Saba Bereket Persson is a designer and artist active in Gothenburg Sweden.
She came to Sweden from Ethiopia aged 12 years old in the 70´s. Her early experiences in Scandinavia have had a profound impact on her artistic practice, which engages memory, gender identity, estrangement, and home as key themes in textile-based conceptual works. Saba uses fashion experimentally as a mode of protest against socio-cultural norms, and she combines fashion design with other media (such as sculpture, film, and performance) as a way to investigate the hidden structures influencing society. Recent include: “Den Inre Människan / The Inner Human (2010)based on her experiences as a nurse; “Klimakteriet/Menopause” (2017) on womanhood and change; and “Det Outtalade / The unspoken” (2015-2019) about silent and unconscious discrimination. Since the early 1990s, Saba has also run her own textile company and exhibited nationally and internationally.
EXHIBITIONS
”Menopause” together with “Äggen är slut”
Kulturhuset Fyren – Kungsbacka 2018
Kulturhuset Fregatten – Stenungsund 2018
Naturhistoriska Museet – Göteborg 2018
Vara konsthall – Vara 2019
Tidaholms konsthall – Tidaholm 2019
Skara museet – Skara 2019
”The Unspoken” – Performance and workshops about discrimination
8 shows – Frölunda Kulturhus Göteborg 2016 Fringe Festival – Göteborg 2018
Världskulturmuseet 1 week – Göteborg 2018
Gallery Koltuor, KF Huset Klöse – Nordmaling 2018
”Lika & Olika” – Youth recreation center Göteborg 2018
Stora teatern ” Urban nights” – Göteborg 2019
ADAM in ”Hjässan är kal” 2019
Kulturhuset i Skövde
Vara konsthall
Lidköpings bibliotek
Tidaholms konsthall
Västergötlands museum
Kungsbacka kulturhus
IM (Individual Human Help) Refugee Support – Göteborg 2016
Gallery aux quatre vents – Frankrike 2014
St:Jörgen park resort – Göteborg 2010
clubs and jazzclubs – Göteborg1992-1999
Gallery Shirvan/Sintra/Krasnapolsky
Clique model search/ Various underground 1992-1999
EDUCATION
Sculpture – Domen School of Art 2017
Individual Project 3 – Academy Valand 2016
The language’s linguisticity – HDK 2016
FIUDP – HDK 2014
Pattern making – Tillskärarakademin 1999
Designschool – Medborgarskolan 1992
Fashion drawing – Medborgarskolan 1991
Courses in design – Medborgarskolan 1990
Various courses in healthcare 1985-1990
Licensed nurse – 1984
TV/MEDIA
”The” performance – P4 Göteborg 2016
Menopause – SVT ”Kobra” 2017
Menopause ”It will happen to you too” – P4 Göteborg 2018
Menopause ”It will happen to you too” – SVT 2018
”Menopause & Äggen är slut” – GöteborgsPosten 2018
”The Unspoken” – Paletten Tidskrift för konst 2018