Installation view, I’m not here. I’m dreaming, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, Sweden 2024

Cecilia Edefalk

Cecilia Edefalk was born 1954 in Norrköping, Sweden. She lives and works in Stockholm. She has a degree from The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Konstfack in Stockholm

In 2020 an extensive retrospective of Edefalk’s work was presented at Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden. A significant presentation of her work is currently presented at Moderna Museet, Stockholm as part of the ongoing Maurizio Cattelan exhibition. Recent solo exhibitions include, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Fürstenbergische Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, Germany (2024) and Hatt et Söner, Bergeres-Les Vertus, Champagne, France (2023), Lund Cathedral, Lund, Sweden (2022), Agueli Museet, Sala, Sweden (2021), and Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden and Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany (2016). Also in 2016 she exhibited solo at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA.

Other notable solo presentations include, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2010), Dia Art Foundation, New York (2010), Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (2010), alongside Hilma Af Klint at the Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden (2009), Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden (2008), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden (2008), Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Antikensammlung, Kiel, Germany (2006), The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2006), Moderna museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2005), Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden (2000), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1999). Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (1998), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (1996).

Edefalk has participated in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002) and the 22nd Bienal de São Paulo (1994). Her work can be found in collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden and the Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden. She received the prestigious Ganneviksstipendiet in 2018.

Installation view, I’m not here. I’m dreaming, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, Sweden 2024

Sommarnatt (Nordisk), 2024, tempera on canvas, 210 x 156 cm, 82 5/8 x 61 3/8 in

Installation view, I’m not here. I’m dreaming, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, Sweden 2024

Les Falloises, 2023, bronze, limestone base, 160 x 180 x 130 cm, Galerie Nordenhake, Market Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024

Owl, 2018, 45 x 45 cm, Galerie Nordenhake, Market Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024

Blå himmel, Rosenbad, Stockholm, 2023. Photo by, Åke E:son Lindman

En annan rörelse, 1990, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023

Installation view, Terre, Ciel, Champagne, HATT et SÖNER, Champagne, France, 2023

Installation view, Terre, Ciel, Champagne, HATT et SÖNER, Champagne, France, 2023

Installation view, Swedish Ecstasy, Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2023

Installation view, Swedish Ecstasy, Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2023

Installation view, Cecilia Edefalk, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2022. Photo: Fabrice Schneider

Installation view, Cecilia Edefalk, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, 2022. Photo: Fabrice Schneider

Installation view, Heavens, Lund Cathedral, Lund, Sweden, 2022, photo by readsreads.info

Installation view, Heavens, Lund Cathedral, Lund, Sweden, 2022, photo by readsreads.info

Installation view, Heavens, Lund Cathedral, Lund, Sweden, 2022, photo by readsreads.info

Installation view, That other world, the world of a teapot. Tenderness, a model, Kestner Geselschaft, Hanover, Germany, 2022, photo by Raimund Zakowski

Installation view, That other world, the world of a teapot. Tenderness, a model, Kestner Geselschaft, Hanover, Germany, 2022, photo by Raimund Zakowski

Installation view, Hemkomsten, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden, 2020, photo by Michael Perlmutter

Installation view, Hemkomsten, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden, 2020, photo by Michael Perlmutter

Installation view, Hemkomsten, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden, 2020, photo by Michael Perlmutter

Installation view, Hemkomsten, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden, 2020, photo by Michael Perlmutter

Installation view, Hemkomsten, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden, 2020, photo by Michael Perlmutter

Installation view, Signature Women: 100 Years on the Swedish Art Scene, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden, 2020, photo by Jean Baptiste Beranger

Installation view, The eight White Within angel, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germany, 2018, photo by Trevor Good

Installation view, The eight White Within angel, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germany, 2018, photo by Trevor Good

Installation view, The eight White Within angel, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germany, 2018, photo by Trevor Good

Installation view, Maskros (Dandelion), Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016, photo by Lars Engelhardt

Installation view, Maskros (Dandelion), Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016, photo by Lars Engelhardt

Installation view, Maskros (Dandelion), Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden, photo by Lars Engelhardt, 2016

Installation view, MATRIX 261, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA, photo by, Sibila Savage, 2016

Installation view, MATRIX 261, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA, photo by, Sibila Savage, 2016

Installation view, MATRIX 261, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA, photo by, Sibila Savage, 2016

Installation view, True Romance, Kunsthalle Zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2007

Installation view, True Romance, Kunsthalle Zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2007

Installation view, True Romance, Kunsthalle Zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 2007

Cecilia Edefalk, Porträtt (Portrait), wall installation, Moderna museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011