CLARA J:SON BORG
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. By a non-representational movement practice and speech acts, 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.
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, 30 credit points
2011 Sculpture and Environmental Art, The Glasgow School of Art, UK, 15 credit points
2011 Introduction in Digital Photography, Valand Academy, Gothenburg University, 15 credit points
2009–2012 BA Textile-Garment-Design, HDK Steneby – The School of Craft and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Solo/Duo Show
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
2017 How to be pow, wow, boom, bam, bing!, Duo show with Raluca Croitoru, ONONO, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Tillsammans väntar vi på oss, Solo show, Tändsticksmuseet, Jönköping, Sweden
2013 Framåt, Förbi och Tillbaka igen, collaboration with Karin Granstrand, Galleri S:t Gertrud, Konstfrämjandet, Malmö, Sweden
2012 Plain Access, CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö, Sweden
Group exhibitions / Performance
2021:
-Kortfilmsdagarna, A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
-No running water, A liaison to a life no longer ordered from above, Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
2020:
-Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fund, Rotterdam Art Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Radio 3137, commissioned by Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
2019
-Open Studio, Institute für alles mögliches, Berlin, Germany
2018:
-Wash out, performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, Florence Peel Centre, Melbourne, Australia
-Wash out, performance, collaboration with Michelle Mantsio, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
-AugustOpen Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
-July Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
-June, Open Studio,AADK SPAIN, Blanca, Murcia, Spain
-Light box project,ONONO, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Pacifisms; an odyssey, Antwerp art Radio, Antwerp, Belgium
-Pacifisms; an odyssey, The Aplhe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-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
2017:
-The floor show, Onono, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-The letter U, performance documentation,PRAKSIS OSLO, Oslo gallery night, Oslo, Norway
-A study of the straight arm and a pointing finger, performance, Balcony festival, het O-tje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Pacifism; an odyssey, reading at doublet v, an event focusing on writing as art, Attent, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-A study of the straight arm and a pointing finger, performance, curated by Prøverommet, Berge, Norway
-Scores towards a baroque care, Video festival, Galleri FRANK, Malmö, Sweden
-Scores towards a baroque care, Homecoming queen, group show, Österrängens Konsthall, Jönköping, Sweden
-Staying with noise/The futuristic feelings,Ken, touch this, ONONO, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Staying with noise/The futuristic feelings, Open Studios, Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2016:
-Scores towards a baroque care, Now&After International Video Festival, Moscow, Russia
-The Letter U, performed and curated for the Open Avond(s), de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-The Letter U, performed at HOT BLEND, a performance night initiated by the artist Elias Björn and Clara J:son Borg, hosted by Prøverommet and USF Bergen during Oktoberdans 2016, Bergen, Norway
-Assemble relatives, Piet Zwart Institute Graduation Show, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Always more than on(c)e, performance in collaboration Katherine McBride, Madison Bycroft and Angelica Falkeling at the Assemble all relatives performance program at TENT-Rotterdam, a part of the Piet Zwart Institute’s Graduation Show
-Always more then on(c)e, performance in collaboration Katherine McBride, Madison Bycroft and Angelica Falkeling at the "CFP The Politics of Performance and Play. Feminist Matters" at the Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands
-First Cut, Wolfart project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Together we wait for us, performance, The Goethe Institute, Rotterdam Gallery night, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015:
-Money talk, LOOP- a video art marathon, Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
-Speculative Occupation, Att framföra kropp – tio aspekter, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed, Sweden
-Aperto, Fondazionte Ratti, Como, Italy
-Cutting leaves for the dogs, Tale of a Tube, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Performance Laboratory, Wolfart Project space, in collaboration with PAE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014:
-Artist Run, OK Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013:
-PANEL, Fanzine, Published in Austria, Vienna
2012:
-MA+BA Exam show, Trädgårdsföreningen, Gothenburg
-BA Exam Show, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed
2011:
-Final Show, The Garage, BA exchange student show, Sculpture and Environmental Art, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
-The Bookable Space project, The Garage, BA exhibition Sculpture and Environmental Artshow, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
Awards
2019:
- Jönköpings Landstings Studio Grant
Residency
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 centre of arts and creativity, Canada
2016:
-In time, we too will become ancestor…, 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
Publications
2020:
-Steps, published by Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
2015:
-Fly in the soup, published at the CSAV XXI – Artist Research Laboratory by Fondazione Antonio Ratti and Mousse Magazine, Italy
Other important experiences
2020:
-Programer for Performance Lab together with Amy Pickles, supported by Gemeente Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019:
-Programer for Performance Lab together with Amy Pickles, supported by Gemeente Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Workshop leader with Amy Pickles, KABK, The Hague, The Netherlands
-Organizer of a series of performance workshops together with Amy Pickles and Jeremiah Day, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Programmer for the project space ONONO, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018:
-Guest teacher, LCI Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
-Conversador, Conversas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2017:
-Photographer and Editor for the documentary film Haem, a project by Cecilia Jonsson and Rodrigo Leite de Oliveira, for the Bio Art and Design award, Bergen, Norway/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Performing for Raluca Croitoru, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania
-Performing for Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser for their project Lapsus Kairos, Tale of a Tube, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Initiator and programmer for doublet v, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Programmer of the project space Attent, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Programmer for the project space ONONO, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014:
-Curator; Artist Run, OK Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013:
-Assistant to Marinella Stenatore, Gothenburg International Biennial, Gothenburg
Portfolio show, Grosses Treffen, The Nordic Embassy, Berlin
Scholarship/Grants
2021:
-Corona Regulation Grant, Mondriaan Fund
-Droom en Draad for the project A Liaison To A Life Not Longer Ordered From Above, Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece
-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, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Young Talent, Mondriaan Founds, The Netherlands
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
2015:
-AAA-stiftelsen
2014:
-AAA-stiftelsen
2011:
-Erasmus
-Adlebertska Stiftelserna
-August Rignérs Stipendiefond
2010:
-Stiftelsen Jönköpings Borgerkassa och Bjuggska fonden