Åsa Elzén Curriculum Vitae

Born in . Lives and works in Stockholm and

Education 2007-08 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York 2003 The Romantic , Art & Architecture, Royal University College of Fine Art, Stockholm, 2000-02 M.F.A. Royal University College of Fine Art, Stockholm 1996 Art History, 1991-96 B.A. 1st Class Honours, Fine Art Sculpture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, (thesis: To play a language game: Wittgenstein on the inner, rules and private language)

Group Shows (selected) 2010 -Second World Congress of Free Artists part of the show Modifications, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, Denmark (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association), initiated by the Camel Collective -THE MODERNA EXHIBITION 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association) curated by Fredrik Liew with Gertrud Sandqvist and Lisa Rosendahl -Y-Gallery, Minsk, Belarus curated by Martin Schibli -(Dis)Agreements: the utility, effectiveness, and problematics of categories at making ourselves visible:a day-long project in feminist space-making, Elizabeth A.Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association), initiated by Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy 2009 -Living in a Modern Society , Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, curated by Martin Schibli -Asia Panic, Second Gwangju Art Vision, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall. Gwangju, South Korea, curated by Chang Suk-won and Choi Jae-chang -Lively presence, 7th Biennale of Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile, Chile, editorial project curated by Instituto Divorciado -A Space on the Side of the Road, Röda Sten, , Sweden (Föreningen JA!/The YES! Association) curated by Kajsa Dahlberg and Henrik Anderson -Incheon Women Artist!s Biennial, Incheon, South Korea, curated by Heng-Gil Han a.o. -A Gift to Birobidzhan, newsgrist.typepad.com/a_gift_to_birobidzhan/ ,curated by Yevgeniy Fiks -Interface: Nature, Nurtue Art, New York, curated by Nina Horisaki-Christens 2008 -Moot Points: Exercises in Self Organisation, Discourse and Collaboration, Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association in collaboration with Kajsa Dahlberg, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK, curated by Kathryn Elkin -Metro-Poles: Art in Action, Bronx River Art Center, New York, curated by José Ruiz, Robert Lee, Heng-Gil Han and Elisabeth Akkerman -Dwelling Place, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan -Mornings in Mexico, curated by Steven Lam and Tamar Guimaraes at Farewell to Postcolonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China, curated by Gao Shiming, Sarat Maharaj, Chang Tsong-zung, a.o -Living in a Modern Society at QUI VIVE? I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, L-Gallery, Moscow, curated by Martin Schibli -Whitney Independent Study Program, Studio Program Exhibition, former DIA Center for the Arts, New York -475 KENT lives, Queens Museum of Art, Belova Centre, New York, curated Koan Jeff Baysa 2007 -Ernte, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Switzerland -Konstfeminism, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, curated by Anna Livion, Barbro Werkmäster, Niclas Östlind a.o -Volume, 3rd Ward, New York, curated by Mariko Tanaka -Foire/Fair comme si tout allait bien, As If All Were Well, Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Montréal, Canada 2006 -Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York -Sweden 16, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden, curated by Helen Hedensjö -Konstfeminism, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, curated by Anna Livion, Barbro Werkmäster, Niclas Östlind a.o -Konstfeminism, Hälsinglands museum, Hudiksvall, Sweden, curated by Anna Livion, Barbro Werkmäster, Niclas Östlind a.o 2005 -KM.0 0/5 URBANO, Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Cruz, Bolivia -Konstfeminism, Dunkers Kulturhus Helsingborg, Sweden, curated by Anna Livion, Barbro Werkmäster, Niclas Östlind a.o -Oslo Mobile Kunsthall, Oslo Kunsthall / aiPotu, Oslo, curated by ak28 and aiPotu -Changdonggo, Changdong Art Studios, Seoul -Moderna by Night/Artistic Strategies, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, curated by Catrin Lundqvist, Josefin Herolf, Kim Einarsson a.o. -Telltale, Ewha Art Centre, Seoul, Curated by Jiyoon Lee -Stockholm Art Fair, with Museum Anna Nordlander, Stockholm 2004 -Hair and Sisterhood, Konstakuten, Stockholm, curated by Malin Arnell and Viktoria Brännström -ArtFOG, Art Focused on Gender, Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, curated by Maria Sundström -A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju, South Korea, curated by Kerry Brougher, Sukwon Chang, Milena Kalinovska, Roberto Pinto a.o. -schwEDEN, Felleshaus, Nordischen Botschaften, Berlin, curated by Aris Fioretos 2002 -Impact 3 Galerie Associative de la Photographie et de la Video, Strasbourg, curated by Yasmina Khouaidjia -Konsthögskolans Vårutställning, Konstakademien, Stockholm 2001 -ma/galerie helen adkins, Berlin -Konsthögskolans Vårutställning, Konstakademien, Stockholm -Konstakuten, Stockholm -Forum Frispel, Kulturhuset, Stockholm -Hybrid, Teater Replica, Stockholm, curated by Josefin Herolf -cross female, Kunstverein Pforzheim e.V., Pforzheim, Germany, curated by Barbara Höffer and Valeria Schulte-Fischedick 2000 -cross female, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Barbara Höffer and Valeria Schulte-Fischedick -Flexible 3, close to the body, Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands -Flexible 3, close to the body Helmshore Textile Museum, Manchester -Flexible 3, close to the body Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1999 -Flexible 3, close to the body Landesgalerie Oberösterreich. Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria -Flexible 3, close to the body BWA Wroclaw Contemporary Art Galleries, Wroclaw, Poland 1998 -Kopf an Kopf, Head to Head, Tête-à-Tête, ACC Galerie, with Amanda Dunsmore and Stephan Höller, Weimar, curated by Mary Rozell and Frank Motz -Salz und Zisterzienser, Kulturforum Gut Wienebüttel, Lüneburg, Germany 1997 -Männer Mythen, with FBI, Aktions Galerie, Berlin

