Marika Hedemyr is a Swedish artist combining choreography and philosophy in the context of public spaces: in other words she works with bodies, ideas and our contemporary urban society. Her work is characterized by mundane situations in a twisted reality, precision, humour and physicality, and is located in the intersection of fine-, performing- and public art. Hedemyr’s current focus is to create performative art in public spaces, thereby raising issues on access, democracy and the use of urban city centres.
Hedemyr’s artistry holds more than 30 works for stage, public spaces, art venues, theatre stages, film, as well as publications, collaborations across art disciplines and curator of several international labs for artistic practice. She was artistic director of the dance theatre company Crowd Company 2000 – 2014, and is co-founder of Dansbyrån, a Swedish platform for theory, practice and choreographic development. Her work has been shown at for example Dansens Hus Stockholm, Uddevalla Konsthall, Atalante Göteborg, Gothenburg City Theatre, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Egypt, Rawabet Theatre Kairo, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Japan, and numerous public places.
She has an MA in dance from Laban Centre London (1999), and an MFA in Contemporary Performative Art (2014) with focus on Works for Public Space from Gothenburg University - The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts.