Runs Galleri Syster in Luleå together with Sara Edström & Therese Engström a self-organized gallery and a meeting place for contemporary art.
Part of Norrakollektivet (The North Collective) together with Tomas Örn and Fanny Carinasdotter, an artistic and collective collaboration. Our projects are part of my current CV and are referred to as (Norrakollektivet).
2024 White Waters Mist, Kolonin, Arvika (SE) (in collaboration with Tomas Örn)
2024 A place disappearance, Gylleboverket, Gärsnäs (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2023 White Waters Mist, Galleri Syster (SE), Luleå (in collaboration with Tomas Örn)
2022 The sixth Sense, Curated by May Lindholm, Storsäterns kapell Västerås stift (SE)
2021 In Memory of a River, Laponiaporten,Porjus (SE) in cooperation with Norrbottens Museum
2021 A place disappearance, Havremagasinet Art Hall, Boden (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2019 In Memory of a River. Ställbergs gruva, Ljusnarsberg (SE)
2016 Anja Örn & Linnea Henriksson, Gallery Napa, Rovaniemi (FI)
2014 Art Camp, Touring exhibition and project organized by Helena Wikström, The white Cube Norrlandsoperan. (In collaboration with Sara Edström)
2012 The ect of regression, Luleå Art Hall (SE)
2025 Cracks in the ceiling, curated by Hans Sundvall, Luleå Art Hall (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2025 The land of the future in 15 and ½ chapters. Curated by Silvia Colombo och ass curator Ana Victoria Bruno, Havremagasinet Art Hall in Boden (SE) (in collaboration with T. Örn)
2022 All That Is Solid Melts into Water, curated by Rado Ištok in cooperation with Mariam Elnozahy, Uppsala Art Museum (SE)
2024 Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest, Bildmuseet Umeå (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2022 Through a thousand battles and caresses, curated by Ida Rödén and Erik Berggren, TEGEN 2, Stockholm (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2022 With Love, curated by Maria Ragnestam, , Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå (SE)
2022 The Corona Collection - Public Art Agency Sweden's acquisitions 2021, Museum of Artistic processes and public art, Lund (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2021 The memory of a place. Gallery Verkligheten, Umeå (SE)
2020 Kiruna forever, ArkDes, Stockholm (SE), curated by Carlos Mínguez-Carrasco (Norrakollektivet)
2020 Kiruna forever, Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2020 Human Nature, Sune Jonsson Center for Documentary Photography, Umeå (SE), curated by Alexandra A. Ellis (Norrakollektivet)
2019 To the art - landscapes in uncertain times, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sthlm (SE) organized by the Swedish Association for Art
2019 AG Meinschaft Galleri. Hilbertraum, Berlin, organized by Galleri Syster
2018 Luleå Biennale - Tidal ground. Curated by Asrin Haidari, Emily Fahlén & Thomas Hämén (SE)
2018 Modernautställningen 2018, With the Future behind us, Moderna Museet Stockholm (SE), curated by Joa Ljungberg & Santiago Mostyn (Norrakollektivet)
2018 Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, Kunsthall Trondheim. Group exhibition curated by Lisa Rosendahl, Trondheim (NO). (Norrakollektivet)
2018 Shapeshifting, organized by and at Galleri Syster, Luleå (SE)
2018 Gemeinsam, Glogau Air Berlin. Group exhibition organized by Galleri Syster, Luleå (Se)
2017 Extractions from a future history. Group exhibition curated by Lisa Rosendahl, organized by The Public Art Agency Swedent (Norrakollektivet)
2017 Avstamp Boden, Havremagasinet, Länskonsthall Boden , Boden (SE) (in collaboration with T.Örn)
2015 Länsförsäkringar, Group exhibition of purchased art collection, curated by Helene Lindberg
2025 Swirl, Art Inside Out, Halland, Knäred (SE) (in collaboration with T. Örn)
2024 the act of listening, commissioned by Region Gotland, Almedalen, Visby (SE)
(in collaboration with T. Örn)
2024 After the rain, commissioned by Public art Uppsala municipality. Bälinge school (SE)
