Meet Hanna Sjøstrand
Meet visual artist Hanna Sjöstrand, who was recently on a residency and is part of Velferdens programme WASTE / DEPOSIT.
Sjöstrand works mainly with painting. Through projects with a strong contextual framing, she explores different positions of human interaction with their surroundings. Recently, she has increasingly focused on painting that carries material site-specificity and ritual inputs to painterly actions.
During his stay at Velferden, Sjöstrand worked on part of the Cave project. Cave explores man's relationship and interaction with mountains in a historical perspective. In Sokndal, she wandered in the backside of whiteness. The paintings are made with color produced by waste products from the mining company Titania AS that she finds in nature.
Photo © Hvitsten Salong / Anne Weyer-Larsen and Hanna Sjöstrand
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Hanna Sjöstrand (b. 1978) is a visual artist and lives in Oslo. She was born in Karlskoga in Sweden. The city is the center of the Swedish arms industry and this is a recurring theme in her art.
Sjöstrand is educated at Konsthögskolan in Malmö and graduated in 2009. She is often involved in various collaborative projects, mainly in theatre. Most recently, she was involved in Knockouts, a show about MMA, where she participated as a performer.
Her paintings can be seen at the Norwegian School of Sports in Oslo, the School of Economics in Gothenburg and at the hospital in Malmö. They are represented in private collections and in museums in Sweden. Sjöstrand has received awards and grants, including from NBK and the Norwegian Cultural Council.
