Noemi Sjöberg (1978) is half Spanish and half Swedish; She was born in Madrid and grew up between Paris and Stockholm. She currently lives in Barcelona. She works with video art, installation, photography and public art. She obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts (Video art option) at L’Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix en Provence (France).
The alteration of reality, the human condition as time goes by, and traveling are the axis of Noemi Sjöberg’s work. She has worked in Japan, Iran, USA, Egypt, India, China, and Mongolia. Far from exoticism, traveling is a mental state that allows her to face a foreign reality in which the senses become sharpened; a place from where to interrogate the environment and the presence of oneself; a limbo where the real and the unreal, the private and the public are confused. Simplicity, depth, and rigor characterize her work, as well as the balance between control and hazard. Her works have been shown at IFFR Rotterdam, Kassel, Loop, Oberhausen, MACRO Roma, La Panera, or Pola Annex Tokyo. In June 2023 she won the prize “Talents contemporains”, the Fondation François Schneider acquired her piece “One euro to jump now.”
Both in her installations and videos, she lets the viewer endorse the narrative part and be carried by streams of images and sounds, magnifying the senses. With her photography, she experiments with various mediums transforming the usual reading of still images that becomes for the observer a three-dimensional and physical experience.
Since 2019, she has started to work within public space, using different materials, like the permanent artwork “Plongeon”, a 22 m long ceramic mural on the banks of the Seine, commissioned by the city of Paris. In 2020, her work Parallel Worlds was exhibited at Skanstull, commissioned by the city of Stockholm, and she received the Roca Umbert creation grant for urban art. In 2021, she worked for 6 months in La Réunion (Overseas France, Indian Ocean) creating two artworks about woman and migration commissioned by the Département de la Réunion and with the support of OSIC.
Winning Project: City Woman