Taking part in a interview 22/11 during a online seminar on funding for the cultural field in Sweden, with Region Värmland, Västra Götalands Regionen and various cultural institutions.
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October 2023
Slow with updates of lately. Currently working on new sculptures in a studio in Värmland in western Sweden, as well as on a new www.hybrida.space website, which will also digital exhibitions by artists who in some way deal with digital mediums. The new site and the exhibitions will premier during the spring 2024. The project is supported by Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet).
We are also working on the planning of the Hybrida residency and festival for 2024, more info on that soon! Documentation from 2023 yet to be uploaded on the website, but can meanwhile be seen on our Instagram
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May 2023
This year, by the start of our residency exhibition, we are also putting up a small music festival which combines art and music performances.
Dates: 13-16 July
For more information and tickets
Or follow our instagram
The project is supported by Kulturrådet, Region Värmland, Karlstads Kommun, Byalaget Älvan
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April 2023
In a months time, by May 22, we are starting this years hybrida.space residency. This years sees the following participating artists, who will work together for two months with a exhibition as the end goal:
Kirstine Aarkrog
Zuza Banasińska
Jacob Dwyer
Lucie Gottlieb
Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir
David A. Rios
Tomas Sjögren
Giorgos Tsiongas
Joar Torbiörnsson
Myrto Vratsanou
The curatorial format this year is the way we work during the residency, the whole project is self organised by the whole group.
The project is supported by Kulturrådet, IASPIS, Region Värmland, Karlstads Kommun, Byalaget Älvan
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March 2023
Open studio at Fabrikken in Copenhagen, March 25
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December 2022
Recently received support from Kulturrådet to develop a digital art platform as well as for stepping up our micro music & art festival during the coming year's hybrida.space residency in Värmland!
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November 2022
I have been granted a three month residency at FABRIKKEN in Copenhagen from January onwards, really looking forward to spending time in such a great city. I will be researching about conflict, with the history of the Thirty years war as a vantage point; a savage conflict on an a then unprecedented scale in the name of reformation, and raged in what is now Germany during the first half of the 1600's.
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October 2022
* A.I. prompt: A group of artists having dinner outside at a long table in the sunset
We have a new open call up on hybrida.space! The residency will be self-organised. The whole group will shape the residency program together.
Have a look here
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September 2022
Will be spending the autumn and winter in Trondheim (october-december) for a residency at LKV. My stay there is supported by Konstnärsnämnden.
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August 2022
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May 2022
We are happy to announce that Hybrida AIR 2022 program is about to start, and we want to share with you the list of participants for this year along with some general information about the program.
Link to the facebook event
For the second year in a row, we are hosting a residency in a special location in Älvsbacka, Sweden. This year we received almost 600 applications and we are very happy about the interest that so many artists have shown in our program. Thank you again to everyone that took the time to develop a project proposal and link with us.
Our theme for this year relates to how one approaches what it means to ‘capture’ something nowadays, in terms of content and process.
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April 2022
I am gratefull to announce that I received a one-year work grant from IASPIS in order to develop new work!
I am equally grateful for the support and trust that we have received from Kulturrådet, Nordisk kulturkontakt, IASPIS, Region Värmland, Karlstads Kommun for this years residency in Älvsbacka with Hybrida.
We are currently preparing the announcements of our participants as well as working with a visual identity for our residency.
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February 2022
During the last months we have finalised and selected the participants for our residency of 2022. The participants will be announced on our instagram during April!
I am very humbled by the almost six hundred applications that we received to our open call!
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December 2021
Our open call for hybrida AIR is now open until February 15!
https://capture.hybrida.space
The project is realised with the support of the Swedish council of culture, IASPIS, Region of Värmland and the Municipality of Karlstad.
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November 2021
This Saturday (13/11) I am invited to do a talk at Kolonin in Arvika about my practice and the project i run together with Giorgos Tsiongas (Hybrida AIR).
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Oktober 2021
Was invited to participate in Forum at Supermarket art fair, an independent art fair with exhibitors from all over the world. A great gathering point with many interesting galleries attending. Had an interesting discussion with John Peter Nilsson, former director of Moderna Museet in Malmö and currently communicative museum strategist in Moderna in Stockholm, about politicization of contemporary art and politics role in the Modern Museum.
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September 2021
Will be part of Kristinehamns Museums Autumn exhibition in October with some drawings.
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August 2021
We finished the residency, everything worked out and I am very happy about the way the exhibition came together! It was the most intense weeks of my life, filled with both frustration as well as many great moments to be remembered! Thank you to everyone involved, who helped us realise this project!
A more extensive report coming in the near future. Meanwhile have a look at our exhibition booklet.
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July 2021
NWT feature about our ongoing artist residency
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June 2021
Invited to do a residency at LKV Lademoen during the autumn of 2022!
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June 2021
Our open call has ended, and our residency has begun!
Visit the exhibition in August and
follow it live untill then on hybrida.space
The residency partipants are:
Alena Alexandrova,Mary Furniss,Bob Bicknell-Knight ( who is also running www.isthisitisthisit.com), Faysal Mroueh,Jeroen Kortekaas, Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar, Gabriel Bott, Giorgos Tsiongas, Joar Torbiörnsson
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May 2021
Im very pleased to announce that together with Giorgos Tsiongas I am curating and producing a residency this summer, taking place both online through a digital platform as well as on location in Värmland, Sweden!
We have received A work grant and project support from the municipality of Karlstad, and project support from the Region of Värmland, I am humbled and excited for the process to come!
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April 2021
Glad to announce that I am nominated to the Royal award of "the thinking hand", an exhibition for young artist who draws, by the Royal palace and the Royal art academy. Due to Covid, the exhibition took place online this year.
"URVALSKOMMITTÉNS MOTIVERING:
Joar Torbiörnssons rebusliknande verk är lika tydligt glasklara som gåtfulla och obegripliga. Med bläck på papper dissekerar han både tingens och alltets system och struktur utan uppenbart syfte för åskådaren. Mätstickan med sin annars pålitliga korrekthet har här böjt sig. Repet har repat upp sig. Det vänds och vrids på det stora ögat. Kortast sticka tycks vinna, men inga nycklar ges..."
Exhibition website
The nominees for 2021 are:
Titus Boguslaw
Hannah Clarkson
Matilda Hall
Fanny Hallgren
Cecilia Hedlund
Hanna Holmgren
Viktor Mattsson
Olivia Skjöld
Martin Thunberg
Joar Torbiörnsson
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November 2020
Im am grateful for receiving the Art councils artist suport!
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June 2020
Solo show presenting the results of my residency at Gerlesborgskolan open on June 20!
The residency was turned into a “work from home” residency due to the Covid-19 pandemic, to adapt to the precarious situation and while not having access to a studio, I started making images. The process turned into a conversion of my spatial interests into the two-dimensional plane and I started making drawing with layered papers, stencils and cutouts.
Exhibition link
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January 2020
I am curating (Together with Giorgos Tsiongas) and participating in a groupshow in Stockholm, opning January 15!
It is an international group show spawning from the idea of 𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢; opening on to a dissociative mode of curation & presentation.
Featuring
𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗡𝗮̈𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗟𝘂𝗽𝘂, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆, 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗣𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻, 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗼̈𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗻, 𝗝𝗼𝗮𝗿 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗼̈𝗿𝗻𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻, 𝗚𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗧𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗮𝘀
Facebook event
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June 2019
Gerrit Rietveld Graduation show is happening! Come visit!
I am glad to announce that I am nominated for best thesis from the fine arts department!
Exhibition website