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Petter Pettersson (b. 1972, Kristinehamn) lives and works in Linderöd and Malmö. 
Educated at Malmo Art Academy 

Elin Lundgren (b. 1973, Stockholm) lives and works in Linderöd and Malmö. 
Educated at HB Studios & The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, NY

 

Contact:  

elin@lilithperformancestudio.com  +46 (0)735 847010
petter@lilithperformancestudio.com +46(0)768 11 26 16
https://lilithperformancestudio.com  https://www.lundgrenpettersson.com 

 
About:

LILITH is the artist duo Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson. Through performances that touch on community, group belonging and exclusion, LILITH constructs their works as living images with a tripped-down documentary narrative infused with a sense of absurd humor. Their key concerns revolve around universal human issues such as love, loss and sadness, they are propelled by a desire to move into the audience’s consciousness like a noise or a disorder, all the while hoping to understand what it means to be a human being. https://www.lundgrenpettersson.com 

 

Lundgren and Pettersson have worked together with visual and performing arts in various forms since 1999. In 2007, the artist duo founded the acclaimed performance studio – Lilith Performance Studio – an independent arena for practical artistic research focusing on newly produced large-scale art performances by invited artists from all over the world.

 

Since the start, they have curated and produced over 65 large-scale performance works in collaboration with artists from all over the world, both younger and established such as; Éva Mag (SE), Tori Wrånes (NO), Laura Lima (BRA), Angelica Mesiti (AUS), Leif Holmstrand (SE) Liina Siib (EST), Anna-Karin Rasmusson (SE), Ulla von Brandenburg (DE), Emily Wardill (Great Britain), Dafna Maimon (ISR /FIN), Melati Suryodarmo (IND), Bernard Akoi Jackson (GAH) and others. 

Read more →  https://lilithperformancestudio.com   

 

 

Lundgren and Pettersson’s latest major art performance works are; My total pleasure which is selected to the Performing Arts Biennale 2023 at Orionteatern in Stockholm and Lilith Performance Studio 2022   https://scensverige.se/min-totala-njutning/  and Game Changer – a commissioned performance for Bildmuseet in Umeå in 2022. https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/utstallningar/2022/bildmuseets-performancehelg/ 

 

 

Performances and exhibitions:

2024 Upcoming performance: Biennale 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto 
2023 BEDÅRANDE FÖRSKJUTNING / ADORABLE DISPLACEMENT-  performance in collaboration with Moomsteatern in Malmö, November at LPS.
2023 MIN TOTALA NJUTNING (My Total Pleasure) – performance at the Performing Arts Biennale at Orionteatern in Stockholm
2022 MIN TOTALA NJUTNING (My Total Pleasure)  – performance Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö
2022 Game Changer – a performance  commission for Bildmuseet in Umeå
2019 ANIMAL – Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö
2016 Miracle Line -performance at  Undisclosed Territory#10, Studio Plesungan, Indonesien Curator: Melati Suryodarmo
2016 Harmonica Boy and the Island – performance for Undisclosed Territory#10, Studio Plesungan, IND. Curator: Melati Suryodarmo
2016 Island in the Sun – a commission performance for Malmö Sommarscen ( Malmö summer stage) Curator: Anna Novovic
2015 I’m Here for You –  performance at Undisclosed Territory#9, Studio Plesungan, IND – ( Elin Lundgren)
2014 Back in Baby’s Arms – a performance for Konstfrämjandet Umeå (Elin Lundgren)
2014 Turkey’s Nest – video performance work, PAO – Performance Art Oslo- annual performance festival. Curator: PAO’s board of members. 
2014 Turkey’s Nest & HeadHouse – Video performance work, Undisclosed Territory#8 Studio Plesungan, IND
2012 HeadHouse – ACTS, an annual performance festival, Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK Curator: Sanne Kofod Larsen
2012 HeadHouse – Large – scale performance, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö
2010 Turkeys Nest – Video performance work, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art; Toronto Curator: Tanya Mars
2010 Änkor måste ju också vara nakna ibland ( Widows must also be naked somtetimes) – Video installation, group exhibitionPolis Polis Potatismos, Malmö Konsthall. Curator: Jakob Fabricius
2009 Komma Nära ( Come Close), performance, annual performance festival Kunstbanken, Hamar, NO Curator: Ingrid Blekastad
2009 Turkey’s Nest, performance  Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö

 

Other Assignments 

 

