Biography

Pia Stjärnvind is a visual artist based in Stockholm, working with sculpture, installation, sound and spatial explorations. She graduated from the Ceramics and Glass department at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm. Her practice moves across material and immaterial dimensions, where time, memory, and the thresholds of existence become tangible through form and space.

Before dedicating herself fully to the visual arts, Stjärnvind built a distinguished career as Head of Communications at two of Sweden’s major theatres, and she has a longstanding background as a musician within the black metal scene. This multifaceted experience informs her artistic practice, where darkness and resonance, silence and matter, converge into poetic and existential investigations.

Artist Statement

I think of my work as physical poetry—an engagement with time and material as interdependent conditions. Through sculpture, sound, and spatial installation, I explore how temporality can be sensed through the body and take form in space. I approach material as something that carries duration, resistance, and change.

I understand time as layered and coexisting rather than linear, and my work investigates how these temporalities can be held and made present. Through repetition, the work unfolds as a site where shifts, states, and transitions converge. It is within these thresholds—between presence and absence, emergence and dissolution—that the work takes shape.

Selected Exhibitions

The Matter of Forgetting – Konsthallen ABC, Vällingby 2026
Liljevalchs Vårsalong - Liljevalchs, Stockholm 2026
Light, Nocturnal – Extension Art Space, Stockholm 2025
Could be Past, Could be Present, Could be Future – All Art Now, Stockholm 2025
Horisonter – Rejmyre Art Lab, Rejmyre 2025
Blixtvisit – Sven Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm 2025
Vårutställning – Konstfack, Stockholm 2025
Visioner i konsthantverk – Berwaldhallen, Stockholm 2024
Vårsalong – Silvanum, Gävle 2024
Skaraborgssalongen – Hjo 2024

Scholarships

Estrid Ericsson (2024, 2023, 2022)
Konstfack (2025, 2023)
Pilchuck Glass School (2022)