Homepage of Swedish visual artist Pål Hollender, featuring well over 20 hours of film, video art, television segments, exhibition demos and much more.

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"Pål Hollender acts out to create accomplices. What he has to say, it seems, can't be communicated except by shared hard knock experience. Seeing his performances or video work, the beholder is challenged by the logic of the child that has been violently betrayed: "How far can I go before you, too, let down my confidence and turn your back on me?"

Hollender's work guarantees that there are no pure symmetries or uninfected relations. This is the sheer redundancy of trauma: It delivers itself in all dimensions of your life, at all levels of reality." Lars Bang Larsen, Art&Text

Pål Hollender makes work which is permeated with discomfort and pain, both physical and mental. Most of his videos are autobiographical. They push the boundaries of what he could, as the performer, possibly endure and you as the viewer can stand watching. Maria Lind, Curator

A short selection of recent events:

FIPATEL, Film Festival Finding Ali, Documentary, Biarritz, France, 2012
Nobels Peace Center, Oslo, Norway, 24 hour film from Afghanistan, 2012
Film fra Sor, Film Festival Finding Ali, Documentary, Oslo, Norway, 2011
Cinemateket Hollender Special, Bergen, Norway, 2011
Gothenburg International Film Festival Finding Ali, Documentary, 2011
Moderna Museet Stockholm Finding Ali, Minibion, 2011
Svensk video 1996-2006, 19 verk ur Moderna Museets film- och videosamling Moderna Museet, Studion, Stockholm, 2011
Music video - Gör Min Dag, feat Magnus Carlson, Artist: Petter, Director/photo/edit: Pål Hollender. Release spring 2010
Music video - Fast För Evigt, Artist: Petter, Director/photo/edit: Pål Hollender. Released early spring 2010
Boston Tea Party, Season 3, Kanal 5, Infotainment, segment producer. Spring 2010
Bad Form. Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa, April-May 2009
Söndagsparty. Kanal 5, Live TV Show, from New York, Segment Producer, spring 2009
Malmö Konstmuseum. Grants and application exhibition. Malmö, Sweden
SpotCity. "Euro-Man". September 2008, Brunnsparken, Gothenburg, Sweden
Färgfabriken - 0868. June 14 - Aug 8, 2008. Stockholm, Sweden.
Borderline, Alingsås Konsthall, Alingsås, Sweden, in collaboration with Bo Melin
Boston Tea Party, Season 2, Kanal 5, Infotainment, segment producer
High Chaparall, Kanal 5, lifestyle/entertainment television show, segment producer
The Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2007 "Rethinking Dissent"
The meaning of Sex, Book Exhibition, Pax Forlag, Norway
Konsthemmet - Video, in collaboration with Bo Melin, Studio Virtanen, TV8
"Free Zone", Cultural Center Rex, Belgrade Human Rights Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia

I'm at the present not represented by any galleries.

info[at]hollender.se

Links of interest, to sponsors, awards etc.

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256MB RAM
16MB video RAM
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32MB video RAM
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