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Artist is based in: Sweden
Ailin Mirlashari (b. 1992) is a Stockholm-based artist whose practice moves at the intersection of contemporary art, collective storytelling, and place-based work. Her projects explore how memory, migration, identity, and urban space can be expressed and activated through artistic processes. Beginning often from stories carried by local communities that risk being overlooked in dominant historical narratives, Mirlashari works across film, photography, installation, scenography, textiles, performance, and social encounters. She frequently combines visual elements such as text, light, textiles, and architectural interventions with voices, music, and documentary material.
Her process is both investigative and participatory, developed in close collaboration with people and groups who contribute their perspectives and experiences. Recent projects include This Is How We Continue (Konstfack Degree Exhibition, 2025), an artistic reactivation of the mural Bigger Than You Think (Husby, 2015), created with more than 200 residents, which she revisited ten years later as a “living archive” through film, an audio guide, and a conceptual community archive. Other works include The Sun Never Says to the Earth You Owe Me (2024), which intertwined printed text fragments and textile patterns with moving image, light, and sculpture, and Imagined Possibilities (2022), a film based on archival microhistory that illuminated unwritten stories of the present.
Her work has been shown at venues such as Liljevalchs Konsthall, Växjö Konsthall (solo exhibition), and will be featured in the 2025–2026 exhibition of the Anna-Lisa Thomson Foundation Fellows at Uppsala Art Museum. In 2025 she was awarded the Anna-Lisa Thomson Memorial Foundation Prize, recognized by the jury for her ability to care for collective memories, poetically reshape them, and foster creativity within local communities — “a project of and with, not about and for.”
Mirlashari’s diasporic background informs her attention to how public images and texts move between center and periphery, and how print culture (posters, zines, small editions) carries knowledge that rarely enters institutional archives. Growing up with a father involved in printing and Persian exile literature gave her a strong sense of the significance of the printed word — an influence that continues to shape her practice across media.
She holds a BFA and MFA in Fine Art from Konstfack, Stockholm. Alongside her artistic work, she has a background as a social worker, organizer, and activist, including as co-founder of the intersectional feminist network StreetGäris. This experience deeply informs both her artistic practice and worldview. She often works in cross-disciplinary collaborations across geographies, with projects ranging from institutional exhibitions to public interventions and self-organized platforms.
