My areas of interest include 2-D animated installations,  artist books and drawing.  The use of line drawings is a method that runs through all of my work. Additionally, my approach to any new production is thematic.

In my work, I try to create openings/gaps into our personal and shared memories – which is one way of nudging to the accepted cultural norms involving time, identity and history.

Another of my concerns, and a theme that correlates to my fascination with Time, is the development of a narrative language; Time passing, moving in circles, or time that moves in a parallel world or passes in slow motion. Examples of some of the recurrent motifs I use in my investigations are: categories of Time that break up its linear course and those which are anchored and marked through the passing of generations. A special interest for me is the paradoxical juncture between linear time, which can be measured and sensual, emotional time which is purely subjective. The clash of ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ time.

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

Cecilia Westerberg

Born in 1967, Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark

 

EDUCATION

1996-99 Chelsea College of Art & Design, BA (Hons) Fine Art, London, U.K.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 Atlas of small and large observations, The Danish Printmaking Association, Cph, Denmark

2011 Point of Origin, commissioned work for art in public space, Cph, Denmark

2010 Cecilia Westerberg, Solo Sörlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway

Lys i gaden, an animated installation in public space in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008 Darkness Moves, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany

Looking for Lara, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Cph, Denmark

2007 Cry Me a River, Aura konstförening, Lund, Sweden,

2006 What comes around goes around, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Cph, Denmark

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Between Reality and Utopia, Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark

2012 Sommerrejsen, Skovgaard Museum of Art, Viborg, Denmark

Homecoming animated sound stories, The National Museum of Iceland Reykjavik

2011 The King, commissioned animation for Blinc Digital Arts Festval, Conwy, Wales Uk

”Belief” Video screening, Lilibeth Cuenca, Joachim Koester, Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark

Faith and Fiction, Animated installations, PNCA , Portland, Oregon, USA

Art & text, Overgaden Institute of contemporay art, Copenhagen

 

PUBLISHED ARTIST BOOKS AT HURRICANE PUBLISHING

Sommerrejsen- Cecilia Westerberg, 2012

Momenti Mori, flipbook, 2011

HAN, HUN, HENDE, 2011

Post it, 2010

portfolio on www.ceciliawesterberg.com

news on www.ceciliawesterberg.blogspot.com

 

Artist-in-residence October 2012 and May 2013