Artistic Statement
Ami Bergman’s artistic practice informs an act of (re)discovering and (re)building a rapport and relationship with the self, moving forward from past traumas and hardships in life.Placing herself front and centre is driven by compassion and marked by self-love and reconciliation with who she is and how she appears today in a society built on norms and standards that do not always seem to include her; a woman who will be deemed older and factually also is.Her practice is a mirror of now living and enjoying life with its various inherent realities, reveries and oddities. She has taken a step back in the past, but this is her claiming her space and time in the world.
Ashik Zaman. Editor-in-chief, C-Print Journal.
Ami Bergman’s (b. 1966) artistic practice is a progression from traumas and difficulties in life. She works with her femininity and the patriarchy. By showing herself and her relationship to the outside world by painting self-portraits, dresses, clothes, movement, dance, nature, writing text and working with the psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytical, she lives and enjoys life more. The work is a reflection of what she encounters of realities, strangeness and the odd in life. Bergman is represented in the Moderna Museet’s collection and in a private collection in the Netherlands, has recently shown work at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Governor’s residence in Skåne and Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca and received scholarships from the Malmö Art Museum and the Skånska Konstnärsklubben.
Text/ Malmö Open Studios,2023
Ami Bergman(b 1966) The self fills the pictorial space with ease .The turquoise-blue background is painted with brushstrokes that follow the body, which is dressed in contrasting light yellow-colored dress.Ami Bergman’s artistic practice is grounded in years of highly- skilled work using painting and drawing.Often placing herself at the centre, it is as if she repeatedly wants us to remind us of something. Bergmans self-portrait ,of her self as an artist, prompt questions of representation ,of not pleasing, or defying the limiting norms of how an older woman should look or act.With a paintbrush in her exaggerated hand she meets the viewers eye with an exploratory gaze. The hands are those of a worker ,and they possesses the ability to tireless create a place of one’s own in the world.
Text/Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2022.
Ami Bergman Artist 