2024   Examinator for Judit Weegar at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm
2024   Guest teacher in performance workshop for the International high school in elsingborg
2023   Guest teacher in performance at Malmö Art Academy and Conceptual performing Arts   at the Theater Academy in Malmö
2022   Guest teacher in performance workshop for the International high school in Helsingborg
2022   Guest teacher in performance for the course Conceptual performing Arts at the Theater Academy in Malmö
2022  Guest teacher in performance at Fridhems folk high school for the theater and film students. 
2021 – 2022 Guest teacher in performance for the course Conceptual performing Arts at the Theater Academy in Malmö
2017 – 2020 Member of the board at The Swedish Arts Grants Committee & IASPIS  i (Elin Lundgren)
2016 -2017 Member of the board at  IAC ( Inter Arts Center, Malmö) (Elin Lundgren)
2013 –  ongoing Member of the board at IASPIS in Malmö (Petter Pettersson)

 

Awards / Grants

2023  Selected with the performance MIN TOTALA NJUNTING  (MY TOTAL PLEASURE) for the best performing art in Sweden – Performing Arts Biennale  2023
2023  Nöjesguiden (A swedish Newspaper for entertainment, arts, performing arts etc) – Awarded for the best arts of the year
2022  Iaspis travel grant for 7a 11 d  Performance arts biennale in Toronto ( postpone until 20242024)
2017  Performing Arts gala in Gothenburg – the years best performing arts for LPS’s 10 th anniversary serie 
2016 Iaspis travel grant – performance festival – Undisclosed Territory#10, Studio Plesungan, IND
2015 Iaspis travel grant – performance festival, Undisclosed Territory#9, Studio Plesungan, IND
2015  Skånes Kulturpris 2015 / The Region Skåne’s Culture Prize
2014  Nöjesguiden (A MAGAZINE for entertainment, arts, performing arts etc) – Awarded for the best arts of the year 2014
2011  Ester Almqvist Grant
2009  The Swedish Arts Grants Committee  – Dynamo Award (Each year, the Dynamo scholarship goes to one or more people who are important to other artists by creating opportunities for them to show their art and meet an audience.)
2006 The Swedish Arts Grants Committees 1-year working grant ( Elin Lundgren)
2006  Malmö City’s  & Skånes Region’s Culture grant ( Elin Lundgren)
2006  Aase & Richard Björklunds Art grant ( Petter Pettersson)
2005  Malmö City’s Culture grant kulturstipendium (Petter Pettersson)
2002  The Swedish Arts Grants Committees 1-year working grant ( Petter Pettersson)
1999  The Swedish Arts Grants Committees 1 -year artist assistant grant ( Petter Pettersson)

 

Lilith Performance Studio’s performance productions curated and produced by Lundgren & Pettersson 

2025 Iwillmedievalfutureyou2  –  co-curatering with Jacob Fabricius, Art Hub Copenhagen
2024 DURATIONAL SPACE#4  – Signe Johannessen & Jenny Berg
2024 DURATIONAL SPACE#3 – Tova Mozard (SE) & Linnea Hasander (SE)
2023 DURATIONAL SPACE#2 – Adèle Essle Zeiss (SE) & Sareena Sattapon (TH)
2023 DURATIONAL SPACE – Éva Mag & Anna-Karin Rasmusson
2022 My total Pleasure in collaboration with the poet Daniel Mårs
2022 GARDEN OF LEFTHAND – Tori Wrånes (NO)
2021 Five Corners – Five performances by five Swedish based artists: Elin Maria Johansson, Farvash, Kasra Alikhani, Cecilia Sterner, Helena Olsson
2020 The Documentary – Henrik Lund Jørgensen 
2019 PLÄSNT DSCHÖRNIE – NEW MOVES – Ethan Hayes – Chute (US)
2018 Game On – Molly Lowe (US)
2017 4 X YOU ARE INVITED a serie performance to celebrate LPS’s 10th anniversary 

