Stina Pehrsdotter
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Stina is a curator and artist, autodidact, working in video, photo, street, installation, object and performance art inspired by the human body and its environment. During the last years she has focused on the body’s desires and needs, wishes and loss. She explores the meaning of human life by diving deep into herself. In her works she often reflects on the connection between mind, body and soul, and tensions between body and environment. Her work can be seen as an exploration of existence and memories.
Stina Pehrsdotter has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. She is engaged in several international video collaborations, shown at festivals and exhibitions. As a curator, she has arranged several showings in a variety of contexts. and as being one of the founders of Formverk (art zone), an artist-run exhibition place, she has a broad network of other artists and independent art initiatives.
   
Upcoming exhibitions
”We and friends” ID:I gallery Stockholm Jan 2010
10th Bienniale of Miniature Arts, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia Apr 2010
”Inner Departure” Gallery Å, Turku, Finland Aug 2010
 
   
Projects and commissions
Recidency and exhibition Casa das Caldeiras. São Paulo, Brazil 2010
Lecture, invited to Academy of fine arts, Novi Sad, Serbia 2009
Project leader ”Digital crossing” coop. Serbia, Albania, Sweden 2009
Curator, 9th Bienniale of Miniature Arts, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia 2008
Producer and artistic leader, ”Hair – dressers and styles” Museum of work, Norrköping 2007
Public object, Swedbank, Nyköping 2007
”Sanguinis fluxio”, installation and street art project 2006-
Responsible course leader Form and Design, Folk high scool, Nyköping 2006
”Konstrea”, art sale project, Stockholm 2006
Producer and artistic leader, Crafts exhibition, Wasa Hall, Stockholm 2002
 
   
Video art
Pure installation, Cultural center, Milanovac, Serbia 2010
Multiple installation, Magacin gallery, Belgrade, Serbia 2009
Urging Absence ALTERNATIVE film/video festival, Belgrade 2009
BEAT EAT 10th AluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival, Canada 2009
Urging Absence Rauland kunstforening and Atopia, Salon of Video Art, Norway 2009
 
   
Selected solo exhibitions
”Inner Departure” Gallery Suluj, Belgrade, Serbia 2009
”Inner Departure” Gallery ULUV, Novi Sad, Serbia 2009
”Inner Departure” Garageprojektet, Österlen 2008
”Art happens” Nyköping 2006
”An exhibition on life and death” St Botvids church, Oxelösund 2005
”LOVE – is this erotic” Nyköping 2005
Arts and crafts Örebro 2005
Swedish handicraft Stockholm 2003
Pelles Pavilion Nyköping 2003
Tussilago Gallery Västerås 2002
”cut and stung” Roma kungsgård, Gotland 2001
”masks” installation Linköping 2000
”star cult” Gävle, Linköping, Visby, Stockholm 1999-2000
 
   
Selected group exhibitons
”At the Zenith” Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia 2009
AVTRYCK Eskilstuna 2009
Textile salon, jury selected Ebeling museum, Torshälla 2009
BOX gallery, performance Edsvik Art Gallery, Stockholm 2007
BOX gallery, performance Eskilstuna Art Museum 2007
Sörmland Salon Katrineholm Art Gallery 2006
Rosendal, Djurgården Stockholm 2003
Art Gallery Mariehamn, Åland 2003
DesignForumFinland Helsingfors 2003
Invited guest artist Katrineholm Art Gallery 2001
Nääs Gothenburg 2001
Art Museum Guangzhou, China 2001
Exhibition ”origin” Linköping 2000
”Star House” Art gallery Torún, Poland 1999
 
   
Video collaborations
Exquisite Corpse Video Project 2008-2010
Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, US - VideoDanzaBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
AluCine Latino Media Festival, Toronto, Canada - Berkley commonplace, California, US
Head Quarters, Melbourne, Australia - Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin, Germany
Community Screening Center, Berkeley, US - AS220 Gallery, Providence, US
Núcleo de Produção Digital Orlando Vieira, Aracaju, Brazil - Alucine Toronto Media Festival, Toronto, Canada - Vansa Visual Arts Cape Town, South Africa - Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, US - Monkeytown, New York, US - AZAshortFILMfestival, Thessaloniki, Greece - Muestra Internacional de Video GEN XY, Vera Cruz, Mexico

Vitruvian Woman video installation 2009
Video Dia Loghi Video Festival, Torino, Italy - Formverk (art zone), Eskilstuna, Sweden

HEP ”Human Emotion Project" 2009-2010
Brancaleone Club, Rome, Italy - BAC 10, Barcelona, Spain - Guilford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia - LaSala, Cigüñuela Spain - Melhoa Museum, Portugal - Optica festival, Paris, France

Fragments 2009
Berkeley Commonplace, Berkeley, US

Water Preserves 2008
State Of The Art Gallery, Ithaca, USA