Film screenings (selected) 2009 -Film Idyll, Klubb Idyll, Högkvarteret, Stockholm -Experiments in Living, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, curated by Bildwechsel Glasgow 2008 -Out of place, Cinemateket, curated by Filmform, Stockholm -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin curated by Nathalie Henon and Jean Francois Retting -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, curated by Nathalie Henon and Jean Francois Retting -Privilege Walk/Symposuim, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, org. by the YES! Association 2007 -Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Cinéma l!Entrepot (and other locations) Paris, curated by Nathalie Henon and Jean Francois Retting -Film Idyll, Klubb Idyll, Årsta Folkets hus, Stockholm -Skellefteå Kommuns Genusvecka, with Museum Anna Nordlander, City Hall, Skellefteå, Sweden -Positive Massnahmen, International Women!s Day Party, Nurnberg, Germany 2006 -Ladyfest, Berlin -Pridehouse, Stockholm Pride Festival, Stockholm -Ladyfest, Toulouse, France -Kvar- the malfunction, 3rd Queer Beograd Festival, Oueer Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia 2005 -Ladyfest, Malmö -Centrum för genusstudier, Stockholms Universitet -Gävle Konstcentrum, curated by Pia Kristoffersson -Galleri Box, in conjuncture with the Gothenburg Biennale, Gothenburg -Kombat filmfestival, Pride Ung 2005, Lava, Kulturhuset, Stockholm -EMAP, Ewha Women!s University, Seoul, curated by Inhee Iris Moon a.o. -Cell 5, Helsingfors -ABF-Huset, Stockholm -Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, Sweden -Feministisk söndagsbio (Feminist Sunday Cinema) Motståndskafeet, Uppsala, Sweden -Filmkväll, Uppsala Sociala Forum, Uppsala, Sweden -Feministfestivalen, Kafé 44, Stockholm -Feministfestivalen, Umeå, Sweden -Feministfestivalen, Gothenburg -Tellus Biograf, Stockholm -Färnebo Folkhögskola, Färnebo, Sweden -Kulturhuset, Lava, Stockholm -Genusdag – tema etnicitet, kön och sexualitet, Lärarhögskolan, Stockholm 2004 -The little garden workshop, Sparwasser, Berlin -Feminism 2004, Malmö -Socialistiskt Forum, ABF-huset, Stockholm

