• About

    Jenny Nordberg (b. 1978) is an industrial designer MFA based in the southern part of Sweden, who works exploratory and interdisciplinary to expand the contemporary notion of design, and of the designer. Whether an experimental, conceptual or commercial project, her practice is always driven by a search for alternatives and counter-strategies to irresponsible mass production. Stylistically, her work is characterised by brutalism and minimalism cleverly combined, often leaning on chance as an important element.

    Navigating between art and design, her research and studio work focus on how we produce and consume today, how we have done so historically and how this can be done differently in the future. By exploring questions such as these, Nordberg seeks to transform the preconditions of design and encourage it to take a more engaged position.

    The research and design studio of Jenny Nordberg mainly works with studio production, small series, limited editions and site or context specific commissions.

    Jenny Nordberg is represented by Hostler Burrows in New York / Los Angeles, USA and C Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.

    Norberg is the founder of the local production sourcing platform SPOK and has previously been running the circular material oriented studios Apokalyps Labotek and Mines Above Ground.

  • CV

    AWARDS AND GRANTS
    2024
    Bruno Mathsson Prize
    IASPIS Cultural exchange grant
    2023
    Cathrine von Hauswolff’s Foundation 2023 scholarship holder
    2022
    Designer of the Year – Elle Deco Awards
    Designer of the year – Swedish Design Awards by RUM
    The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Project Funding
    2020
    The Swedish Arts Grants Committee two year working grant
    2019
    RUM Award, Object of the year
    Create in Residence, IASPIS/Nova Iskra, Belgrad
    2018
    Crafts of the year – Residence Magazine Design Award
    2017
    Formbärare 2017 Svensk Form Syd
    Form Award – Årets Nykomling (Newcomer of the Year)
    2016
    The Swedish Arts Grants Committee two year working grant
    Malmö Stads Näringslivspris inom Kulturella och Kreativa Näringar (The City of Malmö Award in the category Creative and Cultural Industry)
    Fröfabriken Residency in Landskrona
    2015
    Malmö Stads Ateljéstipendium
    2014
    Create in Residence at Nova Iskra, the Swedish Institute
    2012
    Malmö Stads Ateljéstipendium
    2011
    The Swedish Arts Grants Committee one year working grant
    Malmö Stads Stora Miljöpris
    Elle Interior Design Award
    2010
    Wallpaper Annual Design Award
    Terre de Femmes, andra pris
    Nöjesguiden Malmö/Lund Pris i kategorin Form
    Allas Miljöpris, nominerad
    Rankad nummer 7 av 100 i nykomlingslistan “Uppstickare” av Shortcut
    2009
    Region Skånes Designstipendium (Apokalyps Labotek)
    Greendigger Stipedium, Sweden Cleantech Incubators
    HDK’s pris för bästa monter, Stockholm Furniture Fair
    Malmö Stads Ateljéstipendium
    2008
    IASPIS kulturutbyte, Portugal
    2007
    Malmö Stads Kulturstipendium
    IASPIS kulturutbyte, Paris
    IASPIS kulturutbyte, Milano

    EXHIBITIONS
    2016
    November – The Plinth Project, Etage Projects, Copenhagen
    October – Oktober-November, Obra, Malmö
    August – 3 to 5 Seconds (solo exhibition), Hafnarborg Museum, Reykjavik
    August – Welcome to Weden, London Design Bienale, London (curator)
    April – Sweden Plays, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan
    April – Den Nya Kartan, Vandalorum, Värnamo (curator and co-exhibitor)
    February – Örnsbergsauktionen 2016, Kägelbanan, Stockholm
    February – Den Nya Kartan, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (curator and co-exhibitor)
    2015
    September – Den Nya Kartan, Form/Design Center (curator and co-exhibitor)
    June – Utvalt, Form/Design Center, Malmö (and also Tjörnedala Konsthall and Dunkers Kulturhus during 2015-2016)
    May – May Design Series – Fiera Edit, London
    May – Emerging Tendencies in Scandinavian Design, Romanian Design Week, Bucharest
    April – Plan B, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
    February – Massproduktion i en hantverkskontext (solo exhibition), Vandalorum – Center för Design och Konst, Värnamo
    February – Örnsbergsauktionen, Galleri Bon, Stockholm
    February – TWELVE – Established Nordic designers at the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm
    2014
    December – Hong Kong Business and Design Week, Hong Kong
    September – Plan B, KRETS Gallery, Malmö
    September – Shop Show, Falkenbergs Museum, Falkenberg
    August – Design Trade, Copenhagen
    May – Sight Unseen OFFSITE, New York
    February – Omkompositioner – Möbelrekonstruktion av Jenny Nordberg (solo exhibition), Falkenbergs Museum, Falkenberg
    January – Shop Show, Design Museum, Helsinki

    RECENT CLIENTS
    Källemo, Minus Tio, Vandalorum, Acne Jr, Form/Design Center, Nationalmuseum, Art Lab Gnesta, Yalla Trappan, IASPIS, H+ the city of Helsingborg, Lund University Architect School, Linnéaus University Design Programme, Malmö City Planning Office, White Architects, Lund University Industrial Design Programme

     

  • Contact

    Jenny Nordberg
    Email: inbox@jennynordberg.se
    Phone: +46 (0) 707 12 74 42

    Studio:
    Yllefabriken i Marieholm

    Post:
    Blinkarpsvägen 8, 268 68 Röstånga

    www.instagram.com/jenny_nordberg

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