Emma Hasselblad
Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 4 May–25 October 2026
Emma Hasselblad is based in Stockholm and works primarily with knitting as an artistic medium. Through a collage-like method, she constructs larger forms from smaller knitted elements, joined together by crocheting. In previous works, she has also created large-scale knitted flowers for exhibitions and public spaces.
Photo: Lisa Hallgren
Emma Hasselblad
The flower in Emma Hasselblad’s work is both fragile and strange. It departs from botanical accuracy and instead allows room for imagination. Emma often works from illustrations of flowers and plants, images created to describe, classify and preserve. Through the slow and repetitive process of knitting, these depictions are displaced: precision softens, the line loses its sharpness, and forms begin to drift. Emma knits her works by hand, using multiple strands of yarn simultaneously in order to build up nuance and texture. The knitted elements are mounted and stretched over custom-cut plywood. For a project at Sergels torg in the summer of 2026, her practice is taking on a more three-dimensional form. In collaboration with a blacksmith, she is producing an eleven-metre-long flower stem from which knitted flowers branch out and spread.
During her residency at IASPIS, she will continue to develop her work with large-scale knitted pieces. Emma Hasselblad studied at ESMOD in Berlin and later completed her Master’s degree at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg in 2019. Since then, she has participated in a number of exhibitions and art projects in Sweden and internationally. Her most recent exhibitions include Nacka Konsthall (2026), Stenungsunds Konsthall (2025) and POM Gallery, Mariefred (2025), as well as group exhibitions at Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm (2026), Crum Heaven, Stockholm (2025) and Konstakademien, Stockholm (2022–2023). Her work is represented in municipalities and regions across Sweden.