MAJA DROETTO

Visual artist living and working in Göteborg in Sweden. Born 1974.  

CV

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & LARGE SCALE SITESPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS:

Digging into Darkness, Alma Löv museum, Östra Ämtervik, Sweden, 2018-2020

Rowan Portal, Gothenburg Green World, Mölndal, Sweden, 2016

Return of the Proto Being, OpenArt Biennal, Örebro, Sweden, 2015

Detail Investigation, Choosers Can’t be Beggars, Konstepidemin paviljong 10, Göteborg, Sweden, 2010

1 Shanthi Road Studio/Gallery, Bangalore, India, 2010

Sketches for a Universe, Galleri Box, Göteborg, Sweden, 2009

Lucka 17, julkalendern 2008, BellmanLarssonLindströmNord, Göteborg, Sweden, 2008

Attack Embrace, Skankaloss, Gagnef, Sweden, 2007

Contagion. Weld, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007

Protobeings, Ytspänning / Surface Tension. Göteborg moat, Sweden, 2006

Rymd – Ägg, Konst och trädgård. Wij gardens, Ockelbo, Sweden, 2006

City Beings, London, UK, 2003

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Skisser och experiment, Myller kultur och händelser, Vännersta, Sweden, 2020

Member exhibition, Galleri 54, Göteborg, Sweden, 2019

Growing Eternal, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012

Tombola Parksalong lll, Slottsskogen, Göteborg, Sweden, 2012

Night of 1000 Drawings, D-I-Y, Lagerhuset, Göteborg, Sweden, 2011

”Utställningen”, Galleri 54, Göteborg, Sweden, 2011

Sleep-Inn Galleri 54, Göteborg, Sweden, 2011

Art Interaction in Nordic Landscape, Galleri Rotor2, Göteborg, Sweden, 2008

Skankaloss, Gagnef, Sweden, 2008

Design & terrorism, Teater Bhopa, Göteborg, Sweden, 2005

 

COMMISSIONS:

Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden. Sculptures for atrium in the new emergency department. 2019

Hultskolan, Göteborg, Sweden. Two facades. 2018

Drottning Silvias nya barnsjukhus, Göteborg, Sweden. Shortlisted to develop proposal for central atrium. 2015

Site specific work commissioned by Kulturhuset Blå Stället, Angered, Sweden, 2008

 

EDUCATION:

BA (hons)Theatre Design for Performance, Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2000-03

Film Foundation Course, European Film College, Ebeltoft, Denmark, 1995-96

 

SELECTED COURSES:

Gestaltningsprocesser, Artists’ Communal Workshop, Göteborg, Sweden, 2010

Land Art, Valand School of Art, Göteborg och Dalarna, Sweden, 2008

International Summer Course, Valand School of Art, Göteborg, Sweden, 2006

 

RESIDENCIES:

Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden, 2022

Nordingrå konsnärsverkstad, Vännersta, Sweden, 2020

Norwegian Visual Artists Association / Kings Bay, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, 2013

Galleri Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 2013

Kunstnerhuset in Svolvær, Lofoten / Swedish-Norwegian Cooperation Foundation, 2011

1 Shanthi Road Studio/Galleri, Bangalore, India, 2009-10

 

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:

Västra Götalandsregionens gästateljéstipendium, 2022

Wilhelm och Martina Lundgrens understödsfond, 2022

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s two year working grant, 2012

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International cultural exchange grant, 2012

Göteborg City Culture Award, 2010

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s one year working grant, 2008