Matilda Tjäder is a multidisciplinary artist based between Copenhagen and Malmö. Tjäder is the founder of Scaling

Contact: matildatjader@gmail.com / bandcamp / instagram / soundcloud 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS

2025   Drain the Öresund, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
2025   Forårsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK 2025   bleed presents, Norbergfestival, Norberg, SE
2025   The Strait Trilogy, Panora, Malmö, SE
2025   Tibbarödsbiennalen, Tibbaröd, SE
2024   exhibit a, Die Verabredung, Cologne, DE
2024   Sites of Passage, SKF/Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, SE
2024   Film Screenings, Tranen, Gentofte, DK
2024   Audra Festival Exhibition Program, Kaunas, LT
2024   The Strait Trilogy, fsk Kino/Cittipunkt, Berlin, DE
2024   BEP#1, BEP, w. Ewa Awe, Malmö, SE
2024   Open House, Open Mouth, GASP!, Amsterdam, NL
2024   Scandic Hell, Hell, NO
2024   Tibbarödsbiennalen, Tibbaröd, 2024
2024   The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2024   ORIFICECORE, curated by collega + Fuxia 2, Copenhagen, DK
2023   Regementsgatan, curated by UGO, Malmö, SE
2021   City’s, w. Ewa Awe, Sweetwater, Berlin, DE
2021   Cities for Free, w. Asta Lynge, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Cinemateket, Copenhagen, DK
2020   Stroissmüller, Tre Kronor, Stockholm, SE
2020   Country Music presents The Hum, EKA Gallerii, Tallinn, EE
2020   Stroissmüller, Tre Kronor, Stockholm, SE
2019    Nome d’us, Shore Gallery, Vienna, AT
2019    The future is unthinkable, yet here we are thinking it, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, BE
2018    Isadora, MoHA, Texas, USA


SELECTED PERFORMANCES 


2025   Shelf Life: An Opera, Inkonst Performing Arts, Malmö, SE
2025   Host: The Hearing, w. Nikhil Vettukattil, Amatter x Jennifee-See Alternate, Copenhagen, DK
2025   PAF Summer University, St.Erme, FR
2025   Norbergfestival, Norberg, SE
2025    Drive II, Forårsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK
2024    Drive, RSVP, London, UK  
2024   Performance, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2024    Drive, skēnē, Malmö, SE  
2023   Imagine, Cittipunkt, Berlin, DE
2023  “Country Music presents” at Doom Spa, Berlin, DE
2023   Performance at Collega, Copenhagen, DK
2023    envelopes w, Yen Chun Lin, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE
2022    Drift (In)between, Performance, ICA, London, UK
2022    Clones, performance, Norbergfestivalen, SE
2022    Have you ever tried, dreaming with someone else?, sound/reading as part of Amatter, Cittipunkt, Berlin, DE  
2020    Wishing for More: City’s, Schloss Salon, Berlin, DE
2020   ‘Speculative Fiction Writing Group’, Le Bourgeois/3236RLS, London, UK
2019     Wishing for More: It was me and we were three, Fondazione Pini, Milan, IT
2019     Wishing for More: The Clone or The Mirror to Her Soul, Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2019     Wishing for More: The Double, Shadow, and Enemy pt. II: The Notebook Episode, LACA, Los Angeles, USA
2019     Wishing for More: The Double, Shadow, and Enemy, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
2019     Wishing for More: The Ghostwriter and the Lipservant, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, BE
2018     Wishing for More: The Dreamer and The Doer, Clearview, London, UK
2018     Wishing for More: The Tamer, The Charmer, The Terraformer, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2018     Wishing for More, as part of Low Motion at Amager Minigolf Strand, Copenhagen, DK
2017     Fotograf Festival, Prague, CZ
2016     A Semla in Three Acts, with Sanna Helena Berger, Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2015     Index 19: Human Interference Task Force, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm,
2014    The Gallery Apart, Rome, IT
2014     FORDE, Geneva, CH



SELECTED CONCERTS / LIVE


2025   Rewild, Copenhagen, DK
2025   Intonal Festival, Malmö, SE
2025   Tranceversal Voices x The Lodge, Berlin, DE
2024    Anywhere out of the world, Manchester, UK 
2024    Mayhem, Copenhagen, DE
2024   Supporting act to Laura Ortman, Inkonst, Malmö, SE  
2023   live with Da-Ni-Ma, Scaling : Kafé, Malmö, SE
2023   llive with Da-Ni-Ma, Piano Bar, Malmö, SE
2023   Scaling : Kafé, Malmö, SE

