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Liv Strand CV

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Living in Stockholm
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e-mail: liv(at)livstrand(dot)com

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Graphic Distance, exhibition presenting a printing process, Farsta, initiated by Grafikens Hus
2023 Dear swarm-I, a room swarming… at Haninge Konsthall
2022 Dear swarm-I, a room swarming of we-me-s, CPR2, Brooklyn, New York
2022 Dear swarm-I, a room swarming of we-me-s, Celsius Projects, Malmö
2018 The Prediction at Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden
2016 Contiguous notes, (with Asako Shiroki) at Japanisch-Deutches Zentrum, Berlin
2015 The Anatomy of borders, Verkstad Konsthall, Norrköping, curator Susanne Ewerlöf
2013 Non Cover, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2011 Tales of Fraternity, Power and Time, The Armenia Project, 0047, Oslo, Norway
2010 Sliding structure, Centro Cívico San Francisco, MEM Festival, Bilbao, Spain
2008 Sliding structure, at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
2006 MOAré and BÅ, at Rundgång, Östersunds hospital
2004 In-side-out, sound installation (extended version), Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden
2004 In-side-out, sound installation, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Capsule at Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Spela roll!, Elbowroom, Atalante, Gothenburg
2002 Room, Østfold Kunstnersenter, Fredrikstad, Norway
2002 Bannerproduction, project room Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 UKS Gallery, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway
1999 … with glue, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Gallery Mejan, (Examination exhibition) Stockholm, Sweden

