Klara Liden

Art Brokerage: Klara Liden Swedish Artist: b. 1979. Klara Lidén is a contemporary artist. Lidén is known for her installations and videos that respond to specific architectural environments. Lidén has, in past projects, built a house with discarded materials on the banks of a river, set up an alternative free postal system and fly-posted blank white posters over street advertisements. For her 2005 solo show at Reena Spaulings Fine Art in New York, she built, from scavenged cardboard boxes and thin iron pipes, a small tower with an elevated room in the storefront gallery; a combination playhouse, retreat and gallery within a gallery, the tower was made of the same material that the neighborhood's homeless people used for protection and bedding. In her 2007 exhibition at the Moderna Museet, she moved the entire contents of her apartment into a museum. At the Nordic pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, assembled by fellow artists Elmgreen and Dragset, she created a fictional teenager's bedroom that offered an unusual form of escape – an emergency axe as well as a hole in the wall. For a 2012 at Reena Spaulings, she erected a blue wall across the gallery space with a door admitting visitors into a room filled with 80 used Christmas trees taken from the streets of the city. Listings wanted.