Curriculum Vitae in Selection
Based in Malmö, Sweden. I combine my artistic work with being a climate activist. My work addresses community cohesion/experience, social structures, and subject knowledge in contexts of the climate crisis. I employ a method of durational storytelling to generate portraiture and documentary in video, sculpture, and drawing formats. In 2017 I made an essential change in my work and began to focus singularly on the planetary crisis and the threat of mass extinction.
Education: 1999-2006, BFA and MFA Malmö Art Academy, Lunds University. 1995-1996 International Center of Photo.se/kultur/ystads-konstmuseum/graphy, New York
Selected Solo and collaborative exhibitions:
2025: The Breadboy of Herculaneum ,Laholms stadsmuseum Arbete pågår/Laja bryggeri Laja produktion, huset Ödet, Malmö Arbete pågår Laja produktion på Overshootfestivalen Malmö Hål, Fullmånen från Helvetet, Bastionen Malmö Arbete pågår, Laja produktion Sveriges kortfilmsfestival och Vetenskapsfestival Gbg och Stockholm Arbete pågår/Laja bryggeri Laja produktion, Galleri Molekyl, Malmö Arbete pågår Laja produktion, Jokkmokks marknad Arbete pågår/Laja bryggeri, Feministisk festival Malmö Arbete pågår kortfilm av Laja produktion, Crosscuts filmfestival KTH Environemental Humanities Labratory
2024 Hål, kortfilm av Laja produktion med ljud av Cecilia Nordlund och Åsa Gjerstad, Fullmånen från Helvetet, screenades på Jokkmokks marknad samt Jokkmokks Folkets hus The Breadboy Of Herculaneum 4th edition, Dunoon Burgh Hall (SCOT)
2023 Samhain Festival Diö konsthall The Breadboy Of Herculaneum, 1st edition, Cafe del Borgo, Filignano(IT). The Breadboy Of Herculaneum 3rd edition, Casa Pleiadi, Sant’Agapito(IT) 2022. The Breadboy Of Herculaneum 1 Casa Pleadi SantAgapito Molise IT Seved Inside out, Malmö with Anna Wessman Vinge law firm, Malmö 2021 Konstnärer Tolkar AP Fonderna Havremagasinet | Galleri 54 2010 Pauliskolan ,Malmö, Krognoshuset ,Lund
Selected group exhibitions:
2022 Limhamns Konstförening Galleri Bla
2017 Ystad konstmuseum
2013 Galleri arnstedt
2011 Samling Saltarvet
2010 Konstfrämjandet Bergslagen
2009 Konstfrämjandet Skåne
2008 Cast some Light, Glasgow International 2008,
Publications:
https://www.arbetaren.se/2018/03/16/det-ambivalenta-europa/
https://www.harvestmagazine.no/artikkel/var-adferd-som-sivilisasjon-er-helt-schizofren
https://www.etc.se/inrikes/torsk-pa-kol
https://www.etc.se/utrikes/aktivisterna-gav-ny-energi-i-bybornas-strid-mot-fossilbolag
https://notes-journal.com/issue/6/
Links:
http://www.soundofapicture.com/
http://www.culturaldocuments.net/
Workshops and Teaching in selection
2025 What does it mean to belong to a Place? Workshop in Knäred under the umbrella of Bästa Bienalen pedagogical program. 2022 Climate workshop at Drottning Blancas gymnasium, Klimatinspiratör for Klimataktion (Climate Inspirer) for SFI (Swedish for immigrants) at Hyllie Folkhögskola, Skapande skola/Creative school Bergkvaraskolan Söderåkraskolan,Torsskolan,
2021 Skapande skola/Creative school at Munkhätteskolan, Lecture art and climate at Östra Grevie, Workshop on Art and Climate at Östra Grevie Folkhögskola
Make your voice heard-creative workshop for children and young people at various libraries and leisure parks with Malmö Konsthall
Make your voice heard!:Creative workshop with Malmö Konsthall at Latinskolan on on the theme of the UN's global goals and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
2015 Workshop in photography at Malmö Art Academy, Darkroom teacher at Malmö Art Academy,
BIO
Anna Bokström. Artist, publisher, climate activist and curator
Based in Malmo, Sweden, Bokström’s works address community cohesion/experience, social structures and subject knowledge in contexts of climate crisis. She employs a method of durational storytelling to generate portraiture and documentary in video, sculpture and drawing formats. Since 2019 she is working on The Bread Boy of Herculaneum together with Nina Bacos. She also work with LAJA , an artist collective based in Malmö that uses humor and satire to call attention to climate issues and consists of Anna Bokström, Ann Engqvist and Johanna Norrbo who are artists, journalists, climate activists and photographers.
