Photo: Ronja Burkard
Malin Widén is an illustrator and art educator with roots in Switzerland and Sweden. Her work includes illustrated books, commissioned illustrations, artistic research in the field of drawing and its mediation, workshops and teaching.
Contact
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Education
MA Fine Arts, Major Art Teaching with a focus on Image Practices, Lucerne School of Art & Design
CAS Visual Journalism, MAZ Lucerne
BA Illustration Fiction, Lucerne School of Art & Design
References
→ Beobachter Verlag
→ BM Arte Luzern
→ Cartoonmuseum Basel
→ Grüne Kanton Luzern
→ Fumetto Comic Festival
→ Junges Literaturhaus Freiburg i. B.
→ Klett & Balmer Verlag
→ Kunsthalle Luzern
→ Kunstanstifter Verlag
→ Kunstplattform akku
→ Lucerne School of Art & Design
→ Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology
→ University of Lucerne, Department of Sociology
→ SBVV Schweizer Buchhändler- und Verleger-Verband
→ SJW Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk
→ SIKJM Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien
→ Syndicom
→ ZHAW Institute of Applied Psychology
→ ZHAW School of Health Sciences
Network
Illustration
→ Bolo Klub
→ Syndicom Illustration
→ Illustrators Switzerland
Art Education
→ ZeichenZimmer
→ Actioncy
→ LBG Association of Swiss Art Teachers
Awards, Nominations & Residencies
2021 "Auf der Insel" selected for "100 Beste" at Münchner Buchschau
2020 Max von Moos award for the project "ZeichenZimmer"
2020 Master's thesis "Die Idee kommt beim Zeichnen" nominated for the Chapeau! award
2016 Artist Residency in Varanasi, India
Exhibitions
2022 "Kinderbücher aus der Schweiz", Bolo Klub group show at Fumetto Comic Festival, En Bas Lucerne
2022 Bolo Klub group show at Villa Bernasconi, Geneva
2021 "Poems", Group show at Jane Basel
2021 Group show at Illustrade Festival Rostock
2021 Group show "WANDZEICH(N)EN", Kunsthalle Luzern
2021 "Ada + Eva im Schlaraffenland", together with Laura D'Arcangelo, Fumetto satellite exhibition, iHilfe Lucerne
2020 "Ada + Eva im Schlaraffenland", together with Laura D'Arcangelo at Zürich liest Festival, collab, Zurich
2020 "Kunst. Macht. Schule.", virtual graduation show, MA Fine Arts, Lucerne School of Art & Design
2019 Bolo Klub group show "Hercules on the Beach" at Galerie La Joie de Voir, Geneva
2019 Bolo Klub group show at Scuderia, Bologna
2019 Fumetto satellite exhibition with screenprint collective Müscle, Restaurant Krienbrüggli, Lucerne
2018 Mural, Stücki Park Basel
2016 "Varanasi Experiences", together with Mirijam Ziegler, Eva Jäger and Etienne Mory, Kunstraum Teiggi 2.0, Kriens
2015 Group show "Kunst Werk Buch. Künstlerbuch –
Buchobjekt – Unikat", University Library Lucerne and Lucerne School of Art & Design
2015 Fumetto satellite exhibition, together with Orphea Heutling, Jazzkantine, Lucerne
2014 "Bête Noire", together with Orphea Heutling, Tatort, Lucerne
2014 Group show, Galerie Raess, Zurich
2013 Graduation show BA Illustration Fiction, Lucerne School of Art & Design, Messehalle, Lucerne
2011 Fumetto satellite exhibition, together with Meret Landolt and Fabienne Ehrler, Kino Bourbaki, Lucerne
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© 2022 Malin Widén.