The Swedish duo Byström Källblad makes work for the stage, the gallery and the public space. Artist Helena Byström and choreographer Anna Källblad share a desire to tell stories from and based in collaboration and exchange with specific places and its people. Through choreography and bodies in motion they create work that spans across dance and fine art. Fearlessly with both seriousness and humor Byström Källblad develops concepts inspired by challenges in society today and seek to express its complexities.
Byström is a visual artist from the north, working mainly with film and sculpture, Källblad is a choreographer from the south, who returned to Sweden after ten years divided between London, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Byström and Källblad work locally, nationally and internationally and have shown work in places like a sports arena, a nuclear power plant, Shibuya Crossing Tokyo, Sakakini Art Centre Ramallah, Stockholm City Hall, Uppsala Cathedral, Kulturhuset, Dansens hus, The Royal Dramatic Theatre and the Modern Museum in Stockholm. 2024 they premiered Calling we are here and January 2025 A third possibility and since the premiere at Dansens Hus Stockholm toured the perfomance City Horses all over Europe as selected artists and part of Big Pulse Dance Alliance as well as i Australia and Mexico.Their work has attracted wide media attention and is referred to in academic papers.
Byström Källblad are supported by the Swedish Arts Council, Region Västmanland, Region Stockholm and Swedish Arts Grants Committee.