Other Works

2025 Graphic Distance, performance with three rotating wood block sculptures, SITE specific Farsta, curated by Grafikens Hus
2025 Graphic Distance, performance in the woods with a 25 meter print, SITE specific Farsta, curated by Grafikens Hus 2024 Abstract partition, performance with a 50 meters paper through a brushwood – and amplified voice, for festival In the park arranged by Weld, Stockholm Tantolunden
2023 Bie Biennal Salong 18, hand rotated sculpture 2 and 3 or 5 performed with a text reading
2023 performance Veckad rytm (≈Wrinkled rhythm) w. Marcus Doverud, shared in three festivals: Fylkingen90!, Abysse festival, Haningeterminalen and Hana Erdman’s music salong
2023 Paper bag performance, w. Marcus Doverud, Niels Engström & Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Haninge konsthall
2022 Performance veckad rytm with Marcus Doverud as a final @Celsius Projects, Malmö
2021 Publikmusik, performance with Marcus Doverud, Anna Lindal, Roberto N Peyre, Weld Stockholm
2020 Publikmusik#3, performance with Marcus Doverud, @Site festival at Hallen in Farsta
2020 Speculative Workshop #4; Swarm-I, distributed jag, zoom-workshop for Verkstad Konsthall
2019 – 2022: Textrum a writing project with Freja Bäckman, including residencies at NKF, Stockholm and in Helsinki
2019 performance: A Walk in the Park, for research project A Common Ground by Queens Museum – in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, curator Susanne Ewerlöf
2019 Workshop Migrating Roots on belonging and migration. Part of The Trans-Atlantic Meeting on Nationalism(s), New York. Curators Susanne Ewerlöf & Carmen Ferreyra from Curatorial Program for Research (CPR)
2019 – 2022 Project RISK(U), Room and initiative for artistic research at NKF
2018 På kanten av ett publiksamtal, a conversation performance in relation to Rough Potentials, a choreography by Philip Berlin, at Dansens Hus, Stockholm
2018 Subjective Mapping, seminar arranged at NKF on art in the figure of personal mappings
2018 Reaching with caryon, drawing intervention with Lydia Hamann at the watch tower in Treptower park, Berlin
2018 Reading performance with Marcus Doverud from our book Viformation, Krognoshuset, Lund
2017 Performance Tja chat, tjena chien, concerning mimetic displacement with Marcus Doverud, a co-production with Studiekretz, c.off (at Ccap during the festival My Wild Flag), Stockholm
2016 Workshop Comparative memories, contagious stories, with a group of Ukrainian and Swedish artists, about memory making and the censoring of history, for instance in public space. Curators Susanne Ewerlöf (SE) och Mykola Ridnyi (UKR).
2016 Signals, a curated evening where the attention focused the mutual concern between people and things. With Isabel Carvalho (PT), Jelena Rundqvist & me. At NKF, Stockholm.
2016 two Text Sessions at Malongen, Stockholm, working on the complex of text as artistic medium with invited artists/writers. Reading ones own work and discussing aspects of text.
2016 organizing workshop Subject to erring (@Swedish consulate) & performance (@Depot) in Istanbul as part of IdentityLab. We also traveled to Batman in east Turkey.
2016 Tja chat tjena chien, concerning mimetic displacement, performance with and by me & Marcus Doverud, at Revolve Performance Festival, Uppsala
2016 The skin & the costume, story/stand-up at Sunday Run_up, Svarta Huset, Stockholm
2016 participant in IdentityLab, a research project on questions of identity visiting the Sami minority in north of Sweden and the Kurdish in Turkey. Curators Susanne Ewerlöf (SE) and Naz Cuguoğlu (TR)
2016 Reading Performance, with Marcus Doverud and texts from our book Viformation at Verkstad konsthall
2015 The Great Learning Ochestra (GLO) perform my composition Lockande lur, made in tribute to Pauline Oliveros. GLO perform together with crickets and a lamb.
2014-15 Textile Location, art performance, showed at Pals Performance Art Festival, Stockholm and at Agora Collective, Berlin, Slakthuset performance program and at Sunday Run_Up (Svarta Huset)
2014-2015 ArtResLab Hagastaden, a residency where 6 artists involve their work for six months with scientists. I was working with Rickard Sandbergs lab at Ludwig Institute, Karolinska Institute.
2014 texts from up coming book on Weformation (published 2016, written collaboratively with Marcus Doverud ) shared as Reading Performance at Sunday Run_up in Svarta Huset and at STUDIO BAR #4 by Carl Palm @Stockholm city studio
2013 A spatial reading, 4 persons at the evening event Aesthetic Acrobatics at Agora, Neukölln, Berlin
2013 A 5 hours Drum session in the exhibition Non Cover, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2013 For heaven’s sake, Monsieur, don’t move your hands or you’ll lose the pose!… Can the artist speak? −a pedagogic performance. Signal, Malmö by Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea.
2012-14 Capitalism as we live it, a workshop format developed in collaboration with artist Andrea Creutz (SE) and choreographer Elizabeth Ward (US), given at Konsthall C in suburb Hökarängen, Stockholm, at Flutgraben e.V. projectspace in collaboration with Inverse Institution, Berlin, Germany, and at Iaspis projectspace in Stockholm.
2012 twice twice, a staged art performance at Weld in Stockholm, 3rd part of the collaborative work Through Composition as Explanation
2011 Through Composition as Explanation, performance art work with M Doverud and A Rydqvist at the Auditorium at Modern Museum, Stockholm, curator Catrin Lundqvist
2011- on going! Salon Material, a series of salons that links theory and text to material and physical space that aims for gathering collective knowledge. Organized with Johanna Gustafsson Fürst.
2010 A performance reading on The Armenian Project with Unni Gjertsen in Ramallah. Curators Donatella Bernardi and Noemie Etienne, Eternal Tour 2010 in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
2010 Through Composition as Explanation, a performative research out of a text by Gertrude Stein with M Doverud, A-M Hadji-Culea and A Rydqvist. Also presented as a workshop at The Royal Institute of Art and as a one day reading practice in Pontus Hulténs showroom (MM).
2010 Queer Bucharest Biennale, collective intervention with the attendants of Marsul Gay Fest, curator Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea
2009 Eight short ones, an evening with 8 short experimental lectures by 8 creators. A collaboration with Eva Marklund at Fylkingen, Stockholm
2009 B, a one day installation in a pavilion in Tantolunden. A paper letter: B filled the pavilion. Documentary Another pavilion was made by Weld about the events in the pavilion.
2009 School of Manipulation, a lecture performance with Malin Myrén for the manipulation month by Malmö Fria Kvinnouniversitet at Signal Gallery in Malmö
2008 Pipeline screened at Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, at Loop in Barcelona, Spain, at Cinemateket, Stockholm, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and at Gallery TPW in Toronto in programs curated by Filmform.
2004-08 taking initiative to and part in running a sound art project: LARM mapping women in sound art in the Nordic countries. As documentation historical and today trough a book, a cd, a festival and an exhibition.
2004 T-shirt project taking place around the city of Stockholm, in collaboration with Malin Lobell
2004 In-side-out at Elektronisk Pingst, Rålamshovsparken, Stockholm, Sweden and at Off the record III, sound art festival, Atalante, Göteborg
2003 Performing with opera singers as part of Perfect Performance, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2002 Several radioprograms at src digital radio (www.sr.se/src), Swedish National Radio (SR), Where did you leg go, a radioprogram broadcasted at P1.
2001 Twinkle little lamp -in your store, light installation, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 How, streetwork in co-operation with Kristina Matousch, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 According to the circumstances a sound work at Ballongmagasinet, Norway

