Matilda Tjäder is a Copenhagen-based artist working across visual arts, performance, and sound. Approaching each medium as a site of complex relationships, her practice reflects on how space organises behaviour through implicit scripts. Her work often departs from a fictional premise or proposition. Following an idea to its furthest edge, she allows the fiction to gradually develop its own internal logic, creating situations in which established relationships and conditions can be reimagined.
She is the founder and curator of Scaling (2022–), a platform and live-series for time based arts, based in Malmö.
Contact: matildatjader@gmail.com / bandcamp / instagram / soundcloud
She is the founder and curator of Scaling (2022–), a platform and live-series for time based arts, based in Malmö.
Contact: matildatjader@gmail.com / bandcamp / instagram / soundcloud
UPCOMING
2026 Album release ‘Shelf Life’, Doyenne Books, London, UK
2026 Album launch ‘Shelf Life’, Raleigh Chapel, London, UK
2026 Album launch ‘Shelf Life’, Skånes konstförening, Malmö, SE
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 ‘The Orange Show’, Copenhagen, DK
2023 The Strait Trilogy w. Asta Lynge, Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
2022 The Strait Trilogy, w. Asta Lynge, Le Bourgeois, London, UK (solo)
2021 The Strait, w. Asta Lynge, Celin, Oslo, NO (solo)
2021 The Strait, w. Asta Lynge, Bizarro, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
2026 Album release ‘Shelf Life’, Doyenne Books, London, UK
2026 Album launch ‘Shelf Life’, Raleigh Chapel, London, UK
2026 Album launch ‘Shelf Life’, Skånes konstförening, Malmö, SE
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 ‘The Orange Show’, Copenhagen, DK
2026 Rose is a rose is a rose, Lunds Konsthall, SE
2024 ghost frequency* w. Mathias Tang, skēnē, Malmö, SE (duo)
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
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 The Strait, w. Asta Lynge, Celin, Oslo, NO (solo)
2021 The Strait, w. Asta Lynge, Bizarro, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
2020 The Strait, w. Asta Lynge, Delfi, Malmö, SE (solo)
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
2026 City Opera, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, SE
2026 Drive IIII, CHART, Copenhagen, DK
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 III, Forårsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK
2024 Drive II, RSVP, London, UK
2024 Performance, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2024 Drive I, skēnē, Malmö, SE
2023 Imagine, Cittipunkt, Berlin, DE
2023 Country Music presents at Doom Spa, Berlin, DE
2023 envelopes w, Yen Chun Lin, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE
2022 Drift (In)between, Performance, ICA, London, UK
2022 Clones, performance, Norbergfestivalen, SE
2022 Amatter, Cittipunkt, Berlin, DE
2022 Clones, album release, San Seriffe, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Wishing for More: City’s, Schloss Salon, Berlin, DE
2020 Reading, ‘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
SELECTED SOUND/RADIO
2022–2025 Scaling, residency at Retreat Radio
2025 Mix for Coyote’s installation ‘déjà vu’ at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
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 Radio Fylkingen, 88,9 MHz, SE
2024 Single release: Speed of an Arrow, Country Music, SE
2023 wind, 14 minute Valentine’s Mix for LACA, LA, USA
2022 The Strait Trilogy, OST
2022 Clones, album, 2022
2022 Broadcast on Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Music for 1 Piano and 4 Hands, four-hand piano album with Alex Pierce, ArachHE, UK
2018 Shell Like’s Listening Hour #5: Our Fuming Lips Make A New Mirage, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2018 Shell Like’s Listening Hour #4, LUX Moving Image, London, UK
SELECTED WRITINGS
2025 Short Throws: The Wishing Well, INTONAL, Malmö, SE
2024 Seasons, manuscript, Turteatern, Stockholm, SE
2024 Shelf Life, SKF/Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, SE
2024 Untitled Work, Phineidae, Echo & Altar Records, SE
2023 Waterfall, fiction, Skånes konstförening
2021 Putting the Garden to Sleep, w. Olof Runsten, Skogen, Gothenburg, SE
2020 Host, w. Nikhil Vettukattil, publication, Country Music
2019 It was me and we were three: Wishing for More, SINK Volume II
2017 On Seed Capsules, w. Emilia Thorin, Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 12 | METAFLUXUS
CURATORIAL/ ORGANIZATIONAL
2022– Scaling, curator and founder of platform and series for time-based arts
2026 ‘I hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead’ (as Scaling), w. skēnē, Malmö, SE (2026)
2023 Piano Bar, co-organized with UGO Experimental, Malmö, SE
2021 WorldPride Performance Program, w. Emilia Thorin, Malmö, SE
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
2026 (Upcoming) Koda Guest Apartment in London
2026 NEJD, Gothenburg, SE
2026 Girl Math Masterclass for Real Estate Novices, CSAM, SE
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
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026 One-Year Work Stipend, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2026 Developing support, music, City of Malmö
2026 Developing support, Skåne Regional Council
2025 Developing support, fine arts, Skåne Regional Council
2025 Production support, Swedish Arts Council
2025 Participation Support (Deltagarstöd), Skåne Regional Council
2025 One-Year Work Stipend (Music), Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2025 Production support, performing arts, Skåne Regional Council
