RONJA SVANEBORG
b. 1985 in Thy, Denmark
Lives and works between Zurich, Copenhagen and Dornbirn
Contact: ronjaborg(at)gmail.com
EDUCATION
2023-2024
Pre-Doc program Transforming Environments, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2021-2023
MA Fine Arts, with distinction, Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, Switzerland
2005-2008
BA (Hons) Fine Arts, First Class, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Giddy goes Ghillie, Galerie beim Feurle, Feldkirch AT
2020
The Octopus Waffle Lab, Void & Co., duo w/ Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Open Source Gallery, New York US
Naturton Spielautomat, Garage, Sibratsgfäll AT
Space Around Us, duo w/ Christine Katscher, Gallerie Vor-Ort, Altach AT
2018
Permanent Revisitation, Bildungshaus Batschuns, Zwischenwasser AT
2017
Embedment Depth, At Home Gallery, Šamorín SK
2017
All and Nothing, 139 Artspace, London UK
2015
Hul i Jorden, Albrectsens Galleri BUNKEREN, Copenhagen DK
2008
Right Foot, The Cell, Glasgow UK
2007
Preserving Autumn, duo w/ Silja Leifsdóttir, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
DOCK 20, curated by Anne Zühlke, Lustenau AT (upcoming)
Canale Milva, curated by Giada Olivotto and Camilla Paolino, Locarno IT (upcoming)
2023
Multiplex, Necessaire, Vienna AT
Time Will Tell, She Already Does, curated by Daniela Ramos Arias & Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen NO
Exploded, Palazzina, Basel CH
Control, MFA Degree Show, curated by Anna Goetz, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich CH
2022
South of the Lighthouse, curated by Kevin Malcolm, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen DK
Through the Open, curated by Nicola Genovese, Rabea Ridlhammer, Francesca Brusa, ZHdK, Zurich CH
Muffled Vision, Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz LI
Birth Cultures, La Bonne, Barcelona ES
Attitude, curated by Gabriele Garavaglia, Kaskadehalle, ZHdK, Zurich CH
2021
Heimspiel, Kunstraum Dornbirn AT
Kulturpreis Vorarlberg, ORF-Landesfunkhaus Dornbirn AT
Geburtskultur, curated by Stefania Pitscheider Soraperra, Frauenmuseum Hittisau AT
Birth Cultures, Women's Museum Meran IT
Birth Cultures, Centre of Gender Culture, Kharkiv, UA
An Vogel, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT
2020
Kunstankäufe Land Vorarlberg 2019, Gallerie allerART, Bludenz AT
Kollaborativ Denken und Handeln, Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn CH
Brauchen, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT
2019
M57, Atelier Marktstraße 57, Dornbirn AT
Bezugstoffe, curated by Daniela Fetz-Mages, Galerie Holenstein, Lustenau AT
KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU, curated by Void & Co., Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT
2018
FAD, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT
Påskeudstilling, Grønt Lys, Snedsted DK
2017
REPRODUKTION, curated by Melanie Berlinger, Villa Claudia, Feldkirch AT
Koncerter, oplæsning og udstilling, Ping Pong-Kælderen, Copenhagen DK
Neue Mitglieder, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT
pflege das leben, Frauenmuseum Hittisau AT
2016
Mitgliederausstellung, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT
Artur017, Galerie art d'Oséra, Diepoldsau CH
2015
Farb, curated by Thomas Geisler, Werkraum, Andelsbuch AT
Koncerter, oplæsninger, og udstilling, Mayhem, Copenhagen DK
Lim - Offcut, Bådebyggerværkstedet ved Danske Studenters Roklub, Copenhagen DK
2014
Lim, Bådebyggerværkstedet ved Danske Studenters Roklub, Copenhagen DK
Udstilling og Optrædener, Baghuset Vesterbrogade 102, Copenhagen DK
2010
The New Domestic Landscape, curated by Alistair Robinson, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland UK
Bloody hyggelig!, Muscle Temple Studios, Berlin DE
2008
Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh UK
Degree Show '08, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow UK
2007
Throb, The Flying Duck, Glasgow UK
All The Ones I Didn’t Want, How I Wish I Had Them Now, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow UK
