Éva Mag
Éva Mag received her artistic education at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm where she graduated in 2015. Mag works with stories about the body, both the human and the sculptural. And she is interested in the history of sculpture, impossible amorphous forms, strict formal modernist morphology as well as proportions and geometric balance. Another part of her practice is devoted to an archive of the work process. In photographs, she presents pure fabrics of hollow bodies, a testimony from the time before the fabrics are filled with clay and wax. She is also concerned with social aspects of art, such as sculpture workshops and working with choreography and performance. In 2019 she staged the performance "Dead Matter Moves" for Performa 19 in New York. Mag was featured in her largest solo exhibition to date, 'Det finns en plan för det här', at Bonniers Konsthall in the spring of 2020, and parts from this expansive exhibition was shown at Galleri Riis in Oslo in the fall the same year.
In september 2021 she will stage a new performance in Berlin for Disappearing Berlin, a performance and audio program produced by Schinkel Pavillion.
Born 1979 in Csikszereda, Romania
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
EDUCATION
- 2013 – 2015MFA at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
- 2007 – 2011BFA at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
- 2002 – 2005GFU, School of Photography Stockholm
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2021Om jag så ska bränna varje sten, Galleri Riis, Stockholm
- 2020Det finns en plan för det här, Galleri Riis, Oslo
- 2020Det finns en plan för det här, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
- 2019Dead Matter Moves, Performa 19, New York
- 2018Respect, Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden
- 2018Respect, Jönköpings läns museum, Sweden
- 2017Respect, Waldemarsudde, Stockholm
- 2017Att göra kropp, presentation and workshop, Art Lab Gnesta, Sweden
- 2017Man ska vara snäll mot sig själv, Haninge Konsthall, Sweden
- 2015KÖSZÖNÖM/TACK/THANKYOU, Galleri Riis, Stockholm
- 2015Be my mother, Examination show, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2021Disappearing Berlin, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
- 2019mind moves with matter, body blends into space, Kunsthall Trondheim
- 2018Modernautställningen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- 2018New Materialism, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
- 2018Our Winter Show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
- 2017SculptureMotion, Wanås Konst, Sweden
- 2016The Death of Ceramics, hangmenProjects, Stockholm
- 2016Körsbärsgården Konsthall, Gotland
- 2016Swedish Art: Now!, Sven-Harrys konstmuseum, Stockholm
- 2016Hur mycket väger ett berg?, with Magdalena Nilsson, Hangmen Projects, Stockholm
- 2016EVA ÄR ORMEN I PARADISET, with Jenny Palén, Konstakademien, Stockholm
- 2016Picnic electronic, performance at Fylkingen, Stockholm
- 2016Visitation, Västerås Konstmuseum
- 2016Kroppen glömmer inte, Stand up, Original #20, GIBCA EXTENDED, Göteborg
- 2015I dream of Meadows, Examination show, Konstakademien, The Royal Art Academy, Stockholm
- 2014The body does not forget, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
- 2014The Paper Székely, Performance, Weld, Cringe – a night of disfunctional comedy
- 2014Pussy patrol, Performance, at 15 minutes of shame, Stockholm
- 2014Pussy patrol, Performance, Moderna Bar, Stockholm
- 2013Directions and shapes of a womans body, video and sculpture,Vallentuna Bibliotek
- 2013Directions and shapes of a womans body clay, 24 hour performance, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
- 2011Gumizunk, video installation, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
- 2011The Paper Székely, video, BA Degree show, The Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm
- 2010En annan väg, WANÅS 2010, Wanås Foundation