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ABOUT

Ellen Bjerborn is media artist born 1995 based in, and from Malmö, Sweden.

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Her artistic practice hunkers under three ominous forces; nature, technology and religion, which permeate everyday life. Through video and text she moves closer to these obscured powers, the unholy trinity that looms over the human experience. She recently completed Diorama, a film looking at how the field of biology abstracts nature's processes into symbols. 

 

She holds a BFA in Product design from Parsons School of Design, NYC and has exhibited locally and internationally. 

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Instagram: @ellenmsb

Contact: ellenbjerborn@gmail.com​

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Education
2015-2019   BFA Product design - Parsons School of Design, NYC
2020            Moving Image Production & The Photographic Image, Malmo University

2025            Sommarkurs i rörlig bild, Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
 
Group shows
2024             Thrive and Nurture, group show, Kommendanthuset, Malmö Gallery Weekend
2023             GUI/GOOEY, group show, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn
2023             Pre-SSDD, group show (Southern Sweden Design Days), Folkets Park, Malmö
2023             Flavor of Malmö, FAMN publishing, Malmö
2023             The Sessions, Külhaus Berlin
2023             Locally Alien festival, Southern Sweden Design Days, STPLN, Malmö
2022             BLOOM, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
2022             Cheap Freedom Club, online gallery
2022             Post Social Media Club, STPLN (Malmö, Swe), Nova Iskra (Belgrade, Serbia),

                     bios (Athens, Greece), ATÖLYE (Istanbul, Turkey), Volumes (Paris, France)
2021             Projektil, Stor Studio, Malmö
2021             De Refuserades Salong, Galleri Redan, Malmö
2021             Southern Sweden Design Days, Beyond US, Malmö, 
2021             It's Time to Reduce The Backlog, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021             Is It A Good Time Yet?, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
2019             Auto-Save, Parsons School of Design
2019             Interpreting Design, Parsons School of Design

 

Screenings

2026             Diorama. Inter Arts Center, Malmö

2023             True Self Film festival, organized by Volox Observer. Screened in Rotterdam,       

                     Toronto and Richmond, VA

2022             Showroom & Covid Cinema, Galleri Redan, Malmö


Residencies
2025-26       Inter Arts Center, Malmö (11 November-17 February)

2024            ARS Bioarctica, Kilpisjärvi, Finland (4-18 November)
2024            STPLN Lab, Malmö (January-December)
2022            Post Social Media Club, Speculative Design Residency and showcase, STPLN,                          Malmö (May 29-September 17)
2022            BLOOM/making it, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana (August 20-September 4)

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Grants
2024            Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland, travel grant
2024            International travel grant, Konstnärsnämnden

2025            Malmö stads ateljéstipendium

2025            Helge Ax:son Johsons Stiftelse

 

Publications

2025            Under i Öresund- om Öresunds arter och staden Malmö,Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

2025            The Sea On Land - creative exercises from the ocean ambassadors of Malmö                            2024-2025, Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

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Press/published

2022           Sydsvenskan: Europeiska konstnärer ställde ut digitala dystopier (18 June 2002)

2020           Mag Twentytwenty feature, online

2020           Feed my Quarantein vol.2 - Still, By Appointment Only 

2020           Mirror/Image curated by Riana Gideon for Artfare, Mirror/Image Catalogue


Extra

2024-25       Ocean Ambassador, Bauhaus of the Sea Sails EU-project

2025            Guest lecturer, Technical University of Münich, ARRL Lecture series "The role of                         nature in modern capitalism: what is impact, what is progress?" December 2, 2025

2023-26       Vice chair, Skånes Konstförening 

2021            Visiting Artist lecture, Video Everywhere class, School of the Art Institute of                                 Chicago, April 5, 2021

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© Ellen Bjerborn, 2026

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