About

CONTACT:

Bibbi Forsman

Konstepidemin, Hus 9

Göteborg SWEDEN

contact@bibbiforsman.se

Personal record

Education:


Konstindustriskolan (HDK) Göteborgs Universitet, MfA Ceramic art

1980 - 1984

Kulturverkstan, culture project management

2000 - 2002



Employments and internships of more importance:


Curator/Producer Blå Stället Culture Center art exhibitions

2013-21

ICommunication and outreach work for Konstepidemin art center, Göteborg

2008 - 2012

Information officer, Crafts Center (Konsthantverkscentrum) KHVC

2002 - 2013

Study trip, Auroville, India - "How to organize utopia"

Feb 2002

Internship, Crafts Council, London, Business development department

April 2001

Guest teacher, Gallery 37, Chicago, USA

artistic summer program for young people

July 1994

Teacher and head of the ceramic program at HDK, University College of Design and Craft, Göteborg

1991 - 1999



ART WORK


Solo exhibitions:

Galleri Flora, Botanical Garden, Gothenburg

2022

Blå Huset, Konstepidemin

2019

Drejeriet, Östersund

2011

Galleri Lerverk, Göteborg

2008

Galleri KHVC, Örebro

2007

Galleri Matzner & Matzner, Löderup

2005

Borlänge konsthall

2004

Galleri Pannrummet, Konstepidemin, Göteborg

2000

Galleri Koch, Stenungsund

1988

Galleri Arioso, Stockholm

1997

Galleri Konstepidemin, Göteborg

1995

Sintra gallery, Göteborg

1988 o 1997



Group exhibitions, selection:


Land of Happiness, Gothenburg botanical garden

2023

Organisk organisering, Galleri Moment, Ängelholm,

Bibbi Forsman, keramik och Johan Haugen, måleri

2023

Made in Angered, Blå Stället Culture center, Gothenburg

2019

Vidöppet, craft artists, Alingsås Konsthall

2011

Swedish-American Museum Center, Chicago, USA

1998

Tölgyfa Galéria, Budapest, Ungern

1997

“Tempus” Röhsska museet, west Swedish craft artists

1995

Galleri Arca, Vilnius, Litauen, eight artists invited by the Artist's Union, Lithuania

1993

”Same room summary” Norrbottens Museum, Luleå, Konstforum, Norrköping and Röhss museum, Göteborg

1991

”Kaleidoskop”, Galleri Konstepidemin, Göteborg

Exhibition about tiles, rooms and ornament

1990



Public and private art commissions


Four mosaik wall works, Slottet care home, Falun

2021

Three reliefs, hospital ward, Växjö,  for Kronoberg County

2015

Mosaikfabriken/Mosaic factory,, commission for a public park, a collborative project for young people in a suburban area, Gothenburg

2013

"Water lilies" tiled wall rehab bath St Sigfrid, Växjö, for Kronoberg County

2012

"Sun is shining today" atrium yard Bjurslätt nursing home, Göteborg City

2012

"Unknown beings" wall in the entrance to Lidköping Hospital, for Västra Götaland region

2009

Terra Nova, Göteborg, mosaic in four apartment buildings, PEAB

2009

Sit sculpture, Lillekärrsskolan, for Göteborg City

2006

Landvetter center, facade relief, ceramics and mosaic, Härryda municipality

2004

Mölndal hospital, handmade tiles, White architects

1999

Jönköping inner city, Barnarpsgatan, ceramic mosaic

1997

Ceramic works for walls and entrances in residential quarters, several places in Göteborg

1985, 1995

Art pieces bought at several occasions by the Arts Council of Sweden, by the cities of Göteborg, Norrköping, Luleå, Stenungsund, Borlänge, Berg and by the Västra Götaland region.


Represented at Röhss Museum, Göteborg




Artistic commissions and assignments:


Jury work for Norske Kunsthåndverkere, craft artists's association in Norway

2004 and 2005

International ceramic symposium, ICS, Kecskemét, Hungary

1997

Design for textile company Strömma Sweden

1992

Set designer for summer theatre ”The pirate project”

1988



Scholarships and grants, among others:


City of Göteborg cultural award

1985, 1998

The Arts Grant Committee, Sweden

1992

Iaspis travel grant

1997