Albert Sten (b.1995) is a visual artist whose work blends diverse media—photography, video, sound, archives, and AI-generated content. His work explores the convergence of technologies, examining their non-human elements and their impact on personal and collective memory. His art challenges conventional distinctions between natural and artificial, documentary and fictional, inviting viewers to reconsider these boundaries.
Internship, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2023-2025
MA Artificial Intelligence & Societies,
Media University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
2021
Internship, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2021-2022
Curatorial Studies, Stockholm University
2019-2021
BFA Photography, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
AI Visualization Expert - Agentur LOOP
2022 – 2025
Producer - Centrum för fotografi
2017 – now
Freelance – Photography / Film / AI
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
Nominations
Awards
3rd place, CreateCOP29 / Artpartner & Earthpartner
2024
Moving Image Award, Simultan Festival
2022
Documentary Residency,Sune Jonsson Centrum, Umeå
2020
C/O Berlin Talent Award; New Documentary Strategies
2024
Arkivet som utgångspunkt
panel discussion and pop-up exhibition. – Library of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå.
2023
Arvet, skogen och det inre
Artist talk & Screening - Sune Jonsson Centrum för dokumentärfotografi, Umeå.
2023 - Dödsupplevelser, GNA project, Stockholm.
2022 - Excavation,Härnösand Konsthall, Härnösand.
2020 - En Ö/An Island, Decomposition, Självhjälp - Rådhuset, Vaxholm.
2019 - Sight and Light Race Towards Eachother, Frilagret Göteborg.
Group exhibitions
2025 - A Hard Currency of Memories, WHERE is the photographic image?, Der Greif - Guest Room. (Online)
2024 - Where You Lived, And What You Lived For, Kunstmatrix/Createcophub, As part of CreateCOP29 by Artpartner & Earthpartner. Link: https://createcophub.com
2024 - A Hard Currency of Memories, Desire for the Useless, Simultan, HEI-House of European Institues, Timisoara.
2024 - A Hard Currency of Memories, Simultan Festival, Timisoara
2023 - Jag ärvde en mörk skog dit jag sällan går, Nordic Light Festival, Kristiansund.
2023 - Ögonkontakt / Eye Contact, Super Sight, Sune Jonsson Centrum för dokumentärfotografi, Umeå.
2021 - Jag ärvde en mörk skog dit jag sällan går-Vanishing Points, Röda Sten Konsthall,Gothenburg.
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.
2020 - Självhjälp / Self help - Liljevalchs Vårsalong, Stockholm.
2019 - Between Strangers, Uppsala Fotofestival, Uppsala.
2019 - Självhjälp / Self help - Worldviews, Gallery Rotor, Gothenburg.
2018 - En Ö / An Island - Examensutställning HFU, Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm.
2018 - Asyla Collective, bokutställning, Konst-ig bokhandel, Stockholm.
2018 - Asyla Collective - Free(k), Gallery top Schillerpalais, Berlin.
https://shop.art-magazine.ai/products/the-ai-art-magazine-edition-1
Uncertain States / Scandinavia - Issue 20
https://ucsscandinavia.com
A Mapping of Recent Years (2021)
https://ugotphotography.se/a-mapping-of-recent-years/
Artist Books
2021 - Jag ärvde en mörk skog dit jag sällan går
2020 - Liquid Crystal
https://dergreif.org/guest-room/joanna-zylinska--yanai-toister
Beyond Noise Magazine
https://www.thebeyondnoise.com/stories/create-cop-29#slide17
Video Formes
https://festival2025.videoformes.com/en/professional-meetings/focus-2-simultan/
Simultan Festival, Moving Image Awards
https://www.simultan.org/simultan-2024-moving-image-awards/
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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