Josefin Tingvall
Josefin Tingvall
Textile artist and independent researcher
josefintingvall.com
josefin.tingvall@gmail.com
@josefintingvall
josefintingvall.com
josefin.tingvall@gmail.com
@josefintingvall
Josefin Tingvall was born in 1993, Arvika, Sweden, and since 2019 lives and works in Gothenburg. She obtained her master’s degree in Fine Art focusing on textile art in 2017 from Konstfack in Stockholm. Tingvall holds a degree in craft and design from Linköping University, a Master's in Fine Arts from Gothenburg University, and has studied as a visiting student at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
Her practice is project-based and rooted in a poetic and material inquiry into materials' dynamics, manipulation, and boundaries. Tingvall works in-between artistic techniques of weaving, embroidery, experimental dye and visual coding, and usually develops, merges and recontextualizes craft as a navigator and exploring tool in her projects. She explores themes such as the environment, fragility, and change, and the role of humans in a more-than-human world through the contemporary textile. A recurring theme is the landscape and the re-imagined place, a metaphor for constant transformation and of craft as actions and interweaving between different wills and presences.
Recent solo exhibitions include Färgelanda Konsthall (2024); Ahlbergshallen, Östersund (2023); Staffanstorp Konsthall, (2023); Galleri KC, Göteborg, (2022); Luleå Konsthall (2019) Tingvall’s past group exhibitions include Most Valuable craft on earth, Not Quite, Fengersfors (2024) Spånadslin, Slöjdgalleriet, Linköping (2022); Glokala Sammantrasslingar, Stationen, Svenshögen (2021); Connections, Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia (2019); 100 Folk, Hemslöjden i Östergötland, Linköping (2018); Knitwear, Falkenbergs Museum (2015).
Tingvall is a recipient of Wettergrens Stiftelse Culture grant (2021) and was a finalist of Young Swedish form 2016. She has participated in the residences of Air Green, Norwegian Textile Artists (2022); IASPIS, Konstnärsnämnden Stockholm, april – september (2020); Luleå Ateljéstipendium (2018).
Her practice is project-based and rooted in a poetic and material inquiry into materials' dynamics, manipulation, and boundaries. Tingvall works in-between artistic techniques of weaving, embroidery, experimental dye and visual coding, and usually develops, merges and recontextualizes craft as a navigator and exploring tool in her projects. She explores themes such as the environment, fragility, and change, and the role of humans in a more-than-human world through the contemporary textile. A recurring theme is the landscape and the re-imagined place, a metaphor for constant transformation and of craft as actions and interweaving between different wills and presences.
Recent solo exhibitions include Färgelanda Konsthall (2024); Ahlbergshallen, Östersund (2023); Staffanstorp Konsthall, (2023); Galleri KC, Göteborg, (2022); Luleå Konsthall (2019) Tingvall’s past group exhibitions include Most Valuable craft on earth, Not Quite, Fengersfors (2024) Spånadslin, Slöjdgalleriet, Linköping (2022); Glokala Sammantrasslingar, Stationen, Svenshögen (2021); Connections, Gallery Noorus, Tartu, Estonia (2019); 100 Folk, Hemslöjden i Östergötland, Linköping (2018); Knitwear, Falkenbergs Museum (2015).
Tingvall is a recipient of Wettergrens Stiftelse Culture grant (2021) and was a finalist of Young Swedish form 2016. She has participated in the residences of Air Green, Norwegian Textile Artists (2022); IASPIS, Konstnärsnämnden Stockholm, april – september (2020); Luleå Ateljéstipendium (2018).