Group Exhibitions

2024 Pipeline, video screened at KINOBOX Svolvær, satellite exhibition to LIAF, Lofoten
2023-24 Elektronmusikstudion – Konst, teknik & politik, curator Mats Lindström, Scenkonstmuseet Stockholm
2020 Min tunga är ett ankare (ʻMy tongue is an anchorʼ), Blåstället, Angred, curated by artist Johanna Gustafsson Fürst –with Makda Embaie, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Liv Strand, Stridskrift, Lisa Torell and Sophie Vuković.
2019 Anniversary exhibition for Grafikverkstan Godsmagasinet 10 years, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg
2017 Graphic Art Brösarp, Brösarp Konsthall
2016 Luftslottet, at Norrköping konstmuseum, curator Johanna Uddén
2014 How Green Was My Walley, out door project at Vevringutstillinga, Vevring, Norge, curator aiPotu
2014 a4-room, The Great Learning Orchestra, No Sound Is Innocent, Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg
2013 Either / Or, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen and at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen
2013 The Embassy Reconstructed, at the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, initiator Åsa Stjerna, satellite project to Transmediale 2013 BWPWAP
2009 Konsthall SE, an exhibition on ideas of public art for blind people, Konsthall C, Hökarängen
2009 Sound art III The Swedish scene, DVD edition on sound art published by Svensk Musik (Swedish Music)
2007 START, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montreal, Canada (a project on rhythmicity)
2005-6 The Idea of North, soundexhibition at F 15, Moss, Norway and at Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2003 Open Source, Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm
2003 Adagio, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle
2002 Presentation, Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm
2000 Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Framtidst(o)ro, Botkyrka konsthall , Tumba, Sweden
1999 Edsviks konst och kultur, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Students’r us, Bror Hjorts Hus , Uppsala, Sweden
1997 Galleri Herslebsgt. 10, part of Seven-Eleven project, Oslo, Norway
1997 Forum Gallery, Malmö , Sweden

Public Commissions

2015-2017 two proposals for Hagaplan, a new square built in front of the Karolinska University Hospital. SLL is the organizor. The first round was a more experimental phase with artistic exchange between art and scientific research, I collaborated with Rickard Sandbergs lab at Ludwig Institute, Karolinska Institute.
2008 Up the stair, at Eberg childrens nursery centre in Trondheim, Norway
2005 Energy effect, permanent videoinstallation at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
1999 Memory orchestra in the park by the Swedish church in Berlin, Germany

Collections

SAK, Sveriges Allmänna konstförening (Sweden)
Konst Gävleborg (Sweden)
The National Public Art Council (in Sweden)
Jack Helgesen private collection (Norway)

Education

2024-2025 Konstfack writers, with professor Mara Lee (30 hp)
2009-2010 project student in digital media, Royal Institute of Art (60 hp)
2003 EAM, sound composition and computer course at EMS (Electroacoustic music in Sweden)
2003 Rhetorical studies with gender aspect at Södertörn University College, (10 p)
2001 Political Philosophy, University College of Stockholm (10 p)
1999 Royal University College of Fine Arts (now Royal Institute of Art), Stockholm, Sweden (MA)
1995 Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway

