Alva Roselius is an artist and scenographer working with language and spatiality. Informed by architecture and theater and inspired by phenomenology, queer theory and political movements, her works revolve around power, desire and normality.
They circle around an ambivalent longing for alternatives, resistance and closeness. But also a longing for respite, to not have to resist. Alva is educated at Konstfack in Stockholm and UMPRUM in Prague. Besides her artistic practice she writes for Flamman and Arbetaren.
Education
2023 - 2025 (ongoing).
Dutch Art Institute.
2020
Writing for theatre.
Linnéuniversitetet
2017 – 2020
Fine Arts (bachelor program).
Konstfack.
2019
Fine arts (sculpture).
Academy of arts, architecture and design in Prague.
2016 – 2017
Undergraduate artistic education.
Gerlesborgsskolan.
2016
Children’s Theatre - Pedagogy entertainment and art.
Stockholms university.
2015 – 2016
Gender studies.
Södertörns Högskola.
Annat
2021 –
Scenographer.Has, among other things, created the scenography for the dance piece Seems to be, performed in Singapore, Stockholm and Berlin, pieces for Stringbers intima teater in Stockholm and music videos for various artists.
Freelancing cultural journalist writing for the Swedish newspapers Flamman and Arbetaren, and occasionally for the Czech magazine Dýpt.
2021 – 2022
Founding and teaching the course “Scandinavian textile and fashion workshop” at the American university DIS based in Stockholm.
2017 - 2018
Project manager and curator for the portable art gallery EXIT, touring for one year in Sweden, Denmark and Åland.
2015
Founder of the feminist cultural organisation Klubb Kahlo, organising exhibitions and other cultural events.
Exhibitions
2023
Written in a kind of slang
Personeelskamer, Amsterdam
Nexus open house (group)
Het Domijn, Amsterdam
2022
Glapp
Detroit gallery, Stockholm
2021
Sklonit’ hlávku (group)
Tallkrogens bollplan, Tallkrogen
2020
Soft Shell
Hallarna, Norrköping
2020
Avgångsutställning (grupp)
Konsthall C, Hökarängen
2019
jag är den du vill att jag ska vara
Kandidatutställning
Konstfack, Stockholm
Klausura exhibition (grupp)
Academy of arts, architecture and design, Prag
we can not talk about the transparency
MEOTAR queer club, Prag
2018
MELLANRUMMET (grupp)
Konstfack, Stockholm
Iron Shapes Iron (installation för scen)
Strindbergs intima teater, Stockholm
Bärande Konstruktioner (grupp)
Folkungagatan 147, Stockholm
2017
Passage konflikt
EXIT konsthall, Stockholm
Avgångsutställning (grupp)
Helle Knudsen galleri, Stockholm
By us // Klubb Kahlo (grupp)
Slipvillan, Stockholm
2016
IDENTITET (grupp)
Folkungagatan 147, Stockholm
26.05.2016 - 26.06.2015
Konst -och musikfestivalen, Stockholm
Klubb Kahlo presenterar: Alva Roselius, Linn Karlsson och Alba Lindblad
Folkungagatan 147, Stockholm
2015
Reveal the Goddess in You
Konst -och musikfestivalen, Stockholm
Other merits
2021 –
Scenographer.Has, among other things, created the scenography for the dance piece Seems to be, performed in Singapore, Stockholm and Berlin, pieces for Stringbers intima teater in Stockholm and music videos for various artists.
Freelancing cultural journalist writing for the Swedish newspapers Flamman and Arbetaren, and occasionally for the Czech magazine Dýpt.
2021 – 2022
Founding and teaching the course “Scandinavian textile and fashion workshop” at the American university DIS based in Stockholm.
2017 - 2018
Project manager and curator for the portable art gallery EXIT, touring for one year in Sweden, Denmark and Åland.
2015
Founder of the feminist cultural organisation Klubb Kahlo, organising exhibitions and other cultural events.