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Backa Carin Ivarsdotter
 
 
About the Artist

Backa Carin Ivarsdotter creates artistic environments in the boundary
between dream and reality. She builds her work in the same way as a set
designer. The observer steps into her inner landscape. These sculptural
installations move, sound, glow and sometimes disintegrate. Porcelain and
stoneware are pushed to their outer limits when it comes to what is
technically possible in size, form and durability.

Backa Carins work is beautiful yet at the same time unpleasant, fragile,
strong and often with a sense of humour. There lies something indefinable
within. Everything is not always what it seems to be.

"My desire is to give the viewer an impression of life; the encounter
between what is beautiful and horrible, the beauty and destructiveness of
love, and the fact that we are immortal until we die."

 
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Corridor

2000
6,5 x 2,3 meters

Blanket

2003

Fire Mountains

2003
50 x 40 cm

Mountain Scenery

2005
Earthenware, ironoxide
12 x 7 meters

Branches 1

2004
Porcelain, Earhenware
Room is 25 square meters

From Above

2007
Porclain
The wall is 5 x 2,6 meters

Porcelain Puddles

2001
Porcelain
The room is 80 square meters

Platngymnasiet

2005-2007

Commision from Statns Konstråd. Two gardens in Platengymnasiet, School in Motala Sweden

Miraculum 510

2005-2007
Mirrorglas and tiles
250 meters long

Platengymnasiet

2005-2007

Two inner gardens in Platengymnasiet, A highschool in Motala Sweden. Commissison from Statens Konsrtråd.

Selfdestructing Porceline net

2003
Porcelain
4,5 x 1,25 meters

Selfdestructing Porceline net

 
Education and biography
CV Backa Carin Ivarsdotter
Born 1973, Uppsala, Sweden
Live and works in Stockholm, Sweden

Education:
1995-2000 MFA, Konstfack, Stockholm, Swe
1998 HDK, Gothenburg, Swe
1992-1995 Konstlinjen Gävle, Swe
1992 Folkuniversitetets konstskola Uppsala,Swe
Solo exhibitions:
2007 Svensk Form, Stockholm, Swe
2004 Blås och Knåda, Stockholm
2003 Teatergalleriet, Uppsala
2002 Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2001 Skulpturens hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Gallery Kaleido, Uppsala, Sweden

Exhibitions: selected
2006 Art Fair, Sollentuna, Life Foundation, Stockholm, Swe
2005 Meyerhoff Galleries, ”The Swedish Show”, NCECA, Baltimore, USA
2005 Liljevalchs Vårsalong ”Formbart”, Stockholm, Swe
2005 Konstmässan, Sollentuna, and ”The Stockholm Art Fair”, Älvsjö, Swe
2005 Skulpturens Hus, ”STRATA” , Stockholm,Swe
2004 CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado, ”Because the Earth is 1/3 Dirt”,Usa
2003 World Ceramic Biennial 2003, Icheon, Corea
2003 Nordic Contemporary Craft, Gothenburg, Swe
2003 Svensk Form, Stockholm Swe
2003 Höganäs Museum, Swe
2002 Gallery Nørby, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 G.A.S Brooklyn, New York, USA
2000 Master exhibition, University of arts and design, Swe
1999 Utstillingstedt for ny keramik, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Talente-99, Exhibition for young talents, Munich. Germany
1999 Gallery Binnen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Konstfack,Ceramic 98,Swe



Commissions:
2006-2007 Agfa gaevert AB, Entrance in Kista, Swe
2005-2006 Statens konstråd, Platengymnasiet, Motala, Swe
2004-2006 “Street in Stockholm”, Hornstullsstrand, Stockholm
2001-2002 Stockholms läns landsting, Södersjukhuset/Hospital, Stockholm

Employment:
2006-2007 Artistic projectleader and Curator, Working Life, Globe arenas, Stockholm, Swe
2004-2005 Projectleader Street in Stockholm
2002-2003 Studiefrämjandet/ Teacher in Ceramics
2001 Barnens konstskola i STHLM/Teacher in sculpture

Scholarships: selected
2005 Konstnärsnämnden, Kostnadskrävande project
2005 IASPIS, international exchange project
2003-2005 Konstnärsnämnden, 2 year artist work sholarship
2004 IASPIS international cultural exchange
2003 IASPIS international cultural exchange
2003 Sleipnir, Travel
2002 Estrid Ericsson
2001 Artist In Residence, Skaelsœr International Ceramic Centre
2001 Hetha Bengtson, work scholarship
2000 MFA exam scholarship
2000 Estrid Ericsson travel scholarship New York
1999 SIDA Minor Field Study, MFS. Indonessia two months
1999 Travel scholarship Germany
1999 Travel scholarship Holland
1998 Estrid Ericsson travel scholarship, Holland
1996 Travel scholarship Denmark

Residence:
1999 Artist in Recidence/ Skaelsør International Ceramic Centre, Denmark

Produced exhibitions:
2005 ”STRATA, New perspectives on ceramics from Scandinavia and the United States” Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
2004 ”Kons(ep)thantverk” Hornstullsstrand, Stockholm
Represented:
2004 AMF pension, Stockholm, Swe
2003 Icheon World Ceramic Centre
2000 Stockholms läns landsting

Books, catalogues:
2005 Craft in Dialogue ”Six views on a practice in change”
2005 ”De formade 1900-talet” by Eva Atle Bjarnestam
2005 ”STRATA, New perspectives on ceramics from Scandinavia and the United States” Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
2004 Diesel New Art, Swedish Competition, Finalists
2004 Because the Earth is 1/3 Dirt, CU Art Museum
2004 Cow Parade, Stockholm
2003 World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea, International Competition
2003 Nordic Contemporary Craft
2003 Tolv Hertha Bengtsson stipendiater
2002 Mellem Rum, Utdtillingstedt før ny Keramik
1999 Talente 99, Internationale Handwerksmesse Münich

 
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