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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 SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Hårdhandskar med fingertoppskänsla, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, SE
Catalogue of Injuries and Failures, Kannski Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
Redskap för enkelt leverne / Tools for easy living, Klippans Konsthall, Klippan, SE Bestiarium, Skissernas Rum, KC Väst, Göteborg, SE
2024
Redskap för enkelt leverne / Tools for easy living, Detriti Gallery, Gothenburg, SE
2022
How Dare You Compare, ArtWindowAtFridhemsplan, Stockholm, SE
You and I, You and Me, in collaboration with Mindaugas Gapševicius, Gallery Candyland, The Futurless Festival,Stockholm, SE
Spökben, geggamoja och havets alla bubblor, Vingens Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE
You and I, You and Me, the Vorspiel 2022 program, Transmediale festival, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, DE
2021
You and I, You and Me, Piksel Festival, Bergen, NO
Frölundas modiga monster ser skogen och alla träd, Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg, SE
You and I, You and Me, BIORAMA-PROJEKT, Brandenburg, DE (duo)
You and I, You and Me, Sapieha Palace, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, LT
2020
Hur Skulle Det Vara Då?, BOKSKÅPET Barn-& Ungdombokhandel, Gothenburg, SE
2019
IF I WERE IN MY SHOES, Galleri Monitor, Gothenburg, SE
2015
X-Ray, Pinecone Art Gallery, Paducah Art Alliance, Paducah, KY, USA
2012
Return to the Beginning, the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM V, the Rustaveli National Theater, Tbilisi,GE
2011
Flight Time, Tiflis Avenue Gallery, Tbilisi, GE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Start, Gåsebäck Konstscen, Helsingborg, SE
Bringing a Sardine to a Cat Fight, Kinesiska Muren, Göteborg, SE
Segern över Segern, part of A Beach project, Havremagasinet, Boden, SE
Nya Medlemmar, KC Väst, Göteborg, SE
Överlapp, Kinesiska Muren, Göteborg, SE
2024
Medlemsutställning, Gallery 54, Göteborg, SE (upcoming)
COMA ANNIVERSARY, Gallery Resistance, Göteborg, SE (upcoming)
Seger över Segern, part of A beach project, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, SE
2023
One Hundred Works for Snow, Gest, Gothenburg, SE
We Must Not Be Swayed By Rhyme or Reason, (X)sites Land Art Biennial, Vejbystrand, SE
UDDA, Gallery Studio 44, Stockholm, SE
Medlemsutställning "Det är STORT 25+1”, Göteborg Bildverkstad, Galleri Majnabbe, Gothenburg, SE
Horror Vacui, Detriti gallery, Gothenburg, SE
2022
You and I, You and Me, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT
Konstambulans, Kronhuset, Gothenburg, SE
BRAINtouch: embodiment, Projektraum Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin, DE
2021
Vad är Nytt, Götaverkens Gamla industrilokaler, Gothenburg, SE
Skruvstädet i tiden - och andra berättelser, GIBCA (Gothenburg Biennial) Mölnlycke Konsthall, Mölnlycke, SE
Arkitekturvisioner: Brunnsparken, Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, SE
FOR SURE, Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri, Hjalteyri, IS
2020
Hur Skulle Det Vara Då? BOKSKÅPET Barn-& Ungdombokhandel, Gothenburg, SE
THE INTERMEDIARY CHAINS, Obergska Galleri, Styrsö, SE
2019
Recent Graduates, Affordable Art Fair Stockholm 2019, Stockholm, SE
The Last Stone, the Festival-Laboratory Shelter, the Space for Free Arts / Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, FI
Things We Will Forget, Göteborg Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE
2017
1 Kg, Project Loosers, Gallery Rotor2, Gothenburg, SE
2016
A Beach, project done together with Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, Johannes Wahlström. Galerie Jean-Pierre Gros,Paris, FR
2015
Telo, Center Krasniy, Red October, Moscow, RU
A Beach, Skajs Antikhandel, Stockholm, SE
X-Ray, Pinecone Art Gallery, Paducah, KY, USA
2014
The Mother Tongue, nominated at KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO 2014 for the best conceptual photo project, Tbilisi, GE
2013
The Mother Tongue, the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM VI, 2013 in the Tbilisi History Museum –
Karvasla, Tbilisi, GE
GRANTS
2026 Arbetsstipendiet, VGR Region
2026 Letterstedtska Föreningen
