CV i urval - Leif Holmstrand

Malmö, född 1972

SELECTED HAPPENINGS / PERFORMANCES
"Nuggets of Nature, Marabouparken Konsthall, Stockholm/Sundbyberg (Sweden) 2021
"Sunday Morning Cranium Anus", Malmöhus Castle, Riddarsalen, Malmö (Sweden) 2020
“Going Like Elsie”, happening and ceremony in Kiyosumi-teien ryotei, Tokyo (Japan) 2019
”Nonsense Translation”, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok (Russia) 2018
”Fake Bones”, cooperation with the Japanese artist collective OLTA at Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö (Sweden) 2015
”This is True to Life”, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (Denmark) 2011
”Wearing the Territorial (Down)”, Baltic Circle and Q-Teatteri (Puoli-Q), Helsinki 
(Finland) 2010
”Sally Rattenmann, Rosemary’s Baby and a Couple of Songs”, AIT Room, Tokyo (Japan) 2005
"Berlin Magic Model Project — Prostitution and Other Activities", Berlin mitte and Berlin Nollendorfplatz (Germany) 1999


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
"From the Depth", retrospective at Marabouparken Konsthall, Stockholm/Sundbyberg (Sweden) 2021
"A Fetus of a Different Species", Galleri 54, Göteborg (Sweden) 2020
”Cardio Cage”, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris (Sweden) 2018-2019
”Party Condolences”, Galleri Format Oslo (Norway) 2018 
”Bugchaser Party”, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö (Sweden) 2016
”Leif Holmstrand”, Lars Olsen Gallery, Copenhagen (Denmark) 2012
”What the Others Knew”, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö (Sweden) 2009
”In Memoriam”, Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothenburg (Sweden) 2003
”Patrull Vargen (The Wolf Patrol)”, Galleri Pictura, Lund (Sweden) 1998


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
”(in)visible”, queer perspectives at Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (sweden) 2021
”En sista kvartett (A Last Quartet)”, with Anders Widoff, Tova Mozard, Isak Sundström and Leif Holmstrand, Sotheby’s Stockholm (Sweden) 2021
”One Northeast”, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok (Russia) 2018
”Avesta Art 2017”, Verket / Avesta Art (Sweden) 2017
”Textila Undertexter (Textile Subtext)”, Marabouparken konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden) 2016
"Translation Theme Park 2", Ayumi Gallery (Cave), Tokyo (Japan) 2017
”EMAP 2016: Save Our Souls – Art for a Time of Urgencies”, 9th Ewha international 
Media Art Presentation, Seoul (South Korea) 2016
”The Beginning is Always Today: Scandinavian Feminist Art”, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand (Norway) 2013
”Sammen/Together”, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim (Norway) 2012
”The Moderna Exhibition 2010”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Sweden) 2010
”Domestic Affairs”, 1A Space, Hong Kong (China) 2009
”Mot tiden (Against Time)”, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden) 2007


SELECTED RECENT BOOKS
"Svalget (The Chasm)", cooperation with Jonas Örtemark, Rojal Förlag 2021
”Den fornegyptiska familjesolen (The Family Sun of Ancient Egypt)”, poetry, Pequod Press 2021
“De Profundis or From Above", art catalog, artist's book, with preface by Björn Fritz,
English, SLEM produktion 2020
“Herrarna och djuren (The Lords and the Beasts)”, poetry, Albert Bonniers Förlag 2020
”Förkylningen (The Cold)”, novel, Pequod Press 2017


SELECTED RECORDS/SOUND/MUSIC
“PUUP MUSIC (The First Fifteen Years)”, available on iTunes and Spotify, 2020
”Getting Rid of Me”, double cassette (30:00, 2x15 minutes), Zeon Light 2012
”Little Water Child”, CD, 30:15, 2011


SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
Gunnar Ekelöf-priset (The Gunnar Ekelöf award) 2021 
The Barbro Bäckström Award 2020
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Asmund and Lizzie Arle’s prize 2020
Ten-year grant from Konstnärsnämnden (The Swedish Arts Grants Committee) 2013
Edstrandska Stiftelsen (The Edstrand Foundation) 2006
IASPIS and AIT Tokyo Residency and scholarship 2005
Björklunds Donationsfond 2004


EDUCATION
Critical Studies, Malmö Art Academy 2002-2003
Malmö Art Academy 1997-2002
Norrköping Art School 1995-1997
Literature, three semesters at the universities of Stockholm and Gothenburg 1994-1995