Erik Berglin(Stockholm)
Artist and Photographer
CONTRIBUTION The Bird Project 2006–2017
Erik Berglin is the Stockholm based artist behind ‘The Bird Project 2006–2017‘, which was published by ll’Editions in the Spring of 2020.
Erik Berglin (b. 1980), received an MFA 2010 from Valand, Gothenburg, and now lives and works in Stockholm. His works range from interventions in public space to examination and appropriation of social phenomena and material found online and in books. Berglin takes an investigative approach to the medium of photography, examining both its technical possibilities and limitations as well as the boundaries between fact and fiction.
Berglin is represented by Galleri Thomassen in Gothenburg. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in both museums and private collections. Over the last 14 years, Berglin has received a number of considerable grants, including double two year working grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.