Tobias Birgersson

Bio

Tobias Birgersson is a Stockholm-based Swedish artist working with metal at the intersection of contemporary craft, design, and art. He holds an MFA and BFA in Metal Design from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Rooted in blacksmithing and silversmithing, his practice explores material, process, and ritual through sculptural objects, installations, and exhibition-based projects. Birgersson has presented solo and group exhibitions at venues including Nationalmuseum, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Munich Jewellery Week, VIDA Museum, and Galleri Sebastian Schildt, and his work is represented in public and private collections. He is currently part of IronNotes – At the Borders of Iron, a Creative Europe–funded artistic research project. 

Photo credit: Christian Habetzeder

Statement

I am a material-based artist rooted in applied arts and the practical knowledge of making. My practice draws on metalworking traditions such as blacksmithing and silversmithing, while also extending into wood and mixed-media processes. Even when my objects resist functionality, their origins remain firmly grounded in use, usability, and the physical logic of tools and objects. Making is central to my work as a contemporary and critical process through which material knowledge generates new stories. 

I am drawn to objects that feel slightly out of place—forms that sit awkwardly within familiar systems of use or expectation. Working across gallery-based exhibitions, collaborative projects, and public art commissions, I explore the thresholds between craft, design, and art. Through sculptural objects and site-responsive works, I investigate how practical knowledge, labor, and material history continue to shape meaning, even when function is displaced and objects remain open, ambiguous, and unresolved. 

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