Emelie Carlén (b.1985) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

contact@emeliecarlen.se

With a practice that spans lens-based media and sculptural installations, the main focus lies in questioning inherent power structures in image production. The linguistic and suggestive meanings of the image is traced to its historical impacts onto contemporary ideals. The research results in long term projects investigating conceptual and material processes, in a recurring search for the hidden, of what is present but not visible.

EDUCATION

2015-2018 MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

2012-2015 BFA, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts

2009-2021 BA in Art History, Stockholm University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Car(ry)ing, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm

2019

The female choir, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg

Cast as a scene, Stpln, Malmö

2018

Lip sync, DELFI, Malmö

Fail-fast systems, Undantaget, Öland

Deep acting, Display, Berlin

2015

In paradise there was no architecture, Umeå Art Academy gallery

2014

Golden mean, Trailer gallery, Umeå

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Baby fold, Festival Kunst und Klima, fabrik Potsdam, Berlin

2021

Mikrohistorier - från arkiv till offentlighet, Konstfack, Stockholm

Art of Sport, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen

2020

14,3x21, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen

Accessory Muscle, ivorypax at Lille bakery, Copenhagen

The history of quoted allocation of women, Digitaliseum, Malmö

2019

De himlende øjne, Sydhavn station, Copenhagen

How curious. I had no idea! Today has ended., SIRIN gallery, Copenhagen

Skitser og værker, Fabrikken for kunst og design, Copenhagen

Supramen walks Kolomenskoye and GES-2, Book release and performance, Kalmar Konstmuseum

2018

Artificial iris, Peryton, Copenhagen

Master degree exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

Project presentation, Index 19, Index- The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm

2017

Visiting artist with Supramen, Sisters academy, Den frie, Copenhagen

rather; - DESIRE !, Q gallery, Copenhagen

2016

Group exhibition, Q gallery, Copenhagen

Group exhibition, Swedish embassy, Copenhagen

Forårsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (artist nominee for international artist)

2015

Expanding space, GES-2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow

Pop, Godsbanen, Århus

Supramen walk Kolomenskoye, Afisha Picnic Festival, Moscow

BLING, Bachelor degree exhibition, Alta gallery, Malmö

(hey sexy!), Centrifug Konsthall C, Stockholm

BLING, Bachelor degree exhibition, Umeå Academy gallery

Ima read that bitch, International feminist video art screening, Small Projects, Tromsø

2014

Passing, Spokojna gallery, Warsaw

Maskinen art boat, Umeå-Vasa part of culture capital year

Supramen tours in Moscow, Garage Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow

Actions goes viral, H.U.T, Vienna

2013

Midsummer exhibition, Köja festivalen, Kramfors

Gender now, Galleri KIT, Trondheim

I’m not your ordinary babycake, performance at Supermarket art fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

2012

Estimated values, Detroit gallery, Stockholm

FILM FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS

2023

Caring at Lund Architecture Film Festival

Haunted Houses at Arkitekturfilmtage, Filmmuseum im München

2022

Chora at Fair Sports at Market Art Fair, Stockholm

Haunted Houses at BARQ International Architecture Film Festival, Barcelona

2021

Haunted Houses at Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Copenhagen

2013

National video screening, Bildmuseet, Umeå

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

2025 Two year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee

2024 Helge Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse

2024 Travel grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee

2023 Längmanska Culture Foundation

2023 Working grant, Danish Arts Foundation

2023 Travel grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee

2022 Working grant, Danish Arts Foundation

2022 One year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee

2020 Mobility grant, Swedish Finnish Culture Fond

2020 Travel grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee

2020 One year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee

2019 Project production support, Danish Arts Foundation
2019 i-Portunus mobility support

2019 Helge Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse

2019 Working grant, Danish Arts Foundation

2017 Stiftelsen AAA

2017 Helge Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse

2017 Fondet for Dansk-Svensk Samarbejde

2016 Stiftelsen AAA

2016 Gålösstiftelsen scholarship for higher education

2015 Stiftelsen AAA

2015 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse

2015 Gålöstiftelsen travel grant

2014 Gertrude och Ivar Philipson Stiftelse

2014 Balticdonationens international travel grant

RESIDENCIES

2024 - IASPIS Stockholm residency

2019 Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Summer residency, Lumsden, Scottland

2018-2019 Made in the coma, Stpln, Malmö, Sweden

2015 Villa San Michele, Capri, Italy

2014 Swedish Insitute in Athens, Athens, Greece

2011 Drake Art Center Artist Residency, Kokkola, Finland

TEACHING AND OTHER ARTISTIC WORK

2019- Course superintendent at Art school II and Art distance school, Ölands folkhögskola

2019 External jury for public commission, Region Kalmar

2015-2019 Guest teacher Art school II, Ölands folkhögskola

2016 Guest teacher at konstskolan, Kronoberg konstskola

TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS

2021 VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, issue#5, Haunted Houses READ IT HERE

2021 Art/Sensation, Emotional Politics READ IT HERE

2019 Johanna Karlin - Unobstucted Lines of Vision, The Valued Mundane

2019 Supramen, Supramen walks, aaaeee