2024 White waters mist, commissioned by Wallsténhus, Piteå (SE) (in collaboration with T.Örn)
2021 Higgledy-piggledy, commissioned by Lumire, for Risslan, Luleå (SE)
2021 Cross section surfaces, commissioned by Stabo in Piteå (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2020 In memory of a river, commissioned by Gothenburg art, Älvstranden Utveckling (SE)
2018 In memory of the waterfalls in Luleå river, commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden, for The youth prison in Luleå (SE)
2016 Light Tower, commissioned by Wallsténhus, Piteå (SE) (in collaboration with T. Örn)
2015 River, commissioned by Piteå Municipality, for Piteå sculpture park (SE)
2015 Woodland lake, commissioned by Norrbotten County Council for The Patient Hotel at Sunderby Hospital (SE)
2012 Outgrowths, commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden for District court in Gällivare (SE)
2009 Transit, commissioned by Haparanda city, for the boardwalk, Haparnada (SE)
2006 Small moss, commissioned by Lulebo, Luleå (SE)
2001 Wants to be forest, commissioned by Luleå municipality for Kilen Art group, Kronan sculpture park (SE)
2000 Man is, commissioned by Foundation Stjärnholm and Stjärnholm sculpturepark (SE) (in collaboration with T. Boström)
2000 Doves, commissioned by Swedish Transport Administration in Luleå (SE) (in collaboration with T. Boström)
2025 Kin Museum of Contemporary Art Kiruna, installation A Place Disappearing (Norrakollektivet)
2023 Region Norrbotten, photographs from White waters mist (in collaboration with Tomas Örn)
2021 Moderna museet Sthlm, installation of sculptures and video from In memory of a river
2021 Moderna museet Sthlm, video installation Using landscapes (Norrakollektivet)
2021 Region Västerbotten, photographs from A Place Disappearing (Norrakollektivet)
2021 Public Art Agency in Sweden, photographs from A Place Disappearing (Norrakollektivet)
2020 Public Art Agency in Sweden, photographs from Using landscapes (Norrakollektivet)
2020 Region Norrbotten, photo from installation Selfportrait
2020 Umeå municipality, photographs and copper silhouettes from Using landscapes (Norrakollektivet)
2015 Länsförsäkringar Norrbotten, intarsia River
2014 Luleå Municipality, sculpture Eternal Spring
2024 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, two-year working grant
2024 Rosenströmska stiftelsen Culture award
2022 Konstnärscentrum Nord, project grant for Designed nature (Norrakollektivet)
2021 Luleå municipality, Culture award
2021 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, crisis grant
2021 Konstnärscentrum Nord, project grant for Room for big decisions (together with T. Örn)
2020 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, two-year working grant
2020 Norrbottens museum, support for the book project A place disappearing (Norrakollektivet)
2019 Längmanska kulturfonden, support for the book project A place disappearing (Norrakollektivet)
2019 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, project grant for A place disappearing (Norrakollektivet)
2018 Dynamo grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Galleri Syster; Sara Edström och Therese Engström)
2017 Region Norrbotten, Rubus Arcticus Art and Culture Grant
2017 Naturastipendium/Grant Norrländska litteratursällskapet/Författarcentrum Norr
2016 Kulturkontakt Nord, mobility support
2011 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, one-year working grant
2001 Britta Jacobsson Grant
1999 Nils Nilsson Skum Grant
1997 Sunderby Folkhögskolas art Grant
2024-2025 Development of a new work of art for the project The Geography of Emptiness commissioned by the Art Gallery in Luleå (SE) to the exhibition Cracks in the ceiling (Norrakollektivet)
2023-2024 Development of the project Designed Nature commissioned by Bildmuseet to the exhibition Eight Degrees / Contemporary Art on the Forest (Norrakollektivet)
