BIO
Max Ockborn
born 1983
Living and working in Malmö.
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 Barbro and Holger Bäckströms Grant Exhibition, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
2021 Elden som vän, spegel, rum och karta, Galerie Leger, Malmö
2019 Något om vår samtid, Galerie Leger, Malmö
2019 Porträtt av fyra potentiella personer i Malmö samt ett ombyggt galleri, Whose Museum x KRETS, Galleri Krets, Malmö
2017 Möte med gruppen vid ett bord och kött som står på kött; en flygande eld och sten i ljus håller sällskap-Målningar, Skulpturer och Objekt, Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden
2016 Twelve portraits of potential persons from the Filignano comune made with things from Filignano, Open Studios, Studi di Cultural Documents, Filignano, Italy
2015 Someone put a stone on another stone; but they are not my stones, they are the stone’s stones, and that which is material has a lifespan that will sooner or later dissolve into smaller parts and become transformed into something else. Artists’ Studios, Cultural Documents, Filignano, Piazza Municipio, Filignano
2015 An installation portraying an everyday scene; generic planning, a social situation for two persons as an exhibition. Invested in time, sculpture and in how we perceive space. Allkonstrummet, Studio Mossutställningar, Stockholm, Sweden
2014 The sorting of small trees, heaters that resemble animals, sticks that mimic pipes, a floor that mimics things in the ceiling, images showing human idiocy, occupied wall sockets, pipe stumps and a study of masses of water. Mimicking, transforming, cleaning and displacing as a method for investigating spatial features of rooms and its objects. Shown with a photo by Jiajia Zhang. Cigarrvägen 13, Stockholm
2012 Med förhoppning om stöd från rummen vi använder / In hopes of support from the rooms we use, Master Degree Exhibition,
Malmö Art Academy, KHM-gallery, Malmö, Sweden
2011 Investigating spatial Features through a linear ritual, Lumiar Cité, Lissabon, Portugal
Selected group exhibitions:
2024 (on) the edges, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg
2024 Whose Museum: Was Here, Moderna Museet, Malmö
2023 Kom som du är...och andra nyförvärv, Skissernas Museum, Lund
2023 Station to station, Rymdprogrammet, Molekyl Gallery, Malmö
2022 Alla vinner, Tengbomhallen, Konstakademien, Stockholm
2021 “Jag bor i en annan värld, men du bor ju i samma.” DRÖMMARE SÖDER OM HALLANDSÅSEN, Ravinen, Båstad
2021 All Flesh is Hay, Gislaveds Konsthall c/o Konstfabriken, Gislaved
2019 Om dessa väggar kunde tala, Fullersta Gård, Huddinge
2018 Samlingsutställning, Galerie Leger, Malmö
2017 Samlingsutställning, Galerie Leger, Malmö
2017 Catchup, Catsup and Ketchup, Alta Artspace, Malmö
2017 Family First, Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje
2017 Year Exhibition, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö
2017 Feast of the Red Herring, Moderna Museet, Malmö
2016 Collected Works! 30 years with the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
2016 圈二(circle series nr.2): 卷 (measure word for small rolled things) at 印, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2015 The Hot Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Changing Lights, H Bergdal Gallery, Malmö
2013 TURN TURTLE, curated by Jenny Kinge, Oslo, Norway
2013 Open House IASPIS autumn, 2013, Stockholm
2013 Workshop and exhibition with Jimmie Durham and Jone Kvie, project run by Deirdre Mackenna, Old wood workshop, Filignano, Molisse, Italy
2013 I oländig terräng, Jordberga Konstexpo, Jordberga
2012 Grant Exhibition, Edstrandska Foundation, KHM Gallery, Malmö
2012 Summer Show 2012, ANNAELLEGALLERY, Stockholm
2012 Group Show 2012, ANNAELLEGALLERY, Stockholm
