CV
Maria Safronova Wahlström (b.1989, Moscow)
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
EDUCATION
2017-2019 The Valand Academy of Arts, MFA in Fine Arts
2013-2014 California State University. Multimedia Graduate Program
2006-2011 The Moscow State Pedagogical University. Five year program with dual award BA in Fine Arts and teacher of fine arts diploma.
2005-2006 Moscow State University of Printing Arts, department of graphics and book arts.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Redskap för enkelt leverne /Tools for easy living, Klippans Konsthall, Sweden (upcoming) (solo)
2025 Bringing a sardine to a cat fight, Kinesiska Muren, Gothenburg, Sweden (upcoming) (group)
2025 Överlapp, Kinesiska Muren, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2025 Seger över Segern, participation in “A beach” project by Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt and Johannes Wahlström, Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden (group)
2024 Medlemsutställning, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2024 COMA Anniversary, Galleri Résistance, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2024 Redskap för enkelt leverne / Tools for easy living, Detriti Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
2024 Seger över Segern, participation in “A beach” project by Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt and Johannes Wahlström, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, Sweden (group)
2023 One Hundred Works for Snow, Gest, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2023 We must not be swayed by rhyme or reason, (X)sites Land Art Biennial, Vejbystrand Udde, Sweden
2023 Göteborgs Bildverkstad Medlemutställning, Galleri Majnabbe, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2023 UDDA, Gallery Studio 44, Stockholm, Sweden (group)
2023 Horror Vacui, Detriti Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2022 How Dare You Compare, ArtWindowAtFridhemsplan, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2022 You and I, You and Me, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria (group)
2022 You and I, You and Me, Gallery Candyland, The Futurless Festival, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2022 Spökben, geggamoja och havets alla bubblor, Vingens Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
2022 BRAINtouch: embodiment, Projektraum Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin, Germany (group)
2022 You and I, You and Me, the Vorspiel 2022 program, Transmediale festival, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2021 Vad är Nytt, Götaverkens Gamla industrilokaler, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2021 You and I, You and Me, project is done together with Mindaugas Gapševicius, Leon Crayfish, Helga Mogensen. Piksel Festival, Bergen, Norway (solo)
2021 Frölundas modiga monster ser skogen och alla träd, Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden (solo)
2021 You and I, You and Me, projects done together with Mindaugas Gapševicius, Leon Crayfish, Helga Mogensen. BIORAMA-PROJEKT, Brandenburg, Germany (duo)
2021 Skruvstädet i tiden - och andra berättelser, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) Extended, Molnycke Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2021 You and I, You and Me, projects done together with Mindaugas Gapševicius, Leon Crayfish, Helga Mogensen. Sapieha Palace, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuania (solo)
2021 Arkitekturvisioner: Brunnsparken, project done together with Per Nadén, Thobias Fäldt, Johannes Wahlström, Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2021 FOR SURE, Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland (group)
2020 Hur Skulle Det Vara Då?, BOKSKÅPET Barn-& Ungdombokhandel, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
2020 The Intermediary Chains, Obergska Galleri, Styrsö, Sweden (group)
2019 The Recent Graduates, Affordable Art Fair Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (group)
2019 The Last Stone, the Festival-Laboratory Shelter, the Space for Free Arts / Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland. (group)
2019 Things We Will Forget, Göteborg Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2019 IF I WERE IN MY SHOES, Galleri Monitor, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo)
2017 1 Kg, Project Loosers, Gallery Rotor2, Gothenburg, Sweden (group)
2016 A Beach, project done together with Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, Johannes Wahlström. Galerie Jean-Pierre Gros, Paris, France. Photo Saint-Germain
2015 Telo, Project O Cucumber, where art though?,Center Krasniy, Red October, Moscow, Russia (group)
2015 A Beach, project done together with Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, Johannes Wahlström. Skajs Antikhandel, Stockholm, Sweden.
