Celebrated multidisciplinary artist Klara Lidén’s two-month residency at The Chinati Foundation culminates with an Open Studio on Friday, October 10, from 4 to 7 p.m. to kick off Chinati Weekend at the Locker Plant on E. Oak St. It is free and open to the public.
Born in Stockholm in 1979 and currently residing in Berlin, Lidén has exhibited work extensively. The depth and breadth of her practice continues to defy tidy categorization—her work spans sculpture, video, structural intervention, performance, photography and installation. Frequently, she incorporates materials sourced from urban environments—waste bins, cardboard, concrete or recyclables—which she transforms through an inventive and occasionally playful approach, a process she has characterized as “unbuilding.”
Highlighting the solemn playfulness and humor in the artist’s work, famed art curator and essayist Helen Molesworth wrote in a 2011 Artforum feature that works exhibited by Lidén at an Artpace residency in 2010 “amplified her slapstick sensibilities in ways that brought to mind the silent performances of Buster Keaton.”
Having attended the Royal Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture in Stockholm, the Berlin University of the Arts, and Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Lidén continues to be motivated by her interests in architecture, its surrounding spaces, social constructs related to materials, and the relationship between the human body and these elements, consistently exploring the physical and psychological boundaries of the spaces we inhabit, both public and private.
Recent solo exhibitions include Square Moon at Sadie Coles in London (2024), VERDEBELVEDERE at Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York (2024), and (0, 0, 0) at Galerie Neu in Berlin (2023). Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.