Åsa Helena Stjerna
Born 1970 in Stockholm


Education
2005 Courses at EMS - Electroacoustic Music in Sweden
1998/2006 Studies in musicology at Stockholm University
1999-2001 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm
1994-1996 Academy of Photography, University College of Art Crafts and Design, Stockholm
1990 Studies in philosophy at Stockholm University

Selected exhibitions

Single exhibitions
2009 Akademie der Künste, Berlin. AtmoSpaces; An Acoustic Intervention - together wih Rolf Giegold. www.atmospaces.com
2009 Baumhaus, Wismar, Germany. Sound installation, photos 1995-2009
2009 Hafencity Hamburg Klang! Hamburg SubAqua. Public, site-specific sound installation
2009 Stockholm University Library. Avenue of Books. Public sound installation
2008 Växjö Konsthall. Inverted Soundscape. Multi channel sound installation
2008 Old Uppsala/Gamla Uppsala Museum. Circulus. Public site-specific sound installation
2007 Logens Konsthall/Kisa Art Hall. Memory Gardens. Sound installation, photos.
2007 Nordic Embassies Berlin. Klangwäldchen. Public site-specific sound installation
2007 Bergius Botanical Garden Stockholm. Pendula Bergiorum. Public site-specific sound installation
2006 Seven channel sound installation with drain-pipes at Fylkingen Stockholm (within the concert Gem, Set & Match)
2004 Konstnärshuset Memory Gardens Stockholm
2003 Culture Centre of Hanaholmen Helsinki Finnland
2001 National Library Stockholm (Kungliga Biblioteket) Avklippt hår - som tecken på sorg. Site-specific installation

Group exhibitions
2009 ISCM World New Music Days, Växjö, Sweden. Sounding Esplanade. Public sound installation
2009 Konsthall C, Stockholm. Proposal for a public sound installation for visually handicaped people
2009 Sound Made Visible Kunsthal Braenderigården Viborg, Denmark. Inverted Soundscape. Sound installation.
2009 Luleå Konsthall. Sensuous. Inverted Soundscape. Sound Installation
2009 NANO: Galleri 44 Stockholm. Memory Gardens.Photo
2008 Article 08 - Biennal for Electronic and Unstable Art. Stavanger, Norway. Sonic promenade. Public sound installation
2008 Sandvikens Konsthall. Atrium. Public sound installation
2008 SoundagainstSound - Public sound manifestation against the car polution. Public sound-installation. Central Stockholm
2008 Grodno State Historical-Archeological Museum Grodno White Russia
2008 Lindesbergs Museum
2007 Sound Sculpture NEON art center Brösarp
2007 Klangraum Kurfürstenstraße. Public sound art exhibition Berlin
2007 Art Museum of Polatsk White Russia
2007 Chagall Museum Vitebsk White Russia
2006 Modern Museum Minsk White Russia
2005 Modern Museum Kaliningrad
2005 Center for Contemporary Art Cicnu Moldavia in cooperation with the Swedish Institute
2005 House of Graphic Arts Mariefred
2004 International Center of Graphics Arts Ljubljana
2004 Eskilstuna Art Hall
2003 Galleri Astley Uttersberg
2003 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
2003 Grafiktriennalen Royal Academy of Fine Arts Stockholm
2001 Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening Royal Academy of Fine Arts Stockholm
2001 Galleri Mejan Stockholm
2001 Kulturhuset Stockholm
2000 The Big Dipper. Sound art project together with Peter Cederblom. 7” vinyl released at Firework Edition Records

Scholarships and Grants
2009-2011 the German Dorothea-Erxleben-Stipendium in Sound Art, connected to Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
2009 the Swedish Arts Grants Commitee: Project support for the realizing of an experimental public sound installation together with the artist Rolf Giegold
2008 IASPIS [International Artists' Studio Program in Sweden]: Support for exhibiting abroad
2005 the Swedish Arts Grants Committee: One year working grant
2004 the Hasselblad foundation: Residence in Grez-sur-Loing
2004 the Swedish Arts Grants Committee: Assistant grant for assisting the sound artist Christina Kubisch in Berlin
2003 Helge Ax:son-Johnson foundation
2003 the Royal Academy of Fine Arts: Residence in Paris at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

Presentations and Lectures
2010
" "Mapping Sound in Art". Moderated discussion. Unsound Festival, New York.
2009
"Sound and Site", artist presentation at Full Pull Festival, Malmoe, Sweden.
Elektroakustische Musik Hören at the Technical University Berlin,
presenting Swedish electroacoustic music and sound art.
- Soundings: A one day seminar on sound art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
"On the adaption of sound art in Swedish art critic after the postmodern break-through"
-Teaching assignment for the course "Experimental Music and Sound Art" at the institution of musicology
at the Stockholm University
2008
Artist presentation and lecture on public, site specific sound installations:
-University of Art, Craft and Design [Konstfack] Stockholm.
-Departement of Musicology, Stockholm University.
-University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre, Stockholm (DI),
-Artist presentation: "Ljud- och Ljuskonst"
(Sound and light art) - One day seminar at Uppsala Museum.
-"Listen to the world" a seminar on sound art and contemporary music.
Arranged by Växjö University and COMA festival as a worm up for
the World New Music Days 2009.
-Lecture on "Site-specific public sound installations".
Arranged by SEAMS, the Society for
Electro Acoustic Music in Sweden.
Location: EMS, Stockholm.
2007
Copenhagen Doctoral school.
Sound, Art, Auditory Cultures. November 28 - 30
Presented paper: "Sound art, Klangkunst, Ljudkonst - Different languages, different meanings?

Texts
Organised Sound - An international Journal of Music and Technology
[Cambridge University PressVolume 14 - Issue 01]
Special issue on sound art. Published text:
Sound Art or Klangkunst? A reading of the German and English literature on sound art

Nutida Musik No 2 2008. On Music Critic in Germany. Interview with the chief editor for Positionen, Gisela Nauck.
Nutida Musik No 4 2007 On the interpretation of contemporary music. A portrait of the flutist Sara Hammarström.
Nutida Musik No 4 2006 – No 1 2007 Co-Editor in the issue "Spatial Perspectives on Sound Art”.
The issue puts focus on the spatial related forms of sound art and includes both theoretic texts on sound art, and articles on sound artists such as Bernhard Leitner, Robin Minard, and Max Neuhaus.
Nutida Musik No 2 2006 - On Hanna Hartman's "Att fälla grova träd är förknippat med risker".
Nutida Musik No 4 2005 - On Christina Kubisch's "Electrical Walks".
Nutida Musik is one of the most important journal for contemporary music in Scandinavia.

Represented
The British Museum
The Hasselblad foundation
The National Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket)
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The National Public Art Council Sweden.