2015 X-Ray, Pinecone Art Gallery, Paducah Art Alliance, Paducah, KY, USA (solo)
2014 The Mother Tongue, nominated at KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO 2014 for the best conceptual photo project, Tbilisi, Georgia (group)
2013 The Mother Tongue, the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM VI, 2013 in the Tbilisi History Museum – Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia (group)
2013 Umbilical cord, the Festival of Contemporary Art Batumi Backyard Stories 2013, Batumi, Georgia (group)
2013 Housing office, the Festival of Contemporary Art Batumi Backyard Stories 2013, Batumi, Georgia (group)
2012 Blue series and Flight Time, Vernon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (group)
2012 Return to the Beginning, the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM V, the Rustaveli National Theater, Tbilisi, Georgia (solo)
2011 Flight Time, Tiflis Avenue Gallery, Tbilisi, Geogia (solo)
2010 Birds, Mars Center of Modern Art, the Moscow's Night of Museums 2010, Moscow, Russia (solo)
GRANTS
2025 Göteborg Stad Projektstöd Pronto (SE)
2025 Göteborg Stad Kulturstipendium (SE)
2025 Längmanska Kulturfonden (SE)
2024 Wilhelm & Martina Lundgrens Understödsfond (SE)
2024 Byggnads Kulturstipendium (SE)
2024 Göteborg Stad Ateljestöd (SE)
2023 Sveriges Författarfond Arbetsstipendium (SE)
2023 Göteborg Stad Ateljestöd (SE)
2022 Konstnärsnämden Arbetsstipendium (SE)
2022 Göteborg Stad Ateljestöd (SE)
2021 LTMKS residency SODAS 2123 (LT)
2021 Konstnärsnämden (SE)
2020 Göteborg Stad (SE)
2020 Konstnärsnämden Arbetsstipendium (SE)
2019 Tobison Foundation Stipend (SE)
2019 Erasmus+ Stipendium (SE)
2018 Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen (SE)
2015 Paducah Art Alliance (US)
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2025-2026 Stadsfastighetsförvalningen, Gothenburg ( SE)
REPRESENTED
Göteborg Stad art collection Göteborg Konst, Sweden
Region Jämtland Härjedalen art collection, Sweden
AIR InSilo, Hollabrunn, Austria
The collection of Akademin Valand, Göteborg, Sweden
SEB Bank Art Club Collection, Göteborg, Sweden
Paducah Art Alliance, KY, USA
BIBILOGRAPHY
2025 Överlapp - ISBN: 978-91-531-3987-4, Sweden
2023 “Dags för Dygd? Om den formbara människan”, presenterad som en nummrets konstnär, NOD tidskrift, Sweden
2022 Spökben, geggamoja och havets alla bubblor - ISBN:9789152729069, Sweden
2021 Frölundas Modiga Monster Ser Skogen Och Alla Träd - ISBN: 9789198240139, Sweden
2020 Hur skulle det vara då? Tre busiga berättelser av barn för barn - ISBN: 9789198240122, Sweden
2020 ARTEFACTS FROM THE RESTLESS ART’S EXCAVATIONS - Artzine Art Magazine, Iceland
2019 Fragment of a Memorial Unbuilt – Leaflet for the work Fragment of a Memorial Unbuilt, AAF Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Cosmopolitics, Comradeship, and the Commons. Ecology in Action for a Shared Planet – Zine of The Festival-Laboratory Shelter, Helsinki, Finland
2019 RE:SEARCH - Akademin Valand, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
2018 STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU - Akademin Valand, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
2015 Waiting in the Margins – Publication by Lava-Dansproduktion, Tbilisi, Georgia/Sweden
2013 ARTISTERIUM VI - Catalog of the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM V, Tbilisi, Georgia
2012 ARTISTERIUM V - Catalog of the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM V, Tbilisi, Georgia
WORK
2024 Illustrator for research project “Hur fungerar återanvändning
2035 i Sverige? Usereuse scenarier, fyra möjliga framtider”
2024 Jury member for Frame Short Film Festival, category Konstfilm
2024 Commission of Prize statues for Frame Film Festival
2023-2024 Project leader for Creators Connect, network of cultural institutions and initiatives based in VGR supporting artists fleeing war or prosecution.
2022 Project leader for Konstambulans, Charity Art Auction to support Ukraine
2022 Production designer for “Mothers!”, dir. Petra Bauer, Sweden
2022 Workshop “You and I, You and Me”, Finnish BioArt Society, Alt Lab, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 Workshop “You and I, You and Me”, Molten Airs, Ars Electronica Festival, Austria
2021 Illustrator for "Here, Where and Everywhere" Konferensen om konstpedagogik i det utvidgade fältet, organised by Sörmlands museum/Konstfestivalen Kurioso, Förvaltningen för Kulturutveckling i Västra Götalandsregionen och Göteborgs Stad, Sweden
2021 Production designer for “Reptilhjärnan”, dir. Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Kursledare for the course Watercolour Painting, Medborgarskolan, Göteborg, Sweden
2020 External tutor in Masterprogram i Konsthantverk, HDK-Valand, Sweden
2020 Production designer for “Vi FOREVER” (TV Series), SVT, Sweden
2020 Production designer for feature film “DE OBOTOBARA”, dir. Moa Junstrom, Sweden
2019-2020 Intern/communication assistant at The Living Art Museum (NYLO), Reykjavik, Iceland.
2018 Jury member for the admission procedure for the Master in Fine Arts program at Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden
2017 Director for nine music videos for the album "Love Everything" by Mariam the Believer, Sweden
2017 Designer for “Gregor Samsa” fashion collection in collaboration with Flying Painter, Georgia
2016 Art director for feature film "Tills Vidare", dir. Christian Rossipal, Sweden
2015 Costume designer for LAVA Dansproduktion project Waiting in the Margins, Sweden/Georgia
2005-2010 Teacher of painting & drawing, Nash Dom Moscow Centre of Therapeutical Pedagogics, Moscow, Russia.
2006-2008 Costume and production designer at the Leo Theatre Workshop, Moscow, Russia.