Since receiving a MFA from the Department of Sculpture at Konstfack, School of Arts, Craft and Design in 1997, Katarina Löftröm has been working with video, digital animation and sound interactivity, mixed with sculpture and installation.
During the end of the nineties, She moved to México City, where she had a studio for a couple of years.
In 1997, she started to work in the commercial film business as a script writer and creative assistant for director Jonas Åkerlund. she scripted pop promos for, amongst others; Madonna (Ray Of Light), Prodigy (Smack My Bitch Up) and Moby (007 Theme). She soon started directing, and made several commercials in Sweden and the UK during 1999-2001.
During the early 00-ies, she collaborated with Stockholm based DJ Bruce Leenus, to create the travelling art and music club Bevil. The club was hosted in places like Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Nylistasafni∂ in Reykjavik, and A Fia Backström Production in New York. The intention of the club was to link the music and art scene. Participating artists were, amongst others, Fia Backström, Karl Holmqvist, Johan Zetterqvist, street artists AKAY and GuiltyGuilty.
Later that year, Bevil toured Sweden with a Riksteatern commissioned shadow play Happy Ending Story, which she co wrote and directed.
In 2000, she made her first animated film Hang Ten Sunset, based on a soundtrack by Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman. This was the beginning of a series of works dealing with visualising sound. She made use of the way in which she had previously worked with pop video scripts, i.e. putting imagery to already exsisting pieces of music. She later started to compose her own music, alone or in collaboration with others.
In the fall of 2002, she stayed in Glasgow on a residency given by Nifca - Network North, where she started an extensive collaboration with programmer and artist Juha Huuskonen (founder of new media festival Pixel Ache) creating the sound interactive animations State and BPM.
As an IASPIS resident artist at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, she moved to Berlin in 2003, to stay for a couple of years.
In 2005 she was commissioned to make a permanent, sound interactive light installation for the new concert hall in Uppsala, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, in close collaboration with Danish Henning Larsen Architects - HLT.
She has since made public commissions for the European Patent Office in Munich, the municipality of Skellefteå, and the Swedish parliament.
Löfström is currently working on solo presentations at the Skellefteå Konsthall and Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, in the fall of 2009, as well as a commissioned piece for the World Heritage National Park Höga Kusten.