PERFORMANCES
2024
Third Lung, w/Pascal Lund Jensen, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, Bregenz AT (upcoming)
Do I need to move my lips to be part of the choir?, The Poly Listening Club, ZHdK Zurich
Porcelain Pain, Krach und Klang, ZHdK, Zurich CH
2023
Ubiquitous Blow, Sonic Matter Festival, Zurich CH
The Octopus Waffle Lab, Bergen Edition, w/Void & Co., Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen NO
2022
Ritual Echoes, Romanshorner Luftspiele CH
I WILL BE YOUR SPACE IF YOU WILL BE MINE, Kunstraum Dornbirn AT
Overhead Diffusion, w/Severin Hagen, Pirmin Hagen and Christine Katscher, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz AT
2021
The Birth Voice, 6th International IAWM Conference of Women’s Museums, Frauenmuseum Hittisau AT
2021
The Birth Voice, Open-Air Festival ‘einer libelle leichtes glück’, Hittisau AT
2020
Åletanken, Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn CH
The Octopus Waffle Lab, w/Void & Co., Open Source Gallery, New York US
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2024
Third Lung, Kunst und Bau, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, Bregenz AT (upcoming)
2021
What's he building in there?, Sibratsgfäll AT
2019
Monument for Fremtiden, KulTHYvator, Bedsted Thy DK
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Muffled Vision (artist book)
Kunstaunkäufe des Landes Vorarlberg 2019-2021 (catalogue)
Franz the Lonely Austrionaut, magazine for narrative drawing, issue 15 Show Down, AT
I WILL BE YOUR SPACE IF YOU WILL BE MINE (artist book)
Kulturpreis Vorarlberg 2021 (catalogue)
Bezugsstoffe / Textile Techniken (catalogue)
2021
THE BIRTH VOICE (vinyl)
2020
Kollaborativ Denken und Handeln (catalogue)
The Octopus Waffle Lab (booklet)
2019
Slagtryk, periodical for poetry and short prose, issue 86, DK
2018
Permanent Revisitation (artist book)
2017
artur017, CH (catalogue)
REPRODUKTION., AT (catalogue)
2010
Morgenrøde, issue 1, red. L.A. Fynboe, P.F. Jensen, L.B. Nørgaard, P.C. Woetmann, DK
2008
Graduate photography online Source Magazine, UK
2006
Draft Magazine, issue 3, US
COLLECTIONS
2022
Jubiläumsfonds Privatstiftung Dornbirner Sparkasse, AT
2019
Land Vorarlberg, AT
RESIDENCIES
2024
IFMZ / Initiative Freie Musikszene Zürich, Multidirectional Motions, Zurich CH
2019
Statens Værksteder for Kunst / Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen DK
SÍM Residency, Reykjavík IS
2017
At Home Gallery, Šamorín SK
ARTIST TALKS
2024
IFMZ / Initiative Freie Musikszene Zürich, Zurich CH
2023
Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen NO
2020
Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn CH
Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, New York US
2019
BOOA, Bedsted Thy DK
THEATRE
2024
Scenography for Sonntag by Tobias Fend, directed by Danielle Fend-Strahm,
cafefuerte.ch, Vorarlberg AT
2022
Scenography for Tintenfischen by Tobias Fend, directed by Danielle Fend-Strahm, cafefuerte.ch, Vorarlberg AT
2021
Scenography and costumes for Truck Stop by Tobias Fend, directed by Danielle Fend-Strahm, cafefuerte.ch, Vorarlberg AT
2013
Scenography and costumes for Tigeren, Anden, Koen og Krokodillen by Christine Wolff Ørnsbo, directed by Ann-Sofie Bertelsen, HUSET-KBH, Planeten, Copenhagen DK
COLLABORATION AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE
2018
Co-founder of Void & Co. - ongoing artistic and curatorial fusion; an inclusive platform for visual art projects run together with Ditte Knus Tønnesen (DK)
voidandco.org
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024
Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IfCAR), Zurich University of the Arts, research grant
2023
Vorarlberger Landesregierung, 5x5GO-Stipendium
Jubiläumspreis Dornbirner Sparkasse
2022
Vorarlberger Landesregierung, scholarship
Augustinus Fonden, scholarship
2021
Kulturpreis Vorarlberg 2021, Anerkennungspreis / achievement award
Augustinus Fonden, scholarship
Vorarlberger Landesregierung, working grant
Vorarlberger Landesregierung, 5x5GO-Stipendium