Evelina Hedin

Evelina Hedin is a curator, writer, and artist living and working on the countryside outside Uppsala, Sweden. Her practice moves through text and textiles, as a language and as a source of links between places, history, contemporary times, and the future. Her explorations are based on embodied knowledge and its subversive potentials, suggesting that crafts can foster empathetic coexistence through the act of listening.

Currently Evelina works as international coordinator at Konsthantverkscentrum (The Swedish Crafts Centre), where she initiates and manages international collaborative projects such as the conference Curating Craft, a Nordic collaboration during Stockholm Craft Week 2023, and Textile Takeover at Scandinavia House in New York in 2024, in collaboration with New York Textile Month. 2019-2021 she was the director of Gustavsbergs Konsthall, an art gallery specializing in contemporary crafts.

Evelina is one of the six founders and members of DNK, (Den nya kvinnogruppen/The New Women’s Group), a craft group active 2013-2018, exploring feminist strategies in art and curation through materiality, tactility, and friendship. She holds an MFA from Konstfack master program Textile in the expanded field, 2012.