Artist

Viveka Assembergs was born in Stockholm, Sweden. In Italy since childhood, she graduated from the Liceo Artistico Statale in Bergamo. She began her career as an advertising graphic designer but after a period of paintings She found the right conditions to express herself through sculpture. Her first solo exhibition, “Occorre le ali”, presented by Domenico Montalto, took place in 2007 at the Centro San Bartolomeo in Bergamo. A finalist in the Arte Mondadori competition in 2009, she exhibited the selected work at the Museo della Permanente in Milan.

After numerous exhibitions in Italy, she inaugurated an international exhibition in Berlin in 2014. In 2015 she brought the Here-Elsewhere exhibition to Sweden, the following year, She exhibited in Barcelona. In 2017, She first exhibited at the historic headquarters of Credito Bergamasco, a Bank in the heart of the city of Bergamo, the solo exhibition “Passaggio”, with a work that allowed a sound performance by the artist. The following year, at “Le Stanze”, a municipal exhibition space in Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, he exhibited fiberglass works made from casts of his own body. Her work "La linea della vita" is permanently exhibited at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, as part of the  project "The tube One". She won the competition and created the Via Crucis for Colle San Giovanni di Sotto il Monte Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, which, before its definitive location, was exhibited at the ancient Palazzo della Ragione in the heart of Bergamo Alta in October 2021. In 2023, as part of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capitals of the Culture, she curated a project on behalf of the Adriano Bernareggi Foundation and exhibited the two works "Traps for souls " at the former University in Città Alta, with the collaboration of middle school students.  Also in the same year, with the exhibition "Dopo Manzù, dialogo tra sei scultori e un Maestro"  (After Manzù. The dialogue between six Artists and the Maestro) at the Castello di Pagazzano, She presented a new object of research: the wolf. In March 2024, she participated in the exhibition "Animalia" at the Castello di Palazzolo S/O. Since 2020 member of the Catholic  Diocesan Commission for Sacred Art and Cultural Heritage in Bergamo. Lecturer of Sculpture and Methods and Techniques of Sculpture II and Sculpture III at the Santa Giulia Art Academy of Brescia from 2020 to 2024. She lives and works in Torre Boldone, Bergamo, Italy