Public screenings
Bernadotte scholarship recipient Evelina Jonsson gives
public viewings of the exhibition The casing.

Location: Gallery East, floor 2
Date: Sat 21 Sept and Sat 5 Oct
Time: At 14:00.

Conversation about the project and the book
Welcome to a conversation with the artist Evelina Jonsson,
Catharina Gabrielsson (member of the Academy of Arts),
Anna Jansson (National Museum) and
Sofia Roberg (Stockholm University).

Location: The library, floor 1
Date: Sat 28 Sept
Time: at 14.00–15.30.

The casing

In this artistic research project, I investigate, through the encounter with the insect, how we create our knowledge, understanding and relationship to the world, and how this understanding in turn colors our vision.

There is a casing, one inside and one outside. This is the set-up from which I think and create, around enclosures that are created, hindered, maintained, changed and destroyed. The world is a constant constructing and shattering of capsules and membranes. Desire is a vector that wants to move through them, and desire wants to create them.

Evelina Jonsson

Bernadotte scholarship

Evelina Jonsson was awarded a scholarship within the Bernadotte program in 2023

for his critical and creative exploration of the salient forms of knowledge. Through laboratory-like interweaving and staging of processes, she stretches the boundary between conceptual knowledge and sensual experience. In the proposed project, the questions are further condensed in the intersection between entomology and poetry, between close material ordering and extended linguistic testing. Evelina Jonsson's work thus activates the existential questions that, precisely because they lack exhaustive answers today, must be formulated in dialogue between different forms of knowledge.

The scholarship includes SEK 125 from Axel Hirsch's donation fund, a one-year studio stay and an exhibition at the Art Academy.

Evelina Jonsson, born in 1990 in Nässjö, took her Master's degree in liberal arts at the Royal The Academy of Arts in 2022 and already has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2017 and a Bachelor's degree in Art Science at Uppsala University in 2018.