Malin Lin Nordström
(b. 1984, Hallstahammar, Sweden)
malinlinnordstrom@gmail.com
A voice accompanies you through a landscape, images unfold across several surfaces in a darkened room, branches gathered from the forest support one another in a fragile balance. Malin works with sound, moving image, sculpture, performance and spatial installation to create situations in which the outer world and the inner landscape begin to overlap.
In audio walks, narratives, memories and local histories become intertwined with the movement of the body through a landscape. Elsewhere, sound is woven into existing architecture, as in works using directional speakers to create intimate listening spaces within shared environments. Moving image is used both narratively and spatially, ranging from multi-channel films to installations in which projection, darkness and sound form environments to inhabit rather than images simply to observe.
Water and bodily states recur in different forms. In choreographed performances with freedivers and artistic swimmers, breath, movement, repetition and bodies in water become part of the work. In installations made for saunas, steam rooms and hot tubs, the sensory and social language of the spa brings pleasure and care into contact with transience and larger changes in the world we inhabit.
Participatory rituals offer another way of creating shared experience. In spaces centred on mourning, visitors are invited to take part in a ceremony, devise a ritual of their own, or otherwise enter into the situation as participants.
Her sculptures involve a closer encounter with material: wood and branches gathered from the forest are shaped and joined into structures in which balance, weight, fragility and embrace become physically tangible.
Her Swedish-Taiwanese background is present throughout much of the work, particularly through experiences of migration, language loss and cultural inheritance. With a background in both art and psychology, Malin returns to questions of memory, loss, relationships and belonging, and to what is carried between people and across generations.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & COMMISSIONS
2026: Glitterfabrikens sommarutställning, Västansjö
2025: Våre Spor, Kunstbanken Center for Contemporary Art, Hamar, NO
2023: Wander/Wonder, Konstfrämjandet Västernorrland / Västernorrlands Museum, Örnsköldsvik
2023: Falnande Språk, Torsby Finnskogscentrum / Värmlands museum
2023: Gråt inte över spilld mjölk, Västernorrlands Museum
2022: A different look at..., Accelerator konsthall, Stockholm (performance)
2022: Fruits, Open Out Festival, Tromsø, NO (performance)
2022: Falnande Språk, Konsthallen Meken, Smedjebacken
2022: Falnande Språk, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle
2022: Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes (w/ Janna Thöle-Juul)
2022: “Futile Endeavors”, Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm
2022: Jag går i cirklar för att komma fram till dig, Region Gävleborg (public art commission)
2021: To Live as a Mayfly, Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst), Tromsø, NO (curated by Ruth Aitken & James Lee)
2021 June: Sten sax påse, Västerås Konsthall
2021 March: Strömningar, Södertälje Konsthall (w/ Jens Masimov)
2020: Forening for handlingsrom / Ly til fantasi og felleskap, Tromsø Kunstforening, NO
2020: The 74th North Norwegian Art Exhibition @ Bodø Kunstforening, Svolvær Kunstforening, Mosjøen Kunstforening, Meieriet Kultursenter Leknes, Galleri Nord-Norge Harstad, Alta Kunstforening, Vadsø Kunstforening (annual juried touring exhibition)
2018: Tromsø School of Business and Economics (public art commission)
Earlier exhibitions include solo shows at Galleri Fisk (Bergen, NO), 14-54 (Towada, JP) and Small Projects (Tromsø, NO); projects and festival presentations in Vilnius, Arkhangelsk and Malmö; and screenings at Tromsø Kinobox and the Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival in Harstad, NO.
