Ylva Westerlund (b. 1975, Husum) is an artist working with speculative thinking of the future connected to first-hand experience of field excursions in nature and society. Westerlund holds a Master of Fine Arts from Malmö Art Academy (1998-2003).
Her work has been shown at venues like the 9th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art in Moss, Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, The Latvian Center of Contemporary Art in Riga, The Museum of Sketches in Lund, The Center Red in Moscow, Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm and Centro Cultural Montehermoso Vitoria-Gasteiz. Westerlund was a resident of the IASPIS programme in Stockholm (2007-2008) and at the Residency programme Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2011-2012)
Westerlund’s participation in residency 21, Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads was supported by Konstnärsnämnden.
Image 1: ‘In the childhood of pulp’, 2021, wash drawing print on fabric, hanging on a clothes line.
Image 2: ‘My mother was a fish/ Re plant’, 2021, charcoal on board.
Image 3: ‘Memorandum from an ongoing spillage’, 2021. Graphite drawing on paper.
Image 4: ‘Sulfate 3000’, graphic novel.
