biography

Lina Selander was born in 1973 in Stokholm (SE), where she currently lives and works.

Lina Selander's practice involves mainly films and installations. Her films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge. Each work constitutes a dense archive of facts and observations, occasionally in dialogue with other films, works of art or literature.

She represented Sweden at 56. Venice Biennale (2015), with a solo show entitled Excavation of the Image - Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, curated by Lena Essling.

Lina Selander's exhibitions at Galleria Tiziana Di Caro

In 2014, when the gallery was still in Salerno Lina Selander was invited by Tiziana Di Caro at the group show Journey to the end of the word.
Lina Selander's first solo exhibition dates back to 2015 at the Galleria Tiziana Di Caro in Naples, while the second entitled Diagrams of Transfer ended in January 2020.

Solo exhibitions include:

Diagrams of Transfer, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Napoli, 2019 – 2020;
THE EYE AS A WITNESS – RECORDING THE HOLOCAUST, UK, Touring exhibition, The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, South Hampstead Synagogue, London, 2019;
Climbing Through the Tide, curated by Basak Senova, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, 2019;
Shadow Optics, Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser, Wien, 2019;
For a timelight must be called darkness, Lina Selander in collaboration with Oscar Mangione, curated by Andrea Cinel, Argos – Centre for Art & Media, Brussels, 2017;
Repeat after me, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, 2017;
Lina Selander - Selected works 2008-2016, Lidköpings Konsthall, Lidköping, 2016;
This Misery of Light, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, 2016;
Speculative Fiction, duo exhibition with Emma Hartman, Sirius Art Center, Cork, curated by Dobz O'Brien, 2016;
Tanken fyller rummet, duo exhibition with Beth Laurin, Galleri Riis, Stockholm, 2016;
Moment, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Curated by Lena Essling, 2015;
A Series of Images About You, VOX - Centre de l'image contemporaine, 2015;
Montréal (QC), curated by Helena Holmberg;
Lina Selander, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Naples, 2015;
"Excavation of the Image - Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, 2015;
Representing Sweden, Arsenale, The 56th Venice Biennale, curated by Lena Essling, 2015;
Ett litet monument över skapande och gemenskap, Skissernas Museum, Lund, 2015;
Open system - Silphium and other works, Iniva, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, curated by Lisa Rosendahl, 2015;
A Continuous Shift of Perspective, Örebro Konsthall, Örebro, 2014;
A Series of Images About You, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, curated by Helena Holmberg, 2014;
La Mirage, Montréal, QC, Canada, curated by Mount Analouge (Diana Kaur and Tris Vonna-Michell), 2014;
Silphium, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, curated by Helena Holmberg, 2014;
Solo-screening, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, curated by Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig, 2014;
Model of Continuation, OEI Colour Project, Stockholm, curated by Anna Ådahl, 2013;
Selected work 2007-2011, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, 2012;
Anteroom of the Real, Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Berlin, curatee by Felix Vogel, 2012;
Selected work 2007-2011, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, 2012;
Anteroom of the Real, Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Berlin, curated by Felix Vogel, 2012;
Lenin’s Lamp Glows In the Peasant’s Hut, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, 2012;
Around the Cave of the Double Tombs, Black Box, Mångkulturellt Centrum, Fittja, Stockholm, 2102;
Light Box, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, curated by Jeanne Dreyfus Daboussy, 2012;
A New view from an old town. New images of old ideas, Art Space Hebron, Spanish Academy, Hebron and Dar Al-Anda Gallery, Amman. With Katarina Nitsch, 2012;
Stone (no. 5 of 9) / Around the Cave of the Double Tombs, Krognoshuset, Lund, 2012;
Lenin’s Lamp Glows In the Peasant’s Hut, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, 2011;
Around the Cave of the Double Tombs, Black Box, Mångkulturellt Centrum, Fittja, Stockholm, 2011;
Light Box, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, curated by Jeanne Dreyfus Daboussy, 2011;
A New view from an old town. New images of old ideas, Art Space Hebron, Spanish Academy, Hebron and Dar Al-Anda Gallery, Amman. With Katarina Nitsch, 2011;
Stone (no. 5 of 9) / Around the Cave of the Double Tombs, Krognoshuset, Lund.

