ABOUT
Ellen Bjerborn is media artist born 1995 in Malmö, Sweden.
Her artistic practice hunkers under three ominous forces; nature, technology and the supernatural. Through film and video she moves closer to these obscured powers that loom over the human experience. She recently completed Diorama, a film looking at how the field of biology abstracts nature's processes into symbols and has since 2024 worked with art in an expanded field of participation and community.
She holds a BFA in Product design from Parsons School of Design, NYC.
Instagram: @ellenmsb
Contact: ellenbjerborn@gmail.com
CV
Education
2015-2019 BFA Product design - Parsons School of Design, NYC
2020 Moving Image Production & The Photographic Image, Malmo University
2025 Sommarkurs i Rörlig Bild, Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
Screenings
2026 Diorama. Inter Arts Center, Malmö
2023 Across the Water. True Self Film fest, organized by Volox Observer. Screened in
Rotterdam, Toronto & Richmond, VA
2022 Birds. Showroom & Covid Cinema, Galleri Redan, Malmö
2021 Across the Water, Is It A Good Time Yet?, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
Publications
2025 Under i Öresund - om Öresunds arter och staden Malmö, Malmö University &
Bauhaus of the Seas Sails
2025 The Sea on Land - creative exercises from the ocean ambassadors of Malmö 2024-2025, Malmö University & Bauhaus of the Seas Sails
Residencies
2025-26 Inter Arts Center, Malmö (11 November-17 February)
2024 ARS Bioarctica, Kilpisjärvi, Finland (4-18 November)
2024 STPLN Lab, Malmö (January-December)
2022 Post Social Media Club, Speculative Design Residency, STPLN, Malmö (May 29 - September 17)
2022 Making it, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana (August 20-September 4)
Grants
2026 Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland, travel grant
2025 Helge Ax:son Johsons Stiftelse
2025 Malmö stads ateljéstipendium
2024 Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland, travel grant
2024 International travel grant, Konstnärsnämnden
Group shows
2026 Materia, Galleri Passagen, Årjäng
2024 Thrive & Nurture, Malmö Gallery Weekend, STPLN, Malmö
2023 GUI/GOOEY, group show, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn
2023 Pre-SSDD, group show, Southern Sweden Design Days, Folkets Park, Malmö
2023 Flavor of Malmö, FAMN publishing, Malmö
2023 The Sessions, Külhaus Berlin
2023 Locally Alien festival, Southern Sweden Design Days, STPLN, Malmö
2022 BLOOM, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana
2022 Cheap Freedom Club, online gallery
2022 Post Social Media Club, STPLN (Malmö, Swe), Nova Iskra (Belgrade, Serbia),
bios (Athens, Greece), ATÖLYE (Istanbul, Turkey), Volumes (Paris, France)
2021 Projektil, Stor Studio, Malmö
2021 De Refuserades Salong, Galleri Redan, Malmö
2021 Southern Sweden Design Days, Beyond US, Malmö
2021 It's Time to Reduce The Backlog, Latitude Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Auto-Save, Parsons School of Design
2019 Interpreting Design, Parsons School of Design
Press/published
2026 Tidskriften Form, From Human-Centered Design to More-Than-Human, Bertil Björk (no 2, 2026)
2022 Sydsvenskan: Europeiska konstnärer ställde ut digitala dystopier (18 June 2022)
2020 Mag Twentytwenty feature, online
2020 Feed my Quarantein vol.2 - Still, By Appointment Only
2020 Mirror/Image curated by Riana Gideon for Artfare, Mirror/Image Catalogue
Misc
2026 Nominated for Pixel Talent Award
2024-25 Ocean Ambassador, Bauhaus of the Sea Sails EU-project
2025 Guest lecturer, Technical University of Münich, ARRL Lecture series "The role of nature in modern capitalism: what is impact, what is progress?" December 2,
2023-26 Vice chair, Skånes Konstförening
2021 Visiting Artist lecture, Video Everywhere class, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 5, 2021
Cultural work
2023-26 Project manager, Konstfrämjandet Skåne, Malmö
2021 Volunteer, Galleri Redan, Malmö
2020 Gallery manager, Special Special, New York City
2019 Marketing intern, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
2018-19 Gallery research assistant, Next 2 Nothing Gallery, New York City