YOU ARE INVITED – Baby Shower for Mary av Iclandic Love Corporation (IS)
YOU ARE INVITED – Kalo Kalo av Odun Orimolade (NG)
YOU ARE INVITED – The Gateway av Myriam Laplante (IT/CA)
YOU ARE INVITED – Orient Express Yourself av Dafna Maimon (FIN/ISR)
2017 Passing Through Metal – Oreet Ashery (UK)
2016 Transaction of Hollows – Melati Suryodarmo (IND)
2016 Modern Lives – Dafna Maimon (FIN/ISR)
2015 Fake Bones – Leif Holmstrand (SE) & konstnärskollektivet OLTA (JPN)
2014 YOUR NEXT VACATION IS CALLING – Tori Wrånes (NO) (also a three-channel video installation)
2014 The Abstraction – Laura Lima (BRA)
2014 Angelica Mesisti (AUS) – The Colour of Saying (also a multi -channel video installation)
2014 Henna-Rikka Halonen – The Pow(d)er of Fear
2013 Liina Siib (EST) – Mass Line
2013 Myriam Laplante (CAN) – The Night Watch
Henrik Lund Jørgensen FARB – The Story About A Polyester Soldier
 (the 3rd (class) passenger) 
2012 Emily Wardill (UK) – FOR THEY KNOW NOT
Icelandic Love Corporation (IS) – Think less- Feel more  
2011 Jeuno Je Kim (KO/SE) & Mirko Winkel (DE) – Protein
2011 Einat Amir (ISR) – Enough About You
2010 Emma Pilipon (SE) – No Fate
2010 Olga Vokab (RUS) – The Delights of Life
2010 Ulla von Brandenburg (DE) – Chorspiel (även ett videoverk)
2010 Genevieve Belleveau (US) – The Church of Gorgeous Taps and the Reality Show
2009 Tamy Ben Tor (ISR) – Jubilakta
2009 Mathias Kristersson (SE) – I brist på alternativ sken solen på ingenting nytt 
2009 Cai Yuan & JJ Xi (CHN)  
2009 Jillian McDonald (CAN/US) – Undead in the Night
2009 Tsuneko Taniuchi (JPN) – Micro-Event n°36/Ice Vitrine
2009 Tanya Mars (CAN) – Dulci Jubilo
2008 Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak (POL) -The Personal Definition
2008 Jonathan Meese (DE) -DR. METABOLISMYS FOR PRESIDENT IS BORN (ERZMUMIN’S BONBON, now…)  
2008 Yingmei Duan (CHN) – Rubbish City
2008 Jannicke Låker Per, 3:30-7:30, noen gang i mars 1998 (Per, 3:30-7:30 am, some time in March 1998) 
2008 Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (PH/DK) – Mis United
2007 Melati Suryodarmo (IND) – The Perception of Patterns in Timeless Influence
2007 Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schurmanns (SE) – GGG & G – Gorilla Goddess Gangster and the Goblins
2007 Suvi Parrilla (FIN) – A One-Woman Performance Festival
2007 Morgan Schagerberg (SE) – Morgan och hans vänner (Morgan and his friends)  
2007 Irma Optimist (SE)
2007 Saralunden (SE) Drei Lieder für ein Gehirn (Three Songs for a Brain)
2007 Matti Kallioinen (SE) –  Gaslandet (The Gas Land)
2007 Ingibjörg Magnadóttir & Kristín Eiríksdóttir (IS) – I’m Crying Everyone’s Tears. King of Sorrow

 

Curatorial assignments / performance event – and festivals

2015 WATA DON PASS – an exclusive  performance event at Lilith Performance Studio with four artist from West Africa and a seminar at Moderna Museet Malmö.  
The invited artists and their commissioned performances: Taiwo Aiyedogbon (NGA) – African Time; Bernard Akoi-Jackson (GHA) – Untitled: How to Usher the [an] African fully into [His]tory…”; Christian Etongo (CMR) – Probo Coala; Odun Orimolade (NGA) – Spirits at the ball

WATA DON PASS was a curatorila collaboration with LILITH artist duo, Marianne Hultman Oslo Kunstforening and Bisi Silva, CCA, Lagos

 

2014 MALMÖ GALLERY NIGHT 2014 Dafna Maimon (FIN/ ISR) & PERFORMANCE VOYAGE 4 TOUR – Series of International Video Performances. Produced by Artists’ Association MUU, Performance Voyage is an annually compiled thematic series of video performances that also goes on an international tour. The Performance Voyage 4 compilation from 2014 contains 14 video performances by artists from different parts of the world. Its tour covers over 20 events in 14 countries.

2014 Co – curated a part of PAO – Performance Art Oslo- annual performance festival’s video program: Videos by the artist:

 

2013 24 SPACES – a cacophony at Malmö Konsthall – invited by the Director of Malmö Konsthall, Jacob Fabricius,  LPS curated two newperformances by: Yingmei Duan (CH) – Happy Yingmei & Donna Huanca (MEX/US) – Raw Material

 

2012 ACTS – an annual performance festival at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark – Lilith Performance Studio co -curated  and presented three performance by the artists: Einat Amir (ISR), Morgan Schagerberg (SE), Tanya Mars (CA)

