Tove Kjellmark Swedish, b. 1977

Kjellmark’s art is a constant balancing act between stillness and movement. Initially trained as a sculptor, Kjellmark has developed a multifaceted and experimental practice where she moves freely between the latest technology and traditional materials. Through live situations, sculpture, performance, drawing, and video, she examines sensations of embodiment and reflects on the dissolution of bodily boundaries in relation to its surrounding nature. Her artworks come out of a practice-based exploration of matter as a movement that constantly takes on new shapes and challenges the limits of measurability. It manifests both physically and conceptually and places itself in liminal spaces between the digital and the organic, the past and the future.  

Tove Kjellmark, born in Stockholm in 1977, currently lives and works in Mariefred, Sweden. She earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2009. Since 2008, Kjellmark’s work has been exhibited frequently at galleries, art fairs and museums both internationally and in Sweden. She has received multiple grants for her practice throughout the years (among others; Kulturbryggan 2020, her third two-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee In 2023). Kjellmark has also received commissions for public works and international exhibitions (a life-sized heated bronze sculpture for Lillholms school in Stockholm 2022, Sydney Contemporary AUS 2023  (Australiens largest art fair) and The Imitation Game, Manchester Art Gallery, UK 2016. Besides working in her studio, she teaches, mentors and collaborates with humans and non-humans of various types and technologies.

The artist’s most recent solo exhibition The Horse, the Robot & The Immeasurable was held at Färgfabriken in Stockholm 2022/23. Upcoming shows include Borås Art Museum, 9/12/23 21/4/24, and Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland, 6/9/24–4/1/25. Previous solo and group exhibitions include Sydney Contemporary AUS 2023, Bohusläns Museum (2022), Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg (2022, 2021), The 5th Floor, Tokyo (2021), Bonamatic Gallery, Copenhagen (2020), Moore Contemporary, Perth (2018), Erik Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm (2018), Avesta Art (2018), Marabouparken and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2013), LEAP Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance, Berlin (2013), and Uppsala Konstmuseum (2009).