Blåbärsmaskinen (novel), Peering Intoo the Black Box,
Biography
Nils Taki Claesson (born 6 September 1958) is a Swedish artist, director, author and artistic researcher. He is currently assistant professor at the Stockholm University of the Arts.
Claesson has produced a wide range of works in recent years, including films, books, and exhibitions, often exploring themes of memory, social change, and urban space.
2019:Valentina Dobrova’s Life, a documentary project in collaboration with Denis Romanovski. Exhibited at TEGEN2 and Konstepidemin in Gothenburg.
2020:Texter som ingen läser ("Texts No One Reads") – a book published by Förlag Ruin. Read online
Peering intoo the Black Box – six-channel video installation, solo exhibition at Galleri TEGEN2. DN review
2021: Group exhibition: Work, Life, and Love at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Work: Black Painting – White Painting. Curated by Sara Arrhenius.
2022: Co-editor of the book After Work, on artistic research and the meaning of labor. Source
2023:Art Takes a Time Out – Five Seconds for Justice, at TEGEN2
Five Buckets of Potatoes, shown at Supermarket Art Fair
2024:
An Island – video installation exhibited in Nutopia in Stockholm. DN review
Ro en ko ("Row a Cow") – short film in the exhibition Islands at Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå. ExhibitionVK review
2025:An Artist Must Not Be Too Molded – film premiere at Konsthändelse 2025 in Stockholm.
Curatorial work
Claesson has curated several exhibitions at **Galleri TEGEN2** in Stockholm and developed the visual arts program at **ETC Solar Park** in Katrineholm, including four summer exhibitions and a student project.
ETC Solar Park (Katrineholm)
2021: The Borderless Wild Boar (Carl Johan Erikson and Karin Willén)
Claesson received his PhD in fine arts from the Film and Media Department at Stockholm University of the Arts with the dissertation The Ghost Machine: Seven changes and transitions – animation processes in animated film.[1][2]
Claesson joined the newspaper ETC[3] 1979–1984, where he was a co-owner for a while.[4][5] He had acting roles in two films in the 1980s, among other things in Stig Larsson's film Ängel,[6] but he has mainly directed, written manuscript and worked with animated films and radio documentaries. He has been working with digital media since the mid-1990s, and has played a central role in the development of Swedish digital art through his work for the artistic creative space for art and computing (CRAC), where he was chairman from 2002 to 2005.[7][8] In connection with this, he established a broad international network, and organized international exhibitions such as "Money, a comment on the new economy”,[9][10] as well as seminars and exchange projects with other media labs in Europe. He also led the network for media labs in Norway, Pnek 2001–2002, and was one of the artists behind the Association for Temporary Art [a: t] a platform for art online (1997–2007).[11][12] He has also been active in the artist-driven galleries Tegen2 and ID:I gallery.[13] Claesson has exhibited extensively in Sweden and Europe.
The book The Blueberry Machine,[14] published 2009, is about his father Stig Claesson.
↑ Claesson, N., Du Rées, G., Hansson, K., Östlind, N., & Stockholms konstnärliga högskola. Institutionen för film och media. (2017). Sju Förändringar och Förflyttningar – gestaltningsprocesser i animerad film. Stockholms konstnärliga högskola. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/21145951
↑ Claesson, N. (2016). Vi ser ännu inte resultatet av konstnärlig forskning. (S. Slöör, Ed.)dialogen : Tema Konst- och arkitekturundervisning. Stockholm: Kungl. Akademien för de fria konsterna.
↑ Claesson, N. (2014). När fotografi var bild och inte konst / When photographs were pictures, not art. Mellan verkligheter fotografi i Sverige 1970–2000, 100–105. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/21518379
↑ Claesson, Nils, et al. (2013). Labbtanken : 12 röster om laboratorium och bibliotek. (N. Claesson & M. Lempert, Eds.). Stockholm: Stockholms dramatiska högskola. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/14703766
↑ Claesson, Nils (2015). sliN, book chapter in Hansson, K. (Ed) Performing the common. Revolver publishing. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/20136754
↑ Hansson, K., & Claesson, N. (2002). Money. (K. Hansson & N. Claesson, Eds.). Stockholm: Swedish Institute. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/11558754
↑ Claesson, N., Julén, Y., Gedin, M., & Elander Berling). (1998). Familjen och allt om meningen med livet : en antologi för ungdomar i alla åldrar. Almqvist & Wiksell.
↑ Claesson, N. (1985). Jag och Angela Davis. Fotograficentrums bildtidning, 1985 (8:2–3), [43]-[46] : ill.
↑ Hansson, K., & Claesson, N. (2002). Money. (K. Hansson & N. Claesson, Eds.). Stockholm: Swedish Institute. Retrieved from http://libris.kb.se/bib/11558754
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