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Lena Lindahl

Published: 29.09.2023

Bio

Lena Lindahl is a Swedish artist living in the archipelago of Gothenburg. She has a MFA in Jewellery Art from HDK School of Design and Craft. Her works relate to literature, science and politics. Sometimes she addresses with a critical question sometimes with a smile.
 

Statement

We are all animals, individuals of a remarkably successful species. The history is not long, our 200 000 years is considered as a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms and if we play our cards well, there will be humans walking around on the Earth for many years to come. Cooperation, compassion and an exceptional clever mind have all been winning qualities on the evolutionary road. We have the sense, the ability and the sensibility. This brilliancy did not arise all of a sudden. There where others before us. Different kind of hominines, who learned how to hunt, make use of fire, communicate and even make art. My jewellery art is about the kind of human animals we are today and the individuals who went before us. It was their lives, thoughts and struggle that cleared the way for us and we would not be an existing species without them. We carry their traces in our DNA. In my jewellery I explore humanity. Our self-identification and our relations towards each other and nature.
If we peal off all the layers of our ideas about personal opinions, about what we want to achieve in life, if we peal of the entire existence of modern civilisation we would still be cultural beings. We would seek each others company and we would sing, dance, philosophize, fantasize…

 

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2024:
2023:
Exhibition  05 Oct 2023 - 14 Oct 2023  Woodland.
Exhibition  26 Sep 2023 - 13 Oct 2023  Devotional Jewellery in Barcelona.
Exhibition  15 Jun 2023 - 27 Aug 2023  XXL International exhibition of jewellery and adornments.
2022:
Exhibition  25 Nov 2022 - 16 Feb 2023  Devotional Jewellery.
Exhibition  12 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2022  Tincal lab Challenge 2022. Jewelry and Literature.
2021:
Exhibition  25 Aug 2021 - 23 Oct 2021  Treasures From The Sea in Tallinn.
2020:
Exhibition  08 Oct 2020 - 13 Oct 2020  Treasures From the Sea.
2019:
Exhibition  18 May 2019 - 06 Oct 2019  The Legacy Award & Collection. The Ultimate Edition.
Exhibition  13 Mar 2019 - 16 Mar 2019  Heart Failure in Munich.
2018:
Exhibition  14 Dec 2018 - 23 Feb 2019  Heart Failure.
Fair  07 Mar 2018 - 13 Mar 2018  Schmuck 2018.
2017:
Exhibition  20 Sep 2017 - 30 Oct 2017  Jewels & Chocolate.
Open call  30 Jan 2017 - 01 Mar 2017  XIV International Baltic Jewellery Show Amber Trip.
2016:
Exhibition  05 Oct 2016 - 26 Oct 2016  METALLOphone: Bonds.
Award  08 Mar 2016 - 25 Mar 2016  Legnica International Jewellery Competition 2016.
2015:
Exhibition  15 Nov 2015 - 14 Feb 2016  Ausgezeichnet! most excellent!.
Open call  02 Oct 2015 - 16 Oct 2015  Beijing International Jewelry Art Biennial 2015.
Exhibition  22 Jun 2015 - 04 Sep 2015  White horse in a green meadow.
2014:
Open call  01 Sep 2014 - 31 Oct 2014  Open Call: SENSEability.
2013:
Award  31 Aug 2013 - 06 Oct 2013  Cominelli Foundation Award 2013.
Exhibition  30 Apr 2013 - 23 Jun 2013  REVOLT: Legnica International Jewellery Competition.

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Book:  Ausgezeichnet! most excellent!. Bruhn, InesArnoldsche Art Publishers:  Germany,  2016