Written Texts

2023 text for the publication SKÄL for weaving, on Nathalie Wuerth’s and Anamaya Farthing-Kohl’s work2019 contributing with 4 drawings for publication Leonorana (PT), no 3 on climate, ed. Isabel Carvalho
2019 review in omkonst.se on Living Books by Mette Edvardsen at Index Galleri, an event 6 occations during the exhibition Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine
2018 essay in Not That Cloud, on artist Johanna Gustafsson Fürstʼs studio, Mount Analogue (SE)
2017 Om en resa, text for Pist Protta nr. 80 (on text as artistic medium), Space Poetry, Denmark
2017 On the performance work Human population by Lisa Torell
2017 Critical writing on choreography https://koreografikritikverkstad.wordpress.com/
2016 a travelogue for Between Pl&ces, written in dialogue with Naz Cuguoglu, Susanne Ewerlöf & Can Sungu. By project IdentityLab.
2016 Viformation (Weformation) a book written and published with Marcus Doverud
2016 A book of small things, The continuance of belonging – a bundle of crossing concerns, a print and performance project by artist Panayiotis Michael, Cyprus
2014 One – 10, typographic image texts, 10 pages in an edition of 15. Printed by hand at bbk Druckwerkstatt in Berlin. Released at Gallery Ping-Ping, Malmö and Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm 2015
2014 Non Cover, 2014 constructed out of an exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2013)
2014 What’s there in the corner? for Vera Kox’ exhibition Reassuring Inertia, KB, Berlin
2013 Doing, showing, sharing. Ways to un-pre-scribe collective artistic processes. A paper for the seminar EMOTIONAL ECONOMY, a workshop on emotional labor and toward dispositions for a new economic ethos at Johns Hopkins University, the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality initiated by Katrin Pahl.
2013 Artistic Medium: Moving Images (Konstnärligt medium: rörlig bild) on video and film art & Conversation Forums and Discussion Forums at Fylkingen in the book Fylkingen 80 år!, on the history of the experimental stage Fylkingen.
2011 Working diary on the project Through Composition as Explanation, periodical Subaltern no 3.
2011 The publication The Armenia Project, images and writings in collaboration with artist Unni Gjertsen.
2007 The book LARM From mouth cavity to lap top, sound in Nordic art, published by Kabusa Books.
2007 a text in LYDBOK (sound book) by Ballongmagasinet, www.ballongmagasinet.com
2001 HUR (HOW) (33) Publikation in collaboration with the Publikation project in Malmö.

Teaching and Consultancy

2025 tutoring the summer course, Individual artistic project, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm
2024 tutoring the summer course, Individual artistic project, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm
2024 opponent of the Master exhibition by Johanna Kindahl at the Royal Institut for Art, Stockholm
2023 tutoring the summer course, Individual artistic project, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm, organized a seminar series in addition, on artistic processes, with invited lecturing artists: Dave Allen, Rut-Karin Zettergren and Ella Tillema
2023 opponent of the Master exhibition by Breogán Torres Gutiérrez at the Royal Institut for Art, Stockholm
2022 tutoring the summer course, Individual artistic project, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm
2021 supervising Course in sound art and EAM, 15 hp magister level, Uniarts, Stockholm
2021 opponent of the Master exhibition by Sahar Al Khateeb, Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm
2020 workshop My I as an Archipelago, for MA students at IBIS, Konstfack, Stockholm
2020 zoom-workshop My I as an Archipelago for KHIO, Oslo
2020 opponent of the Master exhibition by Danae Valenza, Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm
2019 artist at the admission for Candidate program at Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm
2018 opponent of the Candidate exhibition by Siri Bertling Vik, Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm
2018 supervising studentʼs artistic project, Candidate program in Sounddesign at UniArts, Stockholm
2017 workshop in sound art: Sound as effect and affect at preparatory art school Gerlesborgsskolan
2017 opponent of the Candidate exhibition by Hanna Hulthén, Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm
2017 opponent of all five Master students at KHIO, Art and Public Space program, professor Apolonija Sustersic
2017 opponent of 3 Fine Arts Master students (performance works) at Konstfack, professor Emily Royson
2016 opponent of candidate students at Textile dep. at Konstfack, invited by lektor Åsa Cederkvist
2016 external tutor for three MA students at Konstfack, department of Fine Arts
2015 – 2016 workshop in performance art at Textile dep. at Konstfack
2015 opponent of four MA students ”Textile in the expanded field”, Konstfack
2014 sculptural workshop within Katja Aglert’s workshop Repetition, repetition, repetition, revolution at Konstfack, department of Fine Arts
2014 studio visit at the resident artist from Utrecht, Nederlands at Flutgraben e.V, Berlin /Inverse Institution
2013 studio visits at Fine Arts Department Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
2013 studio visit at the resident artist from Utrecht, Nederlands at Flutgraben, Berlin.
2011 Take up space, on three dimensionality at Master Program in Storytelling (Graphic Design & Illustration), Konstfack University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm
2011 Site Specific with Sound and Light Design BA students at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
2010 Body, Sound, Space –be brave, take risks, mark place! A two weeks workshop at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, together with Maria Bjurestam and Victoria Brändström.
2010 Reading practice Through Composition as Explanation, 4 days reading aloud and deep-reading as a way for ‘co-understanding’. In collaboration with Marcus Doverud, Amelie Rydqvist and Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea.
2010 Soundweek at the Juteland Art Academi, Aarhus, Denmark
2009–2010 teaching and planning of a one year Sound Art Program at Dramatiska Institutet
2006–2012 art consultant in a large public art project at Stockholms Läns Landsting; HELIX in Flemmingsberg.
2005, –06 workshops in tree dimensional art and sound at Konstskolan Paletten.