2020-2021 Development of a new work of art for the project A Place Disappearing commissioned by Havremagasinet, Boden (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2019-2020 Development of the project A Place Disappearing commissioned by ArkDes in Stockholm and Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiruna (SE) for the exhibition Kiruna forever (Norrakollektivet)
2017-2018 Development of the project Using Landscapes commissioned by the Public Art Agency Sweden (SE) for the exhibition Extracts from a future history (Norrakollektivet)
2027-2028 Development of the project In memory of a river commissioned by Luleå Art Biennial
2023 In memory of a river (the film), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
2022 Art on the North Bothnia Line, Pilot project for Art in the Future, Superpuppan
(in collaboration with Tomas Örn, Erik Thörnqvist och Gidesson/Londré) curated by
Åsa Bergdahl, Statens Konstråd & Trafikverket (SE)
2022 In memory of a river, The culture house Storbrunn, Östhammar (SE)
2021 Film screening A place disappearing and artist talk Ställbers gruva, Ljusnarsberg (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2020 A place disappearing, UEFF 2020 - Perspektiv från Norr, Umeå Europeiska filmfestival,
Folkets Bio Umeå (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2019 River walk Ställbergs Gruva, Ljusnarsberg (SE)
2019 Film screening, Using landscapes, seminarium & workshop, Pluriversal conversations:
anti-/non-/post-extractivist culture, Kajaani (FI) (Norrakollektivet)
2018 Artistic Embellishments, soil market, Mossutställningar, Stockholm (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2018 Performativ reading Moderna Museet Sthlm (SE) (Syster: Anja Örn Sara Edström Therese Engström)
2017 Using landscapes, Gallery Syster, Luleå (Norrakollektivet)
2025 Residens Lyssnare Art inside Out, Knäred, Halland (SE)
2025 Red Herring, Red Herring network, part one Visby (SE), part two Seili (FI)
organised by Contemporary Art Archipelago, Baltic Art Center, Kordon Residency
2024 Residens The Weather Station, Konsthall Tornedalen, Vitsaniemi (SE)
2022 Home Residens, Resurscentrum for Art, Region Norrbotten (SE)
A Place disapperaring - Norrakollektivet. In: NON no. 3-4: Louis De Geer was here. r: Where we stand, there we go. Publication Ställbergsgruva, NON publishing house (2023) (Norrakollektivet)
A Place Disappearing - Norrakollektivet. I: Landscape Revisited –Ten Conjunctions of Art and Landscape, red.Sigrid Sandström. Writings from the Academy of Fine Arts (10). Uniarts Helsinki, Finland. 2023
Carinasdotter, F., Örn, A. & Örn, T. (2020). En plats försvinnande: a place disappearing. Luleå/Umeå: Norrakollektivet
Örn, A. (2019). Till minnet av en älv. I: Älvräddaren 2019. Älvräddarnas samorganisation
Örn, A. & Örn, T. (2019) Graffiti. Urbana platser och norrländsk natur. I: Creating the city: identity, memory and participation: conference proceedings. Malmö högskola, Institutionen för urbana studier & Institutet för studier i Malmös historia.
Edström, s., Engström, T. & Örn, A. (2018) Mitt i ett jordskred. Om maktskiften kollektivism och feministisk revolution, i In & beyond Sweden: journeys through an art scene. Ljungberg, J., Malm, L., Mostyn, S. & Pousette, J. (red.) Stockholm: Art and Theory Publishing
Örn, A, & Örn T (2015) GRAFFITIPROJEKTET OMSTart. I: PLAN nr 6, Föreningen för Samhällsplanering.
Örn, A. & Örn, T. (2015) Tomhet – mellanrummens betydelse. I: Provins: norrländsk litterär tidskrift 2015:2, Kiruna, gruvan, staden och historieskrivningen. Umeå: Norrländska litteratursällskapet/Författarcentrum Norr.
Represented in publications
Moderna Museet (2024). Swedish Acquisitions 2021. [Stockholm]: Moderna museet
Golling, D. & Mínguez Carrasco, C. (red.) (2020). Kiruna Forever. Stockholm: Arkitektur förlag
Sveriges allmänna konstförening (2019). Till konsten: landskap i ovissa tider : utvalda konstverk möter betraktares ord. Stockholm: Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening (SAK).
