Klara Lidén

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

Life

Klara Lidén studied architecture at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm from 2000 to 2004 . In 2003 she attended the Berlin University of the Arts . In 2004 she moved to Konstfack , where she studied for three years. At this point in time, her works were regularly shown in international solo and group exhibitions. Her most important solo exhibition to date took place in 2010 at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

In 2010 she won the blue-orange art prize of the Deutsche Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken, a year later a special prize at the Venice Art Biennale and the National Gallery Prize for Young Art.

Today Klara Lidén lives and works in Berlin .

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Klara Lidén's work consists mainly of videos, performances and installations as well as sculptures. Her favorite subjects include civil disobedience, hidden aggression, and rebellion in today's society.

Two of her early performance projects included building a house out of rubbish on a river bank and pasting white posters over street advertisements.

Usually she records her improvised performances and shows these short films later. Often she herself is the protagonist. This was e.g. For example, Paralyzed (2003), one of her best-known works, acquired five years later by the Museum of Modern Art . The video shows how she dances in a provocative way in an S-Bahn and lets her emotions and body run free despite the large number of spectators.

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

Lidén's videos are often part of her multimedia installations. In doing so, she creates fragile spatial structures from materials such as cardboard, corrugated iron and foils, through which the visitor moves and comes across hidden video presentations.

In the exhibition Unheimlich Maneuver (2007) she brought the entire inventory of her apartment to the Stockholm Museum and created an installation from it.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2005 Dr. 3000, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
• 2006 Economy Class, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
• 2007 Unheimlich Maneuver, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2007 Klara Liden, Hayward Gallery , London
• 2008 Elda för kråkorna, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
• 2009 The Teenage Room, Nordic Pavillion, Venice Biennale
• 2009 Projects 89, Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2009 Never Come Back, Kunsthalle Fridericianum , Kassel
• 2010 Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
• 2010 Jeu de Paume , Paris.
• 2010 Klara Lidén, Serpentine Gallery , London
• 2011 Klara Lidén, Galerie Neu, Berlin
• 2011 Klara Lidén, Moderna Museet , Stockholm
• 2011 ILLUMInations, 54th Biennale di Venezia , Venice
• 2012 Bodies of Society, New Museum, New York
• 2012 Pretty Vacant, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
• 2013 Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress, IMMA , Dublin
• 2013 Klara Lidén: Invalidenstrasse, Museion , Bozen
• 2014 In the Near Future, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie , Warsaw
• 2014 high performance. The Julia Stoschek Collection as a guest at the ZKM, Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe
• 2015 Klara Lidén: Battement battu, Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art , Forest

Scholarships and Awards

• 2008 Scholarship from the International Artist Studio Program in Stockholm (IASPIS)
• 2009 Scholarship from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, category Visual Arts
• 2010 Blue Orange Art Prize
• 2011 special prize at the Venice Art Biennale
• 2011 National Gallery Prize for Young Art

literature

• Sophie O'Brien (Ed.), Klara Lidén (Ill.) A. a .: Klara Lidén. Serpentine Gallery: Moderna Museet. Bookstore Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-915-1 .
• Christiane Rekade (Ed.), Klara Lidén (Ill.) A. a .: Klara Liden - hull surfaces and looting gangs. Kerber Christof Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-510-6 .

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1. ↑ Training stations on kunsthallezurich.ch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Exhibition in the Serpentine Gallery
3. ↑ Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, description of some videos by Klara Lidèn, photos of room constructions ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Review Klara Lidèn on frieze.com ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Foundation for Contemporary Arts
6. ↑ Klara Liden receives blue orange art prize
7. ↑ Price 2011

Web links

• Exhibition overview Klara Lidén, kunstaspekte.de
• Reena Spauldings Fine Art NY, pictures of Klara Lidén's work, review overview
• Success - how does it work ?, zeit.de
• Cuddly architect, sueddeutsche.de