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025: Konstnärsnämndens resebidrag
2025: Letterstedtska föreningen
2024: Stockholm stads ateljéstöd, treårigt
2023: Konstnärsnämndens resebidrag
2023: Konstnärsnämndens arbetsstipendium, ettårigt
2022: Konstnärsnämndens bidrag till internationellt utbyte
2022: Grant for recently graduated artists, Arts Council Norway
2022: Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
2021: Carl Erik Levins Stiftelse
2021: Västerås Praktiska Hushållsskola
2021: Stiftelsen Petersenska Hemmet
2021: Ulla Fröberg-Cramérs Stipendiestiftelse
2021: Stiftelsen AAA
2020: Nordnorsken Jury Prize / The 74th North Norwegian Art Exhibition
2020: Stiftelsen Petersenska Hemmet
2019: UMAK project grant
2019: Barentskult
2019: Frifond
2019: Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
SELECTED EDUCATION
2020–2022: MFA Fine Arts, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden
2017–2020: BA Contemporary Art, Tromsø Academy of Art, Norway
2003-2009: Master of Science in Psychology, University of Gothenburg
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 Sept-Nov: AiR Värmland på Kyrkerud, Årjäng
2021 October: Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes
2021 July: Danielsgården, Bingsjö
2020 Sept: Falnande språk nomadic residency, Region Gävleborg
2018 Sept: Selektor Festival, Arkhangelsk, RU
2018 June: 14-54, Towada, JP
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025:
Våre Spor. Exhibition catalogue, Kunstbanken Center for Contemporary Art, Hamar.
2024:
Artists in Residence Värmland. Publication, Region Värmland (with Katarina Averås and Fredrik Åkum). Nominated for The Publishing Prize 2024.
2022:
Across and Beyond: Body and Landscape in Translation. Edited by Karolina Aastrup, Paulina Granat and Isabella Ribe. Published by Stockholm University.
The Best Country in the World. Exhibition catalogue, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes.
2021:
Onwards and upwards. Exhibition catalogue, Konstfack, Stockholm.
2020:
Fat Rat. Exhibition catalogue, Mack Øst / Mondo Books, Tromsø.
OTHER
2026: Co-founder and curator at Glitterfabriken
2025-2026: Video workshops for Skapande Skola, Sweden
2024-2025: Video workshops for Den kulturelle skolesekken, Norway
2022 June: NUK visual arts project for Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Harstad
2020 May-Aug: Curatorial work for Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
2017–2020: Live video projections @ various clubs and concerts
2017-2019: Part of curatorial team at Galleri Snerk, Tromsø
PRESS, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS
2026:
https://www.korgen.nu/recension/glitterfabriken-ny-utstallningsplats-i-dalarna/
2025:
https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2025-12-18/perspektiv2
2023:
https://www.rvn.se/sv/Sarprofil-delplatser/volym/recensioner/konstutstallning-langs-en-vandringsled/
https://www.nwt.se/2023/05/31/fem-konstnarer-staller-ut-pa-finnskogscentrum-i-lekvattnet-i-sommar-falnande-sprak-0399b/
https://www.rvn.se/sv/Sarprofil-delplatser/volym/recensioner/grat-inte-over-spilld-mjolk/
2022:
https://www.dalademokraten.se/2022-07-26/skogsfinska-arvet-i-centrum-pa-meken
https://www.nyaludvikatidning.se/2022-06-21/undersokande-konst-i-svedjefinnarnas-spar
https://www.svd.se/a/XqkQ7E/har-ar-framtidens-svenska-konststjarnor
https://www.c-print.se/post/degree-exhibitions-season-konstfack
https://omkonst.se/22-konstfack-master.shtml
https://kunstkritikk.se/hybride-haendelser-i-graenselandet/
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2022/3/17/cross-border-healing-infrastructures
https://www.gd.se/2022-02-26/lansmuseet-oppnar-storsatsning-pa-finnskogen
2021:
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2021/9/14/en-kunstnerisk-vandring-langs-tromss-dystopiske-vannkant
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2021/4/19/hper-kunstfilmmiljet-vokser-seg-strre-i-mikrokino
https://www.vlt.se/kultur-noje/sten-sax-och-pase-unga-konstnarer-atervander-till-vasteras/
2020:
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2020/11/7/sol-og-skrik-mot-betong
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2020/10/8/levende-kunst-i-en-bygning-i-forfall
(b. 1984, Hallstahammar, Sweden)
malinlinnordstrom@gmail.com
A voice accompanies you through a landscape, images unfold across several surfaces in a darkened room, branches gathered from the forest support one another in a fragile balance. Malin works with sound, moving image, sculpture, performance and spatial installation to create situations in which the outer world and the inner landscape begin to overlap.