Moritz, Per & Tjernström, Karin (red.) (2015). Konst. Luleå: Norrbottens hembygdsförbund
Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore (utstilling) (2018). Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore: 13.09-21.12 2018, Kunsthall Trondheim. Oslo: Uten Tittel / Not Yet Titled Press.
Magnusson, Jonas J. (red.) (2017). OEI # 77-78 2017: Berg & infrastruktur. Stockholm: OEI Editör.
Att använda landskap i Galleri systers utställningsmagasin The Epicentre of Everything. I samarbete med Fanny Carinasdotter och Tomas Örn 2016.
2022 Superpuppan, Reading and Panel Discussion. Art on the North Bothnia Line, (in collaboration with
Tomas Örn, Erik Thörnqvist och Gidesson/Londré), Piblic Art Agency, Stockholm (SE)
2022 Artisttalk, related to the exhibition with Love Sara Kulturhus, MAN, Skellefteå (SE)
2021 In memory of a river, artisttalk, Laponiaporten, Porjus (SE).
2021 A place disappearance, lecture at Färgfabriken, Stockholm (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2021 Landscape Today, Participation in Symposium, Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (FI) (Norrakollektivet)
2020 A place disappearance, Bookrelease at Norrbottensmuseum, Luleå (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2020 Arctic Art Book Fair, Mondo books, Tromsø (No) (Norrakollektivet)
2020 Validating the Rural: The participation of rural communities in environmental sustainability,
conference by Mistra, participated with the bookproject A place disappearance (Norrakollektivet).
2020 Village symposium. Discovering inputs, Cultural paths, conference (Norrakollektivet)
2019 Pluriversal conversations: anti- / non- / post-extractivist culture, seminar worksh. Kajaani (FI)
(Norrakollektivet)
2019 Moskito Art talk, Resurscentrum för konst and KKV Luleå. Luleå Art hall (SE) (together with T. Örn)
2019 The Lule River; memory and historical discoveries, Lecture on Luleå river, and film screening,
In Memory of a River, Luleå Hembygdsförening (SE)
2019 River walk, walk and talk, Ställbergs gruva (SE)
2018 In memory of a river, artisttalk arranged by Luleåbiennalen, Luleå art hall (SE)
2018 Konstnärliga avsmyckningar. Soil Market, Moss exhibitions, Stockholm (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2018 Manifest, Performative reading performed by Galleri Syster: Anja Örn Sara Edström Therese Engström.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
2017 Konst i brytningstider, part of talk arranged by Lisa Rosendahl, The Public Art Agency Swedent
(Norrakollektivet)
2017 Avstamp Boden, City development project, Havremagasinet Art Hall, Boden (SE) (together with T. Örn)
2017 AITIK - An arctic landscape That requires the city, Lecture at the conference: Creating City, Identity,
Memory, and participation, Malmö University (SE) (Norrakollektivet)
2017 Graffiti - urban places and northern nature, Lecture at the conference: Creating City, Identity, Memory,
and participation, Malmö University (SE) (together with T. Örn)
2016 Hertsöverkstan, In collaboration with Hertsöteatern, Galleri sister, & Labor Market Administration
in Luleå municipality, Part of the Arts Council’s Creative places. (SE)
2016 Emptiness - The importance of in-between patterns, Lecture, Bok & Bild, Luleå (SE)
(together with T. Örn)
2014 Emptiness – The importance of in-between patterns, Lecture, at the conference On the Edge the Dual
City, Past and Present. Stockholmia, research and publishing (SE) (together with T. Örn)
2014 Art associations as a non-commercial platform for contemporary art, Lecture at the Nordic conference
on future art association, The National Association of Swedish Art Societies, Malmö (SE)
2015 Norrbotten Embassy of Art, Gallery So in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm (SE)
2015 KIN Jubilee Exhibition, Rovaniemi (FI)
2002 New potatoe, The Lethaby Gallery, London (UK)
2001 Newpotatoe, Rovaniemi (FI)
2000 Black and white, arranged by KC, Boden (SE)