ÅSA HELENA STJERNA
Born 1970 in Stockholm
EDUCATION
2010-2014 PhD studies at Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University
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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
SINGLE EXHIBITIONS
2011 Norrtälje Konsthall, Two sound installations
2011 Nolhaga Park, Alingsås, Sweden. Följeslagare, Public sound installation
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
2011 ULTIMA contemporary music festival, Oslo, Norway. Currents, site-specific public sound installation
2011 Audiorama, Stockholm. SubAqua_mix
2010 SPOR festival, Aarhus, Denmark. SubAqua. Public, site-specific sound installation
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
COLOBORATION PROJECTS
AtmoSpaces
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
2011 Royal Academy of Music – Travel Grant
2010 Nordic Culture Fond
2010 Längmanska Kulturfonden
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
2011 Artist presentation – Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts/Stockholms Dramatiska Högskola
2011 Moderated presentation of the Dorothea Erxleben stipendists 2009-2011 Hochschule für Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig, Germany Information
2011 Research Symposium on Sound Art: University of Aarhus, Denmark – Department of Aesthetics and Communication - Aestethics and Culture
2011 Artist presentation at Valand school of fine art, Gothenburg
2011 Artist presentation at Royal institute of art, Stockholm
2010 "Mapping Sound in Art". Moderated discussion. Unsound Festival, New York.
2009 "Sound and Site", artist presentation at Full Pull Festival, Malmoe, Sweden.
2009 Elektroakustische Musik Hören at the Technical University Berlin – presenting Swedish electroacoustic music and sound art.
2009 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"
2008 Combined artist presentation and lecture on sonic situated practice in public space University of Art, Craft and Design [Konstfack] Stockholm.
2008 Combined artist presentation and lecture on sonic situated practice in public space Departement of Musicology, Stockholm University.
2008 Combined artist presentation and lecture on sonic situated practice in public space University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre,
Stockholm (DI),
2008 Artist presentation: At the seminar "Sound and light art" Uppsala Art Museum.
2008 "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.
2008 Lecture on "Site-specific public sound
installations". Arranged by SEAMS, the Society for Electro Acoustic Music
in Sweden.
FURTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 – 2011 Workshops regularily held at the Institution for Sound Art, Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig
. . . . . Information
. . . . . the Gap Project
2009 Teaching assignment for the course "Experimental Music and Sound Art" at the institution of musicology, Stockholm University
2008 Teaching assignment for the course Experimental Music and Sound Art" at the institution of musicology , Stockholm University
2008 Cross the River (Swedish: Gå över Ån) A pedagogical pilot project, establishing a model for sound art in public space as a pedagogical tool in undergraduate school education
. . . . . .Information (Swedish)
. . . . . .Evaluation report (Swedish)
CONFERENCES
2011 School of the Art Institute Chicago – Sound Arts Theories Symposium 2011 [Presented paper: "Aspects on Duration: the Vulnerability of Permanence in Site- Specific Sound Art"]
2010 Sound Acts – Sound as Art - Sound in Culture. Sound in Theory - Sound in History. September 23 - 25, 2010.Aarhus University, Department of Aesthetic Studies
...........[Presented paper: "AtmoSpaces: an acoustic intervention by Åsa Stjerna and Rolf GIegold"]
2007 Copenhagen Doctoral school. Sound, Art, Auditory Cultures. November
28 - 30 [Presented paper: "Sound art, Klangkunst, Ljudkonst - Different languages,
different meanings?]
TEXTS
2009 Nutida Musik No 4 Guest editor in issue on "Voice" – excursions on the human voice
2008 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 "
2008 Nutida Musik No 2 On Music Critic in Germany. Interview with the chief editor of the German journal for contemporary music, Positionen, Gisela Nauck.
2007 Nutida Musik No 4 On the interpretation of contemporary music. A portrait of the flutist Sara Hammarström.
2006 – No 1 2007 Nutida Musik No 4 GuestEditor in issue on "Spatial
Perspectives on Sound Art”.
. . . . .. The issue puts focus on the spatial related forms of sound art and includes
both theoretical texts on sound art, and articles about
. . . . . . sound artists such as Bernhard
Leitner, Robin Minard, and Max Neuhaus presented for the first time ever in Sweden
2006 Nutida Musik No 2 - On Hanna Hartman's "Att fälla grova träd
är förknippat med risker".
2005 Nutida Musik No 4 - On Christina Kubisch's "Electrical Walks".
Nutida Musik is one of the most important journals on 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.