Solo Shows 2009 -The guide and the seeing man, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden 2005 -Systerskapets år / A Year of Sisterhood as archive, in collaboration with Sonia Hedstrand, ak28, Stockholm, curated by Johanna Gustafsson-Fürst -Systerskapets år / A Year of Sisterhood, in collaboration with Sonia Hedstrand, Produktionsenhetens projektrum, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden, curated by Production Unit 2004 -Woojegil Museum, exhibition and workshop in collaboration with Ylva Elzén in connection with the 5th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, curated by Jongkee Chae 2003 -Grosse Liebe World Tour Del 1, in collaboration with Brian Manning Delaney SL- montern Oden-plan, Stockholm 2002 -game, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm 2001 -game, ma/galerie helen adkins, Berlin -turisten, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm 2000 -Strich & Faden, ma/galerie helen adkins, Berlin 1999 -In front of the landscape, Janco-Dada Museum, Haifa, Israel, curated by Yona Fischer -Cocooning, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi -In the process of crystallization, Séparé museumsakademie, parallell to Daniele Buetti, Berlin 1998 -SALT, Edsvik Konst & Kultur, Stockholm, curated by Birgitta Hallerström Wallin 1997 -Public installation within the project Kopf an Kopf, Weimar -Stilleben in Sodom, Städtisches Museum Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany, curated by Petra Lewy 1996 -Paraphernalia, NCAD Degreeshow, Dublin

