Linnéa Sjöberg was born in 1983 in Strömsund. Her artistic practice centres on identity, memory, and social structures. She holds a master’s degree from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Stockholm and Berlin.
Sjöberg’s works have been exhibited at several Swedish and international institutions, including Göteborgs Konsthall, Magasin III, Bonniers Konsthall, Fullersta Gård, NEST The Hague, the Athens Biennale, and the galleries Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Company Gallery, New York, and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna. In 2018, she received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin grant. Through Accelerator’s collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Linnéa Sjöberg is artist in residence at the Anthropocene Laboratory during spring 2026.
Sjöberg often uses herself as material. Through year-long performative projects, she takes on different roles to explore how a personality is created and lived in practice. In the work GTD4s810 (pronounced “getting things done for Satan”) (2009–2011), Sjöberg explored the potential power and social rules associated with physical appearance. Over the course of a year and a half, she radically changed her appearance into that of a business woman, an illusion she maintained day and night. In Salong Flyttkartong (2012–2014), Sjöberg instead took on the role of tattoo artist. With a tattoo machine as her tool and temporary locations as her salon, Sjöberg travelled around offering spontaneous tattoos in friends’ homes, at festivals, and at the Athens Biennale. The artist’s body and the skin of others became traces of actions situated between the permanence of the tattoo medium and the spontaneity of the performance act. After these performative phases, she creates physical works in the form of weavings, collages, and installations where textiles, clothing, and personal objects become part of an archive of memories and layers of life. Works made in relation to GTD4s810 and Salong Flyttkartong are scattered throughout the exhibition and represent Sjöberg’s identity shifts into two fundamentally different characters.
Her works, dealing with themes such as heritage, loss, and class, often relate to her family history and upbringing in northern Sweden. In Sjöberg’s artistic practice, art and life are literally interwoven, bearing traces of work, transformation, and time.
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