Mårten Spångberg is an artist who, however always identified as a choreographer, has operated over disciplines. He was educated as a musician and has a background in writing and criticism, but as a professional artist he always had stronger affliations with the visual art field than with dance and performance. Since the early 2000, his work has been shown worldwide and he has collaborated with choreographers with strong connections to visual arts such as Xavier Le Roy and Tino Sehgal. In collaboration with the architect Tor Lindstrand he has worked under the label International Festival between 2003 and 2010, with activities mostly in architecture and visual art contexts and produced projects for Tate Liverpool, Venice Biennale for Architecture, Performa, Witte De With, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and many more places. In 2010 Mårten Spångberg created "Production" together with Xavier Le Roy for Move, curated by Stefanie Rosenthal. In 2011 Spångberg published his first book that took him to New York where he started a close collaboration with MoMA PS1: first a small solo exhibition in the form of talks and later in January 2014 a large-scale performance that thereafter has been exhibited among others in Moderna Museum (Stockholm) and Palais de Tokyo (Paris). "The Internet" (2015), commissioned by Gallery Supportico Lopez (Berlin) and Index (Stockholm), is a 4 hours longs exhibition in the form of a performance. "NATTEN" (2016) premiered in MAMbo (Bologna) and has been shown in festivals after. Mårten Spångberg is associated artist at Black Box Teater, Oslo for 2017–2018.
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