Born 1968, lives and works in Gothenburg.
Master degree at Umeå Art Academy, 2004. Part of the on-going project Non-Places since 2005, solo show at Gallery Mors Mössa, Gothenburg, invited to take part in the video archive Es Ist Schwer Das Reale Zu Beruhren, initiator of a series of seminars at Gallery Box, Gothenburg. In 2005 participated in Whatever Happened to Social Democracy at Rooseum, Malmö, Waiting at Casino in Luxembourg, Social Forum in Lund, solo show at NCCA in Kaliningrad (IASPIS grant), NIFCA Nordic AIR in Tallinn. In 2004 took part in exhibitions in Russia and Spain, master exhibition at Bildmuseet at Umeå and ALP Gallery, Stockholm, participated in Electric Visions. Participated in several video screenings internationally.
In his work Kalle Brolin explores the individual in relation to the collective, the little days of your life set against historical time, the place where you live set in relation to the world. He often uses the tool of the dialogue, questioning and reformulating contemporary life. According to him the dialogue is "a tool amongst others to accomplish meetings with others and by that work with the particularities of people and the cultural life they are a part of and inhabit". The documentary language of Kalle Brolin is intertwined with fantasy, humour, and utopian thinking.
Roof Girls (2006) and Showing Roof Girls (2007) are two interconnected videos. In line with his way of working he will also set up a workshop situation where he collects new stories from the visitors of Belef. The two videos are inverting the traditional way of writing history, telling us in an anecdotic way about life itself and reveal the very intersection of the singular with the structural by connecting individuals in different countries and in different situations. |