnes, catalouge Gallery White Columns, New York, 1999

    Artgenda retro, catalouge, Stadtgalerie Kiel, 1998

    Presenting LAB – LAB presents, book project, 1998

    Selvidentifikation og selviscenesættelse på 90ernes danske kunstscene, Simon Sheikh, Øjeblikket, no 35,1998

    Spin-off – dansk og europæisk kunstvideo i halvfemserne, The Danish Filminstitute, 1998

    Nuit Blanche, Simon Sheikh, catalouge, Musée d’art Moderne, Paris, Feb, 1998

    Boomerang, catalouge, Nikolaj Kunsthal, January, 1998
    Inserts, female danish artists on internet: www.artnode.dk/inserts

    Hair, Steirischer Herbst, Zones of Disturbance, Graz, Sept 1997

    Stofskifte, catalouge Museét for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Sept 1997

    Work in Progress, Gretchen Gasterland, s.cr.a.m no 1, 1997

    Lisa Strömbeck – Country, Kristine Kern, Øjeblikket, no 32/33 1997

    Moderne Kvinder, Rune Gade, Information, 26/7 1995