Contact:
albertoscarsten@gmail.com
+46 76-853 55 83

Photo: Hans Jorgen Ro

Albert Sten (b.1995) is a Stockholm-based photographer and 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.





Work
2022 – now
Producer - Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm

2017 – now
Freelance – Photography / Film / AI

2015 – 2016
Office Manager - ElinderSten Arkitekter, Stockholm


Residencies
2022
Documentary Residency,Sune Jonsson Centrum, Umeå


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

Education
2024 
Internship, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2023-
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


Nominations / Awards

2024
3rd place, CreateCOP29 / Artpartner & Earthpartner

2024 
Moving Image Award, Simultan Festival

2020
C/O Berlin Talent Award; New Documentary Strategies


Artist Books

2021 - Jag ärvde en mörk skog dit jag sällan går

2020 - Liquid Crystal


Publications

Uncertain States / Scandinavia - Issue 20 

https://ucsscandinavia.com




Solo Exhibitions

2024
Arkivet som utgångspunkt
panel discussion and pop-up exhibition. – Library of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)(SWE)    

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

2023 - Dödsupplevelser, GNA project, Stockholm.(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)




Group Exhibitions

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 (ROU)

2024 - A Hard Currency of Memories, Simultan Festival, Timisoara (ROU)

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

2023 - Ögonkontakt / Eye Contact, 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
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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