Born in 1975, Åsa Jungnelius lives and works in Stockholm and Månsamåla, Sweden. Jungnelius’ artistic practice involves a material exploration that moves between the monumental and the socially and psychologically constructed. Through the physicality of the object, she questions how identities and bodily desires are formed and expressed. Her interest in body and matter centres on questions of the constant renegotiation of these two entities throughout human history.

Since the early 2000s, Jungnelius has exhibited in Sweden and internationally, and has initiated and run art projects: Residence- In-Nature, WeWorkInAFragileMaterial and LASTSTUDIO. Her recent major public art commissions include the new Hagastaden metro station, for which she created Snäckan, a commission she has been working on since 2015 and is expected to be completed in 2027. The process-based public work in Södra Hamnen for Norrköpings Konstmuseum and The Inner World Exhibition began with the performance PAVILJONG 1# ENERGIER, where a hot air balloon trapped in the disused Bråvallaverket (plant), rose and fell like a collective solar mother in a common industrial wound. In addition, 20# Pavilions with an accompanying public program and permanent site-specific art has opened in the autumn of 2023. The Transit of Venus (2023), a two-part group of sculptures placed next to Observatorielunden, is a relational monument to 8 March, International Women’s Day, donated to the City of Stockholm.

Jungnelius’ breakthrough was with her early works in glass and she has since held the position as one of Sweden’s leading artists within the field and has been one of Kosta Boda’s permanent artists since 2007 as well as running her own glass studio in Månsamåla since 2013. Her work has been shown in recent years at Spazio Nobile in Brussels ( solo 2024 ) at Gallery Leu in Munich (solo 2023), Gallery Glas (solo 2023), Market Art Fair (solo 2022), Kunstnarens hus in Oslo (2021), Artipelag (2020), Stene Project (solo 2020), ArkDes (2018-19), Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen (2019), Vandalorum (solo 2019) and Luleå Biennale (2019). Åsa Jungnelius is represented by Gallery Leu, Munich and Spazio Nobile Gallery, Brussels.

Her work is part of the collections of Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum, The European Parliament Art Collection, Malmö Konstmuseum, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Växjö kommun, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft Danmark, the Swedish Public Art Agency, Stockholms läns landsting, Skövde Konstmuseum, Röhsska Museet, Smålands Museum and The Glass Factory in Boda.

In 2022, Jungnelius received an honorary doctorate from Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanity. She held a position as Associate Professor at Konstfack, College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm between 2012-22 where she is also a MFA graduate (2004). She became a member of Bildkonstnärsfonden (Swedish Arts Grants Committee) in 2023. In 2024, a public art work will be completed for a new cultural center in Gävle in conjunction with the inaugurational exhibition as well as start up an artistic research project in a collaboration with Consulate General, Swedish Research Institute in Turkey.