photo: Mathis HauterWilliam Mårdberg (b. 1995, Stockholm) is a filmmaker and artist working across film, music and visual art.
His practice is built on montage and construction — fiction understood not as document but as a more durable form of truth. Drawing on the traditions of Brecht, Benjamin, and Charlotte Delbo, he is building worlds where the constructed nature of the work remains visible and intentional.
He is currently enrolled in the Five-Year Master’s Program in Fine Art at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, following an academic exchange at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna. His work has been shown at MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), MoMA PS1 at Art Basel Miami, and Norrtälje Konsthall
His practice is built on montage and construction — fiction understood not as document but as a more durable form of truth. Drawing on the traditions of Brecht, Benjamin, and Charlotte Delbo, he is building worlds where the constructed nature of the work remains visible and intentional.
He is currently enrolled in the Five-Year Master’s Program in Fine Art at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, following an academic exchange at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna. His work has been shown at MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), MoMA PS1 at Art Basel Miami, and Norrtälje Konsthall
Education
- 2023 – Ongoing: Five-Year Master’s Program in Fine Art, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
- 2024 – 2025: Academic Exchange, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
Solo Exhibitions
- 2024: Something Passes By, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
- 2022: The Sinking Bed, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje
- 2019: Tomorrow in a Year, Hallstavik Konsthall, Hallstavik
- 2018: The Hanging Garden, Växplats Nybyn, Ledinge
- 2017: Fellowship Exhibition, Galleri K, Norrtälje
Group and Duo Exhibitions
- 2026: Kandidatutställning, Marabouparken, Stockholm
- 2025: Leakage as Resistance, Reaktorhallen KTH, Stockholm
- 2025: Två, Källarbyn Gamla Stan, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
- 2025: On Violence, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
- 2025: Screening of Hymn, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Mumok), January 17
- 2024: First-Year Exhibition, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
- 2023: Uäääh!, Fylkingen, Stockholm (March 24 & 25)
- 2019: Juried Exhibition, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje
Performances and Collaborative Works
- 2025: Live Performance, Sound Lab, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, January 16
- 2024: Live Performance, Sound Lab, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, November 21
- 2023: Nuage Articulé (with Marie Karlberg), MoMA PS1 at Art Basel, Miami, December 5
Artistic Assignments
- 2024: Cover Art for Miserere Mei by Isolated Youth (Vinyl and Digital)
- 2020: Cover Art for Iris by Isolated Youth (Vinyl and Digital)
- 2018: Cover Art for Warfare by Isolated Youth (Vinyl and Digital)
Grants and Awards
- 2025: Anders Sandrews Foundation Scholarship
- 2025: Stim Support, LiveMusikLyftet
- 2024: Anna Whitlocks Scholarship for Exchange Studies
- 2023: International Exchange and Travel Grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
- 2017: Youth Art Scholarship, Norrtälje Art Association
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