Torbjörn Limé CV
             
   

Short biography:
Lives and works in Visby, Gotland, Sweden

2013 Two-year artist working grant from the Arts Grants Committee in Sweden
2013-14 Acting director at the Gotland Art Museum, Visby
2011 One month residency at the Künstlersiedlung Halfmannshof, Gelsenkirchen, Germany (September)
2010 Study trip to Chile and La Tierra de Fuego (Nov - Dec)
2009-12 Committee board member, the Gallery Association / GoCart Gallery, Visby, Gotland
2009 Director at The Gotland School of Art, Visby
2008 Study trip to Chile and the desert of Atacama
2008 Project organizer, European Social Forum, Malmö
2006 Lived and worked in Berlin, Germany
2005 Study trip to the USA (NY, LA and SF)
2005 Study trip to Rome, Italy
2005 Launched The Pineapple Videobar
2004 Participated in the competition to the Skulptur-Biennale Münsterland 2005, Germany
2003-09 Committee board member, Digitala Bildverkstaden, Malmö
2003-05 Head of the artist studio association ADDO, Malmö
2003 The Dynamo Art Award, The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden
2003 Member of the artist association AURA, Lund
2002-05 Co-owner of the co-operative ID:I Gallery, Stockholm
2002 Lived and worked in Berlin
2000 Founded SPARWASSER HQ, non-commercial art space in Berlin-Mitte
2000 Lived and worked in Berlin
1999-2006 Committee board member, Kulturverkstaden, Malmö
1996 Founded THE PINEAPPLE PROJECT ROOM, artist run mobile platform
1990 Began teaching at art schools

1963 Born in Trollhättan, Sweden

   
             
    Art Education:
1996 - 02 Various further short educations in new media and digital art, Malmö
1988 - 93 The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm
1985 - 88 Forum, the Malmö School of Art, Malmö
1983 - 84 The KV School of Art, Gothenburg
   
             
   

Individual exhibitions: (selection)
2013 The Almedalen Mixtapes - the sound of the politicians, Strängnäs Kulturhus, Strängnäs, Sweden
2012 Greyzone Bunker, Gocart Gallery, Visby, Sweden
2011 The Pineapple - a fifteen year retrospective, The Art Museum of Gotland, Visby
2011 Topografische Realitäten, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2010 Gringolandia, The Art Museum of Gotland, Visby
2007 Baile de Resistencia, Galleri Rostrum (Art After Work), Malmö, Sweden
2006 Studium des kapitalistischen Realismus (Teil 1), Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden
2005 Tanzmaschine, Galleri ID:I, Stockholm, Sweden (with Bjørn Wangen)
2003 I Live Here/My White Trash, Galleri ID:I, Stockholm, Sweden (with Bjørn Wangen)
2002 Works In Progress, Sub Bau, Göteborg, Sweden
1999 Takes Off, Olle Olsson-Huset, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Welcome To The Kozmic Jungle, Galleri Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, Sweden
1998 Nebula, Galleri Trollhättan, Trollhättan, Sweden
1997 Obsessions, Galleri Roger Björkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
1996 Terrain Nébuleux, Mellanrummet, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1996 Traffic Goes To Heaven/Celestial Trip, Galleri Traffic, Malmö, Sweden
1995 My Naked Heart, Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden (with Marit Lindberg & Fredrik Sandblom)
1995 Terrain Nébuleux, Tomelilla Konsthall, Tomelilla, Sweden
1994 Saturnus och Gagarin, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Marit Lindberg)
1993 Heaven Is The Source Of The Light, Jakobsbergs Konsthall, Jakobsberg, Sweden
1993 Bikini, Norra Vallgatan 2, Malmö, Sweden
1992 ‘scuse me...while I kiss the sky..., Galleri Bengt Adlers, Malmö, Sweden
1992 Pèlerinage à l’ile de Cythère, Galleri Aniara, Sollentuna, Sweden
1990 Ruinromantik und Ruhrästhetik, Galleri Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden
1990 Thirteen Landscapes, Galleri Arton A, Stockholm, Sweden
1988 Nymphæáceæ, Galleri Läderfabriken, Malmö, Sweden
1998 Untitled, Galleri Rotor, Göteborg, Sweden

