Linnea Blomgren works with textile art and form in the techniques of weaving, embroidery and color reservation. She seeks expression for the living, uneven and worn. The imperfect. Often clothes in installation form. With the body and identity in focus.

She works in textile materials with high craftsmanship quality. She is based on movement and unevenness in the material and also in the body.

In collaboration with choreographers Pavel Cassius and Karen H. Mikalsen, she creates installations with dance and film. They will introduce another dimension to the work and create new perspectives on the image with an awareness of space and the body and reinforce the textile. Music and literature are important in her work, about the private, the political and the everyday, she wants to tell.

CURRICULUM VITAE: 

Linnea Blomgren was born in Stockholm in 1980. Her education includes: Textile craft training at Handarbetes Vänners Skola, Stockholm (2002-2005), POFF “Advanced training in artistic design in private and public environments” – arranged by KHVC syd and the Swedish National Council for the Arts (2010), Textile Pattern Dyeing at Konstfack, Stockholm 2007, 2008 (5p), Textile Line at Vadstena Folkhögskola (2001-2002), and previous university education in musicology.

She has been a weaver at Märta Måås-Fjetterström in Båstad since 2007 and has had exhibitions in Sweden and abroad since 2005. Linnea has received scholarships from the Carl Malmsten Foundation and the Eidem Foundation, etc. She is a member of the Swedish Handicraft Center (KHVC).

Linnea Blomgren has had her own studio since 2003 and works as a freelance designer and craftswoman, with assignments for Klässbols Linneväveri and Design House Stockholm. She runs her own collaborative projects with choreographers and dancers for exhibitions and installations, such as “Swedish Style” in Tokyo 2005 and “Connecting, Contemporary Arts and Craft” in Germany, Norway, Denmark and Sweden 2011-2012. She also has experience as a costume designer in dance and theater projects and was artistic director/assistant, slöjdcirkus in Helsingborg.