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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