Bibliography (selected) 2010 -Sinziana Ravini, “Friktionsfritt och förföriskt – Modernautställingen 2010” (Frictionless and Seductive), Dagens Nyheter, October 5 -Fia-Stina Sandlund, “JA till Brooklyn!” (YES to Brooklyn!), Helsingborgs Dagblad, June 25 -Image insert, NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER publication, initiated by Malin Arnell and Johanna Gustavsson 2009 -Sinziana Ravini, “The Last Temptations of Socio-Romanticism“, SITE nr. 28 -Julia Marsh, “Feminism: Beyond the Post that Never Was”, Space Magazine, August -“När Helvetet Frös Över – En iscensättning i 4 delar” (When Hell Froze Over – a performance in 4 parts) text and image insert by Föreningen JA! / The YES! Association, Mana #4-5, editors Nadia Mazzoni and Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen -Karin Faxén, “Projekt i Göteborg ska engagera besökare” (Projects in Gothenburg will engage the visitors) concerning Föreningen JA! / The YES! Association, Dagens Nyheter, June 18 -Mia Gerdin, radio interview with Föreningen JA! / The YES! Association, Kulturnytt P1, June 19 2008 -Amanda Svensson, “Manliga måttstockar” (Male benchmarks) concerning Föreningen JA! / The YES! Association, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, September 9 -Carolina Söderholm, “Att göra skillnad” (To make difference), concerning Föreningen JA! / The YES! Association, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, September 18 -Chen Yung-Hsien, “Dwelling Place – Contemporary Video Art vs. Dwelling Culture”, catalogue text, Dwelling Place, 2008 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Chew!s Cultural Foundation 2006 -“Kid / I!ll be you if you!ll be me”, catalogue text and image insert, Tio år med Konstakuten, red. Konstakuten 2005 -Anna Livion Ingvarsson, “Att ta plats” (To claim space), catalogue text Konstfeminism, Riksutställningar -Eleanor Heartney, “Gwangju Biennale”, Art in America, May -Karolina Ramqvist, “Åsa Elzén (arkivarie)” (Åsa Elzén – archivist), Arena, April -Lina Kalmteg, “Tredje vågens feminism på film” (Third wave feminism on film), Dagens Nyheter, 8th of March -Jeanette Gentele, “Vad är syftet med feministfilmen?” (What is the purpose of the feminist film?), Svenska Dagbladet, 6th of March -Anne Hedén, “Vikten av att synas” (The importance of being seen), Expressen, 8th of March -Milla Eronen, “Har ni gjort världens längsta feministfilm?” (Have you made the longest feminist film in the world?), Arbetaren, issue no. 10 -Johanna Gustafsson (guest curator), “Ett år av systerskap” (A year of sisterhood), Bang, issue no. 1 -Hanna Navier, “De visar nio timmar feminism på kvinnodagen” (They show nine hours of feminism on the international women!s day), www.stockholmsfria.nu, 4th of March -“Hey och hallå”, Ordfront, March -“Systerskap och kvinnokamp på 8 mars” ( Sisterhood and women!s struggle on the 8th of March), Stockholms Fria Tidning, issue no. 9 -Jiyoon Lee, catalogue text, Telltale, Art Centre Ewha 2004 -Miki Dedijer (viewer participant), catalogue text, Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju Biennale Foundation -Niclas Östlind, "Samtid och historia, separatism eller inte...“ (The present and history, separatism or not…), catalogue text, artFOG, Museum Anna Nordlander 2000 -Barbara Höffer & Valeria Schulte-Fischedick, catalogue text Cross Female – Methaphors of femininity in the Art of the 90s, Galerie Pfefferberg/Pfefferwerk e.V. 1999 -Gurleen Grewal, catalogue text, Cocooning, Sanskriti Kendra Foundation and UNESCO IFPC -Karin Malmquist, catalogue text, Konst är konst – allt annat är allt annat, (Art is art – everything else is everything else) Edsvik Konst & Kultur 1998 -Nina Weibull, “Sött? Salt? Bittert ambivalent” (Sweet? Salty? Bitterly ambivalent), Aftonbladet, 11th of Jan -Sabine Brandt, “Grosse Adressensuche im tiefblauen Salon”, TLZ, Weimar, 14th of March -Mary Rozell Hopkins, catalogue text, Kopf an Kopf, Head to Head, Tête-à-Tête, ACC galerie -Uwe Kreissig, “Biblische Erinnerungen in Salz”, Freie Presse, 3/4 Jan 1997 -Torsten Schilling, “Weisses Gold: Ästhetik der Physik”, Zwickauer Zeitung, 12th of Dec -Petra Lewy, “Stilleben in Sodom” catalogue text, 50 qm, Städtischen Museum Zwickau

Fellowships / Grants / Artist in residencies / Workshop participation 2011 -Project grant, The Arts Grants Committee Sweden 2009 -IASPIS, International culture exchange grant, IWAB, Incheon, South Korea -Nordic Culture Point, Mobility funding -Transient Spaces, The Tourist Syndrome Summer Camp, 1 week workshop in Palanga, Lithuania, organized by uqbar, Berlin a.o. 2008 -Nordic Culture Point, Mobility funding -Letterstetdska föreningen, project grant 2007 -IASPIS, International culture exchange grant, Whitney ISP, New York 2005 -KM0. 0/5 URBANO, 2 week workshop in Santa Cruz, Bolivia -IASPIS, International culture exchange grant, workshop Santa Cruz, Bolivia -Two-year working grant, The Arts Grants Committee Sweden -IASPIS, exhibition grant abroad, Ewha Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea 2004 -Changdong Art Studios, artist in residence, Seoul, South Korea 2003 -Project grant, The Arts Grants Committee Sweden, with Sonia Hedstrand -Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden grant, with Sonia Hedstrand -Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse grant, with Brian Manning Delaney 2002 -Stellan, Sten och Märtha Hähnels Minnesfond fellowship -Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse fellowship 2000 -IASPIS, exhibition grant abroad, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1999 -UNESCO-Int. Fund for the Promotion of Culture, artist in residence, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi -JCVA, Jerusalem Centre for the Visual Arts, artist in residence, Jerusalem 1998 -Studio apartment in Berlin with support from Kultursenat Berlin 1997 -Two-year working grant, The Arts Grants Committee Sweden -IASPIS, International Artist!s Studio Program in Stockholm, artist in residence, Stockholm -JCVA, Jerusalem Centre for the Visual Arts, artist in residence, Jerusalem -ACC, artist in residence, Weimar