2026 Nordic Culture Point. Mobility Grant
2026 Svensk-Isländska Samarbetefonden
2025 Göteborg Stad Projektstöd Pronto
2025 Längmanska Kulturfonden
2025 Göteborg Stad Kulturstipendium
2024 Byggnads Kulturstipendium
2024 Wilhelm & Martina Lundgrens fond
2024 Göteborg Stad - Ateljestöd
2023 Sveriges författarfond - Arbetsstipendium
2023 Göteborg Stad - Ateljestöd
2022 Konstnärsnämnden - Arbetsstipendium
2022 Göteborg Stad - Ateljestöd
2022 Konstnärsnämden - Krisstipend
2021 LTMKS
2021 Göteborg Stad - Krisstöd
2021 Konstnärsnämden - Krisstipend
2020 Konstnärsnämden - Krisstipend
2020 Konstnärsnämnden - Arbetsstipendium
2019 Tobison Foundation Stipend
2019 Erasmus+ Stipendium
2018 Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen
COLLECTIONS & PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
Södertälje Konsthall, sketch commission for public artwork - 2026
Göteborg Stad, Stadsfastighetsförvaltningen - public commission Bestiarium, Varnhemsgatan 10 - 2025
Göteborg Konst, Göteborg, Sweden - sculpture
Region Jämtland Härjedalen art collection, Sweden - 4 Fine Art prints från Serier Frölundas Modiga Monster Ser Skogen Och Alla Träd
AIR InSilo, Hollabrunn, Austria ‐ sculpture, letterpress print
The collection of Akademin Valand, Göteborg, Sweden ‐ sculpture
SEB Bank Art Club Collection, Göteborg, Sweden ‐ sculpture
Paducah Art Alliance, KY, USA ‐ painting series
BIBILOGRAPHY
2025 "Överlapp" - collective project with 30 Göteborg artists, ISBN 9789-1531-39-87-4, SE
2024 "Hur fungerar återanvändning 2035 i Sverige?" IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet research, Aktuellt Hållbarhet, SE
2024 Un)limited Artistic Resource Survey Results, In-Silo Mag, AT
2023 “Dags för Dygd? Om den formbara människan”, presenterad som en nummrets konstnär, NOD tidskrift, SE
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
2026 Scenographer and constum designer for Ship Song, dir. Emilie Strandberg, Kinesiska Mure, Gothenburg, SE
2025 Illustrator for a book about public art collection "Konsten på din arbetsplats", Konstenheten Region Uppsala, SE
2024 Illustrator for research project “Hur fungerar återanvändnin 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.
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 SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Hårdhandskar med fingertoppskänsla, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, SE
Catalogue of Injuries and Failures, Kannski Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
Redskap för enkelt leverne / Tools for easy living, Klippans Konsthall, Klippan, SE Bestiarium, Skissernas Rum, KC Väst, Göteborg, SE
2024
Redskap för enkelt leverne / Tools for easy living, Detriti Gallery, Gothenburg, SE
2022
How Dare You Compare, ArtWindowAtFridhemsplan, Stockholm, SE
You and I, You and Me, in collaboration with Mindaugas Gapševicius, Gallery Candyland, The Futurless Festival,Stockholm, SE
Spökben, geggamoja och havets alla bubblor, Vingens Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE
You and I, You and Me, the Vorspiel 2022 program, Transmediale festival, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, DE
2021
You and I, You and Me, Piksel Festival, Bergen, NO
Frölundas modiga monster ser skogen och alla träd, Frölunda Kulturhus, Göteborg, SE
You and I, You and Me, BIORAMA-PROJEKT, Brandenburg, DE (duo)
You and I, You and Me, Sapieha Palace, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, LT
2020
Hur Skulle Det Vara Då?, BOKSKÅPET Barn-& Ungdombokhandel, Gothenburg, SE
2019
IF I WERE IN MY SHOES, Galleri Monitor, Gothenburg, SE
2015
X-Ray, Pinecone Art Gallery, Paducah Art Alliance, Paducah, KY, USA
2012
Return to the Beginning, the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM V, the Rustaveli National Theater, Tbilisi,GE
2011
Flight Time, Tiflis Avenue Gallery, Tbilisi, GE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Start, Gåsebäck Konstscen, Helsingborg, SE
Bringing a Sardine to a Cat Fight, Kinesiska Muren, Göteborg, SE
Segern över Segern, part of A Beach project, Havremagasinet, Boden, SE
Nya Medlemmar, KC Väst, Göteborg, SE
Överlapp, Kinesiska Muren, Göteborg, SE
2024
Medlemsutställning, Gallery 54, Göteborg, SE (upcoming)
COMA ANNIVERSARY, Gallery Resistance, Göteborg, SE (upcoming)