2024 Slöjd och Skrift, online lecture ”Spatiality of text”, given for a course by Västragötalandsregionen
2023 Breakfast seminar series at ETTELVA Architects: Caring and rehabilitating out door environements
2021 on Forms of presentation; sound art out of spatial, temporal and the concert perspectives, Uniarts
2018 on Soundart vs. EAM, and artistic processes in writing, at the Candidate prog. In Sound design at Uni Arts, Stockholm
2017 about collaborative art practises with Freja Bäckman (FIN) and Elske Rosenfeldt (GER) at conference: Para-educational Research. Contexts, Methodologies and Interventions in and in-between Curating, Art and Education hosted by Museum of Impossible Forms in Kontula, Helsinki. Organised by Freja Bäckman, Satu Herrala, David Muñoz-Alcantara, Nora Sternfeld / Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
2017 on my art practise at prepatory art school Gerlesborgsskolan, Stockholm
2014 presentation and performance: Through Composition as Explanation with Marcus Doverud at the conference Tacit or Loud, Inter Arts Center, Malmö
2014 artistic presentation of Through Composition as Explanation with Marcus Doverud at the 15th International Bakhtin Conference, Stockholm
2013 Doing, showing, sharing. Ways to un-pre-scribe collective artistic processes at Johns Hopkins University, the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
2012 Salon Material was invited to host an evening of the reading group at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo
2012 On sound art project Larm and my art, Sound art master’s program at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
2010 on sound art at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts when Carnegie Art Awards hosted the theme sound art
2010 The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark on the sound art project Larm
2007 Gallery 54, Gothenburg, on sound art project Larm
2007 ROM46, Aarhus, Denmark on my art and sound art project Larm
2007 Malmö Art Academy, Soundartprogrammet, on sound art project Larm
2007 Sigtuna Folkhögskola’s Art Class on my art

Grants and Prizes

2025 Residence at Grafikens Hus, an invitation to production at KKV in Farsta (Stockholm)
2025 Längmanska Kulturfonden for a book on Improvisation, written in collaboration with Marcus Doverud
2024 Helge Ax:son Johnssons traveling stipend for research residency in Porto, Portugal
2022 Iaspis support for exhibition at CPR2, Brooklyn, New York
2019 Residency at NKFʼs guest apartment, Stockholm, for artist Freja Bäckman (FIN/DE), projectTextrum
2018 The Visual Arts Fund’s 5 years working grant
2018 Iaspis grant for visiting artist Christine Gedeon (US/SYR) and the seminar Subjective Mapping
2018 NKFʼs guest apartment in Stockholm inviting artist colleague Christine Gedeon (US/SYR), Berlin
2016 Iaspis grant for visiting artist Isabel Carvalho (PT), and creation of a network focusing text as medium
2016 NKF’s guest apartment in Stockholm for my colleague Isabel Carvalho from Porto, Portugal
2014 The Visual Arts Fund’s 5 years working grant
2014 Längmanska kulturfonden, supporting the printing of the upcoming book on Viformation
2012 Emil Bergs travel grant, the Royal Swedish Academy for Fine Arts, travel made 2013 to Dakar, Senegal and the forum Theater Kaddu Yaraax
2012 Iaspis, one year residency at Bethanien Künstlerhaus, Berlin
2012 Project grant for costly projects, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee for Capitalism as we live it: a workshopformat
2011 Kulturbryggan Project support from Stockholm municipality for Through Composition as Explanation
2011 Iaspis support for exhibition abroad: Tales of Fraternity... at 0047 in Oslo, Norway
2010 KU-funding for artistic development work for Though Composition as Explanation from Royal Institute of Art, Sweden
2010 Iaspis support for study periods abroad: Eternal Tour 2010 in Ramallah and Jerusalem, Palestine and Israel.
2009 The Visual Arts Fund’s 2 years working grant
2008 Project grant for costly projects, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Sliding Structure)
2008 Helge Ax:son Johnssons traveling stipend to a research journey to Armenia
2002 The Visual Arts Fund’s 2 years working grant
2001 a grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
1999 Bonnier grant for a student at the Royal Institute of Art, Sweden
1999 KU-funding for artistic development work for HUR / HOW from Royal Institute of Art, Sweden
1997 a grant from Sigrid Friedmans fund
1995 Konstnärsklubbens grant for a young artist (as the first woman ever, from this male artists club)