ILJA KARILAMPI

Born: 1983, Gothenburg, Sweden
Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION
2005–2010 Meisterschüler, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2008–2009 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Focus, Nordenhake, Stockholm
2022 StarTrak, Entrance, New York (curated by NSFW)
2021 disco server, hFACTOR, Lagos
2021 Stockholm Art Week, Nitty Gritty, Stockholm (curated by Saskia Neuman)
2021 Hur vi på olika sätt dras till varann, Nordstan, Göteborg
2020 Narcotics, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn
2019 menschen bilder emotionen, Erik Nordenhake, Stockholm
2018 Westafrican Roadmovie, with Agassi F Bangura, Kulturhuset & Erik Nordenhake, Stockholm
2016 Garage Nation, 1.1, Basel
2016 SHOWOUT, performance, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
2015 TRUSS MI DADDY, La Plage, Paris
2015 President Room, Absolut Art Bar, Tändstickspalatset, Stockholm
2015 Straight Off the Boat, Dingum, La Friche, Marseille
2015 Hauptstadtrevier, Galerie Wedding, Berlin
2014 Rauhassa Hund, SIC, Helsinki
2014 new RELEASES, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2014 Xxxercise, Suzanne Geiss Company, New York
2014 SweSh XPress, Marbriers 4, Genèva
2014 Big Bird, Wilkinson Gallery, London
2013 Medulla Oblongata, Woodmill GP, Bermondsey, London
2013 The Hunter in the Armchair, New Theater, Berlin
2013 NYC CTTV CT TV VT CC, Leslie Fritz, New York
2012 The Chief Architect of Gangsta Rap, MoMA PS1, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Get Used To This, The Fairest, Kühlhaus, Berlin
2023 There Is No Perfect Spell, CAC Shanghai × HeK, Basel (curator BI Xin)
2023 Un/Seen Spectres, Barbican, London (Curator Awa Konaté)
2023 Downtown Issues II, Issues Gallery, Stockholm
2023 Doom Spa, Berlin
2023 Those of Us, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2023 School of Truth, Galerie Yeche Lange, New York
2022 Spiky Vision, Benny Boy´s Place, Berlin
2022 DYOR, Kunsthalle Zürich
2022 Capture, Hybrida, Älvsbacka
2021 MUTAGEN NFT, Ethereum (curated by Olga Temnikova)
2021 Downtown Issues, Issues Gallery, Stockholm
2021 Black Swan Hackathon, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2020 Non-space, Revolver Galería, Lima (curated by Silvana Lagos)
2020 Stay brief, and leave, Fondation Ricard, Paris
2020 The Opioid Crisis Lookbook, Montreuil, Paris (curated by Charles Teyssou & Pierre-Alexandre Mateos)
2019 Malmö Sessions, Carl Kostyal, Malmö
2019 Under Construction, Coyote, Stockholm
2017 ARS17, Kiasma, Helsinki
2017 Folkmusik 2.0, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2017 Hybrid Layers, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2015 The Bear Pit, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2015 Whatever you built could be taken apart, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2015 TRUST, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
2015 Catwalk, Komplot, Brussels
2014 The Moving Museum, Istanbul
2014 Stadtkino Art Basel, Basel
2014 911,000 BC, Grand Century, New York
2013 Unstable Media, Gallerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2013 Wiederholen und Ausblenden, Mumok Kino, Vienna
2013 Collapse, Fluxia, Milan
2012 The Book Lovers, M HKA, Antwerp
2012 Realness Respect, steirischer herbst, Graz
2012 Domino Effect, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2011 Based in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

PUBLIC ARTWORKS
2025 Gbg for life yeah, Göteborg Konst, Nya Masthuggskajen, Gothenburg
2022 FolkFigur, digital temporary artwork, Statens Konstråd, Stockholm
2020 När jag gick hemifrån bar jag på allt som behövdes, Stockholm Konst & Familjebostäder, Älvsjö
2019 Uninterruptable, Statens Konstråd, NEO, Flemingsberg
2018 thinking thinking dot dot dot, Göteborg Konst & Bostadsbolaget, Rannebergen, Göteborg