Public talks / Seminars / Teach-ins / Initiated workshops 2011 -Institutions and their Feminist Discontents, College Art Association's Feminist Art Project, New York, organized by Johanna Burton och Julia Bryan-Wilson (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association) 2010 -Artistic Processes, Y-Gallery, Minsk, Belarus, organized by Martin Schibli -Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association) -Can Art be Discriminating? A discussion about the application of the Discrimination Act on the field of art, by Naiti del Sante, part of the project EQUALITY AGREEMENT 2010 (5 years later) Röda Sten, Gothenburg (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association) (lecture) -(Dis)Agreements: the utility, effectiveness, and problematics of categories at making ourselves visible:a day-long project in feminist space-making, Elizabeth A.Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association) (teach-in/performance) initiated by Liz Linden and Jen Kennedy -NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER, together with Hong-An Truong, New York initiated by Malin Arnell and Johanna Gustavsson -Introduction to EQUALITY AGREEMENT 2010 (5 years later) Röda Sten, Gothenburg (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association) (seminar) 2008 -Privilege Walk/Symposium – Feminist and intersectional aspects of contemporary art, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden, 2-day symposium with 14 invited lecturers, workshops and film screenings initiated by Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association -Moot Points: Exercises in Self Organisation, Discourse and Collaboration, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (Förenigen JA!/The YES! Association) (public talk) 2005 -Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden organized by the Production Unit (public talk) -The artist as historiographer at Artistic Strategies, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, organized by Catrin Lundqvist, Josefin Herolf, Kim Einarsson a.o. (symposium) -Ewha Art Centre, organized by Jiyoon Lee (public talk) -Centrum för Genusstudier (Centre for Gender studies), Stockholm University (public talk) -Gävle Konstcentrum, organized by Pia Kristoffersson (public talk) -ABF-Huset, Stockholm (public talk) 2004 -The little garden workshop, Sparwasser, Berlin (public talk) -Feminism 2004, Malmö (public talk) -Woojegil Museum, in connection with the 5th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (workshop) 1998 -Edsvik Konst & Kultur, Stockholm (public talk) 1997 -ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany (public talk)

Teaching / Lectures 2010 – Är det på riktigt eller är det bara konst? (Is it for real or is it only art?) Örebro Konstskola, Sweden, (2 weeks, lecture, workshops individual meetings) -Högskolan för fotografi, Gothenburg (1 day: lecture, individual meetings) -Örebro Konstskola, Sweden, (1 day: lecture, individual meetings) 2006 -Material & Gen(i)us (Material and gender/genius) Örebro Konstskola, Sweden, (3 weeks: lectures, workshop, individual meetings, group critiques) 2005 -Ewha Woman!s University, College of Art & Design, Seoul, (1 day: lecture, individual meetings) -Örebro som exotisk plats, Örebro Konstskola, Sweden (3 days: lectures, workshop, individual meetings, group critiques)) -Material & Gen(i)us (Material and gender/genius), Örebro Konstskola, Sweden (4 days: : lectures, workshop, individual meetings, group critiques)

Other 2008-09 -Program Assistant, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York 2008- -Board member, Föreningen JA!/The YES! Association. The YES! Association is a group of artists based in Sweden and the U.S. who work towards creating a"more equal, diverse and interesting art world."The basis for their work is the on-going formulation of an"Equal Opportunities Agreement"that demands structural changes in art institutions. This agreement exists in numerous forms and has been addressed through performances, fiction and live negotiations. Current board members are: Malin Arnell, Åsa Elzén and Johanna Gustavsson www.foreningenja.org

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