Hilda Hellström’s sculptural practice is built around combining old craft methods with contemporary materials and techniques. Trained in both art and object design, she looks at the symbolic qualities of craft and cultural objects and how they relate to time, value and heritage.

Being preoccupied with casting techniques, she has a process driven, visceral approach to making and explores her thinking through the material she works on. The material itself appears in her work as storytelling. Her exploration of material, its inherent narratives and latent potentials connects to a type of nature mysticism that deals with nature’s internal life, hidden from man’s eye. Emerging from that, she explores an interest for that which lies enclosed within the lithosphere by referencing both geology and archeology.

Often with surreal undertones, she conveys natural- and cultural histories alongside personal experiences by interweaving fabulation and fabrication, shape and image making.

Hellström graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2012 and has since exhibited at Gothenburg Museum of Art, The British Craft Council, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Tramway Glasgow, London Design Museum, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Röhsska Museet, Art Basel Miami, Shanghai Power Station Art Museum, Daelim Museum South Korea, Design Museo Helsinki amongst other institutions.

Hellström currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Education

◦ MA, Royal College of Art, London 2012

◦ BA, Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm 2010

◦ Diploma, Gerlesborgs Art School, Stockholm 2007

◦ Diploma, La Massana Art School, Barcelona 2004

Exhibitions

Solo & Two-persons exhibitions

◦ "For Future Reference", Berg Gallery, SE Stockholm 2023
◦ Marker Art Fair, Andy's Gallery, SE Stockholm 2023
◦ “Divers' Love” Enter Art Fair, Berg Gallery Booth 11, DK Copenhagen 2021
◦ “Pregnancy Logic” Berg Gallery SE Stockholm 2021
◦ “Perecived Memory, Projected Future” Berg Gallery SE Stockholm 2020
◦ “The Science of Imaginary Solutions” Etage Projects DK Copenhagen 2019
◦ “I do spend time in nature” Berg Gallery SE Stockholm 2017
◦ “Stenastiftelsens Art Award” Göteborgs Konstmuseum SE Gothenburg 2014/15
◦ “Still it moves” Gallery Bensimon FR Paris 2014
◦ “Hilda Hellström x Bec Brittain” Matter US New York 2014
◦ “The Monument” Swarovski Wonder Chamber, AU Innsbruck 2013- 2014

Selected Group Exhibitions

◦ Chart Art Fair, Etage Projects, DK Copenhagen 2023
◦ “Nested Realities” Pro Artibus Ekenäs FI 2022
◦ “Mot en annan värld” Gothenburg Art Museum SE 2021
◦ “Public Luxury” Swedish Institute FR Paris 2019
◦ “Public Luxury” Arkdes Architecture Museum, SE Stockholm 2018
◦ “5KV” Kvalitar Gallery, CZ Prague 2017
◦ “Twelve Tall Tales” (The British Crafts Council) Oriel Davies Gallery IR Wales 2017
◦ “Gustavsbergs Konsthall Revisited” Gustavsbergs Konsthall SE Gustavsberg 2017
◦ “Room With its own Rules” Chamber NYC US New York 2017
◦ “This is Today” Chamber NYC, US New York 2017
◦ “The Plinth Project” Etage Projects DK Copenhagen 2016
◦ “Chamber NYC booth” Art Basel Miami US Miami Beach 2016
◦ “Keep In Touch” Skånes Konstförening SE Malmö 2016
◦ “Konsthantverk i Sverige” Eskilstuna Konstmuseum SE Eskilstuna 2016
◦ “Residence-In-Nature” Växjö Konsthall SE Växjö 2016
◦ “Objects Of Desire” Design Museo Helsinki FI Helsinki 2016
◦ “Twelve Tall Tales” The British Craft Council UK London UK 2016
◦ “Colour Your Life” Daelim Museum KR Seoul 2016
◦ “Sur” Apalazzo Gallery IT Brescia 2016
◦ “Eva Bonnier for public Art” Konstakademiet SE Stockholm 2015
◦ “Den Nya Kvinnogruppen” Eskilstuna Konstmuseum SE Eskilstuna 2015
◦ “Pilsen 2015 – European City of Culture” CZ Pilsen 2015
◦ “Radikal Vänskap” Gustavsbergs Konsthall SE Gustavsberg 2015
◦ “Samtidsarkeologi” Galleri Format NO Oslo 2015
◦ “DNK: Så Därför Kom Vi Hit” Verkstad; Rum för Konst SE Norrköping 2014
◦ “Atemporaneo” Apalazzo Gallery IT Brescia 2014
◦ “Crafting Narratives“ The British Craft Council UK London 2014
◦ “Rum 319” Crystal Gallery SE Stockholm Art Week 2014
◦ “Den Nya Kvinnogruppen” Fullersta Gård SE Stockholm 2014
◦ “The Future Is Handmade” Kalmar Konstmuseum SE Kalmar 2014
◦ “NightTime DreamReal” Power Station Art Museum CN Shanghai 2014
◦ “House Style” Tramway UK Glasgow 2014
◦ “Mastering Design” Mudac CH Lausanne 2014
◦ “Swarovski Digital Crystal” Beijing Design Week CN Beijing 2014
◦ “Digital Crystal” Design Museum UK London 2012
◦ “Royal College of Art Graduation Show” Royal College of Art Battersea UK London 2012