Group shows and screenings include (since 2010):

GÖTEBORG INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, GÖTEBORG, GIBCA, 2019. CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE FRAME, curated by Maia Gusberti and Michaela Schwentner, WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2018;
Children of the Children of the Revolution, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, 2018;
Stafett, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, 2018;
Helicotrema, Palazzo Grassi (Pinault Foundation), Venice, 2017;
Inhabiting the Bageion: Architecture as Critique, Hotel Bageio,  Athens Biennale, Athens, 2017;
The Pleasure of Love, the 56th October Salon Belgrade, Belgrade, curated by David Elliott, 2016;
RE-ACTION. Genealogia I Contracànon, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca 2016;
Summer exhibition, Experimental film and video exhibition, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2016;
La Nuit de l’Instant, Les Ateliers de l’Image, Marseille, curated by Erick Gudimard, 2016;
Screens and mirrors, Borås konstmuseum, Borås., curated by Karolina Pahlén, 2016;
Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation 30 years, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2016;
Swedish Art: Now!, Sven Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, curated by Oscar Carlson, 2016;
Soft Costs, Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen, curated by Benedikte Bjerre, 2016;
OEI Strata, INCA, Seattle, curated by Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas. J Magnusson, 2016;
Quem conta um conto acrescenta um ponto / If you tell a story you add more, Binz 39, Zurich and Galerie der Künstler, Munich, 2016;
Strata, OEI, c/o Skövde Konstmuseum, Skövde, curated by Cecilia Grönberg & Jonas. J Magnusson, 2015;
Quem conta um conto acrescenta um ponto / If you tell a story you add more, Casa do Infante, Porto, 2015;
The Kiev Biennale, The School of Kiev, Kiev. Curators: Hedwig Saxenhuber and Georg Schöllhammer, 2015;
The Vanishing Point of History, L’Eté photographique de Lectoure, Les Gers., curated by Catsou Roberts, 2015;
CAC Bukovje Landskrona present: Working Drawings And Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed As Art (After Bochner), Võru, Estonia Facts & Fiction, Staedtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, curated by Elisabeth Giers, 2015; Frames of War, Momenta Art, Brooklyn , NY, curated by Natasha Llorens, 2015;
Det rörliga samhället, Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden), 2014;
Videonale on tour, HudPromo Galerie, Bayerisches Haus, Goethe Institut, Odessa (Ukraine), 2014;
6th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo (Egypt), 2014; All The Faces In The Window Are Smiling, Labyrint Press, Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba (Sweden), curated by Pia Sandström and Maria Kotlyachkova, 2014; Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, SeMA Biennale, Mediacity Seoul (Korea), 2014;
The 8th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul (Korea), curated by  Park Chan-Kyong, 2014;
Rörlig bild ur Moderna Museets samling, Gislaveds Konsthall, Gislaved (Sweden), curated by Lena Essling, 2014;
Viaggio al termine della parola / Journey to the end of the word, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno (Italy), curated by Antonello Tolve, 2014;
Market, Galleri Flach, Liljevalchs, Stockholm (Sweden), 2014; Open House, Iaspis, Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm(Sweden), 2014;
Different Screen, Gotlands konstmuseum, Gotland (Sweden), 2014;
In These Great Times, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (Norway), curated by Francois Piron, 2014;
Projections et interludes Critiques, In the auditorium of the Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris (France), curated by Mathilde Villeneuve, 2013;
Kasseler Dokfest - The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Nach der Bilderflut, Kassel (Germany), 2013;
5th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo (Egypt), 2013; I as in Image, Moving_Image, A Contemporary ABC, Gaîté Lyrique in Paris (France), 2013;