2010 Svensk Konceptkonst / Swedish Conceptual Art, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar
2010 Is there any hope for an optimistic art?, «Qui Vive?»II Moscow international Biennale for young art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moskva, Russia
2010 Bachelor Degree Exhibition, Malmö Art Academy BFA Program, Malmö
2009 Best of Summer, X-huset, Kristiansand, Norway
2009 Spridd Isolerad Konst / Scattered Isolated Art, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar
Screenings
2024 The One Who Broke Out of the Mirror, LiAn Filmfestival, Panora, Malmö
2024 Screening: Il Serpente, Una Storia sul Molise, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg
2024 Screening: Il Serpente, Una Storia sul Molise, Castiellë Soulplace Film Festival, Italy
2023 Screening: Il Serpente, Una Storia sul Molise, Casa Pleiadi, Sant’Agapito, Italy
2023 Screening: Il Serpente, Una Storia sul Molise, Malatesta Associati, Castel San Vincezo, Isernia, Italy
2023 Screening: Il Serpente, Una Storia sul Molise, Caffè del Borgo, Filignano, Italy
2023 Screening: Il Serpente, Una Storia sul Molise, Circolo di Selvone, Selvone, Molise, Italy
Public Commission
2022 Selma Lagerlöfs torg, Hisings Backa, Gothenburg, Göteborg Konst
2020 Mötesplatsen, Public Commission for Bredängsparken, Bredäng, Stockholm. Stockholm Konst
Education:
2015-2017 Malmö Art Academy, Master of Fine Arts in Critical and Pedagogical Studies, Malmö
2010–2012 Malmö Art Academy, Master of Fine Art, Malmö
2011 Exchange at Maumaus escola de artes Visuais, Lissabon, Portugal
2007–2010 Malmö Art Academy, Bachelor of Fine Art, Malmö
Residencies
2022-2023 Cultural Documents, Filignano, Italy
2020 Det naturliga kontraktet vistelse III, Konstfrämjandet Jämtland, Håckrenmagasinet, Jämtland
2013-2018 Cultural Documents, Filignano, Italy
Grants:
2024 Project grant, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2024 Malmö Stad studio grant
2022 IASPIS grant for cultural exchange, Filignano, Italy
2022 Barbro och Holger Bäckströms stipendium
2021 The Swedish Art Grants Commitee KRIS3
2020 The Swedish Art Grants Commitee KRIS2
2020 Two-year working grant, The Swedish Art Grants Commitee
2019 Malmö Stad studio grant
2018 IASPIS grant for cultural exchange, Filignano, Italy
2017 One-year working grant, The Swedish Art Grants Commitee
2015 Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation
2015 Helge Ax;sson Johnsson Travel Grant
2015 Stockholm City studio grant
2014 C.M. Lerici Foundation
2013 Helge Ax;sson Johnsson Travel Grant
2013 Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden
2012 The Swedish Art Grants Commitee, assistant grant for Jimmie Durham.
2012 Molly och Ragnar Rudemars grant, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts .
2012 Edstrandska foundation scholarship
2012 IASPIS, Studio grant for recently graduated.
2010 Iaspis grant for cultural exchange, Moscow, Russia.
Represented:
Röda Sten Konsthall
Gislaveds Konsthall
Göteborg Konst
Skissernas Museum / Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art
Malmö Konsthögskola / Malmö Art Academy
Stockholm Konst
Statens Konstråd / Public Art Agency Sweden
Region Uppsala
Region Skåne
Malmö Konstmuseum
Maria Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse samling
Kulturförvaltningen Stockholms Stad
Filmform
Private collections
Celsius Projects
2017 - 2023 Project and exhibition space in Malmö Sorgenfri Industriområde
run by Max Ockborn, Francis Patrick Brady and Lena Bergendahl.
Talks and workshops
2023 Workshop: Återbruksskulptur, Bästa Biennalen, Skissernas Museum, Lund
2022 Workshop: Work & Play: Across the fire and the field, part of the Tools of the Trade course at Malmö Art Academy run by Maj Hasager and Joachim Koester.
2020 Seminar: Life as an artist, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm