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Born in Muonionalusta in the north of Sweden Studies of painting and history of art in Uppsala and Paris.
Examina: Bachelor of Arts Member of
KRO (Organization of the Swedish artists),
Uppsala konstnärsklubb and
Svenska konstnärernas förening (The Association of Swedish Artists)
Bibliography:
Konstnärer i Sörmland, Västmanland o Uppsala län (Pedagogförlaget) 90-talets konstnärer i Uppland (UNT 1991) (Swedish artists 1996), VäBo Förlag
Catalogues:
1988 (Memories),
1990 (ed in Warszovie),
1994 (Spår av kropp)
1998 The River (ed. by Västerås konstmuseum)

Sweden - France
Maj-Siri Österling lives and works in Sweden and in the Languedoc region in France. Maj-Siri Österling has had about thirty individual exhibitions in Sweden, Finland, Island, Polen, Hollans, Portugal and France and has participated in a great number of group exhibitions in Sweden, Holland, France and Guinea. Her work is represented in local and regional public collections in Sweden and in France, and more particulary at Västerås Art Museum and the Swedish Arts Council, but also at a number of trade unions and human rights organisations.

The myths
How are myths born? Yes - by mating, for example, the knowledge of everyday secrets with rused intelligence contained in the magic craftmanship of art. If you're lucky, something supernatural is born which reveals the most important truths; the unexpected. Thes truths are called myths.
Maj-Siri Österling
has, for a long time been making images and worlds of such truths. Do old reindeer hides brought again to life retell the forgotten sagas? Do particular formations of islets, of water courses or perhaps melodies of colour construct other knowledge not dreamt of?
Yes, she has used many different motifs to create artistic and cosmic codes - but so clear that they help us to decipher our own secrets. ..
Let full play to the forms and colours of Maj-Siri and open your heart. But be forewarned - this is the birth of myth
- if you want it to be.