Contact:
albertoscarsten@gmail.com
+46 76-853 55 83
Photo: Hans Jorgen Ro 

Albert Sten (b.1995) is a visual artist living and working in Stockholm, Sweden.
His artistic practice focuses on issues of both personal and collective memory and alternative narratives. Through photography, video and archival material, his works are often intricate and intertwined in various ways. Images are repeated, cross processed thorugh different techniques and reference both each other and photographic history. Together they become poetic visualizations of the blurred lines and uncertainties that exist between reality and fiction as well as the inner and outer world.



Work

Producer - Centrum För Fotografi (CFF), 
2022-



Residencies

2022 - Documentary Residency,
Sune Jonsson Centrum, Umeå


Grants

2022 - Sune Jonsson Centrum

2021 - Eric Ericsons Stiftelse

2021 - Carl Larsson-stipendiet 

2020 - Region Västernorrland Kulturstipendium 

2020 - Vaxholms Stad Kulturstipendium 

2020 - Adlerbertska Stipendiet

2019 - Adlerbertska Stipendiet


Education

MA Media and Visual Anthropology, 
HMKW, Berlin
2023-

Internship, Gallery Steinsland Berliner
2021

Curatorial Studies, Stockholm University
2021-2022

BFA Photography, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
2019-2021

Kulturama-HFU
2018-2019


Nominations

2020 - C/O Berlin Talent Award; New Documentary Strategies


Artist Books

2021 - Jag ärvde en mörk skog dit jag sällan går

2020 - Liquid Crystal


Solo Exhibitions


2023 - Dödsupplevelser, GNA project, Stockholm.(SWE) 

2023 - Arvet, skogen och det inre
Artist talk & Screening - Sune Jonsson Centrum för dokumentärfotografi, Umeå.(SWE)

2022 - Excavation, 
Härnösand Konsthall, Härnösand.(SWE)

2020 - En Ö/An Island, Decomposition, Självhjälp - Rådhuset, Vaxholm.(SWE)

2019 - Sight and Light Race Towards Eachother, Frilagret Göteborg.(SWE)


Publications 

Uncertain States / Scandinavia - Issue 20 

https://ucsscandinavia.com


Group Exhibitions

2023 - Jag ärvde en mörk skog dit jag sällan går, Nordic Light Festival, Kristiansund. (NOR)

2023 - Mörkerseende, Super Sight, Sune Jonsson Centrum för dokumentärfotografi, Umeå.(SWE)

2021 - Jag ärvde en mörk skog dit jag sällan går-Vanishing Points,Röda Sten Konsthall,Gothenburg.(SWE)

2020 - 1999/06/19 - UGOTPHOTOGRAPHY, Web Exhibition.

2020 - Alpha Beta Charlie Delta Elvis - Error_2020 Web Exhibition. 

2020 - Liquid Crystal - Visuell Litteratur, Göteborgs Litteraturhus, Gothenburg.(SWE)  

2020 - Självhjälp / Self help - Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Stockholm.(SWE) 

2019 - Between Strangers, Uppsala Fotofestival, Uppsala.(SWE) 

2019 - Självhjälp / Self help - Worldviews, Gallery Rotor, Gothenburg.(SWE)

2018 - En Ö / An Island - Examensutställning HFU, Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm.(SWE)

2018 - Asyla Collective, bokutställning, Konst-ig bokhandel, Stockholm.(SWE)

2018 - Asyla Collective - Free(k), Gallery top Schillerpalais, Berlin.(GER)


 
Texts

A Mapping of Recent Years (2021)
https://ugotphotography.se/a-mapping-of-recent-years/

Press

Mitt i Stockholm
https://www.mitti.se/sidan-45/minnet-utforskas-i-litet-galleri-i-malarhojden-6.3.87310.bb95e69b83

Tidningen Ångermanland
https://www.tidningenangermanland.se/2023-01-04/min-familjehistoria-finns-har--darfor-atervander-albert-27-till-harnosand

Konsttidningen Volym
https://www.rvn.se/sv/Sarprofil-delplatser/volym/recensioner/albert-sten--en-utstallning-som-graver-i-det-fotografiska-materialet/

Västerbottens museum
https://www.vbm.se/aktuellt/agande-arv-och-skog-undersoks-nar-ny-resident-tar-plats-i-host/

Göteborgsposten recension Vanishing Points - Röda Sten Konsthall
https://www.gp.se/kultur/kultur/recension-examensutställning-i-fotografi-hdk-valand-vanishing-points-1.45594996

Liljevalchs Vårsalong 2020
https://liljevalchs.se/utstallningar/varsalongen-2020/albert-sten/
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