ANGELICA FALKELING (1988)

Angelica Falkeling (b. 1988 in Degerfors, Sweden) is a visual artist and costume designer based in Rotterdam. Via their training as a seamstress, they often depart from textile craft techniques understood as elastic seams, DIY aesthetics as a methodology to solve problems on-site and cross-generational dialogues as the way to speak about the various economies an artistic practice consist of. Through their site-specific installations and spatial collages, they navigate forms and formats via live performance, audiobooks, textile, sculpture, moving image, and text-based works. Their recent research includes the movements of seagulls, cotton production in Uzbekistan, and drag-show culture in Los Angeles. Their work has recently been part of The Hoodie at Het Nieuwe Instituut, and currently A Malmö Trilogy: an exhibition in three chapters at SIGNAL I Center for Contemporary Art.

They graduated from Malmö Art Academy and International Academy of Art Palestine in 2014, and the Piet Zwart Institute in 2017. 2020 they received the Swedish Art Grants Committee, a two-year working grant in 2020 and the Mondriaan Fonds Stipend for Emerging Artists in 2018 and is nominated as a grant holder by Cbk Rotterdam where they explore the relationship between bodies, movement and sport through sculptural means.

The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice. The artists, invited by the curator of "Herbarium" could choose two new participants - so the project traces the exchange of creative energy in the artworld. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. The H Talks series (video portraits of the artists) are shot during the preparation of each presentation of the Herbarium collection in the artists work environment and studios. All the information, gathered in the process of developing the collection, will be available to all researchers, curators, gallery owners, students or art lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms through which contemporary culture functions.

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ANGELICA FALKELING (1988)

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