Annas work has been funded by Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Art Council), Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation, Both Ends , Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar and Konstfrämjandet
Works with LAJA:
Arbete pågår/Caution; Men at Work (2025):
is a 14,25 min satirical short film made by Lena Ignestam, Ann Engqvist, Johanna Norrbo och Anna Bokström and edited by Ulf Södergren/U-film.se
“What happens when there is no forest left in Sweden? Will the forest industries cast lustful glances at our tulip beds or the cherry trees in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm then? “Kallak fatta” ( a pun on the Swedish program titled Kalla fakta) examines the desert Sweden of the market liberals”.
Link to Arbete pågår/Men at Work on Wimeo:
Click the link: Vimeo Password: Jalla24!
Still from the film “Arbete pågår”/Caution; Men at Work
LAJA Brewery (2025):
offers various tastings from Skåne's most toxic waterways. With a small but well-selected beverage range, LAJA Bryggeri attracts both those who prefer classic pollutants and hormone-disrupting substances. Here you get Skåne's most toxic tasting menu with locally produced ingredients from Skåne's waterways, drinking water reservoirs and rivers.
Laja Brewery with a selection of Skåne's most toxic water reservoirs and rivers at Gallery Molekyl, Malmö 2025
LAJA Brewey´s offers a wide variety of beer and other drinks.
Konstnärer Tolkar AP Fonderna 2022
Exhibition and Action to protest pension fund investment in fossil fuel by artist group Konstnärer Tolkar AP Fonderna in Stockholm June 2021. Project leaders and curators Anna Bokström and Johanna Norrbo. Participants: Nina Bacos, Ann Engqvist, Sara Granér, Max Gustafsson, Ilona Huss Walin , John Huntington, Lena Ignestam, Babawale Obayanju and Ella Tillema.
Image by Johanna Hanno
Essay in Notes Photography Journal by Maria Sledmere featuring Anna’s images together with Aase Goldsmith’s images.
Fossil Resistance
The work Fossilt Motstånd/Fossil resistance are documentations of protests against expansion of the fossil industry juxtaposed with cross-global climate events including the COP conferences. It has been published in newspapers and magazines.
She has also organised several artistic climate actions together with the Network for Art and Climate in Malmö and has been part of raising discussions and awareness around issues such as fossil fuels divestment, protests against TTIP and Ceta, developments of new oil refineries, etc.
Conference Of the Parties 24 Katowice 2018 ©Anna Bokström
Päronskogen
The exhibition Har du alla dina själv och dina bromsar/Do You Have All Yourselves and Your Brakes 2008 was made together with Marianne Andersson. The commission was part of the Konstfrämjandet 6 year long research initiative Skiss. The project explored the possible roles of the artist and art in society beyond the contemporary or traditional art setting by placing artists working with dialogue-based artistic methods in public administration and other workplaces.
Blerta Linnea, Pencil on Paper 2008 ©Anna Bokström
Two outcomes of the project at Päronskogen were that the staff started drawing classes with the residents and that the presence of the artist generated a space which allowed for different kinds of conversations to take place. Link to interview and publication scroll down mid page. Link to the organisation that initiated the research about the project Konstfrämjandet
AnnaGreta Lejion Affären
In this 13-minute video she worked with the former-offender Björn Eklund and retired police officer Åke Feldt to portray two former opponents who recount memories of the Swedish underworld during the 1970s. The conversation centres on a plan to kidnap the Swedish Minister of Labor Anna-Greta Leijon, and the episode’s links to the Baader-Meinhof League. Placed on a sitting room sofa with a busy bookcase behind them, serious and awkward with the camera but intent on grasping a few moments of reliving a time of importance, it becomes obvious that time has shifted their positions in relation to each other. They are no longer in polarity to each other but rather more like colleagues who worked in different departments at the same company.
Still from the Anna Greta Leijon Affair edit 2010 ©Anna Bokström
Annedalsskolan 1997-2003 / Nordhemsskolan 2003-2006
Her first major work Annedalsskolan 1997-2003 / Nordhemsskolan 2003-2006 which documented one group of children from their first year in primary school to their last year in middle school was carried out over 9 years. This project is an exceptional document in that it's quite possibly one of the last projects of this kind where an unaffiliated photographer gets access to follow up with a group of children in their daily space. The duration of the project is also an important aspect of the work. The growing children's interaction with each other and with her as well as lonely private moments are carefully rendered in a way that stands in stark reflection to today's over-photographed, sanitised, and filtered selfie culture.
Annedalsskolan 1997 ©Anna Bokström