maria bjurestam 1961 - 2011
education:
- 2008-09 Project student at The Royal University College of Fine Arts
- 2005 Rhetorics Basic course, Södertörn University, Stockholm.
- 1994-96 Hochschule für bildende Kunste, Hamburg
- 1993 Exchangestudent Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
- 1990-95 Valand College of Fine Art, Gothenburg
- 1980-84 Basic educations in Fine Art, Umeå and Stockholm
- 1980-81 Art History, University of Umeå
one person shows:
- 2009 “You & me and everybody else: Structures & Projections”, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
- 2000 ”Wittgensteins Landscapes” Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
- 1999 ”passages & projections” Gallery 54, Gothenburg
- ”Entrances” Gallery Doktor Glas, Stockholm
- 1994 Gallery ROTOR, Gothenburg
selected groupshows & projects:
- 2006-2007 El Alikanto; a discussion group that resulted in workshops at the University College of Architecture in San Juan, Argentina dec 2007. With Ana Maria de Almeda, PO Holmqvist & Janna Holmstedt.
- 2005 - 08 LARM – a mapping of women working with sound art in the Nordic countries. The project resulted in an Internet archive, a book, a CD and a festival (Stockholm Culture House 30 March – 22 April 2007) and seminar / concert ”Reception” at Fylkingen June 2008. (8)
- 2004 ID:I galleri, Stockholm
- 2003 ”But how broad can it get”, Västerås Museum of Art (1)
- 2002 ”If you show me yours, I’ll show mine”, Sundsvall Museum of Art (1)
- 2001 " If you show me yours, I’ll show mine”, Tomelilla City Gallery (1)
- ” If you show me yours, I’ll show mine”, Passagen, Linköpings City Gallery (1)
- ”The Contact Party” with Malin Lobell in cooperation with Katinka Ahlbom, Anna Persson and Passagen Family
- 2000 1965-2000, Gallery Doktor Glas, Stockholm
- 1996 4 Artists from Hamburg-a selection from Guillaume Bijl, Lokaal 01, Antwerpen (2)
- 1995 The TELEPHONE GALLERY, art by the phone. Curated with Malin Lobell (3)
- 1994 APARTMENT, Gårdsten, Göteborg & Rosengård, Malmö. (4)
- 1993 Be Connected-artists showing artists, RIX Linköping City Gallery (5)
- 1992 STRUT, Mölndals Konsthall (7)
- The 19th floor, SKANSKA head office, Gothenburg (7)
- 1992 - 94 The HALL, an apartment gallery curated together with Malin Lobell, Gothenburg (6)
(1) Katinka Ahlbom, Malin Lobell, Anna Persson
(2) John Bock, Christian Jankowski, Jonathan Meese
(3) exhibitors; Mats B/Max Book, Sössa Jörgensen, Elin Wikström, Jeremy Welsh, John-Peter Nilsson, Leif Skoog, Anna-Karin Rynander, Dan Wolgers, Gunilla Hansson, Glenn Sorensen, Geir-Tore Holm, Lotta Antonsson
(4) Ernst Billgren, Peter Hagdahl, Gunilla Hansson, Henrik Håkansson, Maria Lindberg, Stefan Karlsson, Clay Ketter, David Krantz, Andreas Roth, Jörgen Svensson, Anders Widoff
(5) exhibitors; Karin Andersson, Lotta Antonsson, Lars Ola Bergkvist, Anna Brag, Leif Elggren, Peter Hagdahl, CM von Hausswolff, Bengt Olov Johansson, Erik Pauser, Johan Sunesson
(6) exhibitors; Cecilia Wendt, Karin Ögren, Andreas Roth, Lars Paalgaard, Stein Rönning, Malin Lobell/Johanna Etherton, Maria Bjurestam/Stefan Karlsson
(7) Cecilia Darle, Vanja Gyllensköld, Gunilla Hansson, Annika Lundgren, Susanna Nygren, Cecilia E Parsberg, Marie Sjölander, Elin Wikström
(8) Maria Hägglund, Mona Petersson och Liv Strand
competitions:
- 2004 The Stockholm County Council Gift
- 2003 Public art along the Göta Channel, The National Public Art Council
- 2001 Stora Torg in Växjö, The National Public Art Council. Cooperation with Wibroe Architects
- 1998 Längs Strömmen, Norrköping. Open contest on Public Art in Norrköping, one of 15 selected from 395 contributions.
grants:
- 2007 Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation
- 1999 IASPIS studio grant, Stockholm
- Stockholm City Culture Grant
- Folke Hellström-Lind’s grant, The Royal Academy
- 1994 Ax:son Johnson Foundation
- Sigrid Ullman Foundation
- 1993 The Sasakawa Sweden-Japan Foundation
- 1993 Theodor & hanne Mannheimer Foundation
- 1990 Umeå City Culture Grant
selected teaching and other work:
- 2008 Sculpture and drawing workshop at the University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre, Stockholm, with Susanna Nygren
- 2006 - 2011 Lecturer at Umeå Academy of Fine Art, Umeå University
- 2005 Sculpture workshop, The Carl Malmsten School of design & furniture, Linköping University
- 2003 Workshop at The Royal Institute of Technology - Architecture, ”Clay Modelling as sketching method”
- 1998 -2006 Sculpture teacher at the Birkagården folk high school dept. of Fine Art
- 1997-98 Project assistant New Stockholm: Klara, Architecture project for the Stockholm European Culture City
- 1996 Project assistant New Stockholm 96, art and architecture project
other:
- Member of the Board of Studio House Wip:Sthlm 2007 - 2009
- Following Elin Wikström in her work ”Thanks to Sten, Elisabeth, Sören..” for the Master exhibition at Bard College Curatorial Studies 9 – 24 April 2006. Curated by Montserrat Albores