Åsa Cederqvist (b.1975) received her MFA at Konstfack in 2000. Her work has a performative foundation and is expressed through video, sculpture, installation and performative add-ons, so called extensions, as well as in an interface incorporating all these elements.
Åsa Cederqvist works with film, installation, sculpture and performance, in an interface between fiction - documentation, haptic -conceptual, ambigious - rational. Åsa continues to build works with a specific personal mythology from the interest in therapeutical methods, behavioural science and collaborative processes. Her work moves between documentary field studies, staged live performances, physical interaction, which all aim to push the expectations of formats, aestetical hierarchies and modes of expression.
For the past five years, Åsa’s artistic practice has focused on the conditions and opportunities of the act of playing, and how to engage in uncontrolled situations, new materials and approaches. Åsa Cederqvist has a background as a director of commercials and music videos (2004–), as an artistic director in multiple art educational projects as well as senior lecturer in art at Textil, Konstfack (2010–2020). In 2016-17 she received the IASPIS residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. She was one of the participating artists at the MOMENTUM 10 biennale in Norway 2019 and in Borås Art Biennale 2021.