Åsa Helena Stjerna

Åsa Helena Stjerna is a Swedish installation artist who uses sound and listening as her primary modes of artistic exploration. Through her site-specific installations, she investigates the potential of sound to make the embedded conditions and underlying narratives connected to a place perceivable.

Through perceptually sensitive and transdisciplinarily driven approaches, she aims to create connections between the past and the present, the local and the global, and the human and the more-than-human. In doing so, she seeks to reframe the act of listening, evoking a sensibility of places as complex ecologies.

Several of her projects involve collaboration with scientists, exploring how exchanges between science and art can create new artistic formats of listening that deepen our relationship with the world around us.

Stjerna has participated in exhibitions in Sweden and internationally, including the Transmediale Media Festival, Berlin; the Nordic Music Days, Stockholm; the Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo; and the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Her works include several permanent public commissions: Earth Song (2020), commissioned by Stockholm Konst; Sky Brought Down (2017) for Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, commissioned by the Västra Götaland Region’s Public Art Unit; and The Well (2014) at the Swedish Institute in Paris, commissioned by the Public Art Agency Sweden.