Evelina Hägglund (b. 1992) lives and works in London and Stockholm. By making sculptures, drawings and paintings made of metal, paint, concrete, canvas, clay and graphite, she explores physicality as a way of communicating. After completing her bachelor degree at AVA - Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana in 2018, she entered the Master of Fine Art program at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she graduated in 2021. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including at Golsa (2024), NO; Parafin (2023); UK; Pradiauto (2023), ES; Incubator (2022), UK; Cromwell Place (2022), UK; Green Family Foundation (2022), U.S.; Nicoletti Contemporary (2022), UK; Union Pacific (2021); Saatchi Gallery, (2021), UK; Inter Pblc, Copenhagen, (2021) DK; Jakobsbergs konsthall (2020), SWE; Kiribati National Museum, (2019) Tarawa, KI; Temporary Gallery, (2016) DE; and the Biennial of Graphic Arts, The Museum of Modern Art (2015), SLO. Hägglund was a resident at Transborders in Austria/Slovenia (2019) and Land404 in Sweden (2018). She received grants and awards from The Goethe Institut (2023); The Swedish Arts Committee (2022); Goldsmiths, University of London (Warden’s Award, 2021); Gunvor och Joseph Anérs foundation (2020); Fredrika Bremer förbundets foundation (2020); Sixten Gemzéus foundation (2019); The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (2019); Anders Sandrews foundation (2019); and Foundation AAA (2018 and 2017). In 2021, Hägglund received a public commission from Plaza Protocol, curated by Tjaša Pogačar, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

EDUCATION
2019-2021 Master of Fine Arts, Goldsmith’s, London, UK
2018-2019 Master of Fine Arts, Umeå Art Academy, Sweden
2014-2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), A.V.A - Academy of Visual Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017-2018 Academic Sculpture, Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 Summer School as School, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Pristina, Prishtina, Kosovo

EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upcoming: ON A TONGUE’S TIP, AT A WORLD’S LIP, Kunstraum Niederösterreich. Curators: Tjaša Pogačar & Frederike Sperling. Vienna, Austria
2025 Upcoming: Södertörn högskola. Curator: Joel Odebrandt, Stockholm, Sweden
2024 Mind to Hand, Incubator, UK
2024 That’s Life (trio), Secci, Pietrasanta, Italy
2024 Market, with Golsa. Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Sweden
2024 I Dreamt I Was the Ground (solo), Golsa, Oslo, Norway
2023 From Birth to Earth. Curated by Louisa Hunt and Ben Tufnell. Parafin. London, UK
2023 Hemispheres. Curated by Daniel Valentine. Alice Black Gallery. London, UK
2023 Subplotters. Curated by Jorge Van den Eynde Gray. Pradiauto, Madrid, Spain
2023 Stuff it. Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 After Language (duo), Cromwell Place, London, UK
2022 At One With the World (solo), Incubator, London, UK
2022 AMALGAM. Stora nygatan 31, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Painters Painting Painters: A study of Muses, Friends and Companions. Curated by Bailey Summers. Green Family Foundation, TX, U.S.A
2022 ‘somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond’ (duo). Nicoletti Contemporary, London, UK
2021 Me & my friends. Curated by Andreas Mallouris. Koraï project space, Nicosia, Cyprus
2021 The Apple Tree. Union Pacific, London, UK
2021 London Grads Now. Saatchi gallery, UK
2021 Glich—Fiction as Form. Curated by Anouska Kobus and Laura Goldschmidt. Inter Pblc, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Rörelsens andning. Curated by Patrick Kretschek. ARBARK, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Out of Language. MFA Degree Exhibition, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2021 Where Nature Ends (solo). Curated by Sara-Lot van Uum. NX310, London, UK
2020 I SJÄLVA VERKET (duo), Jakobsbergs konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 A Saussurean Nightmare, Galerija Jerolim, Stari Grad, Croatia
2020 Blank, The Hole, New York, U.S.A.
2019 Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Kiribati National Museum, Tarawa, Kiribati
2019 GIFC / Velvet Ropes, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 So Bright It Shut Out the Sun (solo). Curated by Maja Burja. Kino Siska gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019 It Looks Good on Paper, galleri Konsthögskolan, Umeå, Sweden (cat.)
2019 No New Media, ALVA gallery, Umeå, Sweden
2018 Raztava, Palaca Cukrarna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 At Last the Perfect Weather is Unending, Land 404, Gullholma, Sweden
2018 Too Late to Apologize, Tas Mektep Museum, Mersin, Turkey
2018 Rog factory, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 ”It must be further yet”, she sighed; ”Then farther will I go”, Dobra Vaga Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 Can We stop? Alkatraz gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 Other, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cat.) 
2017 Border, NiNa, Warszaw, Polen
2016 One month: After the materialisation of the art object, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany (cat.)
2016 To Inhabit Your Column, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2016 Malice in Wanderlands, 12 Star Gallery, London, UK
2016 In Dialogue with Conceptual Art, Vzigalica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 White on White, 31. Biennial of Graphic Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cat.)

PUBLIC COMISSIONS
2021 Plaza Protocol, curated by Tjaša Pogačar, Ljubljana, Slovenia
www.plazaprotocol.si

RESIDENCIES
2023 Reminiscences Residency. Pradiauto in collaboration with Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid, Spain
2019 Transborder/temp.tc, Cmurek castle, Slovenia
2018 Land404 Artist Residency, Land404, Gullholma, Sweden
2018 2nd International Sculpture Residency, Lode brickfactory, Latvia
2018 3rd Soli Pompeiopolis Symposium, Mezitli, Mersin, Turkey
2017 Dobra Vaga residency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 In Between? ENRS artistic research residency Warszaw, Polen and Pecs, Hungary
2015-2016 Apprentice/Master, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, Netherlands

SELECTED LECTURES, WORKSHOPS & TEACHING
2021 The Politics of Wordlessness. Curated by Mapping Local Ecologies, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK
2021 Going Public. Curated by Ankita Mukherji, F.A.T studios, London, UK
2021 Mapping memory. In conversation with Anouska Kobus. For GCAT, UK
2020 Don’t Dig Here. Curated by Susanne Ewerlöf, Verkstad konsthall, Norrköping, Sweden
2019 Exposing Overexposure. Lecture at UmUB, Umeå, Sweden
2018 Artist talk at Lantluft, Blekinge, Sweden

JURIES
2019 Juror, Umeå Art Academy, postgraduate admissions

GRANTS & AWARDS
2025 City of Stockholm; Studio grant
2024 The Swedish Arts Committee
2024 Nordic Culture Point
2023 The Swedish Arts Committee; September travel grant
2023 Helge Ax:son Johnson foundation
2023 The Swedish Arts Committee; June travel grant
2023 Goethe Institute / Culture Moves Europe
2022 The Swedish Arts Committee; November travel grant
2022 The Swedish Arts Committee; One year working grant
2022 The Swedish Arts Committee; September travel grant
2022 Petersenska hemmet
2021-2024 City of Stockholm; Studio grant
2021 Goldsmiths, University of London; Warden’s award
2020 Gunvor och Joseph Anérs foundation
2020 Fredrika Bremer förbundets foundation
2019 Petersenska hemmet
2019 Sixten Gemzéus foundation
2019 The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts; Molly and Ragnar Rudemars fondation
2019 Anders Sandrews foundation
2018 Foundation AAA
2018 Gunvor och Joseph Anérs foundation
2017 Foundation AAA

OTHER
2019- Co-founder and editor of ~lish, a journal in the Foreigner’s English.
www.lishjournal.com