Group Shows: (selection)
2012 Untied:Notions, ID:I at Design Hall (Telefonplan), Stockholm >>
2012 Artbus Malmö-Visby, collaborative project: Galleri Rostrum (Malmö) and Gocart Gallery (Visby), Sweden
2012 B7 (seven biggest islands in the Baltic Sea), Bungenäs, Gotland, Sweden (outdoors)
2012 The Darkness of Light, Kumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Power and Light, Austellungshalle Hawerkamp, Münster, Germany
2011 Halfway to Russia and Other Horizons, Harrington Mill, Nottingham, UK
2011 Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (Gocart Gallery, Visby)
2010 The Upper Storey of Aurora, Candyland, Stockholm
2008 Outlook, European Social Forum, Malmö
2007 Unga Konstnärer, SAAB Automobile Konstförening, Trollhättan, Sweden
2005 Art Caucausus, Tblisi, Georgia
2005 Utopia, Changing Room Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2004 Måleri (Painting), Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
2003 AURA 75 år, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
2003 Nordic Live Art, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
2003 Annual Member’s Exhibition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2003 Street Level Simplon, Switzerland (outdoor exhibition along the Simplon-pass road to Italy)
2002 SHOOT on Tour, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2002 Funk und Mutoids, Bergstüb’l Projekte, Berlin, Germany
2002 Nyfiken, Bohusläns Konsthall, Uddevalla, Sweden
2002 Malmö, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
2002 Gyllene Tider, Röhsska Museet, Göteborg, Sweden
2002 Face To Face, Re.Projects.Space, Stroud, United Kingdom
2001 Resistance Is Futile, Re.Projects.Space, Stroud, United Kingdom
2001 Between Pop And Politics, B16, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2001 Summercamp 2001, Push.Firma.Beige, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Adaption, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2001 Between Pop And Politics, Re.Projects.Space, Stroud, United Kingdom
2001 Adaption, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2001 SHOOT on Tour, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2000 The Cave, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 In The Making, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2000 Flock, Luna International, Berlin, Germany
2000 Annual Member’s Exhibition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2000 The Pineapple Goes Berlin, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany
2000 Adaption, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden
2000 SHOOT on Tour, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000 SHOOT-moving pictures by artists, Malmö Konsthall/Biograf Spegeln, Malmö, SE
1999 Adaption, J&B, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Annual Member’s Exhibition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
1999 Euro-Ride, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom
1998 Stockholm Art Fair, Galleri Roger Björkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
1997 The Louisiana Exhibition, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark
1995 Smart Show, Galleri Tre, Stockholm, Sweden
1993 8, Galleri Heland-Wetterling, Stockholm, Sweden
1993 Avgångseleverna, Konsthögskolan, Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden
1991 Sydnytt, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1991 Art Against Aids, Galleri Bengt Adlers, Malmö, Sweden

Grants:
2013 Two-year working Grant, The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden
2009 Helge Ax:son Johnson, Travel Grant
2008 Project Subsidy - The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden (The Pineapple workshop at European Social Forum)
2007 Helge Ax:son Johnson, Travel Grant
2006 Two-year working Grant, The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden
2006 Helge Ax:son Johnson, Travel Grant
2005 Project Subsidy - The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden (to realize The Pineapple Videobar)
2003 The Dynamo Art Award, The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden
2001 NIFCA, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland (2 months residency)
2000 Two-year working Grant, The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden
2000 Ellen Trotzigs Fond, Malmö
1999 Malmö Kulturstipendium
1995 Two-year working Grant, The Arts Grants Committee in Sweden
1995 Centre Culturel Suèdois, Paris, France (1 month residency)

External projects: (selection)
2008 Ecological Colonialism - creative environments for a sustainable future (workshop at European Social Forum)
2004 Invitated to participate in the competition to Skulptur-Biennale 2005, Münsterland, Germany
2002 Publikation(54), Malmö, Sweden (rollon artist books)
1998 A Happy Saturday To Everybody, Gothenburg, Sweden (performance)
1996 A Happy Saturday To Everybody, Malmö, Sweden (performance)
1996 Happy Peace, Malmö, Sweden (performance)

Works in public places:
1998 Railway tunnel and downways, Trollhättan, Sweden
1992 Östra Sjukhuset, Malmö, Sweden

Represented at:
Region Gotland
Malmö Konstmuseum
Malmö Konstråd
Malmöhus Läns Landsting
Statens Konstråd
Volvo Aero
Järfälla Kommun
Solna Kommun
Botkyrka Kommun
Sollentuna Kommun
Different collections

Teaching: (all in Sweden)
Gotlands Konstskola (The Gotland School of Art), Visby
Malmö Art Academy
The University of Malmö (K3 - art, culture and communication)
The University of Lund, Inst. of Technology (Campus Helsingborg, Dep. of multimedia-engineering)
The University of Landscape Architecture, Alnarp
Kyrkeruds Folkhögskola, Årjäng
Nordvästra Skånes Folkhögskola, Munka-Ljungby
Skånska Målarskolan, Malmö

   
             
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