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Åsa Cederqvist
Born1975, Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationVisual artist
Years active1998-present
Websitehttps://asacederqvist.com

Åsa Cederqvist (born 1975 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an interdisciplinary artist working across film, performance, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, and digital media.

Her work has been presented internationally. She has exhibited in Sweden, Norway, Germany, and Mexico, among other countries.

Life and career

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Career

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Åsa Cederqvist received her MFA from Konstfack in Stockholm in 2000.

Before focusing fully on visual art, she was active as a musician and performer and gained wider recognition as a member of the electro-pop group Revl9n (1998–2006)[1], known for the single Someone Like You (2006)[2].

Between 2003 and 2012, she worked as a film director[3], directing commercials and music videos in collaboration with production companies including Acne Film, Spader Knekt (later B-Reel), and Adamsky.

Alongside her artistic practice, she worked as a senior lecturer in Fine Art within the Textile program at Konstfack between 2010 and 2020[4], where she received the institution's Pedagogue of the Year award in 2015. She has also been active as a guest teacher and artistic director in various educational and collaborative projects.

In 2016 she was awarded the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's IASPIS 1-year residency programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin[5]. And in 2023 she was awarded the Carl Axel Val grant.

Her video and installation work Mama Dada Gaga received critical attention at the Momentum 10[6] Biennale in Norway in 2019, curated by Marti Manen and Anne Klontz. She also participated in the Borås Art Biennial[7] in 2021, curated by Amanprit Sandhu and Ulrika Flink.

Her public art commissions include Tomrummets potential [The Potential of the Void][8] for Stockholm Konst (2020), Gränslandet [The Borderland][9] for Public Art Agency Sweden and Folkets Hus och Parker (2022), and Mycelia Sklerotia[10] for Göteborg Konst (2024).

Cederqvist also works within various interdisciplinary collaborative constellations. In 2023, she co-founded Team VEX[11] together with Ebba Hallin, Pelle Backman, David Sandström, and Tomas Mazetti. The group was selected through ArkDes and Vinnova's open call Visions of the North – Step 2 to develop artistic and social proposals for the urban development area Tomtebo Strand in Umeå municipality. Between 2024 and 2026, the team developed proposals under the collective title OMLAND, including the proposal Folktomten [People’s Lot].

Over the years, she has exhibited extensively in Sweden and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Through the Marrow of the Skin[12] (Växjö konsthall, 2025), Att praktisera det Osäkra [To Exercise the Uncertain][13] (Eskilstuna konstmuseum, 2023), and States of Becoming[14] (Gustavsbergs konsthall, 2021). Her work was also included in recent group exhibitions, such as Det som bar mig [That Which Carried Me][15] at Bonniers Konsthall in 2025, or RUB![16] with the Misschiefs foundation in 2026, among others.

In 2026, she develops numerous projects, including major public commissions as well as solo and group exhibitions.

Åsa Cederqvist is currently based in Stockholm.

Artistic practice

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Åsa Cederqvist's practice spans a wide range of mediums, including film and video, sculpture, textile work, sound, AR, staged performance, collaborative processes, documentary methods, and field studies.

Cederqvist describes her approach as “performative extensions”[17], referring to physical, digital, and social forms that extend the artwork beyond traditional formats. Her practice often incorporates open-ended and process-based approaches, including participatory installations and experimental environments.

Her work frequently engages with themes such as vulnerability, emotional states, and relationships between human bodies, non-human life, and environmental systems. She has developed recurring themes related to nature, bodily exhaustion, and motherhood.

She also draws on interests in social and cultural phenomena, ranging from infrastructures related to water and waste management (e.g. Civilization–The Pleasure Principle[18], 2013) to therapeutic and ritual-based practices, such as shamanic ceremonies.

Since the mid-2010s, she has focused on play as a method for exploring uncertainty, transformation, and change. These themes are present in works such as Mama Dada Gaga[19], Some Kind of Metabolism[20] (2018), States of Becoming[21] (2021), and Att praktisera det Osäkra [To Exercise the Uncertain][22](2023).

She has worked extensively with technologies such as AR, 3D scanning, and computational imaging. In 2019, she developed the augmented reality application Amorph Real[23], exploring interactions between physical and digital environments. She has also explored algorithmic processes and artificial intelligence, and their influence on perception, behavior, and social relations.

“My later works explore corporeality, circularity, and vulnerability. They examine how new technologies shape our behaviors, our interpersonal and non-human relationships, and introduce the wild into the digital sphere. We are sensuous beings, on the verge of becoming triggered slaves. Where do we place our presence?” — Åsa Cederqvist, 2025

In her recent research, she continues to investigate the human place within nature and contemporary society. She has recently initiated research in ecopsychology and is developing her work across various fields, including site-specific projects in different territories, and through a wide range of media and contexts[24].

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