ABOUT - Sabacollection.se

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