2023   Whose Museum, Intonal Festival x Kiosk Radio, Malmö, SE
2023   Mayhem, Copenhagen, DK
2023   Scaling: moonlit, Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, SE
2022   Inkonst, invited by Malmö Konstmuseum
2022   Scaling (café edition), Café Margaretapaviljongen, Malmö, SE
2022   Clones, concert and album launch, Ashley, Berlin, DE  
2022   Chapelle Notre Dame de la Salette, Marseille, FR
2022   Clones, concert, Inkonst, Malmö, SE
2022   Clones, concert,  rile*, Brussels, BE
2022   Clones, album release & concert, San Seriffe, Amsterdam, NL


SOUND/RADIO 

2022– Scaling, residency at Retreat Radio
2025   Mix for Coyote’s installation ‘déjà vu’ at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2025  Guest on Drift Radio, Copenhagen, DK
2025  Music for Malene List Thomsen’s fashion show at Jenifee-See Alternate, Copenhagen, DK
2024  Composition for theatre play “King in Yellow”, w. Daniel Tjäder, Bombina Bombast, Malmö, SE
2024  Guest on Drift Radio, Copenhagen, DK
2024  Guest on Radio Fylkingen, 88,9 MHz, SE 
2024  Single release: Speed of an Arrow, Country Music, SE
2023   Raining Arrows ep.10 Solifuj4 invites Matilda Tjäder, Ola Radio, Marseille, FR
2023   for a vernacular field rap, sound installation for regional buses, commissioned by Skånes Konstförening, SE 
2023   Guest-mix for & with ikr. imprint on NTS Radio
2023   wind, 14 minute Valentine’s Mix for LACA, LA, USA
2022   Slumberland, OST w. Daniel Tjäder
2022   The Strait Trilogy, OST
2022    fly my time like an arrow, mix for Ola Radio, Marseille, FR
2022    Clones, album, 2022
2022    Clones, streaming website & album, HTSU Cooperative, Amsterdam, NL
2022    Broadcast on Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Amsterdam, NL
2021     Guest on IendI’s show on domes_fm, London, UK 
2021     Sonata (Matilda Tjäder edit), for Sanna Helena Berger’s album “A Movement”, Cherche Encore, London, UK
2021     INFO UNLTD. feat Schloss Salon, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE
2020     Music for 1 Piano and 4 Hands, four-hand piano album with Alex Pierce, ArachHE, UK
2020     Thou who holds but owns not, sound poetry, compiled by Adrienne Herr, TLTRPress, Berlin, DE
2020     Reverie, with Living Gatlato, Threads Radio, London, UK
2020     Haunted Diskette <3, Montez Press Radio, NYC, USA
2019     Yem Gel w/ Matilda Tjäder, NTS Radio, London, UK
2018     ilyd.nu, London, UK (online)
2018     Shell Like’s Listening Hour #5: Our Fuming Lips Make A New Mirage, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2018    Reading, Semipermeable, organized by William Kherbek, Burley Fisher Books, London, UK 2018     Shell Like’s Listening Hour #4, LUX Moving Image, London, UK


SELECTED WRITINGS 

2024  Seasons, Turteatern, Stockholm, SE 
2024  Shelf Life, SKF/Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, SE
2024   Untitled Work, Phineidae, Echo & Altar Records, SE
2023   Waterfall, fiction, Skånes konstförening
2022. here, a nut falls twice I a drop of a cloud landing, Vilnius, LT
2022   TLTRPreß 77th Anniversary (in dog years), a.p., Berlin, DE
2021    Putting the Garden to Sleep, w. Olof Runsten, Skogen, Gothenburg, SE
2020   Host, w. Nikhil Vettukattil, publication, Country Music
2019    Wishing for More: The Greenhouse, online, sink.sexy platform 
2019   It was me and we were three: Wishing for More, SINK Volume II
2017   Key Cutter Series #1: Puffy Grip Logic, contributor and co-founder of book series, Fotograf Festival and TLTRPreß
2017  On Seed Capsules, w. Emilia Thorin, Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 12 | METAFLUXUS
2017  Morphomimetic, w. Anna Mikkola, Ø, Corsica, London, UK
2017   Four Seasons, w. Nikhil Vettukattil, Penarth Center, London, UK
2017   NON STANDARD, t-space, Milan, IT
2017   Seasons, Assembly Point, London, UK
2016   Mould Map 4, conversation with Ingo Niermann
2016   Garret Grimmoire, Vienna, AT
2016   Cultivated Code, Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2016   Horse & Pony, Berlin, DE