Collections & Public Commissions

Collections

◦ Gothenburg Art Museum, SE
◦ Malmö Art Museum, SE
◦ Eskilstuna Art Museum SE
◦ Halland Art Museum, SE
◦ Röhsska Museum of Arts and Crafts, Gothenburg, SE
◦ MAK (Museum for applied arts) AU Vienna
◦ Stockholm County Council (SLL)
◦ City of Örebro SE Sweden
◦ SAK, Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening
◦ Stenastiftelsens samling SE Gothenburg
◦ Handelsbankens Konstförening SE

Public Commissions

◦ Munktell School, Eskilstuna (Eskilstuna Konstmuseum) SE, 2023
◦ Stockholm University Library, SE (Statens Konstråd) 2021
◦ Drottniniggatan Stockholm, SE (Trafikkontoret) 2020
◦ Kviberg School, Gothenburg SE (Lokalförvaltningen) 2019
◦ Hallands Museum of Art SE (Svea Larsons Donationsfond) 2019
◦ Danderyd hospital SE Stockholm (SLL) 2017
◦ Södersjukhuset Maternity hospital SE Stockholm (SLL) 2017

Awards & Grants

◦ Working grant, Statens Kunstfond DK 2023
◦ Working grant, Konstnärsnämnden SE 2022
◦ Working grant, Statens Kunstfond DK 2021
◦ Travel grant, Statens Kunstfond DK SE 2020
◦ Travel grant, Konstnärsnämnden/Iaspis SE 2020
◦ Working grant, Statens Kunstfond DK 2019
◦ Working grant, Konstnärsnämnden SE 2018
◦ Working grant, Statens Kunstfond DK 2018
◦ Travel grant, Konstnärsnämnden SE 2017
◦ Travel grant, Konstnärsnämnden SE 2016
◦ Working grant, Konstnärsnämnden SE 2015
◦ Stenastiftelsens kulturstipendiat, Gothenburg, SE 2014
◦ Helge Ax:son Johnsons stipendium SE 2014

Residencies

◦ Villa Snäcksund, Pro Artibus, Ekenäs, FI, 2022
◦ Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, FR 2021
◦ The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, US 2016
◦ Residence-In-Nature in collaboration with Växjö Konsthall, SE 2015-2016
◦ Cove Park, Scotland, UK 2013

Publications

◦ Perceived Memory, Projected Future, Exhibition Catalogue. Berg Gallery, Magdalena Rozenberg, Hilda Hellström, 2020
◦ The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Exhibition Catalogue. Etage Projects, Nanna Balslev Strøjer, Hilda Hellström, 2019
◦ What’s Next; Ecomaterialism & Contemporary Art. Intellectual Books, Linda Weintraub, 2018
◦ SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, Lithic Mythology: Design and the Future of the Lithosphere, Adam Nocek (US) 2017
◦ The Nuclear Culture Source Book, professor Ele Carpenter (UK) 2016
◦ Apollo - The International Art Magazine, Atomic matter, James Purdon (UK) 2017
◦ Crafting Narratives, The British Craft Council, catalog, Onkar Kular (UK) 2014
◦ Sten A Olssons Kulturstipendiater, catalog, Sara Michaëlsson och Magnus Haglund (SVE) 2014
◦ In Residence; Identity Detectors, Barbara Brondi och Marco Rainò (IT) 2014
◦ Girls, Pig Quarterly, Rujana Rebernjak (IT) 2013