Cecilia Parsberg, visual artist, lives and works in Stockholm. She is a Guest Professor in Documentary Media-production at School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde. She attended Valand Academy of Fine Arts at Gothenburg University from 1986 to 1991 where she received a master of fine Arts, and 91-92 a Post-Grad Diploma in Electronic Imaging from Dundee University.

In 1993, Gothenburg University recruited her as co-developer of the educational programme ‘Digital media for artists’ at Valand Academy of Fine Arts, where she taught for four years. In 98-99 she was the artist in residence at the Swedish Studio in London. In 99-02 she was assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University, Sweden. Guest Professor at Fine Arts Department at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg. She has conducted workshops at Fine Arts Academies througout Sweden, Norway and the USA. She is in the Editing Board for the magazine Glänta. (Parts of Glänta translated in English, can be found on http://www.eurozine.com)
In 2007 she certified as a trainer in Radical Collaboration. www.thesweden.se/content/view/44/44/ She is part of the network Bwanaclub/Clandestino .

She is currently working on the project: Private Politics (&Public Secrets) I want to open up, by fiction, the documentary image for the viewer. The places of this project are Sweden and Lebanon. I am interested in making images of the conditions of a single individual who is influencing changes of social and political structures.

Background: ”Five Actions” in South Africa and eight projects in Palestine and Israel have shaped my view of art and its meaning. I do not take photographs, they are given to me in the encounter. It is not the image of an event that counts, it is the situation created because of our inner images. And then how the image is mediated.

She screened her her latest film “A heart from Jenin” (45 mins) at The Modern Museum in Stockholm in March, as an installation at The Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg during 08-09, at BildMuseet in Umeå 08, at Malmö Museer-08, at Fotografins Hus in Stockholm -07. During 2009 it has also been shown, among other venues, at:Göteborgs filmfestival, Borås Museum, Skövde Konsthall, Roskilde filmfestival, Denmark. She was a Keynote Speaker for Sensitive Peace Research på Tampere Peace Research Institute 2007. During 2009 she lectured in Stockholm at Konstfack and Mångkulturellt Centrum in Fittja. In Göteborg at: the Filmfestival, ABF, Globalverkstan, HDK and Resistance Studies at the University, in Norway at FN-sambandet: Internasjonalt Seminar and at Center for Peace Research i Tromsö and at Oslo University.
A full biography and CV can be viewed at: www.this.is/Parsberg