Cecilia Hedlund, Sweden

Cecilia Hedlund (b. 1984) is a multimedia artist based in Sweden. In her practice Cecilia Hedlund works with the human relationship to nature. She works out in the landscape or cityscape with painting, drawing and sculpting.

Through researching into the human attitude to nature, reading Philosopher Bruno Latour, Researchers Alexander von Humboldt, Physicist Karen Barad in order to understand the human relationship to nature in greater depth, she also uses her practice to try natural processes of erosion, charcoaling, composting, oxidisation, and so on. By using these processes she tries ways of cooperating with nature. Such processes only work if certain conditions of temperature, humidity, etc are right. It is in recognition of humans’ inferiority to nature that is the basis of Hedlund’s work. It might mean that charcoaling can only be done during winter when there is a smaller risk of fire spreading.

In 2020, Cecilia was involved in an ongoing artistic intervention within a large-scale public infrastructure project, moving a cultural building to save it from demolition. Researching the meanings of value, capital, and market economies, she reused materials from the building’s restoration in her art practice.

In 2023–2024, she presented the solo exhibition Who owns Eva Lange’s, Marie Stenqvist’s and Nicke Rosén’s “Mur” in Sätra Centrum in Stockholm?. This project was a critical investigation into the ownership of public art and a dialogue with a monumental work threatened by demolition. The exhibition was supported by the City of Stockholm and the Swedish art trust Längmanska Kulturfonden.

Cecilia Hedlund holds a Master of Arts in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University and an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) with Distinction from the University for the Creative Arts, London. Hedlund's work has been exhibited in multiple galleries and institutions in both Sweden and the UK, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, and is held in several private collections in Sweden.

​Meet Cecilia at her Open Studio event at Atelier 11 on June 24th, 2026. 

During the residency Cecilia Hedlund will work in dialogue with the artists that worked in the atelier in the past.

​The artist asks: Is the work from previous artists relevant today? What happens when an artist looks at and uses works from previous artists as a springboard? What new work can flow from looking at the works of previous generations?