Clara J:son Borg is a Swedish artist based in Rotterdam (NL). Her artistic practice is directed towards ontologies surrounding the human body, its performance strategies, and political subjects. Through a non-representational movement practice and storytelling, she lets her works exist within a boundary area where human vulnerability intersects with political and social forces. She understands her work as an invitation to observe elements of interhuman relationships, social choreographies, and knowledge hierarchies.


Contact

E-mail: hello@clarajsonborg.com

Instagram: clarajsonborg


CV

Art Education

2018-2019 History of Philosophy and Science A, Online course, Umeå University, Sweden

2014-2016 MA (Cum Laude) Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2013 Practical Film I, Culture and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden

2011 Sculpture and Environmental Art, The Glasgow School of Art, UK

2011 Introduction in Digital Photography, Valand Academy, Gothenburg University

2009–2012 BA Textile-Garment-Design, HDK Steneby – The School of Craft and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

 

Selected Solo/Duo Show

2022 Elsewhere, for now, an other world project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2021 Like A Not-Knowing, Attent project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2019 A Chorographical Novel regarding Space, performance, Rum 203, Jönköpings Länsmuseum, Jönköping Sweden

2018 A practice of a flexible horizon, RET building, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018 3,1,1,1 a Lecture performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece

 

Selected Group exhibitions / Performance

2023

IMAGO, Salón Acme No.10, Mexico City, Mexico

IMAGO, Fet Film, Stockholm, Sweden

A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Baerum Konsthall, Oslo, Norway

2022

A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, WILD OUT VIDEO FESTIVAL, Taiwan

A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, TENT Online Cinema, TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, PRAKSIS Presents, PRAKSIS OSLO, Norway

A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, IMAGO and Two Skies, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Tranås at the Fringe, Tranås, Sweden


2021

A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above,  Kortfilmsdagarna, Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, No running water, Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece


2020

Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fund, Rotterdam Art Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Radio 3137, commissioned by Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece

 

2018

Wash out, performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, Florence Peel Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Wash out, performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

August Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
July Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
June, Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
3,1,1,1, performance, RAAR (Rotterdam art ratio) #20 guest with texts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The chase to be among men, performance, 13 festivalen, Konstepedemin, Göteborg, Sweden


Awards
2019 Jönköpings Landstings Studio Grant


Residency
2023

Hotel Pupik, Austria


2022

IMPACT, PACT Zollverien, Essen, Germany


2021

Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece


2019

Studio grant and residency at Rum 203, Jönköpings Läns Museum, Jönköping, Sweden

Institue für alles mögliches, Berlin, Germany

 

2018

Spatiality, residency AADK Spain, Blanca, Spain

2017

Writing as and around art, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway

Body as a site, Banff center of arts and creativity, Canada

 

2016

In time, we too will become ancestors…, PRAKSIS Oslo, led and curated by Eliza Naranjo Morse and ICDP, Oslo, Norway

 

2015

Materials for performance, CSAV XXI – Artist Research Laboratory led by Yvonne Rainer and Andrea Klein, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Kunstlerhüser Worpswede, Woprswede, Germany

 

Scholarship/Grants
2023

Project grant, CBK Rotterdam


2022

Project grant, Mondriaan Fonds

Filmcentrum Syd, Production support

Stichting Niemeijer Fonds


2021

Corona Regulation Grant, Mondriaan Fonds
Droom en Draad

PPR, CBK Rotterdam


2020

Gemeente Rotterdam cultural development grant


2019
Gemeente Rotterdam cultural development grant
Jönköpings Läns Museums Studio Grant


2018

O&O, Ontwikkeling- en Onderzoekssubsidies, CBK Rotterdam

Young Talent, Mondriaan Founds

 

2017
IBB, CBK, Rotterdam

Van Beek-Donner Stichting

 

2016

IBB, CBK Rotterdam

Banff Artist’s Award, Banff Centre for arts and creativity

Praktijkverdieping, Mondriaan Fonds