Market Extended | Karin Lind

For Market Extended, Karin Lind presents a series of cast aluminum sculptures created in 2024. Developed through a hands-on process, each sculpture is an original—first shaped in clay, then molded in plaster, and finally brought to life in aluminum. The material’s reflective surface reveals its distinct voice, capturing light and form with powerful expression. These works bear the imprint of the hand, offering glimpses of both past and present—a bridge to our contemporary world. The presentation also includes two unique neon wall sculptures, extending Lind’s ongoing investigation into line, light, and spatial resonance.

Karin Lind is an artist, set designer, and one half of the artist duo SIMKA.

Lind resides and works in Stockholm and Gotland, functioning both as an artist (alternatively through SIMKA and independently) and a set designer. She completed her education at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, specializing in sculpture from 1978 to 1983, and at Stockholm University of Dramatic Arts, studying scenography from 1989 to 1992. She pursued studies at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm at different times: initially in sculpture from 1995 to 1996 and later courses in Art and Architecture, as well as Art and New Media from 1999 to 2003. From 2004 to 2007, she engaged in an artistic research project at the Stockholm University of the Arts, concluding in 2007. Concurrently, Karin Lind served as the main instructor in scenography education at the Stockholm University of the Arts from 1997 to 2007 and as a guest lecturer at Beckmans Design School. Following this, she continues to be a frequently invited guest lecturer in Sweden and abroad.

As a set designer, Karin Lind has been actively engaged by Swedish theaters since 1991, with her most recent assignment being Platå Effekt for the City Ballet at the Komische Opera in Berlin. As an artist, Karin Lind has exhibited extensively in Sweden and abroad, primarily through numerous artistic exchanges with the SIMKA artist duo. Her artistic work encompasses painting, sculpture, performance, and video, including public permanent artworks such as Stegen on Slottsholmen in Västervik (in collaboration with SIMKA). 

Solo exhibitions include shows at Gallery ARGO in Stockholm from 1992 to 2008 and SPG Gallery in Stockholm since 2011-2023, featuring exhibitions like LOD in 2011, Clearing in 2014, Inbetween Peaks in 2017, and Fountain in 2020. Additionally, she presented the solo exhibition Golden Age at Körsbärsgården Art Hall in Gotland in 2020. The performance piece titled HON - Sisters to Another Mama was performed in the sculpture park at Körsbärsgården in 2020 with the support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Karin Lind has received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Stockholm City Culture Prize in 2012, and is represented today by Galleri Duerr.