Annika Ström (born 9 November 1964)[1] is a Swedish artist, living and working in London,[2] United Kingdom.
Her work addresses subjective states of crisis and insecurity in songs, videos and text pieces displaying self-reflective phrases like "Excuse me I am sorry, Everything in this show can be used against me, I am a better artist than I deserve".
In her films Ström draws upon details of everyday life and seemingly insignificant experiences usually accompanied by her own low-fi synth-pop soundtracks.
Ström's text works consist of phrases, normally no more than a few words, transcribed onto sheets of paper or, onto a wall.
In Collector Anna shows her collection of Annika's early art school nude studies, as if they were old masterpieces.
She has published three vinyl records relating to the soundtrack to the films Summer96, The Artist Live and Ten New Love Songs.
[1] The caused of the embarrassment was the low number of work produced by women artists[8] that are represented at commercial art fairs.
The performance work "Look the other Way"[13] at Winchester Great Hall and Shanty Clash' were commissioned in 2013 by artSouth collaboration.
Since 2000 Ström has also worked extensively with text phrases, painted on both paper and canvas, of which many are in private and public collections.
In 2014 the Swedish Art Agency commissioned her to do 10 texts works for the new build extension of LUX, the Humanities Department[14] at Lund University.
In the film, Ragnar, a former history teacher is reading statistics relating to his daughter profession in a dry, accusing manner.
Another workshop Excuse me, I have to go the rest room, took place in public toilets around Oslo, as spaces for displaying art.