Anna Carlgren
anna@carlgren.com
www.carlgren.com
+46 481 321 66
Through her work Carlgren wants to create means for a new way of viewing our surroundings. She makes non-technical instruments, which multiply, enlarge, reduce, absorb, and partly or fully deform the environment. Carlgren uses (and misuses) glass and its optical qualities in order to create a visual play. Whereas a painter or sculptor creates a new reality she leaves this process to the material and therewith to the viewers.
Recent work consists of sculptures with trompe l’œil and optical phenomenon as a vital component and has been included in a number of museum collections world-wide like the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam Netherlands and Nationalmuseum Stockholm Sweden.
In 2003 she was awarded Le Grand Atelier de l’Académie Royal des Beaux Arts for the series Optical Phenomenon as Architectonic Elements in which visitors and their experiences of space are central to the work. Through minimal interventions in public space the impossible is made visible, though sometimes just for a moment.
Anna Carlgren works in the south of Sweden and in Amsterdam as a visual artist. Anna is member of the artist group blås & knåda in Stockholm. She initiated the Vrij Glas foundation, an artists' laboratory for innovation in glass.
EDUCATION
Higher secondary school in Växjö, Sweden
The Glass school Orrefors, Sweden
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, Keramische vormgeving, Werkgroep Glas
Goldsmiths’ College Vakschool Edelsmeden, Amsterdam, Master goldsmith
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS and COLLECTIONS
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm SE
Palazzo Ducale, Venice IT
Corning Museum of Glass, New York USA
The National Gallery, Prague CZ
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL
Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam NL
Van Reekum Museum, Apeldorn NL
The National Glass Museum Het Nationaal Glasmuseum, Leerdam NL
Smålands Museum Växjö SE
Frauenau Glas Museum DE
The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki
Konstmuseum, Kalmar SE
The Glass Museum, Ebeltoft DK
Museum van der Togt, Amstelveen NL
The Crystalex Collection, Lemberg Castle, Novy Bor CZ
Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustri Museum, Trondheim Norway
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg DE
Museum het Oude Raadhuis Leerdam NL
Krapperups Konsthall SE
Royal Ulster Museum, Belfast, N-Ireland
Gemeentemuseum, Maassluis NL
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm SE
Gävle Museum SE
Östergötlands Läns Museum, Linköping SE
Jönköpings Läns Museum SE
Museet i Varberg SE
Örebro Läns Museum SE
Kulturen i Lund SE
Musee de Design et D'Art Appliques / Contemporains, Lausanne CH
Bergbau- und Industriemuseum Ost Bayern, Sloß Theuern, Kümmelbruck DE
Museum voor Sierkunst, Gent BE
Metropolitan Art Museum of Amsterdam
Kasteel Horn, Limburg NL
Warehouse C, Den Nordatlantiske Brygge, Copenhagen DK
Trelleborgs Museum SE
Tallin Art Hall, Tallin, Estonia
The Museum of Applied-Decorative Art, Riga, Latvia
M.K. Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
Trelleborgs Museum, Trelleborg SE
Röhsska designmuseum, Gothenburg SE
Kulturmagasinet, Sundsvall SE
Fossekleiva Brukssenter, Berger in Svelvik, Norway
Form/Design Center, Malmö SE
Millesgården, Lidingö SE
Victoria&Albert Museum, London UK
Stedelijk Museum Roermond NL
Musée Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière , Troyes FR
Höganäs Museum SE
Gorcums Museum NL
Nai Nederlands Architectuur Instituut, Rotterdam NL
