Lecture and workshop along with researcher Daniel Laven. Difficult conversation: Dialogue through Heritage, conference arranged by Jämtli museum and The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity, Östersund, Sweden.

New permanent artwork, an installation for the Public Art Agency Sweden is well under way and will be finalized at year’s end. 

During the weekend of April 16-19 I show my work “I see” at the exhibition “Seven Sleepers” by Tegen2 Gallery. The exhibition includes artists Nils Claesson, Gunilla Sköld Feiler, Dror Feiler, Kerstin Hansson, Lars brunström and Anna Ekman. The Art Fair takes place at in Telefonplan, Svarta Huset, in Stockholm. Articles about the exhibition: SvD, review…

There is now a video where I talk about my art and my thoughts on the hybrid available on youtube. Photo: Still from film by Jörgen Lindskog.

How do we relate to identities that do not seem to fall into the usual norms and how do we categorize them? Based on examples from my own art practice I will throw light on questions of how identities and cultures may seem intimidating in that they are not established. Yet how an identity can be under…

FOLLOW GUDRUN SJÖDEN SPRING CAMPAIGN in which I show some new garments and patterns from the spring collection. In the magazine and on her website you will find an exclusive interview about my background and how it connects to the arts. In connection with the International Women’s Day, I am in Gudrun Sjödén store in…

In the spring I will inaugurate a new public artwork for Vreta preschool in Botkyrka. The sculptures that represent two cervid animals are now being built. Date of the inauguration will soon be published on the website.

In the spring of 2015, it happens a lot! My new installation at Vreta preschool in Botkyrka will be inaugurated, I will publish my contribution to the Luciano benetton collection Imago Mundi, The “Camoose” at Telefonplan moves to a new location, and more. Here you you will also be able to see a movie that…

SUNDAY THE FIRST ADVENT 2013 Fruängen got a new element in the public domain. Then was unveiled and welcomed a Maria Sculpture in Vårfrukyrkan. The sculpture is made of blue glass and concrete with a broken light beam structural elements, and is created directly on the existing niche in Vårfrukyrkans belfry. Even when Vårfrukyrkan was…

In October the Swedish municipalities and county councils organizes a conference in Umeå where I will participate in the debate on issues concerning culture and cultural policy. This year’s conference culture is all about collaboration. The conference involved senior politicians and officials, representatives of culture and practitioners from civil society and who define themselves as…

ART, LIFE AND THE RULE OF LAW is an interdisciplinary scholarly meeting about creativity law and human biology organized by Lund University March 14 to 15 2014. The colloquium will bring together around twenty scholars from around the world in a dialogue about art and law, each with its inherent tension between rule and creativity, how…

Glass installation at Candyland. For more information on the exhibition, see Candylands website. Review by konsten.net.   Photo: Monika Lenkmann

EVERY OTHER YEAR SINCE 2005, The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) has organised a broad-based cultural studies conference that has brought together scholars in the field from Sweden and abroad. In June 2013 ACSIS held its fifth biennial cultural studies conference. The theme of the ACSIS Cultural Studies Conference 2013 was On the…

THE VIDEO INSTALLATION Functional silence now appears on Multicultural Centre in Fittja. The work has previously been shown at the Modern Dance Theater in Stockholm (MDT), Folkets hus in Malmo, June 6 to June 30 and Varmhusbadet in Vimmerby July 4 to July 8, 2013. In the work is depicted Israel Palestine conflict from a…

ARTIST GROUP (r)evolve inagurates their work at Multicultural Center in Fittja (MKC) by viewing the video installation “Nuances”. (r)evolve is the first Swedish group of contemporary artists working on the basis of their non-white backgrounds to explore and articulate issues concerning racial experiences. The group (r)evolve consists of artists Cecilia Germain, Lina El Yafi, Linda…

ON MAY 23, I WILL PERFORM a work at Modern Dance Theater (MDT) where I, along with Mario Romero, researcher in visualization technology at KTH, and Jörgen Lindskog, filmmaker, show an initial version of project “Functional silence”. A journal based on the work will also be published in a publication issued by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the…

PROJECT OWNED (ÄGD) ARRANGE A SECOND EXHIBITION at Studio44 in Stockholm. Project aim to change and renew our understanding of local history and cultural identity. Participating artists portrays and explores issues of identity and belonging and about being “owned”. The of my works shown are “Home ground (Hemmaplan)” and “Bird’s Nest””. Project managers of the…

DURING THE FALL 2012 I will make a foreign trip and visit a number of places in the Middle East with the aim of studying the tourist’s relationship to experiences and visual representation. The trip provides a basis for further work with the piece “Cultural tourism“(2009) and means I’m in a more complex plan than…

ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 inaugurated the art exhibition ÄGD – an art project on local history and identity” in which I participate with “Through aperiodic mosaic,” a new site-specific work. More information about the work will also be displayed on my website in December 2012. Until then you can read an article about the work and…

FRIDAY THE 28TH SEPTEMBER is advertised as Researchers’ Night of the EU Commission. Across Europe offers hundreds of activities that will demonstrate how exciting and fun research. The target audience is the general public, especially children and youth. The events will include experiments, workshops, hands-on activities, science shows, exhibitions, science cafe’s and many other opportunities…

A VIDEO ON the project Oophaga vicentei × Oophaga pumilio is displayed on Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities, an international videoart festival and photography exhibition, held in the city of Rome. The Ripa Hotel & Riparte Cafè, the venue of the event, will open its doors on Friday, July 06th until Sunday, July 08th. Forty-four…

LUND UNIVERSITY IS ORGANIZING a workshop that moves between medical history and art history to explore all that was left after the daily work on Tornbladsinstitutet, an embryologic institution founded in Lund 1931. The purpose of the workshop is to develop a greater understanding of the collection, and enable further research on the material. Starting…

IN DECEMBER I will hold a second lecture at Konstfack in Stockholm, where I talk about the feasibility stydy to the Modus operandi, a project where I have worked with police in Gävleborg, Gävle. The talk will focus on how this collaboration  has been running and how an exhibition that was provided in the project…