Swedish artist, lives and work in Stockholm

Biography

About my art

Meta Isæus-Berlin has since she graduated from the Royal University College of Arts in Stockholm, been known as an artist with a masterly control of the art form of installation. In piece after piece she has demonstrated her expert skill and power by staging objects that, taken together, have created breathtaking images. They are many by now, and we remember them with gratitude and troubled minds – works that have been shown at the Venice and Istanbul biennials, in South Africa, Melbourne, Australia and in Sweden.

Since the large mid-career retrospective at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, in the spring of 2006 painting had replaced installation as the chosen form of expression. On canvas after canvas the colours flow and the stories seems endless. Now we get to see the people who perhaps populated the spaces of her installations, or maybe it is a completely different side of the story that has taken centre stage.

Monica Nieckels from What the memory Selects and the Dream Sees

my credentials

Education

1986-93

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm

1984-86

University Collage of Arts Craft and Design, Stockholm

1984

Handarbetets Vänner, Stockholm

1981-83

Pernby Målarskola, Stockholm

1980-81

Konstskolan, Stockholm

Public Collections

Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden

Götebogs Konstmuseeum, Gothenburg, Sweden

Kiasma, Museet för nutidskonst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Jönköpings läns museum, Jönköping, Sweden

Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden

Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Norrköpins Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden

Statens konstråd, Stockholm, Sweden

Umedalen Skulptur, Umeå, Sweden

Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

Gävleborgs museum, Gävle, Sweden

Anställningar

2013

Opponent på Konstfack

2007

Opponent på Konstfack

2005

Opponent på Konstfack

2003

Tf. professor i Tredimensionell Gestaltning på Konsthögskolan

1998-1999

Gästlärare på Konstfack

1997-1998

Konstnärlig ledare vid Institutionen för Konst, Textil

1997- fortgående

Gästlärare på Pernby Målarskola

Förtroendeuppdrag

2002-2008

Styrelseledamot i Moderna Museets styrelse

2006-fortgående

Jurymedlem i VinUnics Konststipendium

Stipendier

2004

Stipendie av Sven-Harrys Konst- och Bostadsstiftelse

1993

Gerard Bonniers stora konststipendium

Solo Exhibitions

2023

As I See It
CFHILL, Stockholm

2021

Vit Natt
Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup, Båstad

Återsken
CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden

2019

Nattlogik/Nocturnal Logic
Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden

2018

Sömngångerskan/Sleepwalker
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden

Offentlig gestaltning
Rening
Lunds Tingsrätt, Lund, Sweden

2017

Double Gaze
L&B Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain

2016

Mörkersyn
Bror Hjorts Hus, Uppsala, Sweden

2015

Undervegetationen gör sig påmind
Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden

2013

Sandcastle for Grown-ups
Mare gallery, Chania,Crete, Grecce

I Drömmen finns ingen tid
Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umeå

2012

Smygkuvning
Thielska Galleriet

Upp till ytan – Retrospektiv 1980 – 2012

Bohusläns museum
Uddevalla

Passagen
Linköping

2008

Imprinting and Filtering
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden

2007

The Rehearsel
Baukunst, Cologne, Germany

2006

Fickla Vrårna
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Short Moments
Art Basel Miami Beach, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Miami, USA

2004

På Glid
Jönköpings Länsmuseum, Jönköping, Sweden

2003

Två Parallella Nu
Olle Olsson-huset Hagalund, Solna, Sweden

2011

Moon Dreams
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Lockrop och dess efterskalv
Olle Nymans ateljé, Saltsjö-Duvnäs, Sweden

2010

Reminiscenser
Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden

Orfeus
Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umeå, Sweden

Små och stora historier
Vargåkra gård, Hammenhög, Sweden

Lumière du Nord, with works by Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France

The Waiting Maria
Katarina Churh, Stockholm, Sweden

2009

Inside Out, Outside In
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Coeur de Femme
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris

2001

Ett Vattenhem,”Bo-01 City of Tomorrow”
European Housing Expo, Malmö, Sweden

Vad Minnet Väljer
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden

Vad jag minns att jag minns
SAK Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Stockholm, Sweden

1996

Nothing in Exchange
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden

1995

Galleri Mors Mössa
Göteborg, Sweden

1993

Galleri Mejan
Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

In i mörkret – ut i ljuset
Uppsala Stadsteater

Dreams and Illusions
Alma Löv Museum

HEM
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö

2021

1100 DEGREES
From Constantinople to Cyborg futurism — A story in bronze
CFHILL, Stockholm

UPCLOSE
CFHILL, Stockholm

DOG
Company Gallery, New York

2017

Fabric Works
Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm,Sweden

Sliperiet, Borgvik, Sweden

2016

Women don’t paint very well
hangmenProjects, Stockholm, Sweden

Kyrkor och konstnärer i sjätte sinnet
Hällefors kyrka, Hällefors, Sweden

2015

Avesta Art 2015, Verket, Avesta, Sweden

2014

I ♥ IT! WHAT IS IT?
Galleri 5 Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Hem Längtan Vardagens ideologi och Estetik
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden

Borås International Sculpture Biennial 2014
Borås, Sweden

2012

Ett riktigt hem – En replik på en replik
Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum

Participation in Georgian-German Society
National Museum in Tblissi

Ytspänning – En utställning om dopet i vår tid.
Åmells Stockholm, Katarina kyrka, Hedvig Eleonora kyrka, Sjöstadskapellet och Flemingsbergs kyrka.

Att leva med konst & design och Konstnärer & deras ateljéer av Anette Mörner.
Pierre & Peter´s.

Painting Painting
Vargåkra Gård Konsthall & Galleri

Hong Kong Artfair 2012
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong

2011

( 7 ) Stipendiater
Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Miscellaneous
The Art Miami Pavilion, Miami, USA

2010

It’s a Setup
Kiasma Helsingfors, Finland

Art Copenhagen 2012

2009

Coeur de Femme
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France.

Önskekonst 2009
Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden

2008

Highlights
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

2006

Drömdiken
Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden

2003

Samlingarna – Samtidskonsten i fokus
Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden

©EUROPE EXISTS
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

2002

Skönhetens Metamorfoser
Dukers Kulturhus, Sweden

Home Again. Works by Contemporary Swedish Artists
Arken Museum för Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Danmark

2000

The Flying Moose- Konst och design
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden

1999

Signs of Life
Melbourne internation Biennial, Melbourne, Australia

Malmö Konstmuseum besöker Magasinet
Wanås, Knislinge, Sweden

Mot en lyckligare mänsklighet
Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, Sweden

1998

Skandia Via, Kunstraum
Düsseldorf, Germany

Kiasma Collection, Kiasma
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

[UME:SE], Umedalen Skulptur
Umeå, Sweden

1997

On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties, 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul

God Bless Our Mobile Home, Gallery Amfilada, Szczelin, Gallery Wyspa,

Gdansk,Gallery BWA Slupsk, Poland

Deposition – Contemporary Swedish Art In Venice, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Avesta Art, Verket, Avesta, Sweden

1996

See What It Feels Like, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden

S H E L T E R Wolfslaar, Breda, Holland

Container 96 – Art Across Oceans, Copenhagen, Denmark

På : Tiden, Moderna Museet, Sweden

1995

La Hora del Norte, Centro Culturel del Condo Duque, Madrid, Museo Diocesano, Pia Almoina, Barcelona

Africus: Black Looks White Myths, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa

1994

Det dubbla arvet, Hallwylska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

1993

Invasion, Millesgården, Stockholm, Sweden

Spegling – Nyförvärv från 90-talet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

1992

Plåtstaden Lugnet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

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