Albert Sten

albertoscarsten@gmail.com
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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.

Education

2024
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

Employment

2025 - now
AI Visualization Expert - Agentur LOOP

2025 - now
Lecturer - Media University of Applied Sceinces, Berlin

2022 – 2025
Producer - Centrum för fotografi

2017 – now
Freelance – Photography / Film / AI

Grants

2024 - Gålöstiftelsen

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

Residencies
Nominations
Awards

2024
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

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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.

Publications / Texts

Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology, Vol 9: Artificial Entanglements: Memory, Emotion, and Connection in the Age of AI.

AI Art Magazine - Issue 01
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

Press

Der Greif
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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