In audio walks, narratives, memories and local histories become intertwined with the movement of the body through a landscape. Elsewhere, sound is woven into existing architecture, as in works using directional speakers to create intimate listening spaces within shared environments. Moving image is used both narratively and spatially, ranging from multi-channel films to installations in which projection, darkness and sound form environments to inhabit rather than images simply to observe.
Water and bodily states recur in different forms. In choreographed performances with freedivers and artistic swimmers, breath, movement, repetition and bodies in water become part of the work. In installations made for saunas, steam rooms and hot tubs, the sensory and social language of the spa brings pleasure and care into contact with transience and larger changes in the world we inhabit.
Participatory rituals offer another way of creating shared experience. In spaces centred on mourning, visitors are invited to take part in a ceremony, devise a ritual of their own, or otherwise enter into the situation as participants.
Her sculptures involve a closer encounter with material: wood and branches gathered from the forest are shaped and joined into structures in which balance, weight, fragility and embrace become physically tangible.
Her Swedish-Taiwanese background is present throughout much of the work, particularly through experiences of migration, language loss and cultural inheritance. With a background in both art and psychology, Malin returns to questions of memory, loss, relationships and belonging, and to what is carried between people and across generations.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & COMMISSIONS
2026: Glitterfabrikens sommarutställning, Västansjö
2025: Våre Spor, Kunstbanken Center for Contemporary Art, Hamar, NO
2023: Wander/Wonder, Konstfrämjandet Västernorrland / Västernorrlands Museum, Örnsköldsvik
2023: Falnande Språk, Torsby Finnskogscentrum / Värmlands museum
2023: Gråt inte över spilld mjölk, Västernorrlands Museum
2022: A different look at..., Accelerator konsthall, Stockholm (performance)
2022: Fruits, Open Out Festival, Tromsø, NO (performance)
2022: Falnande Språk, Konsthallen Meken, Smedjebacken
2022: Falnande Språk, Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle
2022: Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes (w/ Janna Thöle-Juul)
2022: “Futile Endeavors”, Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm
2022: Jag går i cirklar för att komma fram till dig, Region Gävleborg (public art commission)
2021: To Live as a Mayfly, Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst), Tromsø, NO (curated by Ruth Aitken & James Lee)
2021 June: Sten sax påse, Västerås Konsthall
2021 March: Strömningar, Södertälje Konsthall (w/ Jens Masimov)
2020: Forening for handlingsrom / Ly til fantasi og felleskap, Tromsø Kunstforening, NO
2020: The 74th North Norwegian Art Exhibition @ Bodø Kunstforening, Svolvær Kunstforening, Mosjøen Kunstforening, Meieriet Kultursenter Leknes, Galleri Nord-Norge Harstad, Alta Kunstforening, Vadsø Kunstforening (annual juried touring exhibition)
2018: Tromsø School of Business and Economics (public art commission)
Earlier exhibitions include solo shows at Galleri Fisk (Bergen, NO), 14-54 (Towada, JP) and Small Projects (Tromsø, NO); projects and festival presentations in Vilnius, Arkhangelsk and Malmö; and screenings at Tromsø Kinobox and the Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival in Harstad, NO.
