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About<\/strong><\/p>\n

Niki Lindroth von Bahr is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm. Her award winning short films Something to Remember (2019), The Burden (2017), Bath House (2014) and Tord and Tord (2010) has been screened at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto and Sundance. The Burden has since its premiere in 2017 won 82 awards, including the Cristal for Best Short Film in Annecy, Best International Short Film in Toronto and Guldbaggen for Best Short Film.<\/p>\n

Niki got her master degree in fine arts from The Royal Institute of Art in 2016. She is represented as an artist by Stene Projects Gallery in Stockholm and as a director by Nexus Studios in London. She is also a costume designer and has been working for artists like Fever Ray and David Bowie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Member of the Oscars Academy since 2020.<\/p>\n


\nIntroduction (from Stene Projects Gallery)<\/strong><\/p>\n

During recent years the model has become somewhat of a trademark for artist, sculptor and film maker Niki Lindroth von Bahr. Her award-winning movies Tord and Tord (2010), Bath House (2014) and The Burden (2017) are all created through stop motion animations with animal dolls in highly detailed miniature landscapes. One of the models has even become a work of its own; exhibited at gallery Stene Projects the spring of 2017, the large piece B\u00f6rdan C filled up the whole exhibition space, inviting its viewers into the intriguing atmosphere of Lindroth von Bahr.<\/p>\n

The animal theme has followed Lindroth von Bahr throughout her oeuvre. Nevertheless, she is neither a realist nor a naturalist. Many of the animals depicted are either distinguished by human behaviour or pure phantasms \u2013 mutants and monstrous crossbreeds, sometimes even sick or dead (for example her ear-less Fukushima rabbits). Herself she views her works as “modern fables”, exploring human relations through the filter of animality.<\/p>\n

The model is commonly used as a tool for architects or city planners. To its form belongs a certain tradition of useful representation. If it lacks a purpose, the model is usually regarded as a toy or a craft. This is not the case for Lindroth von Bahr. By down-sizing and recreating the most prosaic objects \u2013 like a fire extinguisher or a piece of garbage on the ground \u2013 she manages to bring uncanny life into her small-scale universes. In the experience of almost-real, Lindroth von Bahr points to the details of life that we are used to overlooking. In a way, she makes the model even more real than reality itself.<\/p>\n

Despite the seemingly na\u00efve approach, the modern fables of Lindroth von Bahr explores both political and existential themes. By distorting human behaviour and human environments using on the one hand animality, and on the other hand scale, she manages to throw light upon the some of the most trivial yet fascinating aspects of our everyday life. \/Astrid Grelz Andersson<\/p>\n


\nEducation<\/strong><\/p>\n

2016 The Royal Institute of Art
\n2009 Diagonalakademin, Animation and Experimental film
\n2006 Nordiska Scenografiskolan, Props and Special Effects<\/p>\n


\nInternational Jury Commissions<\/strong><\/p>\n

2018 European Animation Awards
\n2017 Warsaw International Film Festival
\n2016 Anima, Brussels Animation Festival – Short film competition
\n2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival – Short film competition
\n2015 Anifilm, Trebon – Short film competition
\n2014 Fredrikstad Animation Festival – Commision film competition<\/p>\n


\nLectures and workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n

2019 Tokyo University of the Arts, Film and New Media
\n2019 California Institute of the Arts
\nBerghs School of Communication
\nStockholms dramatiska h\u00f6gskola
\nKonstfack<\/p>\n


\nGrants<\/strong><\/p>\n

2020 Mai Zetterling-stipendiet
\n2017 The Swedish Art Grant Committee – Filmmaker’s 10 Year Working Scholarship
\n2016 The Royal Academy of Fine Arts – S Fridman Fund
\n2015 Short Film Grant, Rooftop Film NYC
\n2013 Byggnads Kulturstipendium
\n2013 The Swedish Art Grant Committee – Project Support
\n2009 Anders Sandrews Foundation
\n2006 Anders Sandrews Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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