Job description

Lisa Torell is head of the Program for Fine Art at the Academy of Arts. She has a post doc from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University 2019-2021, a PhD equivalent through the Norwegian for Artistic Research Programme (NARP) 2014-2018.

She is coming from the performative place-related field and works with questions connected to the public sphere, society is the driving force. She is interested in the performative pluralism that is created within the arts, which is about being seen and to see, in togetherness and in singularity. She has carried out exploratory public art commissions in Sweden for among others Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens konstråd) in 2025 and for the Municipality of Jönköping in collaboration with ArtPlatform (2022–2024). She has exhibited at places that include the Art Museum i the North (KiN) 2023, Buenos Aires -International Biennial of Contemporary art of the South, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art(GiBCA), Research Pavilion Venice, NNKM Tromsø, Västerås Art Museum, Bonniers konsthall and Marabouparken Stockholm. Torell has also written for a range of publications, including Konstnären, on Artistic Research (2025), Contemporary Urban Structures (Denmark), and Oslo Pilot (2015–2017). She is the editor of Place to Place, in which nine artists reflect on site-specific and site-related processes (2016/17).

Selected interdisciplinary involvements: Velferden Scene (2023-2026), MASSA/KTH/the City of Stockholm/GAIA architectural team and studio Erixon Aaalto 2021-2025, New European Bauhaus, Visioner I Norr/The Nordic Future 2022 and Categorisation supporting the implementation of Universal Design in Sweden, Lunds university and Gothenburg university 2019-2020.

Torell’s leadership extends to key national and international research bodies. She currently serves as a member of the Programme for Artistic Research (PKU) under the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education (2023) and the Norwegian Artistic Research School (2023–2024). Since 2025, she is also nationally engaged in the UHR–Arts, Design and Architecture working group for Artistic Research. From 2025 to 2027, she is a member of the Swedish Research Council’s Committee for Artistic Research.

www.lisatorell.com