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025: Konstnärsnämndens resebidrag
2025: Letterstedtska föreningen
2024: Stockholm stads ateljéstöd, treårigt
2023: Konstnärsnämndens resebidrag
2023: Konstnärsnämndens arbetsstipendium, ettårigt
2022: Konstnärsnämndens bidrag till internationellt utbyte
2022: Grant for recently graduated artists, Arts Council Norway
2022: Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
2021: Carl Erik Levins Stiftelse
2021: Västerås Praktiska Hushållsskola
2021: Stiftelsen Petersenska Hemmet
2021: Ulla Fröberg-Cramérs Stipendiestiftelse
2021: Stiftelsen AAA
2020: Nordnorsken Jury Prize / The 74th North Norwegian Art Exhibition
2020: Stiftelsen Petersenska Hemmet
2019: UMAK project grant
2019: Barentskult
2019: Frifond
2019: Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
SELECTED EDUCATION
2020–2022: MFA Fine Arts, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden
2017–2020: BA Contemporary Art, Tromsø Academy of Art, Norway
2003-2009: Master of Science in Psychology, University of Gothenburg
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 Sept-Nov: AiR Värmland på Kyrkerud, Årjäng
2021 October: Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes
2021 July: Danielsgården, Bingsjö
2020 Sept: Falnande språk nomadic residency, Region Gävleborg
2018 Sept: Selektor Festival, Arkhangelsk, RU
2018 June: 14-54, Towada, JP
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025:
Våre Spor. Exhibition catalogue, Kunstbanken Center for Contemporary Art, Hamar.
2024:
Artists in Residence Värmland. Publication, Region Värmland (with Katarina Averås and Fredrik Åkum). Nominated for The Publishing Prize 2024.
2022:
Across and Beyond: Body and Landscape in Translation. Edited by Karolina Aastrup, Paulina Granat and Isabella Ribe. Published by Stockholm University.
The Best Country in the World. Exhibition catalogue, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes.
2021:
Onwards and upwards. Exhibition catalogue, Konstfack, Stockholm.
2020:
Fat Rat. Exhibition catalogue, Mack Øst / Mondo Books, Tromsø.
OTHER
2026: Co-founder and curator at Glitterfabriken
2025-2026: Video workshops for Skapande Skola, Sweden
2024-2025: Video workshops for Den kulturelle skolesekken, Norway
2022 June: NUK visual arts project for Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Harstad
2020 May-Aug: Curatorial work for Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
2017–2020: Live video projections @ various clubs and concerts
2017-2019: Part of curatorial team at Galleri Snerk, Tromsø
PRESS, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS
2026:
https://www.korgen.nu/recension/glitterfabriken-ny-utstallningsplats-i-dalarna/
2025:
https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2025-12-18/perspektiv2
2023:
https://www.rvn.se/sv/Sarprofil-delplatser/volym/recensioner/konstutstallning-langs-en-vandringsled/
https://www.nwt.se/2023/05/31/fem-konstnarer-staller-ut-pa-finnskogscentrum-i-lekvattnet-i-sommar-falnande-sprak-0399b/
https://www.rvn.se/sv/Sarprofil-delplatser/volym/recensioner/grat-inte-over-spilld-mjolk/
2022:
https://www.dalademokraten.se/2022-07-26/skogsfinska-arvet-i-centrum-pa-meken
https://www.nyaludvikatidning.se/2022-06-21/undersokande-konst-i-svedjefinnarnas-spar
https://www.svd.se/a/XqkQ7E/har-ar-framtidens-svenska-konststjarnor
https://www.c-print.se/post/degree-exhibitions-season-konstfack
https://omkonst.se/22-konstfack-master.shtml
https://kunstkritikk.se/hybride-haendelser-i-graenselandet/
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2022/3/17/cross-border-healing-infrastructures
https://www.gd.se/2022-02-26/lansmuseet-oppnar-storsatsning-pa-finnskogen
2021:
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2021/9/14/en-kunstnerisk-vandring-langs-tromss-dystopiske-vannkant
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2021/4/19/hper-kunstfilmmiljet-vokser-seg-strre-i-mikrokino
https://www.vlt.se/kultur-noje/sten-sax-och-pase-unga-konstnarer-atervander-till-vasteras/
2020:
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2020/11/7/sol-og-skrik-mot-betong
https://www.hakapik.no/home/2020/10/8/levende-kunst-i-en-bygning-i-forfall