2012 The Roskilde festival, a LPS’s commission Enough About You by Einat Amir (ISR)

2011 Lilith Performance Event 2011- 6 large scale performances by the artists: Yingmei Duan (CH), Genevieve Belleveau (US), Jannicke Låker (NO), Cai Yuan & JJ Xi (CH), Morgan Schagerberg (SW), Einat Amir (ISR), Matti Kallioinen (SE)

2010 Lilith Performance Studios catalogue release and performance evening with the invited artists: Tsuneko Taniuchi (JPN), Melati Suryodarmo (IDN), Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen (PH/DK), Saralunden (SE) and Tanya Mars (CN)

 

2009 IN TRANSIT 2009 – Resistance of the Object på Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin -International Performing Arts Festival. Invited by the curatorAndré Lepecki. Artists: Melati Suryodarmo (IDN) with the LPS commission – Perception of Timeless Influence andYingmei Duan (CH) with the LPS commission Rubbish City

 

2008 ALT_CHP. Artists: Mathias Christersson, Emma Pilipon, Jenny Grönvall

 

2008 Lilith Performance Studio curated the YES! Association for one weekend with symposium, lectures, performance, film and workshops. 

2008 Malmö festival, the culture stage. Artist: Saralunden – One-hour Sad Song from the Mouth of A Self-made Woman

2007 LILITH BY NIGHT  – one evening’s performance festival with 14 performances with 14 artists: Elisabet Apelmo, Beata Berggren, Johanna Gustavsson, Saralunden, Mathias Kristersson, Jenny Grönvall, Kristina Matousch, Christina Erman Widerberg, Emma Pilipon, Anna S Nilsson & Kajsa Karlström, Marit Lindberg, Katarina Nitsch, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

 

 

Lectures /Artist Talks

2023 Lecture / panel  discussion about performance at Lund University 
2023 Lecture The Royal Art Academy in Stockholm at Lilith Performance Studio
2022  Artist talk – Inter Arts Center in Malmö
2022 Artist talk – Bildmuseet in Umeå
2022 Lecture The Swedish Art Association: about performance and LPS 
2022 Lecture Lunds konsthall i collaboration with the art association Aura and Krognoshuset: about performance and LPS 
2022 Lecture  The Modern Museum of Art,Moderna Museet, Malmö: about performance and LPS 
2021 Östra Grevie Folk High School about LPS for the art and design students
2020 KKV ( Artist Collective Workshop) Stockholm and Nyckelviksskolan ( pre art school)
2019 The Music Academy in Malmö/Lund about LILITH’s performance ANIMAL
2018 The board for craft and textile issues annual conference in Malmö in collaboration with the Skåne Region: about the LPS’s production Passing Through Metal by the UK based artist Oreet Ashery. 
2017 Brown Bag Lunches, Skissernas Museum, Lund
2016 Art and Design faculty, Sebelas Universitetet Maret, Surakarta, IND 
2015 Undisclosed Territory#9, Studio Plesungan, IND – Elin Lundgren
2015 The Futures producers and agents – The Performing Arts Biennale 2015, Malmö
2015 Performance Workshop Exchange between the Nordic countries and West Africa, a curatorial collaboration with  Lilith Performance Studio, Marianne Hultman, Oslo Kunstforening and Bisi Silva, CCA, Lagos.
2015 Together, APAP, NYC, presentation of Sweden’s Performing Arts arranged by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Kulturrådet
2014 ”Can children run an Art Museum?” The Intensive Days, Riksutställningar
2014 Festival Normal, Umeå about Elin Lundgren’s performance Back in Baby’s Arms
2013 Iaspis Umeå, about LPS and performance
2011 Malmö Art Academy about LPS and performance
2009 Performing Arts, panel discussion, The Royal Theater, Dramaten, Stockholm

 

PRESS / REVIEWS about LILITH artist duo

ABOUT – MIN TOTALA NJUTNING ( MY TOTAL PLEASURE)

”My total pleasure” is an unfathomable work, at the same time poetic, terrifying and beautiful. Much like life itself.”
Review in Swedish Television Culture News by Anna Hedelius → SVT/KULTURNYHETERNA

My total pleasure” is a sensuous work of art of the kind that can only be seen on Lilith, where the limits of the possible are thrown out of whack time and time again. “The experience is completely bizarre, like an apocalyptic dream scene. The survivors gather among the ruins, in frustration and longing. Nevertheless, the life-giving dough must continue to be kneaded, connections built, bodies embraced and meaning created. Without falling for banal messages, the work says something essential about the beauty and difficulty of being human. It is fateful and strangely comforting.” 
Carolina Söderholm – Konsten.net → KONSTEN.NET