Seger över Segern, part of A beach project, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, SE
2023
One Hundred Works for Snow, Gest, Gothenburg, SE
We Must Not Be Swayed By Rhyme or Reason, (X)sites Land Art Biennial, Vejbystrand, SE
UDDA, Gallery Studio 44, Stockholm, SE
Medlemsutställning "Det är STORT 25+1”, Göteborg Bildverkstad, Galleri Majnabbe, Gothenburg, SE
Horror Vacui, Detriti gallery, Gothenburg, SE
2022
You and I, You and Me, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT
Konstambulans, Kronhuset, Gothenburg, SE
BRAINtouch: embodiment, Projektraum Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin, DE
2021
Vad är Nytt, Götaverkens Gamla industrilokaler, Gothenburg, SE
Skruvstädet i tiden - och andra berättelser, GIBCA (Gothenburg Biennial) Mölnlycke Konsthall, Mölnlycke, SE
Arkitekturvisioner: Brunnsparken, Röhsska Museet, Gothenburg, SE
FOR SURE, Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri, Hjalteyri, IS
2020
Hur Skulle Det Vara Då? BOKSKÅPET Barn-& Ungdombokhandel, Gothenburg, SE
THE INTERMEDIARY CHAINS, Obergska Galleri, Styrsö, SE
2019
Recent Graduates, Affordable Art Fair Stockholm 2019, Stockholm, SE
The Last Stone, the Festival-Laboratory Shelter, the Space for Free Arts / Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, FI
Things We Will Forget, Göteborg Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE
2017
1 Kg, Project Loosers, Gallery Rotor2, Gothenburg, SE
2016
A Beach, project done together with Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, Johannes Wahlström. Galerie Jean-Pierre Gros,Paris, FR
2015
Telo, Center Krasniy, Red October, Moscow, RU
A Beach, Skajs Antikhandel, Stockholm, SE
X-Ray, Pinecone Art Gallery, Paducah, KY, USA
2014
The Mother Tongue, nominated at KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO 2014 for the best conceptual photo project, Tbilisi, GE
2013
The Mother Tongue, the Festival of Contemporary Art ARTISTERIUM VI, 2013 in the Tbilisi History Museum –
Karvasla, Tbilisi, GE
GRANTS
2026 Arbetsstipendiet, VGR Region
2026 Letterstedtska Föreningen
2026 Nordic Culture Point. Mobility Grant
2026 Svensk-Isländska Samarbetefonden
2025 Göteborg Stad Projektstöd Pronto
2025 Längmanska Kulturfonden
2025 Göteborg Stad Kulturstipendium
2024 Byggnads Kulturstipendium
2024 Wilhelm & Martina Lundgrens fond
2024 Göteborg Stad - Ateljestöd
2023 Sveriges författarfond - Arbetsstipendium
2023 Göteborg Stad - Ateljestöd
2022 Konstnärsnämnden - Arbetsstipendium
2022 Göteborg Stad - Ateljestöd
2022 Konstnärsnämden - Krisstipend
2021 LTMKS
2021 Göteborg Stad - Krisstöd
2021 Konstnärsnämden - Krisstipend
2020 Konstnärsnämden - Krisstipend
2020 Konstnärsnämnden - Arbetsstipendium
2019 Tobison Foundation Stipend
2019 Erasmus+ Stipendium
2018 Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen
COLLECTIONS & PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
Södertälje Konsthall, sketch commission for public artwork - 2026
Göteborg Stad, Stadsfastighetsförvaltningen - public commission Bestiarium, Varnhemsgatan 10 - 2025
Göteborg Konst, Göteborg, Sweden - sculpture
Region Jämtland Härjedalen art collection, Sweden - 4 Fine Art prints från Serier Frölundas Modiga Monster Ser Skogen Och Alla Träd
AIR InSilo, Hollabrunn, Austria ‐ sculpture, letterpress print
The collection of Akademin Valand, Göteborg, Sweden ‐ sculpture
SEB Bank Art Club Collection, Göteborg, Sweden ‐ sculpture
Paducah Art Alliance, KY, USA ‐ painting series
BIBILOGRAPHY
2025 "Överlapp" - collective project with 30 Göteborg artists, ISBN 9789-1531-39-87-4, SE
2024 "Hur fungerar återanvändning 2035 i Sverige?" IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet research, Aktuellt Hållbarhet, SE
2024 Un)limited Artistic Resource Survey Results, In-Silo Mag, AT
2023 “Dags för Dygd? Om den formbara människan”, presenterad som en nummrets konstnär, NOD tidskrift, SE
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
2026 Scenographer and constum designer for Ship Song, dir. Emilie Strandberg, Kinesiska Mure, Gothenburg, SE
2025 Illustrator for a book about public art collection "Konsten på din arbetsplats", Konstenheten Region Uppsala, SE
2024 Illustrator for research project “Hur fungerar återanvändnin 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.