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Artist Statement:
Born 1973 in Uppsala, Sweden.
University College of Arts,
Craft and Design, Stockholm
1995-2000.
Master of Fine Arts 2000.
Works as a professional artist
since year 2000.
Her works have been exhibited
in main galleries in Sweden as
well as internationally.
Backa Carin Ivarsdotter
creates artistic environments
in the boundary between dream
and reality. She builds her
work in the same way as a set
designer. The observer steps
into her inner landscape.
These sculptural installations
move, sound, glow and
sometimes disintegrate.
Porcelain and stoneware are
pushed to their outer limits
when it comes to what is
technically possible in size,
form and durability.
“The symbolic signs of dreams
are astonishingly general. A
lot of people recognise their
own dreams when they see my
work.”
Backa Carins work is beautiful
yet at the same time
unpleasant, fragile, strong
and often with a sense of
humour. There lies something
indefinable within. Everything
is not always what it seems to
be.
“My desire is to give the
viewer an impression of life;
the encounter between what is
beautiful and horrible, the
beauty and destructiveness of
love, and the fact that we are
immortal until we die”
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Artist Galleries:
2007 Svensk Form, Stockholm
2004 Blås och Knåda,
Stockholm
2003 Teater Galleriet,
Uppsala
2002 Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2001 Skulpturens Hus,
Stockholm
2000 Galleri Kaleido, Uppsala
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Commissions:
2008-2009 Konsert och
kongressparken i Linköping,
Linköping kommun
2008 Skissuppdrag
Tingvallahallarna i Karlstad,
Karlstad kommun
2006-2007 Agfa, entré i Kista,
Stockholm
2005-2007 Statens konstråd,
Platengymnasiet, Motala,
Innergårdar
2004-2006 Street,
Hornstullsstrand, Stockholm,
Fasadmosaik
2001-2002 Sll, Södersjukhuset
Stockholm, åtta
behandlingsrum
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Exhibitions for Backa Carin Ivarsdotter:
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Soloexhibitions
2007 Svensk Form, Stockholm
2004 Blås och Knåda, Stockholm
2003 Teater Galleriet, Uppsala
2002 Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2001 Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
2000 Galleri Kaleido, Uppsala
Groupexhibitions
2008 10:10 ”tio konstnärer tio dagar” Walstedska gården , Uppsala
2006 Konstmässan, Sollentuna, Life Foundation
2005 Meyerhoff Galleries, ”The Swedish Show”, Baltimore, USA
2005 Liljevalchs Vårsalong ”Formbart”
2005 Konstmässan, Sollentuna, och ”The Stockholm Art Fair”, Älvsjö
2005 Skulpturens Hus, ”STRATA”
2004 CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado, ”Because the Earth is 1/3 Dirt”
2003 World Ceramic Biennale i Korea
2003 Nordic Contemporary Craft, Röda sten, Göteborg
2003 Svensk Form, ”Hertha Bengtsson” Stockholm
2002 Höganäs Museum, ”Hertha Bengtsson stipendiater”
2002 Galleri Nørby, ”Mellem rum”, Köpenhamn
2000 Svensk Form, ”Inre Rum” Stockholm
2000 G.A.S, New York
2000 Konstfacks Vårutställning, Stockholm
1999 Udstillingsstedt for Ny Keramik, Köpenhamn
1999 Hälleforsnäs järnbruk, studentsamarbete med Polen
1999 Talente-99, München
1999 Galleri Binnen och Rai kongresscenter, Amsterdam
1998 Jönköpings konsthall, ”Keramik 98”
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