Lena Mattsson

Lena works primarily with video, drawing, photography and performance. In recent years she has appeared in number of exhibitions and performance both in Sweden and abroad. Art, Society is changed by small measures, Lena Mattsson remarked in an interview. It is with this aspiration, that she approaches her performance and video installations, from the aggressively, sexually challenging, via a strong social engagement, to the subtly poetic. Initially a painter trained in a classic tradition, Mattsson still identifies with this profile, even in her video and sound art, where she tries to weave together life and art. In recent years, Mattsson has received particular attention for highlighting and questioning injustices, deficiencies, and discord in society. In her art, she has problemized and shown, in a clear and provocative manner, how these societal developments affect certain people. Mattsson actively participates in several of these works, which are fraught with strong identification with the affected persons as well as references to her own personal experiences.


What is it we see and what is only an interpretation of what we see based on our social and cultural references and personal experience? There is always something u...

Art Education
1983-85 KV, Art Education Gothenburg, Sweden
1985-1991 Forum Art School Malmö, Sweden
(Now Malmö Art Academy)

Selected solo exhibitions at
Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Malmö Art Museum, Sweden
Nordiska akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden
Konsthallen, Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden
Nässjö Konsthall, Sweden
Molekyl Gallery, Malmö, Sweden

Selected screenings, and group exhibitions at
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Germany
Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Scotland
National Art Gallery Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, South Korea
7th International Festival of New Film Split, Croatia
SPARK VIDEO: BEACON New York, USA
Portobello Film Festival, London, England
Galerie EIGEN+ART, Germany
Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden.
Moderna Museet, Malmö and Stockholm, Sweden
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Triennal of Expanded Media, Belgrade, Serbia
​Island of Light, Smögen, Sweden
4-th International video-art festival on outdoor videoscreens　
Festival places: Moscow, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Perm,Rostov-on-Don, Riazan', Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Yekaterinburg [Russia] among other e...