Lena Mattsson is primarily a video and performance artist, but she began as a painter. Her works frequently allude to art history and cinema. In many years, she has had numerous exhibitions and film screening in Sweden and internationally, including the solo exhibitions In the Eye of the Beholder at Moderna Museet Malmö, and A Small Fairytale at Malmö Konsthall. She is recognised for her way of highlighting and challenging injustices, faults and conflicts in our society. In several of these works she participates actively, identifying strongly with the most deeply afflicted, and referring them to her own experiences. This highly personal, painterly and poetic interweaving of life and art gives Lena Mattsson’s works a unique expression.
Born in 1966 in Kungshamn, lives in Malmö, Sweden