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SOFIA BJÖRKMAN
The landscape I live in is a joyful world filled with human scaled artworks. The studio and gallery is placed in Stockholm Sweden, and my work is travelling around. Mobility and flexibility make jewellery unique as an artform and broaden the meaning of the pieces.
Since I graduated from Konstfack in Stockholm, I have dedicated my work to jewellery, wearable and non-wearable art objects. 1999 I started PLATINA, a gallery and studio for art jewellery. Since then, I have worked as an artist, gallery owner and curator.
The audience, the colleagues, the friends and the environments we are in inspire. In the artistic landscape I meet a lot of people that influence me and play a big role in the artistic practice, it is a way for me to understand works and to express the experience being both an artist and a curator.
CV
Founder, director and owner of Platina Stockholm AB
Current Board of Directors assignment:
2013 - Board member in AJF- Art Jewelry Forum
2020 - Board member in Stockholms Hantverksförening
2020 - Board member in KRO Stockholm
Higher Education:
2016-2017 Research Lab CRAFT! Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
2014 Introduction to Artistic Research, Konstfack University College of Arts, Stockholm
2013 Art and Craft theory at HDK University of Crafts and Design, Gothenburg
2001 Platinum course, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
1998 MFA, Metaldesign/jewellery, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
1996-1997 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem Israel, Dept of Object design, Accessories and Jewelry
1996 BFA, Metaldesign, Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
Represented museums
National Museum of Arts, Sweden
Röhsska Museum of Art and Design, Sweden
Rian Designmuseum, Smyckoteket, Sweden
Museum Espace Solidor in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Alliages Collection, France
Deedi Rose Collection / Dallas Museum, Texas, USA
Susan Beech Collection / MAD Museum of Arts and design New York, USA
Lectures Virtual performing/talks from 2020 - :
2024 Destination Bijou, Chateua Grimaldi, Cagnes Sur Mer
2023 Korutaideyhdistys ry - The Finnish Jewellery Art Association
2023 The Craft Academy, Sweden
2022 2020 Art Jewelry Forum – live
2022 RISD, Providence USA, virtual
2022 Artist talk with Gallery Alice Floriano, Brazil, virtual
2022 The Swedish Arts and Crafts Association, Konstepedemin , Gothenburg
2022 Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem
2022 Shenkar Academy of Design, Tel Aviv
2022 Artist talk at Geological Museum in Ramat Hasharon, Israel
2022 Steneby School of Crafts/HDK,University, Dals Långhed
2022 The Crafts Academy, Stockholm
2022 Talk for KRO, Sweden
2021 The Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
2020 Master lecture Goldmuseum, Taiwan
2020 International Art Jewelry Talks with Jonathan Wahl, The Jewelry Center at The 92nd Street Y, New York
2020 Art Jewelry Forum – live
2020 Panel discussion Moscow International Jewellery Show
2020 Konstfack University of Art and Craft, Stockholm, Sweden
Grants from 2020 - :
2021 5 year working grant from the Art Grants Committee, Sweden
2023 Estrid Ericsons stiftelse
2021, 2022, 2023 iaspis Art Grants Committee, Sweden
2020, 2021, Corona support from the Art Grants Committee, Sweden
2020 Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
2020 Swedish Art Council
Exhibitions 2021-24 :
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2024
- Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, Kai Art Center Estonia
- Hantverket, by Hantverksföreningen at Sven Harrys Art Museum, Stockholm
- Silver Ligning, Stockholm City Museum. Curated by Annette Dam Spacious Copenhagen.
- Galerie Noel Guyomarch, Canada
- Body of water, Art Hall of Nakagawa Tokyo curated by Studio MOYO, Tomoyo Hiraiwa and Helen Clara Hemsley
- The second Contemporary Jewellery Biennial in Lisbon The Jewellery Room at Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts – FRESS, Lisbon
- Extranalities at The second Contemporary Jewellery Biennial in Lisbon
- Silver Ligning, Gallery Specta Copenhagen. Curated by Annette Dam Spacious Copenhagen.
- The girl who makes silver sensuous, PLATINA Château-Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
- Extranalities13, Pictureware 4, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
- FRAME, The International Crafts & Design fair, Munich, Gemany
2023
- 25 Anos Reverso, Galeria Reverso, Lisbon Portugal
- Wearing Red, Ignite the fire, New York City jewelry Week, 30th Anniversary Exhibition Charon Kransen Arts NYC
- House of Arts Veszprém, Veszprém Culture City 2023, curator Kinga Zobel
- Hantverket, Stockholm City Museum, Stockholms Hantverksförening, Stockholm Craft Week, Sweden
- DNA, curated by Juan Riusech, museum Espace Solidor in Cagnes-sur-mer, France.
- The flower in Art, Craft and Applied Art, The Galerie Handwerk in Munich, Germany
- Mer guldkant, Nääs Arts and Crafts, curator Karin Roy Andersson
- Special show Schmuck, Center del Carme Cultura Contemporània, Melting Point, Valencia, Spain
- Special show Schmuck, The International Crafts & Design fair, Munich, Gemany
- FRAME, The International Crafts & Design fair, Munich, Gemany
- Lines of Latitude and Longitude, Artikum science centre and museum, Rovanemi, Finland
- Extranalities, González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts, Melting Point, Valencia, Spain
- Extranalities, Silver Festival Legnica, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
- Extranalities, Atelier Von Gierke-Berr, Munich Jewellery Week, Germany
- Declaration of Sentiments: a new dialogue, Uni.Versus Art Room, Athens, Greece
2022
- 6th Biennial of contemporary jewellery, The Lithuanian National Museum of Art
- Silver Festival Legnica, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
Travelling exhibition to Polnań, Gdańsk, Łódź, Jablonec, Nisou, Poland
- Hantverket, Stockholm City Museum, Stockholms Hantverksförening, Stockholm Craft Week, Sweden
- Extranalities, Gallery Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal
- Extranalities, Sieraad, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Geological Museum in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, curated by Ariel Lavian
- FRAME, The International Crafts & Design fair, Munich, Gemany
- Declaration of Sentiments, curated by Co + Lab, Platina; Stockholm, Sweden
- Declaration of Sentiments, curated by Co + Lab, Gallery Universal, Athens, Greece
I have been exhibiting regulary since I studied.
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