Helena Lund Ek
B.1988
EDUCATION
2019 Project studies for Professional Artists, Painting dept, spring 30 ects,
Royal Academy of the Arts, Stockholm
2015 -2016 Continental Philosophy 60 ects, Stockholms University
2011 - 2014 Bachelor Fine Art, 180 ects, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo.
Erasmus autumn 2013, Glasgow School of Art, Painting dept.
2010 - 2011 Ölands Artschool II
2009 - 2010 Ölands Artschool, Design
2008 - 2009 Nyckelvikens Artschool, Stockholm
SOLOSHOWS
2019 In Grünewalds Studio, Saltsjöbaden
2018 Crack an Egg, Tegel, Stockholm
2018 Break of Your Back, Solo presentation at emerging artists at Chart art Fair, Copenhagen
2017 Helena Lund Ek with Batur, Taverna Brillo, Stockholm
2017 Friends in the Studio, Destiny ́s Atelier, Oslo
2016 Celebration, MEGA Foundation, Stockholm
2015 the Loud Wordless Process, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
GROUPSHOWS
2020 Installation in the performative sculpture Odysseus by Theater F in Ekeberg Sculpturepark, Oslo
2020 Works By Friends, Soho House, New York
2019 A Seed’s A Star, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm
2019 Den folkliga självstyrelsens livsluft, Mint Konsthall, Stockholm
2019 Uttran II, Uttran Huddinge, Stockholm
2019 PLX, PLX Festival,Tjärö
2018 Modernautställningen With the Future Behind Us, the Modern Museum, Stockholm
2018 KALEIDOSKOP, Island Oslo, Oslo
2018 Nouveau Naïve, Ram gallery, Oslo
2017 Material Art Fair, represented by MEGA Foundation, Mexico City
2017 MINIBAR, One Night Only, UKS, Oslo
2016 The Internship, Slurdsula Gallery, Oslo
2015 Ytterstad, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
2015 Lopsided Upthrust , B.O.A, Oslo
2015 Talents' Archive Project, Curated by Double Decker Agency London, OCC, Athens
GRANTS
2020 The Swedish Arts Committee 1 year working grant
2020 The Swedish Arts Committee Travel grant
2019 Stockholms City Culturegrant for artists
2019 Stockholms City Studiogrant for artists
2015 Grant for Young Artist, Minister for Culture, Norway
2015 Residency in Edvard-Munch-Haus, Warnemünde
2014 Project grant, FKD Norway
LECTURES/TEACHING
2020 External Critic of Master Students Degree project at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2020 (upcoming) Workshop in egg tempera painting at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, Stockholm
2020 Workshop in Sculptural painting at Idun Lovén Artschool, Stockholm
2020 Workshop in painting, Tensta Konsthall
2020 - Present, Runs the project Painting Practice in the studio where I hold weekly workshops. The space is also an exhibition space for painters to showwork and to hold workshops and lectures. In 2020 the artist Nadia hebson, Calle Segelberg, Duda Bebek and Astrid Kajsa Nylander will exhibit at Painting Practice.
2019 Portrait Course, Royal Academy of the Arts, Stockholm
2018 - Present, teacher at the Artschool Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm.
Responsible for the painting course in the foundation year.
2018 - Present, teaching, lectures, studiotalks at the Projectyear at Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm
2018 - Present, lecture and substituting teaching at Idun Lovén artschool, Stockholm
2017 Workshop at Ölands artschool
OTHER
2019 - Present, assistant to Martha Edelheit (b.1931, New York). Edelheit an American-born artist currently living in Sweden. She is known for her feminist art of the 1960s and 1970s, which focuses on erotic nudes. In 2020 she is exhibiting at The Armory Show & Frieze in New York.
2020 In the Jury for Stockholm City Studiogrant year 2020-2023
2018 Text at kunstkritikk.se
2018 Cover for Zara Kjellners book Manhattan, published by 10-tal
2018 Cover for Harald lassen album Eventyrer, Jazzland recording
2014 In the jury for the Bachelor of Fine Art at the Art Academy of Oslo
2014 Produced the podcast MaleriPositioner with interviews with Mari Slaattelid, Andreas Eriksson and Dag Erik Elgin, published at The National Gallery of Norway for the exhibition An appetite for Painting
2013 Interviewed in the artist Lotte Konow Lunds video-work about studiowork
REPRESENTED
2019 Kojey Radical, London
2019 Örebro Council, Örebro
2018 Permanent work at ALMA, Nybrogatan, Stockholm
2013 VNG, Oslo
REVIEWED/MENTIONED
Sydsvenskan, Dagens Industri, CURA magazine, Aftenposten, 10-tal, Nöjesguiden, Morgenbladet, kunstkritikk.se, Aftenposten