Elina Sjöwall film/stage/soundmaker born 1994
on the Åland Islands, currently based in Amsterdam
EDUCATION
2026 MFA — Film — Stockholm University of the Arts
2019 Exchange Year — Stage & Film Design, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna
2018 BFA — Design (150 ECTS), Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
2017 BA — Aesthetical Philosophy & Art History, Södertörn University, Stockholm
2025 Music Composing for Film, Games & Theatre A, B — Umeå University
2025 Music Production I, II — Linnaeus University
2020 The Embodied Voice (4-week summer workshop) — L’Associazione Vera Stasi (IT), LumparLab (AX)
2016 Architecture & Design, Preparatory Art School — Nyckelviksskolan
WORK
2025 Sano — Solo Exhibition, QBEN, The Åland Island Arts Museum, Mariehamn
2024 Algebra — Short Film (Writer/Director/Producer), Culture Hub Re-Fest, New York
2023 What If We’re Not Humming — Performance (Sound/Scenography), Ottakringer Brauerei, Vienna
2022 Ö — Short Film (Writer/Director/Producer)
2022 Medea Mensch — Short Film (Director/Scenography/Producer), Nordic Fringe Festival, Gothenburg
2020 Höhlenbrüter — Theatre (Scenography/FAD), Director: Miriam Ohlmeyer, Arche Theatre, Vienna
2019 Back to Black (Without Amy) — Group Show, Die Angewandte Festival, Vienna
2018 Eurydike — Theatre (Scenography), Die Schöne Bühne, Vienna
2017 New Eelam: Tensta — Group Show, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
2017 Joints — Group Show, La Fábrica, Havana, Cuba
2017 Small Building — Group Show, Hötorgsterrassen, Stockholm
2016 Artist Assistant — Katarina Löfström
2016 Production Assistant — Rabalder Productions
2016 Pojkvän — Music Video (Production Designer), Tjuvjakt
2016 Ska Vi Fira — Music Video (Production Designer), Iiris Viljanen
2016 Production Design Assistant — Catharina Nyqvist-Ehrnrooth
GRANTS
2024 Stiftelsen Edit och Levi Erikssons Minnesfond (Studies in sound composition)
2024 Lisi Wahl‘s Foundation (Advanced artistic studies)
2024 The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Travel grant)
2024 Systrarna Standertskjöld Foundation (Recreational grant)
2023 The Åland Island Cultural Delegation (6-month grant for artistic work)
2023 The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Project grant)
2022 The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Travel grant)
2022 The Swedish Literature Society in Finland (Project grant)
2021 The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (1-year grant for artistic work)
2020 The Åland Island Cultural Delegation (Project grant)