mariella otto, b. 1990, Sweden 
mariellaottosson@gmail.com

Education
MA Fine Arts, Malmö Art Academy,                               2017 – 2019
BA Fine Arts, Bergen Academy of Art and Design,     2013 – 2016
Exchange, Städelschule, Frankfurt, p.Judith Hopf     2015 – 2016

Solo shows
<<Soleil-Journal>>, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, 2024.  
In the cast of our bones, MFA show, Gallery KHM2, Malmö, 2019.
Casts of an image, Delfi, Malmö, 2017.
Bending tongue, licking language, Galleri KVIT, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017.

Group shows
Malmö Konsthall  ‘In the city grows a field’, 2022. 
Raumdeuter Radio, GIBCA extended, Gothenburg, 2021. 
Online screening Covered in dark. Behind her word, beneath that rhyme; Tulip, Hangar Cia, Lisbon, 2021
The Tactilist / AT THIS LATE HOUR, Inter Arts Center, Black Room, Gallery Week, Malmö, 2020.
Flux, Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden, 2019.
Echoes of the illuminated pt.II, Aarhus, Denmark, 2018.
New Exhibition, KHM gallery, Malmö, Sweden, 2017.
Slow Collision // Abstract diagnosis, Duo with Aya Urhammer, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, England,
2016. Mono No Aware, Graduation show, Bergen, Norway, 2016.
No Walls, Friday Exit Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2015.
How long is now? - KICA Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, Russia, 2015.

Residencies/ Grants / Other
(3 month residency Air 351, Cascais, PT, 2024)
Two year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 2023.
Commissioned writing, ‘Seaport 2035’, curated Harun Morrison, 2022.  
Commissioned Installation, Media Evolution/ Vinnova – ‘Futures Prototype’, 2022. 
One year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 2021.
Residency, Hangar Cia, Lisbon, 2021.
Residency, Land 404, Jämjö, 2021.
Erik Sääfs Fond, Konstakademien, 2020.
“The Tactilist”, Project period, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden, 2020.
Assistant grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, for Ângela Ferreira, Lisbon, Portugal, 2020.
KHM x Moderna Museet; Lecture series with Andreas Nilsson, Moderna Museet, Malmö & Malmö Art Academy, 2018 - 2019.
Assistant for Carlos Garaicoa “...a borderless reality like gardens of the eternal...”, Skissernas Museum & Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden, 2019.
Assistant for Michelle Teran “Your revolution begins at home”, “Visningsrommet USF”, Bergen, Norway, 2014.
Residency, KICA – Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art, Russia. 2015.



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