Klara Helin's work explores the bodily and emotional experience of garments. How clothing shapes our posture, our self-image, and our social position. Through sculpture, she is interested in how we use dressed textiles to express identity: how we see ourselves, how we wish to be seen, and what we dream of becoming. In her work with spatial sculptures, she aims to highlight fashion as an artistic context that moves between art, design, and craft, where aesthetics, material, and the body intersect.
Klara Helin
Born 1988 in Västra Götaland.
Lives and work in Norsesund.
klarahelin01@gmail.com
+46737326954
Education
2023 - 2025 Master of Fine Arts in Craft, Textile Art, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
2013 - 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textile, Konstfack, Stockholm
2011 - 2012 Foundation in Fashion Design, Swedish School of Textiles, Borås
2010 - 2011 Pattern Cutting and Sewing, 1 year, Tillskärarakademin, Gothenburg
Exhibition
2026 - Göteborgs auktionsverk, Craft days, Göteborg
2026 - Vårsalongen Liljevalsch, Stockholm
2025 -2026, Stipendiat utställning Anna-Lisa Thomson, Uppsala Konstmuseeum
2025 - Vad Händer? Projekt tillsammans med Konsthantverkscentrum och Textilmuseet Borås
2025 - Skissernas Rum, Konstnärscentrum Väst, Göteborg
2025 - Talking Hands, Degree show HDK-Valand, Galleri Thomassen, Göteborg
2025 - Sketches, solo exhibition Galleri Rotor HDK- Valand, Göteborg
2024 - We Didn´t Playtest This Show, Group exhibition MFA Craft HDK-Valand, Craftweek, Stockholm
2024 - We Didn´t Playtest This Show, Group exhibition MFA Craft HDK-Valand, Craft Days, Göteborg
2024 - Workflow, Group exhibition Konsthantverkscentrum Stockholm
2022 - 2023 Ung svensk form, Svensk Form, national touring group exhibiton
2017- 2018 Showroom KT, Studio 183, Berlin
2017 - Sweat meGalleri Nos , Solo exhibition, Stockholm
2017 - Vårutställning, bachelor degree show , Konstfack, Stockholm
2016 - Dressed, fashion show Liljevalchs, Stockholm
Scholarship
2025 - Anna-Lisa Thomsons stiftelse
2025 - Eric Ericsson
2025 - Gurmund/ Neubergh stiftelse
2024 - Estrid Ericssons stiftelse
2023 - Estrid Ericssons stiftelse
2023 - Petersenka hemmet
2023 - Helge Ax:son Johnson stiftelse
2021 - Krisstipendium 3 , Konstnärsnämden
2020 - Krisstipendium 2 , Konstnärsnämden
2016 - Carl Cason stipendiumfond
2016 - Stiftelsen Maria Lindgren Sömmerskehem
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