CURATORIAL/ ORGANIZATIONAL

2022– Scaling,  live-series in Malmö, SE
2023  Piano Bar, co-organized with UGO Experimental, Malmö, SE
2021  WorldPride Performance Program, w. Emilia Thorin, Malmö, SE 
2020  Speculative Fiction, 3236RLS/Le Bourgeois, London, UK
2018–2020 Co-founder, Sound London Speculative Fiction Writing Group, London, UK
2014–2017 Minibar Stockholm, non-profit gallery, co-curator with Anna Sagström, Stockholm, SE
2013–2015 Waves of Direction, curatorial platform, w. Hanna Nilsson


RESIDENCIES

2025   Inkonst Black Box, Malmö, SE
2025   Country Town, Vest Jylland, DK
2025   MARC (Milvus Artistic Research Center), Knislinge, SE
2025    Anne Grete's house in Fox-Amphoux, Provence, FR
2025    Inkonst Music Studio, Malmö, SE   
2024    The Nordic Art Association (NKF), Stockholm, SE  
2022    Rupert, Vilnius, LT
2019     LACA, Los Angeles, USA
2018    web residency on ilyd.nu
2016     Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2015     HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Program), w. Anna Mikkola, Helsinki, FI


AWARDS

2022   Sven and Ellida Hjort’s Exhibition Grant


GRANTS

2025   Participation Support (Deltagarstöd), Skåne Regional Council
2025   Travel Grant (Fine Arts), Swedish Arts Grants Committee 
2025   One-Year Work Stipend (Music), Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2025   Production support, performing arts, Skåne Regional Council
2025   Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2024   Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2024   Travel Grant (Fine Arts), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2024   Travel Grant (Music), Swedish Art Grants Committee 
2024   Two-year Studio Support Grant, City of Malmö
2024   Travel Grant (Fine Arts), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2024    Swedish-Danish Cultural Foundation w. Mathias Tang
2023    Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2023    Danish Arts Foundation w. Asta Lynge
2023    Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse
2023    Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2022   One-Year Work Stipend (Fine Arts), Swedish Art Grants Committee 
2021    One-Year Work Stipend (Music), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2021    Swedish-Danish Cultural Foundation
2021    OPSTART w. Asta Lynge, Nordic Cultural Fund
2020   Travel Grant (Fine Arts), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2020   Travel Grant (Music), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2020   Arts Council Emergency Response Grant   

REPRESENTATION

2025–  Filmform, Stockholm, SE

PRESS

2025  Norbergfestival är ett enda stort lajv, Bon
2025  Malmö konsthall ställer ut Öresunds kontroverser, P1 Kultur Reportage, Sveriges Radio 
2025    De gör konst av Rausings idé att torrlägga Öresund: ‘All utveckling är inte hemsk och ond, Dagens Nyheter 
2025  Svunna drömmar och spöken hemsöker Malmö konsthall, Dagens Nyheter
2025  Malmö konsthalls nya utställning är underhållande och sprallig, Sydsvenskan
2025  Zlatans svek, Ikeas blågula färg och Rausings galna idé – allt får plats i ‘Torrlägg Öresund, Sydsvenskan    
2024  On Seasons, Turteatern, C-print journal
2023  Nordic noir-trilogi om Öresundsregionens mysterier, Art Notes
2023  Experimentell musikscen intar Margaretapaviljongen, Sydsvenskan
2022   Crystal memories & twilight beings, AQNB
2021   Matilda Tjäder, Nikhil Vettukattil & DÆMON, AQNB
2021   Förtrollande vila i skogen, alba.nu
2017   Minibar say goodbye, AQNB
2017   Sma modeller av oändligheten, Kunstkritikk


TALKS AND LECTURES

2025   Artist talk, moderated by Post Brothers, Panora, Malmö, SE 
2024   Presentation and reading at NKF, Stockholm, SE    
2023   Artist talk, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE
2022   Clones & Ghosts, in conversation with Sami Hammana on sonic fiction, Rib, Rotterdam, NL
2022   Designing  Fictional Worlds, Post Design Festival, Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm, SE
2021   Tales from Beneath Episode #22: The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life pt. 2, Berlin, DE
2021   Tales from Beneath Episode #21: The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life pt. 1, reboot.fm, Berlin, DE
2021   Cities for Free, w. Asta Lynge, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Cinemateket, Copenhagen, DK
2019   Artist Talk at LACA, Los Angeles, USA


EDUCATION

2018  MA Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2015  BA+MA, Aesthetics, University of Södertörn, SE
2009  Creative Writing and Comparative Literature, Malmö University, SE


WORK

2013-2020   Sternberg Press, Berlin/London, DE/UK

Website designed by Anna Sagström