Alva Roselius is an artist and writer working with language and spatiality. Informed by architecture and theater and inspired by phenomenology, queer theory and political movements, her works are rooted in questions of power, normativity, and opacity.
Her practice combines monologue, music, props, and scenography.
Alva is educated at Konstfack in Sweden and DAI art praxis in the Netherlands. Besides her artistic practice she works as editor and writer at the Swedish anarchosyndicalist magazine 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
2024
The Anna Jarvis Project (performance)
Performing Arts Forum, Saint-Erme
Soft Shell (performance)
Centrale di Fies, Dro
Forever Young (performance)
Vleeshal, Middelburg
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
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
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.