About

Moa Sjöstedt (*1986 in Sweden) builds fictional worlds of lines, surfaces and words as a way of examining reality. She is driven by an interest in how the small is connected to the large. In her drawings, paintings, and texts, Moa creates slippages between time and space, concepts and things, reality and fantasy. Whether she focuses her attention on a physical phenomenon, a social structure, an emotion, a cultural symbol, or an object, Moa uses layering and repetition as methods for her investigations into how subtle shifts in small elements can destabilize established wholes. Moa has a background in the History of Ideas, Sociology and Political Philosophy as well as in Design and Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Basel, Switzerland.

Moas work has been presented by

–> GGG West (CH)
–> Regionale 25 (CH)
–> Textival (SE)
–> Feministischer Salon (CH)
–> See you next Tuesday (CH)
–> Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
–> Project Space M54 (CH)
–> Hangmen Projects (SE)
–> Detroit Gallery (SE)
–> Nordic Summer University (LIT)
–> Swedish Embassy (USA)

Education
–> Master in Fine Arts from Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung FHNW HGK (CH)
–> Bachelor of Fine Arts from Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm (SE).
–> Background in History of Ideas, Political Science and Sociology (Södertörn University & Göteborg University, SE)