Martina Hoogland Ivanow is a visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden using a distinct dark and poetic visual language. After many years working mainly with photography and filmmaking she has recently started to include more sculptural elements through multi-channel or directed sound, animation and various forms of light montage.
An interest in what is complex and contradictory in the life of the contemporary runs like a common thread through her work in which the process becomes an investigation into our often dualistic nature and how the self relates to the outside world. New works are usually inspired by the behavioural patterns that she perceives to dominate, such as; different processing around climate change or social and spatial impact through new technology. The structure is based upon non-linear associative documentation where much of the process circles around removing or altering information through the extremity and limitation of the specific technique.
Her most recent work Second Nature (2021-24) I, II, III, Gyda and Signal-Absence Teaching Drum (2021) as well as Original-Play (2018-19) and Circular Wait (2010-14) all examine the irrational and often contradictory in human behaviour in relation to nature. Hoogland Ivanow has exhibited and shown at the Moderna Museet and Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, The Hermes Foundation, New York and Rotterdam International Filmfestival among others.
She has published 4 books; Far too Close, 2010, SteidlMack, Speedway, 2013, Livraison books, Satellite + Circular Wait, 2016, Livraison books/Art and Theory publishing and Early Reading, 2018, Art and Theory publishing.