Anna Carlgren

Born in Sweden Living and working mainly in Sweden Current occupation: visual artist. Past: founder of the Vrij Glas foundation, a laboratory for innovation in glass and artist-in-residence program Through her work Carlgren wants to create means for a new way of viewing our surroundings. She makes non-technical instruments, which multiply, enlarge, reduce, absorb, and partly or fully deform the environment. Carlgren uses (and misuses) glass and its optical qualities in order to create a visual play. Whereas a painter or sculptor creates a new reality she leaves this process to the material and therewith to the viewers.

EDUCATIONThe Glass school in Orrefors, Sweden Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, Goldsmiths College Vakschool Edelsmeden, Amsterdam, Master goldsmithMUSEUM EXHIBITIONS and COLLECTIONSStedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NLNationalmuseum, Stockholm SE Palazzo Ducale, Venice ITCorning Museum of Glass New York, USA The National Gallery, Prague, CZMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam NLVan Reekum Museum, Apeldorn NLThe National Glass Museum Het Nationaal Glasmuseum, Leerdam NL Smlands Museum, Vxj SE Frauenau Glas Museum DEThe Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimki SFKonstmuseum, Kalmar SEThe Glass Museum, Ebeltoft DK Museum van der Togt, Amstelveen NLThe Crystalex Collection, Lemberg Castle, Novy Bor, CZNordenfjeldske Kunstindustri Museum, Trondheim, NMuseum fr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, DEMuseum het Oude Raadhuis Leerdam NLKrapperups Konsthall SERoyal Ulster Museum, Belfast, N-IrelandHet Gemeentemuseum, Maassluis NL Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm SEGvle Museum SEstergtlands Lns Museum, Linkping SEJnkpings Lns Museum SEMuseet i Varberg SErebro Lns Museum SEKulturen i Lund SEMusee de Design et D'Art Appliques/Contemporains, Lausanne CHBergbau- und Industriemuseum Ostbayern, Slo Theuern, Kmmelbruck, DEMuseum voor S...