21.02.18
Statens Konstråd/ Public Art Agency Sweden published a short video about Designed Living Environment and Maja Gunn as the responsible artist in the project.
21.02.10
Maja Gunn is in a panel about gender fluidity in fashion at Stockholm Fashion Week
21.02.01
Peach Punch by Cissi Efraimsson, costumes Maja Gunn & Lisa Pyk will be screened until Feb 28th at Östermalm Metro Station, Stockholm
20.10.03
Curator for exhibition at Stockholm Craft Week
20.07.27
Receiving funding for Research on Designed Living Environment
20.08.20
Manifestation Lövholmen, group show, Färgfabriken, Stockholm,
August 20 – August 30, 2020
20.08.11
Inauguration of Symbios – a temporary public commission for Stockholm’s City
at Liljeholmen harbor. A collaboration between Maja Gunn and ARTmovement.
20.04.16
Lecture at University of Halmstad
20.03.24
Lecture The City of Gothenburg’s Museum
cancelled due to covid 19
19.12.22
To Perform Body, moderator, seminar, HDK-Valand Steneby
19.12.22
Construction, Solo Show, Steneby Konsthall, Dals Långed, Sweden, Nov 22 – Dec 22 2019
19.10.09
Play, Solo Show, Norrbottens Museum, Luleå, Sweden, Oct 9 2019 – Jan 5 2020
19.06.16
Maja Gunn, Parity, Solo Show, Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden, June 16 – Sep 15 2019
19.05.11
A Queen Within Adorned Archetypes, Group Show, Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, USA, May 11 – Sep 2 2019
18.10.07
Maja Gunn is in the exhibition Museum of Artistic Research at History Museum, Stockholm.
18.09.11
Open Lecture HDK Steneby
18.09.07
Lecture Lund University
18.09.04
Lecture Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm
18.08.16
Lecture during EuroPride, Gothenburg
18.05.29
www premiere of Peach Punch. Film by Cissi Efraimsson. Costumes Maja Gunn & Lisa Pyk.
Music by Vulkano.
Peach Punch
18.05.19
Premiere of Peach Punch at Bio Rio, Stockholm. Film by Cissi Efraimsson. Costumes Maja Gunn & Lisa Pyk.
Music by Vulkano.
18.02.28
Maja Gunn in the Swedish podcast Konst Form.
KonstForm
18.02.21
Maja Gunn’s work is in the exhibition A Queen Within Adorned Archetypes at NOMA, New Orleans. Opens to the public on February 21st. See Maja Gunn’s work together with pieces by Alexander McQueen, Comme des Garçons, Maison Martin Margiela, Iris van Herpen, Gucci, Gypsy Sport and more. Until May 28th 2018.
17.11.11
Opening of Maja Gunn’s solo exhibition Play at the Textile Museum, Borås. November 11th 1pm-3pm.
Maja Gunn: Play November 11 2017 – April 22 2018
17.10.19
Maja Gunn is in the design talk “Design – med kroppen som utgångspunkt” with Isabella Chydenius and Minna Palmqvist. Moderator Cay Bond. 5 pm, Finlandsinstitutets galleri, Stockholm
17.10.12
Maja Gunn talks about Norm Form in Swedish Radio’s Kulturnytt.
17.10.10
Maja Gunn is in SVT Morgonstudion talking about the exhibition Norm Form and how craft, design and architecture can confirm and/or challenge norms.
17.10.10
Book Release of 2nd edition of Maja Gunn’s Body Acts Queer: Clothing as a performative challenge to heteronormativity.
5.30pm-7pm at Konst-ig, Åsögatan 124, Stockholm
rsvp & more info about the event
17.10.06 – 18.02.11
Maja Gunn is the curator (together with Camilla Andersson & Karin Ehrnberger) of the exhibition Norm Form at ArkDes, Stockholm.
17.09.16
Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialisms, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections (eds. Schalk, Kristiansson, Mazé, 2017) is now available. The publication contents text and images about Exclude Me In (a collaboration project by Maja Gunn, MYCKET and The New Beauty Council) and much more.
17.08.31
Maja Gunn is the moderator for a talk entitled Fashion talks on challenging norms.
17.05.20
Maja Gunn at Avesta Art
17.05.06
Maja Gunn is in an interactive talk at Platoon – The Global Creative Alliance, Mexico City
17.05.04
Maja Gunn is in the panel discussion: “Rethinking Fashion and Design” at Centro (Auditorium), Mexico City
17.03.25
Opening Maja Gunn at Ludvika Konsthall
17.03.20
Maja Gunn has a lecture at Lorensbergsteatern, Göteborg
17.03.08
Maja Gunn will talk about her research at Vänermuseet
16.11.30
Maja Gunn is part of the exhibition A Queen Within Adorned Archetypes at Art Basel Miami.
