The Mission welcomed Leif Holmstrand as its first official resident artist in March, 2013.  Leif Holmstrand is a Swedish writer, musician, and artist who lives and works in Malmö.  He takes a malicious queer approach to language and humanity. Monster bodies and monster identities run through masculine and feminine gender coded gear, images, and clothing which hurl themselves out from every perceptive organ into your world. Psychosis experience goes hand-in-hand with portrayed dreams of multi-transsexual bodies, of multi-gendered body-free beings, of you.

Holmstrand earned his MFA from the Malmö Art Academy in 2002.  Recently Holmstrand has had solo shows at House of Foundation in Moss, Galleri Thomas Wallner in Simris, and Lars Olsen Gallery in Copenhagen.  His work has been included in exhibitions at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 1A Space in Hong Kong, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Bonniers Konstall in Stockholm, Ystads Konstmuseum, Malmö Konsthall, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Gävle Konstcentrum.  His first novel, Tjuvklyftan (The Thief's Cleft), was published in 2013 to wide acclaim, along with his four celebrated books of poetry.  For further information please visit: www.leifholmstrand.se

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