Tekonstruktion-Psycket – Jan.11 / Feb.17, 2024- Hudiksvallsgatan 8, 2nd floor – Open Tuesday–Friday 11–18, Saturday 12–16 and by appointment.
ABOUT the artist
Anna Odell (b 1973 in Stockholm) holds MFAs from the University of Arts, Crafts and Design (2010) and the Royal Institute of Art (2012). Her film Unknown, woman 2009-349701 (2009), Odell’s examination work at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is now part of the collection at Moderna Museet. Her director’s debut came with The Reunion (2013), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was awarded the prestigious Critics’ Award FIPRESCI for Best Debut as well as Special Mention by FEDEORA, Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean. In Sweden, the film was awarded two Guldbagge Awards, Best Film and Best Screenplay. The film X & Y premiered in 2018. Solo exhibitions include an upcoming exhibition at the Uppsala Art Museum (2 March–1 April 2024), Gothenburg Film Festival (2020), Skellefteå Konsthall and Hälsingland Museum (2016) and Kulturhuset, Stockholm (2015).
ABOUT the exhibition
We proudly present artist and filmmaker Anna Odell’s first exhibition at the gallery, Rekonstruktion – Psyket, featuring video (1h 7min, see info below) and photography. The exhibition marks Odell’s return to the gallery scene after the release of the acclaimed films The Reunion and X&Y over the past years. During the fall of 2023, Anna Odell has been an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Uppsala, developing the new film now shown for the first time. The project will also be featured in an exhibition at the Uppsala Art Museum this spring.
In Rekonstruktion – Psyket, Odell continues to use her personal story to explore the structures in psychiatric care – a work related to her groundbreaking video work Unknown, woman 2009–349701 from 2009.The new video investigates the dynamics in psychiatric institutional care when the staff is facing complex social interactions between patient and caregiver. Having been suffering from mental illness in the 90s, the starting point is Odell’s experience of becoming pregnant with a member of the staff during hospitalisation. In the video work, interviews with hospital staff involved in Odell’s case are mixed with excerpts from medical records and a re-enactment by staff in psychiatric care.
Anna Odell’s investigative work pinpoints an institution facing ethical dilemmas. What are the consequences of crossing personal and professional boundaries for patients and carers, but also for the psychiatric institution in terms of professional responsibility and code of conduct? What is the limit of personal engagement when dealing with mental illness? In the intriguing and complex project Rekonstruktion – Psyket, Anna Odell is once again using her background and experience to highlight power structures as well as social and ethical questions in society.
ABOUT the gallery
Cecilia Hillström Gallery was founded in 2012 in the gallery district at Hudiksvallsgatan in Stockholm and is owned and managed by Cecilia Hillström. Since its inception, the gallery has established itself as one of the leading galleries on the Scandinavian contemporary art scene. The gallery works with well-established and emerging artists and is committed to long-term representation. After the relocation to a larger space in the same district in 2019, the program has expanded and the gallery now presents 10–12 curated exhibitions each year.
Artists represented by the gallery are frequently engaged in solo and group exhibitions and surveys in Sweden and internationally. Recent important exhibitions are Anna-Karin Rasmusson and Per Wizén at Malmö Konstmuseum, Lovisa Ringborg at Pro Artibus in Finland, Per Wizén at Moderna Museet in Malmö, Tova Mozard and Mats Hjelm at House of Sweden, Washington DC, Carl Boutard and Kristina Matousch at Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art in Lund, Sweden, Linda Hofvander at Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm, Carl Boutard at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, and Sigrid Sandström at Bonniers Konsthall and Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden, to name a few.
Cecilia Hillström Gallery has over the years successfully launched emerging Swedish artists like Johan Bergström Hyldahl, Leif Engström, Katja Larsson, David Molander and Linnea Rygaard. At the same time, it represents artists who over their careers have exhibited at prominent Nordic institutions such as Moderna Museet, Borås Konstmuseum, Norrköpings Konstmuseum and Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, as well as at international institutions such as Whitechapel Gallery, London, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Walker art Center, Minneapolis, PS1 and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
The gallery’s strong relationship with major institutions and museums as well as private collectors is key in its ability to support and promote its artists. Working with artists who uses a large variety of media, the gallery is also engaged in public projects as well as art projects in the real estate sector. In addition, the gallery frequently presents its artists at Nordic art fairs such as MARKET, Stockholm, and CHART in Copenhagen. Furthermore, Cecilia Hillström Gallery has participated in art fairs in Barcelona, Vienna, and Istanbul.
Cecilia Hillström Gallery is a member of the Swedish Gallery Association. Cecilia Hillström has been the chairman of the gallery association as well as a board member of the Friends of Moderna Museet.
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