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b. 1992
Stella Dieden Richter is an artist based in Stockholm with a background in dance and architecture. Through performance, sound, and installation, Stella explores exertion, dissolution, and power by engaging directly with objects and materials —animating sneakers, blowing through discarded metal pipes, and recording excavators’ hum to build immersive soundscapes. These actions become methods to explore materials at their breaking points – resistance, instability, and transformation – forces that emerge when industrial society and the human body collide.
Education
2020-23 BFA, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2019-20 Bachelor Programme in Fine Arts, HDK-Valand, Gothenburg
2017-19 Preparatory art school, Gerlesborgsskolan, Stockholm
2013-16 BFA in Architecture, Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå
2015 Exchange semester, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark
Group exhibitions
2025 Traversées Sonores, Nuit Blanche / Institut suèdois, Paris (upcoming - June)
Body, curated by Queer Cohesion, Konsthall C, Stockholm (upcoming - November)
Traversées Sonores, Lyssningsrummet, Stockholm
2024 The Risk of Collapse - Buss 501, Konstfrämjandet Västmanland, Norberg
2023 Kunst på ruinen, Gilleleje, Denmark
Bachelors’ show, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2022 Non-knowledge, laughter and the moving image, ICAT- Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer, Hamburg
Rundgång, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Holy Fluff, Supermarket - Stockholm Independant Art Fair
Unse performa, Cyklopen, Stockholm
Loungen #4, SKF - Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2021 Beuys, Beuys, Beuys, Royal Institute of Art with Goethe-Institut
Rundgång, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Hjorten Skulpturpark, Hjorten, Stockholm
Terrarium, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2020 Sex Cave, Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg
2019 Passage, HDK-Valand, Gothenburg
Rising Action, Kulturförening Klimax, Stockholm
Vårutställning, Gerlesborgsskolan, Stockholm
2018 Postal Art, Postmuseum, Stockholm
Performances and screenings
2024 Performing ASICS, Reclaim Pride at Hägerstens Medborgarhus, Stockholm
2023 Showing Närmre brottet, Maltifestgalan, Fylkingen, Stockholm
2022 Screening of En ansträngning, flera suckar, Non-Knowledge, laughter and the moving image,
Index-The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
2022 Screening of En ansträngning, flera suckar, Kafé Mix #1, Höjden, Stockholm
2021-22 Performing with Kulturprofilerna at various scenes in Stockholm: Moderna Museet, INDEX, SKF- Konstnärshuset, Kummelholmen, Scalateatern, Musikaliska, Supermarket, Snotty Seaside, Glada Sprutan and Teaterverket
Publications
2024 AVART #5: Smuts, art zine
2023 Notes on Ex-Futures, Praun & Guermouche and Royal Institute of Art
2020 Där du står, Gislaved Konsthall and HDK-Valand
Related activites
2025 Co-organizing Traversées Sonores, Lyssningsrummet, Stockholm (surround sound event)
2025 Co-organizing Traversées Sonores, Nuit Blanche / Institut suèdois, Paris (site specific sound installation)
2024-25 Co-organizing and teaching in Don’t Bring An Instrument, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (experimental sound course)
- First edition: Off Site - Follow-up: Leakage As Resistance (teaching in the second edition)
2023 participated in performance Circumambulations by Arijana Kajfes, Kivik Art Center
2023 contributed to collective sound art project freq_spark (four corners) by Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Grants
2025 Ateljé- och studiostöd för konstnärer, Stockholms Stad - (Studio grant)
2023 Stiftelsen Konstnären Otto Bjernruds minne - (Konstakademien’s grants for art students and young artists)
2023 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse - (Norge)
2023 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse - (Circumambulations)
2022 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse - (Documenta15)
Press
2023/02/27 Göteborgsposten - Vårsalongen 2023 på Liljevalchs
2023/02/24 SvD Kultur - Fängslande konst vidgar vyer på Vårsalongen
2023/02/23 Konstguiden - Vårsalongen 2023 - Recension
2023/02/22 DN Kultur - Vårsalongen har blivit en folkkär tradition
Courses
2024 Listen to your confusion - Individual Project Work 1, HDK- Valand, Gothenburg
2024 Basic course in electroacoustic music, Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm
2023 Intro course in sound art, Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm
2012 Billedkunst B, VERA skole for kunst arkitektur og design, Copenhagen
2012 Billedkunst, Kunsthøjskolen i Holbæk, Denmark
Workshops
2022 Writing with humour, with Morgan Bassichis, Konstfack Stockholm
2021 Delicious movements, with Eiko Otake, Weld Stockholm
2018 Tanzplage, movement workshop with Lea Martini, Norbergfestival
2017 Tillsammans?, performance workshop with Hiroko Tsuchimoto and Sonja Hedstrand,
Moderna Museet Stockholm