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MARGOT BAROLO
Running her own design company, with studies at Beckmans School of Design (BFA) and Konstfack, the College of Arts, Craft & Design (MFA). She has over the years worked with some of the leading companies in Sweden. Parallelly she has worked with in-house production. In recent years Barolo has delved into the issues of production and challenged the image of production, Swedish art industry and how we evaluate the creation/design of an object. It has among other things resulted in the book Brave New Production and the magazine Brave Magazine #2 as part of an artistic research project at Konstfack, the College of Arts, Crafts and Design. The project was funded by The Swedish Arts Grant Committe under the name "No Innocent Objects." She lectures and teaches at various design colleges and is the head of the product design department at Beckmans Colleges of Design and have run her latest artistic research project "The Kinship Method" within the research programme in the college.
Photo: Felix Odell
EDUCATION
Beckmans College of Design, Product Design, Form
MFA Royal College of Art, Craft & Design Konstfack
Plus many coarses in art studies & some university points in practical philosophy, cultural antrophology way back. And even more way back a "gesällbrev" diploma in professional hairdressing...
SOME PROJECTS
2015 - and now: Programme director and senior lecturer, Form; product design department, Beckmans College of Design
2017 Acting CEO at Handarbetets Vänner (HV)
2014 – 2016 Process leader for the project Omforma – förändrade strukturer i designbranschen
2014 – 2015 Expert in the development project: National Agenda for business development of the field of crafts, handicrafts and small-scale design production
2014 Development project for small-scale operations, NFH; Nämnden för hemslöjdsfrågor
2012 Part of creating coarses at Kulturlyftet
2011 – 2012 No Innocent Objects
2008 – 2010 MFA Brave New Production
2005 – Designer, product developer and range coordinator for Iris Hantverk AB
1998 – 1999 Coordinator and project assistant for the photo exhibition Under/Exposed,
AWARD & GRANTS
2021 Stockholm City Cultural Grant
2017 Edida Elle Deco Award
2016 Working grant, 2 year, Konstnärsnämnden
2016 Edida Elle Deco Award
2011 Konstnärsnämnden, grant
2011 Konstfack KU grant
2010 Estrid Ericsson, grant
2010 Konstfack, MFA grant
2010 Framtidens kultur, grant
2009 Edida Elle Deco Award, Knits by the Metre
2008 Estrid Ericsson, grant
2005 Edida Elle Deco Award
2005 Sweden-Japan Foundation, grant
2003 Working grant, Konstnärsnämnden
2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 Estrid Ericsson, grant
2003 Iaspis, grant
2000 Helge Ax:Johnssons stipendiefond, grant
2000 ”Ung svensk form”, award
1998 “Utmärkt svensk form”, award
REPRESENTED archives & collections
2018 Nationalmuseum, Gåsöga, Stockholm
2017 Nationalmuseum, Massproduced Uniqueness, Stockholm
2011 Nationalmuseum, table Sunday Morning, Stockholm
2010 Röhsska museet, Whose Hand is of Importance, Gothenburg
2006 Röhsska museet, Hat Bowl, Gothenburg
2004 Regeringskansliet, Pierce Bowl, Stockholm
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2014 The Nature and its Embodied Culture I-IX, Gävle Hospital, Gävle. Barolo/Mårtensson
2013 A Room With A View I-VII, Gävle Hospital, Gävle.
2005 Cocoon, Public commission, KA Almgrens Sidenväveri & Museum, Stockholm.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Kinship Method, Rian Design Museum, Falkenberg
2020 The Kinship Method - The Last Session, Sven Harrys konstmuseum, Stockholm
2014 Reflexions, Hallwylska Palatset, Stockholm. Barolo/Mårtensson
2014 Life is a Play, Berns, Stockholm. Barolo/Mårtensson
2013 No Innocent Object, Falkenberg museum
2010 Ekebyhovs slott, Stockholm
2008 Bra Achitecture and Knits by the Metre, Designgalleriet, Stockholm. Barolo/Mårtensson
2007 Refuse Anything Else, Form/Designcenter, Malmö
2005 Laune, Swedish Style, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Female Traces, Rian Design Museum, Falkenberg
2021 The Kinship & Friends + Alt. Design Methods, Ahouse Ark, Stockholm
2019 Female Traces, Möbeldesignmuseum, Stockholm
2018 Tidslinjen, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
2018 Mellan handen och ögat, Svensk Hemslöjd, Stockholm
2017 Second Hand Daylight, Kosmisk Kastrering, Kummelholmen Stockholm, Göteborg
2017 Svensk Form/Ung Svensk Form Stockholms Auktionsverk
2014 Best of, Designgalleriet, Stockholm
2013 Shop show, Malmö Form/Designcenter, Finland
2010 Frän form, Vänermuseet, Lidköping
2010 Konstslöjdsalong, Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm
OTHER
2019 – 2020 Vice chairman Konstnärernas Riksorganisation.
2019 Jury member Elle Edida Design Award
2015 – 2019 Board member, Konstnärernas Riksorganisation
2015 – 2019 The committee for design issues Konstnärernas Riksorganisation
2015 – 2019 Board member in ABSK
2015 – 2017 Board member, HV, Föreningen Handarbetets Vänner
2015 Jury member for Stockholm Craft Fair
2012 – 2014 Participants in the editorial board for Form Magazine
2011 – 2015 Board member in Sveriges Designers
2015 Jury member Sustainability Award Konstfack
2013 Jury member Ung Svensk Form, Svensk Form
2004 Jury member Iggesund Paperboard
PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
2022 I mörkret är de alla lika, en saga om värde och värdighet, exhibition catalogue Female Traces, Rian Design Museum
2021 The Kinship Method - The Book
2018 Designern som den nyttiga idioten – om kulturellt kapital, produktion och maktförskjutning in the antology Makt och egenmakt i designbranschen
2016 Nationell Agenda – för företagsutveckling av området slöjd, konsthantverk och småskalig designproduktion. Expert and co-author of the agenda and report
2016 Omforma – Nya strukturer för designbranschen, co-editor
2014 Article in Konstnären nr 2, co-writer: Johan Wingestad
2013 Brave New Magazine, Brave nr 2: No Innocent Objects. Chief –in-editor and writer.
2013 Made in-medaljens skuggsida, Article in Form Magazine nr 3
2013 On Production, article to the book Behind the Scenes: Stories from the Design Industry, an anthology by Hanna Nova Beatrice.
2010 Making Small Talk, publication degree by students of Ceramic & Glass, Konstfack
2010 Brave New Production