2024 Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2024 Two-year Studio Support Grant, City of Malmö
2023 Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2022 Sven and Ellida Hjort’s Exhibition Grant
2022 One-Year Work Stipend (Fine Arts), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2021 One-Year Work Stipend (Music), Swedish Art Grants Committee
PRINT
2026 image research and illustrations, 90antiope with Rat Section, Paris, FR
2026 Lunds Konsthall exhibition catalogue
PRESS
2026 Interview with Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl, KRO/KIF Konstnären
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
2021 Matilda Tjäder, Nikhil Vettukattil & DÆMON, AQNB
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
2016–2018 MA Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2015 BA Aesthetics, University of Södertörn, SE
WORK
2013-2020 Sternberg Press, Berlin/London, DE/UK
Website designed by Anna Sagström
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
2026 City Opera remix, w. Andre Mulzer, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, SE
2026 Drive IIII, CHART, Copenhagen, DK
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 III, Forårsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, DK
2025 Rewild, Copenhagen, DK
2025 Tranceversal Voices x The Lodge, Berlin, DE
2024 Anywhere out of the world, Manchester, UK
2025 Tranceversal Voices x The Lodge, Berlin, DE
2024 Anywhere out of the world, Manchester, UK
2024 Performance, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2024 Drive I, skēnē, Malmö, SE
2023 Imagine, Cittipunkt, Berlin, DE
2023 Country Music presents at Doom Spa, Berlin, DE
2023 envelopes w, Yen Chun Lin, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, SE
2022 Drift (In)between, Performance, ICA, London, UK
2022 Clones, performance, Norbergfestivalen, SE
2022 Amatter, Cittipunkt, Berlin, DE
2022 Clones, album launch, Ashley, Berlin, DE
2022 Chapelle Notre Dame de la Salette, Marseille, FR
2022 Chapelle Notre Dame de la Salette, Marseille, FR
2020 Reading, ‘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 Reading, Semipermeable, organized by William Kherbek, Burley Fisher Books, London, UK
2018 Wishing for More, as part of Low Motion at Amager Minigolf Strand, Copenhagen, DK
SELECTED SOUND/RADIO
2026 Radio Fantasia, Cologne, DE
2022–2025 Scaling, residency at Retreat Radio
2025 Mix for Coyote’s installation ‘déjà vu’ at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
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 Radio Fylkingen, 88,9 MHz, SE
2024 Single release: Speed of an Arrow, Country Music, SE
2023 wind, 14 minute Valentine’s Mix for LACA, LA, USA
2022 The Strait Trilogy, OST
2022 Clones, album, 2022
2022 Broadcast on Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Music for 1 Piano and 4 Hands, four-hand piano album with Alex Pierce, ArachHE, UK
2018 Shell Like’s Listening Hour #5: Our Fuming Lips Make A New Mirage, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2018 Shell Like’s Listening Hour #4, LUX Moving Image, London, UK
SELECTED WRITINGS
2025 Short Throws: The Wishing Well, INTONAL, Malmö, SE
2024 Seasons, manuscript, Turteatern, Stockholm, SE
2024 Untitled Work, Phineidae, Echo & Altar Records, SE
2023 Waterfall, fiction, Skånes konstförening
2020 Host, w. Nikhil Vettukattil, publication, Country Music
2019 It was me and we were three: Wishing for More, SINK Volume II
CURATORIAL/ ORGANIZATIONAL
2022– Scaling, curator and founder of platform and series for time-based arts
2026 ‘I hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead’ (as Scaling), w. skēnē, Malmö, SE (2026)
2023 Piano Bar, co-organized with UGO Experimental, Malmö, SE
2021 WorldPride Performance Program, w. Emilia Thorin, Malmö, SE
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
2026 (Upcoming) Koda Guest Apartment in London
2026 NEJD, Gothenburg, SE
2026 Girl Math Masterclass for Real Estate Novices, CSAM, SE
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
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026 One-Year Work Stipend, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2026 Developing support, music, City of Malmö
2026 Developing support, Skåne Regional Council
2025 Developing support, fine arts, Skåne Regional Council
2025 Production support, Swedish Arts Council
2025 Participation Support (Deltagarstöd), Skåne Regional Council
2025 One-Year Work Stipend (Music), Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2025 Production support, performing arts, Skåne Regional Council
2024 Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2024 Two-year Studio Support Grant, City of Malmö
2023 Project Support for Public Cultural Events, City of Malmö
2022 Sven and Ellida Hjort’s Exhibition Grant
2022 One-Year Work Stipend (Fine Arts), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2021 One-Year Work Stipend (Music), Swedish Art Grants Committee
2026 image research and illustrations, 90antiope with Rat Section, Paris, FR
2026 Lunds Konsthall exhibition catalogue
PRESS
2026 Interview with Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl, KRO/KIF Konstnären
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
2021 Matilda Tjäder, Nikhil Vettukattil & DÆMON, AQNB
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
2016–2018 MA Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2015 BA Aesthetics, University of Södertörn, SE
WORK
2013-2020 Sternberg Press, Berlin/London, DE/UK
Website designed by Anna Sagström