Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 4 May–25 October 2026

Evelina Jonsson is an artist living between Stockholm and Madrid. She grew up in Nässjö.

Her practice resembles a scientific inquiry that surpasses the requirements of testability and replication. It weaves sculpture and text into a whole where the different media correspond, but do not illustrate, one another. In the dissection of a living being there is an inherent tension: a gentle, caring touch mixed with an emotionless, sharp incision. That is exactly where the core of her investigation seems to reside: humanity’s aggressive thirst to capture and preserve, to collect, understand, and represent. With that delicate violence, she problematizes materiality, entropy, articulation, and dissolution, as well as the function of the image and meaning.

During her stay at IASPIS she will focus on the development of a new series of sculptures working with found material, flowers and wood cutting. As well as a project centered around the hellenistic sculpture of Nike from Samothrace, and her journey between form, breakage, reassembly and reproduction, which is taking form in a video work, photography and poetry. Jonsson holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2022), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2017), and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Uppsala University (2020). In 2023, she was awarded the Royal Academy of Fine Arts’ Bernadotte Scholarship.

Her recent exhibitions include Begränsa dig, Inneslut mig, Luleå Konsthall, (2026), Sånt som faller, Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta (2025), A(biotic) indulgence, Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm (2025), Play it as it lays, as part of Curated By, Charim Gallery, Vienna (2024), Höljet, Konstakademien, Stockholm (2024), which coincided with the publication of the essay book Höljet – Människan och insekterna, published by Konstakademien (2024).

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