Includes works by Maja Gunn, Iris Van Herpen, Vivienne Westwood, Hussein Chalayan, Rick Owens and more.
http://museea.com/aqwaa_press.pdf
16.11.24
Maja Gunn & Saga Becker will talk about queer, performativity, identity & creativity.
7pm, Kåken, Regeringsgatan 66, Stockholm
16.11.21
Maja Gunn receives Landstinget i Dalarnas culture grant (Kulturstipendium) with the motivation
“Maja’s textile art and design provoke and questioning norms. She pushes the lines and makes us think. Maja combines design with social critic and with her work she highlights contemporary and important questions about feminism, gender roles and norm critic.”
“Majas textila konst och design provocerar och ifrågasätter normer. Hon tänjer på gränserna och får oss att tänka till. Maja väver ihop design och samhällskritik och med sitt arbete lyfter hon aktuella och viktiga frågor om feminism, könsroller och normkritik.”
16.11.13
The film Baby, by Lovisa Sirén (costumes Maja Gunn) will be screening at Grand, Sveavägen, Stockholm at 7pm
16.11.11
Maja Gunn’s doctoral thesis got out of stock almost immediately. Please email maja@majagunn.com if you’re interested in
pre-order from the 2nd edition
16.11.03
Maja Gunn will do a talk with artist Joanna Rytel
7pm Kåken, Regeringsgatan 66, Stockholm
16.10.29
Baby, by Lovisa Sirén (costumes Maja Gunn) won prize as best film at Uppsala Film Festival
16.10.27
Maja Gunn talks with Kakan Hermansson about feminism and sisterhood as survival strategy.
Kåken, Stockholm, 7pm.
16.10.17
Audition by Lovisa Sirén (costumes Maja Gunn) will be screening on the Swedish Television at 10.40pm
16.10.15
Maja Gunn about research, gender and clothes in Swedish Radio’s P4 Extra at 2pm
Gender neutral clothes challenge norms
16.10.13
Maja Gunn and Bahar Pars will talk about using personal experiences in creative processes. 7-8pm
Kåken, Regeringsgatan 66.
16.10.12
Hear Maja Gunn talks about fashion, gender and commercial campaigns at 5pm in Swedish Radio P5 at 5pm
16.1o.11
Maja Gunn is the writer and stylist of the article “Det är vår tid nu” (It’s our time now) about five transsexual women and the Swedish tv documentary Tjejer som oss (Girls like us). For Bon Magazine
16.10.07
Maja Gunn in Swedish Radio’s Stil
“I veckans program berättar vi mer om historien bakom idén om ett unisexmode. Vi träffar också Maja Gunn, konstnär och doktor i modedesign, som i sin avhandling ”Body Acts Queer – Clothing as a performative challenge to hetero normativity” har studerat kläder i relation till frågor om genus och queer.”
16.10.03
Maja talks about pockets and gender in Swedish Radio’s PP3
16.09.29
Handjur by Stina Persson Helleday and Sandra Isacsson (costumes Maja Gunn) has its premiere at STOCKmotion Film Festival
16.09.20
Open lecture with Maja Gunn at Beckmans College of Design. 4.15pm
16.09.13
Maja Gunn has a lecture at Parsons, Paris
16.09.04
Vetenskapsradion about Maja Gunn’s research
16.09.04
Swedish Radio’s Forskarliv about Maja Gunn
16.08.12
Baby, by director Lovisa Sirén (costumes by Maja Gunn) is screening at Hagabion, Gothenburg at 1pm, as part of the Way Out West festival’s film program
16.07.27
Swedish feminist online newspaper Feministiskt Perspektiv writes about Maja Gunn and her research
Maja Gunn\’s fashion and design is developed from a queer feminist perspective
16.07.27
Baby, by director Lovisa Sirén (costumes by Maja Gunn) is screening at the Swedish Television.
Watch it here
16.06.30
Maja Gunn exhibit at Textile Museum in Borås. Until August 14th.
