Artist in residence, Stockholm, 4 November, 2024–25 April, 2025

Carin Blücher is based and works in Malmö. In her artistic practice, she combines painting, scenography, and analog photography. A sort of scenic tableaux where one or more people participate. The human figure acts as a performer who interacts with the scenography. Important aspects of her working process include spatial and painterly composition, as well as poetic encounters between space, human beings, and form. Her process is intuitive and starts with small watercolor sketches, to later develop into a larger painterly installation in a given space which the performer can occupy. Throughout the process, the work is photographed with participating actors in a performative situation. The final work is a photograph.

Photo: Carin Blücher

Harlequins hand, photography, 116 x 100 cm, 2024

During her residency at IASPIS, she intends to continue creating painterly scenes and explore new ways of integrating the human figure into painting, possibly through body painting, costume design, and advanced scenographic methods. She also wants to investigate installation as a presentation format for a work. Additionally, she aims to meet knowledgeable professionals in various art forms, such as set design/scenography, dance, painting, or others, to learn new skills and discuss her work from different perspectives.

Carin Blücher holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy and has also studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö (2022); Konstepidemin in Gothenburg (2020); Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup (2018); Arvika Konsthall (2015). She has also contributed with sketch proposals for public art projects, invited by the Stadsfastighetsförvaltningen (City Property Management) in Gothenburg (2024) and Region Skåne, New Hospital Area in Malmö (2022). She is currently working on new pieces for a solo exhibition at Galleri Ping-Pong in Malmö (2025).