”Lilith Performance Studio is one of the important small idiosyncratic groups that make Malmö by far the most vibrant stage city in the country right now.” ”When I wander out into the industrial area again, I don’t know what I’ve seen, other than that I’ve been part of something special; also the experience that the wordless can be so …. political, philosophical, existential”
Henric Teselius Kristianstadbladet. →Kristianstadsbladet

”Lilith Performance Studio has once again succeeded in creating a world that was not known to be possible.” Tor Billgren – Sydsvenskan  →SYDSVENSKAN

 

MORE PRESS

→ https://www.sydsvenskan.se
→P4 Radio
→ Kulturnytt i P1

 

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE GAME CHANGER

“In a chanting soundscape, I engage in an experience that, stronger and more invasive than I’ve encountered in a long time, delves intimately into questions about the individual’s power versus that of the collective, power and protection, resistance and submission. In an uncertain borderland of choreographed rituals, interaction, improvisation, and coercion, I linger driven by a desire to understand the undercurrents; to deidentify the people and situations around me. Then, I quickly leave the room, realizing that I need to let all questions remain unanswered.” – Sara Meidel” 

REVIEW in Västerbottens kurien- https://www.vk.se/2022-09-18/mer-svarartad-performance-till-folket

REVIEW → https://www.mezei.nu/

RADIO → https://sverigesradio.se/

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE ANIMAL

https://www.svt.se/kultur/animal-ar-rockklubben-dar-verklighet-blir-drom

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=7214763

“ Certainly, it’s a game, a play, but music and art have nothing to do with reality. The peculiarities and ecstasy of the rock club are fundamentally a staged revolt, a bubble where everyone wants to be a believer. The constructed intensity is meant to convince like truth, which reminds me of political rallies with equally simple slogans as the lyrics of rock songs about emotions and rebellion. Fuck the system. In both cases, it’s about political emotional landscapes. And Lilith has hit the nail on the head with dazzling lights and booming music.”  – Thomas Millroth 
→ https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2019-05-11/lilith-skapar-en-regisserad-revolt-pa-rockklubben

 

ABOUT PERFORMANCE ISLAND IN THE SUN

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=6487169

“It’s built on presence. That atmosphere and wordless dialogue between the artist and the art audience. One shares a now: a particular moment that arises in the room. The challenge lies in pressing against the uncertainty.” – Emelie Ånskog
REVIEW →  https://www.omkonst.com/16-island-in-the-sun-lilith.shtml

“The escape routes of language always end in this: silence, interruption, the infinite, or even worse,” write Deleuze and Guattari. It is that “even worse” that is present in “Island in the Sun,” a smoothing over silence in language. I need not remind you of the populist rhetoric that seeks to describe the world today. I left the paradise island with this infinite abyss in my heart. … or even worse! It is a performance that does not entertain and amuse, but holds onto me constantly. Not to know how it ends, but because it releases so much anxiety I must deal with. And understand. Or, indeed, “Island in the Sun” entertains with its burlesque humor. A dark farce, where I cannot avoid stumbling upon myself.” – Thomas Millroth
REVIEW → https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2016-08-06/planlost-performance

REVIEW → https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/scenrecensioner/island-in-the-sun-pa-lilith-performance-studio/

“The consciously monotonous creates a dimension where time stops – and starts again – stops again – starts again. A surreal feeling of real unreality hovers over the stage, that what is meaningless can be meaningful in this uniquely idiosyncratic performance.” – Ingela Brovik

REVIEW → https://www.danstidningen.se/2016/08/14/en-surrealistiskt-verklig-overklighet/ 

 

About Lilith 10 years

https://kunstkritikk.se/performance-pa-nya-villkor/
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/tio-ar-av-perfomance-lilith-i-malmo-jubilerar
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=96&artikel=6781496

 

The Region Skanes Culture Prize 2015

→  https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=101&artikel=6312217

 

“The cultural committee’s motivation for selecting the cultural award recipient reads:

Region Skåne’s cultural award for 2015 shines a spotlight on two innovators who have expanded the boundaries of an art form and made unique marks in Skåne and the world. A studio, created by two artists in dynamic harmony, repeatedly attracts internationally renowned colleagues to develop ideas for performance works that are among the most interesting in today’s experimental art scene.

With productions that both fascinate and provoke, they challenge our perceptions. Region Skåne’s cultural award for 2015 goes to Elin Lundgren and Petter Pettersson, who through Lilith Performance Studio turn the artwork itself into an event where the boundary between art and audience is constantly transcended.”