Mats Bigert was born in 1965 in Stockholm. Lars Bergström was born in 1962 in Stockholm.
Bigert & Bergström is a Stockholm-based artist duo. Their creative partnership first began in 1986, and have since become internationally recognized for a wide range of conceptually and technically complex art projects, which range from large-scale sculptures and installations to performance and film. Often with a conceptual edge, the core of their work is placed right in the junction between humanity, nature and technology. With energetic curiosity and often using humor as a tool, the duo is known to analyze scientific and social issues discussed in contemporary society, such as climate change or environmental sustainability.
EDUCATION
1985-1990 Royal Art Academy, Stockholm
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2021
Tipping Point, Frömagasinet, Hammenhög, SE
Fixing the Climate, Rikstolvan, Österlen, SE
CO2 Lock-In, CSE Arts Initiative, Copenhagen, DM
2020
Scenario/Scenery, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, SE
CO2 Lock-In, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, SE
2019
Bigert & Bergström, Taverna Brillo, Stockholm, SE
Prosthesis, Gallery Belenius, Stockholm, SE
Solar Egg, ASI, Minneapolis, USA
Solar Egg, Långbryggan, Rättvik, SE
2018
The Weather War, Skissernas Museum, Lund, SE
The Climate Experiment, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, SE
Prognosis, Örebro Konsthall, SE
Solar Egg, Charlottenborg Konsthall, Köpenhamn, SE
The Climate Fix, Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, SE
2017
Eye of the Storm, Artipelag, Stockholm, SE
The Weather War, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2016
The Freeze, Belenius/Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE
2015
The Weather War, Växjö Konsthall, SE
Explosion of Speech, Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki, GR
2014
The Drought, Varberg Konsthall, SE
The Weather War, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
The Weather War, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
2013
The Drought, Castle of Barletta, IT
Les Yper Yper, Thessaloniki, GR
The Drought, Contexts, Paris, FR
The Drought, Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm, SE
2012
The Weather War, film installation, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
The Storm, Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm, SE
The Mouse, CIS Art Lodgers, Convent de Sant Agusti, Barcelona, SP
CO2 Lock-In, public performance: Sergels Torg, Stureplan, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2011
Know Yourself, Världskulturmuseet, Göteborg, SE
Meditations on Divinations, Forum, Stockholm, SE
2010
Temporary Truth, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, SE
Know Yourself, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2009
Short Circuit No.18, Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2008
Conference of Birds Gallery, Bangkok,
Last Supper, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, DE
If You Don’t Like the Weather, Change It, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
2007
Last Supper, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
If You Don’t Like the Weather, Change It, Uppsala Art Museum, SE
2006
Black Box, Norrköping, Sweden
Last Supper, Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, San Francisco, USA
Last Supper, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, RO
2005
Last Supper, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2004
4 for four, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2003
Digital Space, Kunstmuseen der Stadt Krefeld, DE
Full Stop, Rum för berusning I, Vin & Sprithistoriska Museet, Stockholm, SE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2021
Explorations of Now, Orlången Nature Reserve, Huddinge
Expedition Konst, Waldemarsudde
Naturen det billige skidt, Skovhuset, Copenhagen, DK
2020
Silent Spring, Kaknäs forrest, Stockholm, SE
2019
Wunderkammer, programming exhibition curated by Nato Thomson, Seattle Art Fair, USA
Weather Report, Aldrich Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
Change, Havremagasinet, Boden, SE
2017
Zwanzig, Gallerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
Victory Over the Sun, The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse, KMAC, Louisville, USA
2016
Acclimatize, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
In the Wake, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, USA
Artefact 2016, STUK, Leuven, BE
Luftslottet, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, SE
Surfacing Earth, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, SE
Death, an exhibition about Life, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, SE
2015
Personal Structures, Palazzo Bemba/Palazzo Mora, Venice, IT
2014
Liebe/Love, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludvigshafen, DE
Drive the Change, 100plus, Zurich, SW
Biotop, Biologiska Museet, Stockholm, SE
Second Life, KMAC, Louisville, USA
Slow Future, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, PL
Strange Weather, Science Gallery, Dublin, IE
urSenses, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE
2013
14th Videonale, Bonn Kunstmuseum, DE
2012
Spring/Break Show, NY
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Clouds, Museum of Public Art, Lund
2011
Flash Light Bar, performance, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Swedish Art in India, Emami Chisel Art in collaboration with Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata
Living as Form, Creative Time, NY
FILMS2018 The Climate Experiment, 58 min. HD/DCP
2015 Important Message to the Public, 14 min. HD/DCP
2014 Moments of Silence, 14 min. HD/DCP
2012 The Weather War, 58 min. HD
2011 The Mouse, 27.30 min. HD
2009 Life Extended, 57 min. HD
2008 Tunnel Vision, 27 min. HD
2007 If You Don't Like the Weather, Change It, 4 ch.20 min. DV
2005 Last Supper, 58 min. DV, 16 mm
1999 The Big Feed, 11 min. DV
