Acme Studios — Petra Bauer

Supporting Artists since 1972


Petra Bauer

Iaspis
2009/10

Petra Bauer works as an artist and filmmaker. She is concerned with the question of film as a political practice, and sees it as a space where social and political negotiations can take place.

Petra’s exhibitions include: Soon Enough: art in action, Tensta Konsthall (2018), Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, Riga Biennial (2018), Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power, KIOSK, Ghent (2017), Women in Struggles, on tour to different Folkets Hus (People’s Houses) in Sweden (2016–17), A Story within a Story, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2015), and All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Petra is an initiator of the feminist platform k.ö.k (Kvinnor könskar kollektivitet – Women Desire Collectivity).

Iaspis, Sweden

Iaspis is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Program supporting international exchange for practitioners in the areas of visual art, design, craft and architecture. Iaspis' activities aim to enable professionals to develop artistically and improve their working conditions by establishing international contacts between practitioners and professionals such as curators and critics and others active in the field.