Ellen Bjerborn is a lernaean hydra and media artist based in, and from Malmö, Sweden.
Her practice explores the human relationship to technology, spirituality, and nature using lens-based and digital media.
At the moment she is focusing on the Öresund strait and our neighbors under the surface through participatory processes.
She holds a BFA in Industrial design from Parsons School of Design, NYC.
CV
2024
Participant in STPLN lab > 2025
Ocean Ambassador, Bauhaus of the Sea Sails
2023
GUI/GOOEY, group show, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn
Pre-SSDD, group show, Folkets Park, Malmö
Flavor of Malmö, group photography exhibition, FAMN publishing, Malmö
Locally Alien festival, part of Southern Sweden Design Days, STPLN, Malmö
True Self Film festival, organized by Volox Observer. Screened in Rotterdam, Toronto and Richmond, VA
2022
BLOOM, workshop and group show, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
Cheap Freedom Club, online gallery
Post Social Media Club, Speculative Design Residency and showcase, STPLN (Malmö, Sweden), Nova Iskra (Belgrade, Serbia), bios (Athens, Greece), ATÖLYE (Istanbul, Turkey), Volumes (Paris, France)
Showroom & Covid Cinema, moving image group showcase, Galleri Redan, Malmö,
2021
Projektil, group show, Stor Studio, Malmö
De Refuserades Salong, group Show, Galleri Redan, Malmö
Souther Sweden Design Days, group show, Beyond US, Malmö, SWE
Visiting Artist, Video Everywhere class, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
It's Time to Reduce The Backlog, group show, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Is It A Good Time Yet?, moving image group showcase, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
2020
Mag Twentytwenty feature, online
Feed my Quarantein vol.2 - Still, By Appointment Only, online
Mirror/Image curated by Riana Gideon for Artfare, online
2019
Auto-Save, moving image group show, Parsons School of Design
Interpreting Design, graduate group show, Parsons School of Design
Residencies
Post Social Media Club, Speculative Design Residency and showcase, STPLN (Malmö, Sweden), 2022
BLOOM/making it, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 2022
Upcoming: ARS Bioarctica, Kilpisjärvi, 2024
Grants
Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland, resestöd, 2024
Education
BFA Product Design - Parsons School of Design 2015-2019, NYC
Moving Image Production, Malmo University 2021