Elin

Wikström

​Was born 1965 in Karlskrona, now she lives and have her practice in Gothenburg. Wikström mainly work with performance, conceptual and contextual art. These involve projects sited within the public domain that question the habits, behaviour and opinions of individuals and society in general. Her projects cause a disruption in the everyday flow of events that force us to reassess our understanding of accepted codes of behaviour, value systems and social conditioning.

Professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts 2001-2005.

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Principal at Gothenburgs Art school.
 

Education: 1987-1992 Academy of Art Valand/Gothenburg/Sweden.
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Selected exhibitions include:
 

2011 Gallery Neither Sweden, Sala de Arte Publica de Siqueiros 

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2010 Galeria Arsenal (Poland)

 

2009 Future Sonic (Manchester)
 

2008 Lofoten International Art Festival (Norway)
 

2007 MARCO (Spain)
 

2006 Kunstihoone (Tallinn), Bard College (New York)
 

2005 Showroom (London), Moderna Museet (Stockholm)
 

2004 Rebecka won on Anna, Anna won at Cecilia, Cecilia won at Marie ..., Moderna Museet/Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Art/Zagreb, Whitechapel Art Gallery/London
 

2003 Cool or lame? Gallery Brändström & Stene, Stockholm. Cool or lame? Hlemmur Gallery, Reykjavik. Dundee Contemporary Arts, the biennales of Tirana and Venice (1997). Kunstverein Munchen.
 

2000 ... the need to be free ...Dundee Contemporary Arts