About

I work with traditional stained-glass techniques. With a deliberate sense of naivety, I aim to go back to the original purpose of stained-glass: to depict stories, guiding individuals through cycles of transition, death and rebirth. I draw from symbols and figurative narratives, weaving together strands of fables, folklore, and mythologies; stirring the dust, revisiting familiar grounds and bridging old storytelling traditions with contemporary reflections on transformation and coexistence.

I am also an independent curator. In my practice, I gather personal and collective experiences to explore affective notions, such as loss and grief, place attachment, public feelings, and ritualism. Doing so, I aim to make visible the vulnerability of humans, society, and eco-systems, while showing that living and dying well are impossible alone.

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Lucie Gottlieb has a master in Curating Art from Stockholm University and a bachelor in Art History from Sorbonne University, where she studied medieval art and architecture. She learned stained-glass techniques directly from glass masters in Stockholm and Paris. Her projects and work have been presented at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), Loyal (Stockholm, Sweden), Galleri CC (Malmö, Sweden), ArtLab Gnesta (Gnesta, Sweden), Kalmar Konstmuseum (Kalmar, Sweden), and Hybrida (Molkom, Sweden) among others. She is the co-founder of Nef in Bagarmossen and one of the initiators of the long-term artistic study program Mourning School.

Contact

lucie.gttlb@gmail.com

CV

Exhibitions
2025
IF/THEN, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (pl)
Wherever you go there you are, Hud space, Stockholm Craft Week, Stockholm (se)
Fibrous Fungus Fingers, Galleri CC, Malmö (se)
2024
We’re Everlasting Energy, LOYAL, Stockholm (se)
Bäckahästen, Kruger off site exhibition, Muskö (se)
Sorgebibliotek, Gnesta Konsthall, Gnesta (se)
Dansens dag: Lisen Ellard och Mourning School, Fullersta Gård (se)
Dream On, Supermarket Art Fair 2024, Stockholm (se)
2023
Any remaining scenes, Hybrida Air 2023, Älvsbacka (se)
2022
Leijuvat ∿ liehuvat ∿ liitelevät // whine ∿ wail ∿ whimper, HIAP 2022, Helsinki (fi)
Hjorten Skulpturpark, Ahlsellparken, Stockholm (se)
Sju sorters blommor, Galleri Nef, Stockholm (se)
With tired backs, and hearts with room for more, Kalmar Konstmuseum (se)
2021
Avatourismus, Mañana Bold, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt (de)

Curatorial projects
2025
True to Life - an echo
2024
Power Play
2021 - now
Mourning School (click on link for exhaustive list)
2018
Then a moment passed and all was changed

Public talks and led workshops
2023
Songs of Mourning - Asian Movie Night (nl)
A panel conversation with filmmaker Thomas Ash on working with grief
Renewal of curatorial and organisational working methods - Moskosel Art Lab (se)
A panel conversation with Jussi Koitela (Frame) and Gonçalo Marques (Northern Sustainable Futures) on ways of redistributing curatorial and cultural power. Moderated by Lucie Gottlieb.
2021
Could I wear your loss on my sleeve? - Tent (nl)
An exercise in shared mourning through collective embroidering.
Invited in the context of the exhibition Who Wants to Live in a World without Magic?. With Rosa Paardenkooper.
Thea – on eulogies - Tent (nl)
A lecture performance in the form of an ongoing conversation on the different ways we organise the last moments of living and the first after dying. Invited in the context of the exhibition Who Wants to Live in a World without Magic?. With Rosa Paardenkooper.
A permanent draft- Nordiska Konstförbundet (se)
A lecture presenting Mourning School and our artistic research on queering our relationships to death, dying, loss, and grief. With Rosa Paardenkooper.

Writing
2025
SCREEN ∿ SOUND ∿ STONE, a CuratorLab publication

Residencies
2023
Hybrida AIR (se)
2022
HIAP, Helsinki International Artist Programme (fi)