Bigert & Bergström | Studio Bigert & Bergström

Last Supper, 2005

The last supper has been given to prisoners facing the death penalty as long as the punishment has existed. The tradition stems from funeral rites where the deceased person was given food on ...
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Nauseum, 2004

In November 1893, the Biological Museum at Djurgården (Stockholm) was inaugurated. It was the brainchild of the Swedish taxidermist Gustav Kolthoff, who developed the museum together with the ...
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The Waiting Room, 2002

The Swedish word for importantviktigt literally means “a thing of considerable weight”. Swedes often talk about heavy ideas and weighty thoughts. So, ...
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Triviality Inverted, 2001

In “Triviality Inverted”, a fish-eye lens is used to project video images on the inside of a transparent hemispherical tent. The images tell the everyday story of an elderly man, in ...
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Antechamber, 2001

From a bird’s-eye perspective a room is filmed with a fish-eye lens. The room has several exits, but the man trapped inside obviously has problems in escaping. The twists and turns of ...
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Pep Talk, 1999

In the works of the Swedish artist duo, Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström, the intricate mixture of technological brilliance and socio-political sensitivity often dazzles the viewer, and ...
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Love Is In The Air, 1997

This installation borrowed its title from the famous song celebrating the anti-gravitational aspects of love. The installation consisted of an exploded chamber where only the skeleton of the ...
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Koma-Amok, 1997

In the forest, far away from civilization, a faint mechanical ticking sound can be heard. Among moss and tree trunks stands a broken down traffic sign that with no apparent reason switches ...
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Therapy Taxi, 1996-97

This project was first shown at the exhibition “INTERPOL” at Färgfabriken in Stockholm in 1996. During the exhibition, a taxi service was installed between the museum and the city. ...
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