Dani Liljedahl ^{Emerging artist}

Artist is based in: Sweden

Dani Liljedahl is a Swedish artist who completed both his BFA and MFA at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. His practice explores traces—both those left on landscapes through human intervention and those embedded within people through lived experience. A significant influence on his work stems from his long-standing involvement in Sweden’s DIY music scene, where he has organized concerts and tours and performed extensively with his own bands across Europe and North America.

Alongside his artistic practice, Liljedahl works as a tattoo artist, viewing tattooing as a form of mark-making closely connected to his broader artistic concerns. This interest extends into his visual work, where surfaces become sites for inscriptions and layered traces that persist even when physically concealed beneath new materials.

Working across a wide range of media, Liljedahl’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses performance, video, sound, music, tattooing, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, scenography, costume, animation, photography, and installation. His work has been exhibited in both academic and independent art contexts, including at Bildmuseet, as well as through collaborations and exhibitions with organisations and venues such as Mareld Konstförening, Konsthall Kåddis, Galleri 54, and VZOR Artspace.

Curatorial work forms an important part of Liljedahl’s practice. During his studies he organized and curated numerous exhibitions featuring both his own work and that of fellow artists. He is particularly interested in developing his curatorial practice further and is also drawn to the possibilities of teaching within an art academy context in the future.