b. 1987
based in Stockholm, Sweden
info@klaragardtman.com
instagram: @klaragardtman


EDUCATION 
LUCA School of Art, MA Textiles, Ghent, 2025
Konstfack University of Arts: BFA Textiles, Stockholm, 2021
Iceland University of The Arts: exchange semester, Reykjavik, 2020
Friends of Handicraft: Textile handicraft foundation year, Stockholm, 2018
Stockholm International Business School: International Buyer, Stockholm, 2009
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
Stycken, Detroit Gallery, Stockholm, 2024
Tough bloom, Bar Oas, Stockholm, 2024
Skörd, Spökparkens lusthus, Stockholm, 2023
Vävmässan, Halmstad, 2022

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026:
Group exhibition, The Green Corridor, Brussels
2025:
Master degree show, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent
Zomersalon, Kunsthal Gent, Gent
2024:
Affordable art fair through Gallery Duerr, Stockholm
TAKEAWAY, Gallery Duerr, Stockholm
Gaps/glitches, Studio K18, Stockholm
Fiber futures, Gallery Friends of Handicraft, Stockholm
Recession, Studio K18, Stockholm
2023:
Textile Alumni, Stockholm Craft Week, Konstfack, Stockholm
Spin, Crum Heaven, Stockholm
2022:
Ung Svensk Form
Dreams of the offline world, Gallery Barklund, Stockholm
Hjorten Skulpturpark, Stockholm
2021:
Takeaway, Galleri Duerr, Stockholm
SEART 2021, NO PICNIC, Stockholm
With you I am home, Way Galleri Stockholm
Bachelor exam exhibition, Konstfack, www.konstfack2021.se, Stockholm
W2021, Craft Space Helvetet, digital exhibition
2020:
T.EX., Konstfack Havet
PAY, Gallery Momangen, Stockholm
Spring exhibition, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik
Oops!, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik









EMPLOYMENTS
Artist Hana Miletić: artist assistant, Brussels, 2026
Konstfack: course leader in Textile Industrial Production, 2025-ongoing
Nyckelviksskolan: assistant teacher in weaving 2022 - 2023
Friends of Handicraft School: course leader in textile fibre and weaving 2022,-23,-25
Klässbols Linneväveri: Stockholm showroom representative, 2022 - ongoing
Artist Matilda Dominique: artist assistant (project employments), 2019 - 2023
Artist Nana Mandl: artist assistant 6 months, Vienna, 2021
Remake Stockholm City Mission: Sales representative & sustainability advisor, 2019
Mini Rodini, Sustainability manager & buyer, 2011-2017
Minimarket: Buyer, 2009-2010
Iittala: Store representative, 2005-2010

GRANTS
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, travel grant, 2024
Clara Lachmanns fond, 2024
Letterstedtska föreningen, 2024
Svensk-isländska samarbetsfonden, 2024
Estrid Ericssons Stiftelse 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Längmanska Kulturfonden, 2022
Svenska Vävrådet grant for newly graduate within hand weaving, 2021
Konstfack graduation grant & travel grant, 2021
J. L. Eklunds Hantverksstiftelse, 2020-2021
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, 2020, 2022, 2024
Konstfack group travel grant, 2020
Stiftelsen Petersenska Hemmet, 2020
Maria Lindgrens Sömmerskehem 2018, 2019, 2020

RESIDENCIES
Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduos, Iceland, 2024​​​​​​​
Artist in Office, Konsthantverkscentrum, Stockholm, 2022
REPRESENTATIONS
Galleri Duerr, TAKEAWAY, 2022-ongoing
Kulturhuset Stadsteatern shop, Stockholm, 2022
Something Something, Stockholm, 2021
Local Art, Poppi Pop-up, Stockholm, 2021

MEMBERSHIPS
SKF Konstnärshuset
Konsthantverkscentrum
Svenska vävakademin