Sofi Gunnstedt

About

Sofi Gunnstedt works with ceramics, both in her own artistic practice and as an art educator. Working from her studio in Årsta, she focuses mainly on hand-building and sculpture, centering the materiality and possibilities of clay.

“Clay is my language, my way of translating - my Google Translate. And just like with Google Translate, the original meaning doesn't always come through clearly.

For me, art is a way to communicate - sometimes with others, sometimes with myself. It can mean creating a place, a mood, a feeling, or trying to understand what's happening around me. I like that ceramics can hold both the concrete and the hard-to-grasp: something you can hold in your hand, yet something that stirs what can't quite be explained.

I keep returning to vases and their forms - as bodies, places, stories, sometimes as a reflection of myself. There's something interesting in what isn't perfect. In the crack, the crookedness, the unexpected, there's a way forward.”

Education

2018-2021 Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design - Master in Craft, Ceramics
2015-2018 Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design - Bachelor in Ceramics and Glass
2014-2015 Capellagården - Postgraduate year in Ceramics
2013-2014 Nyckelviksskolan - Ceramic Form

Exhibitions

2026 Fönster, Sintra, Gothenburg
2026 Fönster, Blås och Knåda, Stockholm
2025 Separat, Blås och Knåda, Stockholm
2025 Vetlanda Art Association, Vetlanda
2024 Summer Exhibition, Blås och Knåda, Stockholm
2022 Peach corner, Wunderkammer, Copenhagen
2021 Healthy Competition, mixed messeges, Stockholm
2021 Hang in there, Dotdotdot, Handarbetets Vänner
2021 Expanding Terrains, Stockholm craft week
2021 Stockholm Designweek Bjelin’s The floor is yours
2021 Spring Exhibition, Konstfack
2020 Hope x The Ode To
2020 Rodebjer x The Ode To, Vaginan Rodebjer
2018 Fire work with me, The Glass Factory, Boda
2018 Spring Exhibition Konstfack
2018 Children's Art Evening, Folkets hus, Lidköping
2015 Summer Exhibition, Capellagården
2014 Spring Exhibition, Nyckelviksskolan

Public Artworks

2021 Region Stockholm, Nacka Hospital
2019 Region Kronoberg, Adult Psychiatry