Klara Lidén

Klara Lidén ( born 1979 in Stockholm) is a Swedish installation, performance and video artist.

Life

Klara Lidén studied from 2000 to 2004 Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. In 2003, she attended the University of the Arts Berlin. As of 2004, she transferred to the Konstfack, where she studied for three years. Already at that time their works were seen regularly in solo and group exhibitions. Their biggest ever solo exhibition was in 2010 at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

In 2010 she won the art prize blue orange of the German People cooperative banks, a year later, a special prize at the Venice Biennale as well as the National Gallery Prize for Young Art.

She now lives and works in Berlin Klara Lidén.

Work

Klara Liden's work consists mainly of videos, performances and installations and sculptures. Among her favorite topics include civil disobedience, hidden aggression and rebellion in today's society.

Two of her early performance projects included the construction of a house made ​​of trash on a riverbank and overposting of street advertising with white placards.

In general, it takes on its improvised performances and makes them short films from later. Often it is even doing the actor. This was the case, one of her most famous works, which was acquired five years later by the Museum of Modern Art, for example, in Paralyzed ( 2003). The video shows how she dances provocatively in an S -Bahn and her feelings and her body despite the numerous spectators run free.

Another successful video of Lidén 's Moonwalk (2008), in which it is in the style of Michael Jackson at night through the streets of New York.

Lidens videos are often part of their multimedia installations. It shall note, for example, use of materials such as cardboard, corrugated iron sheets and forth fragile constructions of space, through which the visitor moves and he's confronted with hidden video presentations.

In the exhibition scary Manoeuvre (2007) brought the entire inventory of her apartment in the Stockholm Museum and crafted from an installation.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2005, Dr. 3000, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
  • 2006 Economy Class, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
  • 2007 Scary Maneuver, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Klara Liden 2007, Hayward Gallery, London
  • 2008 Elda för kråkorna, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
  • 2009 The Teenage Room, Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennale
  • 2009 Projects 89, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2009 Never Come Back, Fridericianum, Kassel
  • 2010 Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
  • Jeu De Paume in 2010, Paris
  • Klara Lidén 2010, Serpentine Gallery, London
  • Klara Lidén 2011, Galerie Neu, Berlin
  • Klara Lidén 2011, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • 2012 Bodies of Society, New Museum, New York
  • 2012 Pretty Vacant, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
  • Klara Lidén 2013: The Myth of Progress, IMMA, Dublin
  • Klara Lidén 2013: disability Street, Museion, Bolzano

Scholarships and Awards

  • 2008 Fellowship of the International Artist Studio Program in Stockholm ( IASPIS )
  • 2009 scholarship from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, Category Visual Arts
  • 2010 Art Prize blue orange
  • 2011 Special Prize at the Venice Biennale
  • 2011 Nationalgalerie Prize for Young Art
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