mirjam hemström farsi
ABOUT
Designer and artist
b. 1990, Ångermanland
/Sweden
Mirjam Hemström Farsi is a weaver. Based in a studio in Gustavsberg, she works with exhibitions and public art commissions, both independently and with the weaving group Studio Supersju.
Between traditional craftsmanship, experimental techniques, and digital tools, drawing inspiration from mobile dwellings, textile architecture, liminal spaces, and places we yearn for, Hemström Farsi identifies herself as a "Weaver of Space". With a special interest in perception, space as a subjective experience, a physical memory and an on-going process in human mind, the focus of work often revolves around creating sensations - mute conversations through materiality and interspace.
Recurring themes in Hemström Farsi's work are textile baths and macro and micro spatial features in surfaces and forms, where the sensory aspect of a space takes centre stage. She investigates spatial qualities using shadows, voids, lines, geometric shapes, and tactile surfaces, exploring the familiar and the plucky. Soft materials and architectural structures guide her work towards a textile verdure.
Hemström Farsi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in textile design from the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås (2016, 2020). She worked as an assistant at Studio Akane Moriyama from 2016 to 2017. In 2021, she received the Young Swedish Design award for her project “The Metamorphosis of Weaving” (2020), with the judge's comments:
"With an austere, coulored, organic work, the handmade is lifted into a three-dimensional spatial installation. A contemporary nod to the best in municipal art, a textile architecture that owns its space, captures the light and pays homage to the skill of the craftsman."
CV
Education
2017 - 2020 Master of Fine Arts, Textile Design, The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås
2013 - 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Textile Design, The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås
2012 - 2013 Textile Design and Craft, Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm
2011 - 2012 Arts and Crafts, Glimåkra Folkhögskola, Glimåkra
2024 "Jacquard Design & Weaving" course, Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio
2021 Environmental History and Ecocriticism, University of Gothenburg
2020 History of Aesthetics, University of Gothenburg
Solo exhibitions
2025 Spatium, Tyresö Art Hall
2024 Galleri STUK, Visby
2024 Vår Gård, Saltsjöbaden
2023 Norðurland, Kramfors Artspace
2023 Textilbada, Härnösand Artspace
2023 Att väva rum, Nässjö Art Hall
2022 Stipendiatutställning, Sundsvalls Konstförening, Sundsvall (w. Malin Mattebo)
2022 Weaver of Space, Institut Francais, Kigali, Rwanda
2022 Weaves, IT'S A SHIRT Showroom, Athens, Greece
2022 The Metamorphosis of Weaving, Fiberspace, Stockholm
2020 The Metamorhosis of Weaving, process exhibition, The Textile Museum, Borås
2015 Textile Architecture, Gustav Adolf Church, Borås (w. Statira Jazayeri)
Group exhibitions
2024 Bokstavskonst genom Väv, Tengbomhallen, Konstakademien, Stockholm
(w. Studio Supersju and Ateljé Grotesk)
2023 Bred blick på hantverk, Skansen, Stockholm
2023 New Power Plants, Studio L2, Stockholm
2023 Residens Spånadslin, Fiberspace Gallery, Stockholm
2022 Bollnässtugan, Skansen, Stockholm (w. Studio Supersju)
2022 GKF Galleri, Visby (w. Studio Supersju)
2022 Residens Spånadslin, Slöjdgalleriet, Linköping
2021 De fyra årstiderna, Handarbetets Vänners Galleri, Stockholm (w. Studio Supersju)
2021 Slöjdgalleriet, Linköping (w. Studio Supersju)
2021 Ung Svensk Form 2021, travelling exhibition
2020 Fiberspace, in connection to Fiberspace's 5th anniversary book launch
2020 Dutch Design Week, virtual reality exhibition
2020 Icelandic Textile Center Gallery, Blönduos, Iceland
2020 Vävgruppen - Studio Supersju, Västernorrlands Museum, Härnösand
2020 Butterfingers, Studio Supersju, Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm
2019 Kaleido, Uppsala (w. Studio Supersju)
2019 Malmstensbutiken, Stockholm (w. Studio Supersju)
2018 Pop up exhibition, Gustavsbergs Konsthall (w. Studio Supersju)
2018 Betapassagen, Stockholm (w. Studio Supersju)
2017 Vävmässan, Växjö (w. Studio Supersju)
2017 Pop up exhibition, Fiberspace, Stockholm (w. Studio Supersju)
2016 Studio L2, Stockholm
2016 New Designers Fair, London
2016 EXIT, The Textile Museum, Borås
2016 Moving Art Project
2016 Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair
2015 Galleri So Stockholm
2014 The Textile Museum, Borås
Public art commissions
2024 - 2026 Nybyggnation för rättspsykiatrisk vård, Region Kronoberg (on-going)
2023 Stockholm Cityhall, Stockholm Konst (w. Studio Supersju)
2022 Ställbergs Gruva, Ställberg (w. Studio Supersju)
2021 Vård- och Omsorgsboende Kornellen, Örebro Kommun (w. Studio Supersju)
Artist in residencies
2024 Tivedstorp Kulturresidens, Region Örebro län
2023 - 2024 IASPIS, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm
2020 Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduos, Iceland
2018 Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduos, Iceland
Other work
2017 - Co-founder and member of Studio Supersju
2016 - 2017 Design assistant, Studio Akane Moriyama, Stockholm
2016 Intern/guest designer at Women Weave, Maheshwar, India
Selected grants and awards
2025 Project grant SLÖJD+, The National Swedish Handicraft Council (also 2024, 2023)
2025 2 years' working grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2025 Travel grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (also 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016)
2025 Estrid Ericsson's Foundation (also 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016)
2023 Helge Ax:son Johnson's Foundation (also 2017, 2015)
2022 Swedish Arts Council (w. Studio Supersju)
2021 1 year working grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2021 Märtha Gahn's Foundation, Hemslöjden
2021 Exhibition grant, Svensk Form Väst
2021 Ung Svensk Form / Young Swedish Design 2021
2020 Design S' textile category, for the collection "Studio Supersju x Carl Malmsten"
a collaboration between Studio Supersju and Malmstensbutiken
2020 Culture Grant, Region Västernorrland
2020 Grafström-Sanqvistska Fonden
2020 Forskningsnära verifiering, Vinnova
2020 International travel grant, Västra Götalandsregionen
2020 Tekoutbildningarnas Stipendiefonder
2018 Cathrine von Hauswolff's Foundation, for the work with Studio Supersju
2018 Student Sponsorship, ScotCad Textiles Ltd
2018 Culture grant, Borås Stad
2018 Åke Gerhard och Majken Larsson's Foundation
2018 Fredrika Bremer Association
2016 Assistant grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2016 Tekoutbildningarnas Stipendiefonder
Represented
2025 Region Stockholm
2024 Statens Konstråd
2024 Östersunds Kommun
2023 Region Västernorrland
2023 Kramfors Kommun
2023 Härnösands Kommun
2022 Sundsvalls Kommun
2020 The Fiberspace Collection, Stockholm
2020 Gävle Kommun
2019 Handelsbankens Konstförening, Stockholm
2017 Handelsbankens Konstförening, Stockholm
2017 Apoteksbolagets Konstförening, Stockholm
Private collections
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