16.06.21
Maja Gunn defends her doctoral thesis Body Acts Queer – Clothing as a performative challenge to heteronormativity. You can download it here
16.06.20
BT writes about Maja Gunn and her fashion design research
She is challenging norms with provocative clothing design
16.05.31
Maja Gunn is doing a lecture at Riksteatern
16.04.22
The Swedish Television about Maja Gunn’s performance at Södertälje Konsthall. Watch it here
16.04.21
Maja Gunn is doing a performance at Södertälje Konsthall
16.03.21
Maja Gunn is in Jämställdhetspodden
16.02.10
The Swedish Television (SVT) shows Audition (director Lovisa Sirén, costume Maja Gunn) at 20.45 SVT 2
16.02.04
Maja Gunn holds a lecture and workshop (together with Frida Hållander) as part of Konstfack Research Week
16.01.30
Baby (director Lovisa Sirén, costume Maja Gunn) has its’ premiere at Göteborg Film Festival
16.o1.23
Audition (director Lovisa Sirén, costume Maja Gunn) is screening at Sundance Film Festival
16.01.18
Audition (director Lovisa Sirén, costume Maja Gunn) is nominated for a Guldbagge (Sweden’s leading film award) in the category best short film
16.01.18
Maja Gunn has a lecture about her work, at Modeskolan Stockholm
15.12.17
Elliphant’s music video Club Now Skunk (director Johan Holm), styled by Maja Gunn and Stina Persson Helleday is nominated for a Swedish Grammy in the category best music video.
15.09.30
Release of Vulkano’s new album Iridescence (styling by Maja Gunn) at Mindepartementet, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm 7pm-1am
to attend the event please rsvp here
15.09.26
Maja Gunn talks about her work in the Swedish Radio
15.09.25
Opening of the exhibition Utopian Bodies – Fashion Looks Forward, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
15.09.24
Maja Gunn talks about her work and about the exhibition Utopian Bodies – Fashion Looks Forward, with the curator Sofia Hedman.
In Nyhetsmorgon, TV4 at 6.45am
15.09.23
Audition has its’ premiere at Zita, Stockholm. Director Lovisa Sirén. Costumes by Maja Gunn
15.09.03
Maja Gunn defends her Licentiate thesis in Fashion Design Methodology: Body Acts Queer
School of Textiles, Borås 10-12
15.08.11
The film Audition is shown at the Way Out West Festival, Gothenburg. Director Lovisa Sirén. Costumes by Maja Gunn
15.06.05
Maja Gunn is interviewed about her work in The Swedish Radio
15.05.27
Maja Gunn’s Licentiate thesis Body Acts Queer is free to download
15.05.15
Maja Gunn receives a grant for her paper On & Off -The Designer as a Writer at IFFTI Fashion Conference, Florence, Italy
15.05.14
Maja Gunn presents her work at Florence International Library, Italy
15.04.24
Maja Gunn is doing a lecture and workshop at Fotoskolan in Gothenburg
15.03.10
The Woman Without Qualities by Kira Carpelan (costumes by Maja Gunn) is shown at Doc Lounge, Stockholm
15.03.09
Maja Gunn is doing a presentation at Nyckelviksskolan, Lidingö
15.02.25
Maja Gunn is doing a lecture at School of Architecture, KTH, Stockholm
15.01.25
The film Audition by Lovisa Sirén (costume by Maja Gunn) has its premiere at Gothenburg Film Festival.
The film is nominated for Startsladden
15.01.23
The film Audition by Lovisa Sirén (costume by Maja Gunn) is the opening film at Gothenburg Film Festival.
14.12.08 – 14.12.10
Maja Gunn is invited to present her paper Writing Queer, Gender and Design at the conference Excitable Writing, Linköping University
14.12.08
Maja Gunn is the moderator for a talk about Fashion and the narrative of the body with Efrat Tseelon, Robert Fux and This is Sweden arranged by Iaspis and Fashionplay.
6 pm at ccap, Stockholm
14.11.04
Maja Gunn is presenting Gender Design Practice at the Design Seminar at School of Textiles, Borås
14.11.04
Maja Gunn is doing a workshop for MA design students at School of Textiles, Borås
14.10.10
Maja Gunn is doing a presentation and workshop at the iGDN conference The GREAT Small in Hong Kong
14.09.29
Maja Gunn is having a lecture at Konstfack – University College of Art, Craft and Design
14.08.24
Maja Gunn is interviewed about bodily politics and fashion in the Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter
14.07.30
Maja Gunn talks about her work in the Swedish Radio Sjuhärad
14.07.23
Maja Gunn presents Exclude Me In at the 15th Bakhtin Conference, Royal Academy of Fine Art, Stockholm
14.06.12
Maja Gunn makes clothes for Setting’s volunteers at the feminist conference Nordiskt Forum in Malmö
14.05.24
Maja Gunn wrote the chapter Acting Gender, Identity and Success – Clothing as Performative Expression for the exhibition catalogue Staged Fashion at Falkenberg Museum