I de lange naetter, Galleri Festiviteten and Galleri Stallgården, Eidsvoll (Norway), curated by Lars Morell and Erica Mathiesen, 2013;
Filmform News 2013, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Sweden), 2013;
59th International Short film festival, Oberhausen (Germany), 2013;
Videonale.14, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (Germany), curated by Heike Ander, Katerina Valdivia Bruch, Keren Cytter and Philipp Fürnkäs, 2013;
Film och videokonst på museer och i samlingar, Internationellt symposium, Borås Konstmuseum (Sweden), curated by Karolina Pahlé, 2012;
Reverberations‏, Film i samtidskonsten, Zita, Stockholm (Sweden), 2012;
Rencontres Internationales – Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France), 2012;
Sinopale Biennale for Contemporary Art. Wisdom of Shadow: Art in the Era of Corrupted, 2012;
Information, Istanbul (Turkey), curated by Aslı Çetinkaya, Elke Falat, Işın Önol, Dimitrina Sevova, Janet Kaplan, Beral Madra, Sean Kelly, 2012;
Parabola Artfilm Festival, Kulturhuset Tensta, Stockholm (Sweden), curated by Cecilia Grönberg, 2012;
Manifesta 9, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. The Deep of the Modern, Genk (Belgium), curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, with associate curators Katerina Gregos and Dawn Ades, 2012;
In The Cinema at Moderna Museet, Film-Art-Philosophy, Trond Lundemo (Sweden), 2012;
La Zona, NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (Germany), curated by Florian Wüst, 2012;
Svensk bokkonst: Kungliga biblioteket, Stockholm; Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig; Frankfurt Buchkunst International, Frankfurt am Main; Bibliothèque Nordique, Paris, 2012;
Perspectives, Experimental Swedish Film Program, International Festival for Creative Music, Västerås konstmuseum, Västerås (Sweden), 2012; Entré för film, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (Sweden), 2012;
Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2011;
Inympningar i Göteborgs poesifestival 2011, Lagerhuset, Storno, Pär Thörn (Sweden), 2011;
Rencontres Internationales – Paris/Madrid/Berlin, 2011;
A New view from an old town. New images of old ideas – Art Space Hebron, Spanish Academy, Hebron and Dar Al-Anda Gallery, Amman (Jordan), with Katarina Nitsch, 2011;
Ljud 11, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå (Sweden), curated by Thomas Millroth, 2011;
What Happened to the General? TICA – Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana (Albania), curated by Zef Pachi, Edi Muka and Tina Finäss, 2011;
Travelouge as Allegory, Artists' books as a modern form of the production of desire, Konstakademien, Stockholm (Sweden), curated by Maja Wismer and Malin Pettersson Öberg, 2011;
Moderna Utställningen 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Sweden), curated by Fredrik Liew, Gertrud Sandqvist and Lisa Rosendahl, 2010;
Spår, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (Sweden), 2010;
Storytelling, Konstbio at Gothenburg International Filmfestival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2010;
Isolerad, Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden), 2010;
A Minor History of Creativity, Galleri Pictura, Lund / Galleri BOA, Oslo / Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, curated by Trine Friis Sorensen, 2010;
Handlung. On Producing Possibilities, Bucharest Biennale #4, Bucharest (Romania), curated by Felix Vogel, 2010;
The Realism Question, Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm (Sweden), curated by Felix Vogel, 2010;
Paralelas y Meridianos, Museo de Bellas Artes, Salta/Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (Argentina), curated by Kalle Brolin and Graciela Taquini, 2010;
VIDEOGUD, Uppsala, Dalarna (Sweden) 2010.

Her work is also in many public collection such as:

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, EMS, Stockholm, Malmö, Konstmuseum, Bonniers Art Collection, Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, National Museum, Stockholm, Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig, Bibliothèque Nordique, Paris, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Örebro Municipally.