Anna Losefsky is a Swedish artist and a/r/tographer whose artistic practice is rooted in weaving as a living cultural tradition. It is developed through Weaving as Expanded Choreography—an evolving methodology that explores how movement, material, and tactile making shape attention, human relationships, self expression, and ways of being together. Through woven artworks, embodied somatic inquiry, and relational social practice, her work investigates the loom as a site for collective inquiry and contemporary performance.

At the core of her work is the understanding of the loom as a choreographic structure. She approaches weaving through the parameters of listening, orientation, rhythm, tension, and response. Long before modern therapeutic frameworks, collective making and ritual served to regulate emotion and sustain community life.

By centering traditions historically carried by women, she honors this lineage while translating it into contemporary art, performative pedagogy, and embodied artistic inquiry. Alongside her studio-based textile works, she develops participatory encounters and workshops as an artistic method, where weaving becomes an embodied tool for collective care and imagination.

Within this social practice, she is interested in "learning from the expressions of the child"—utilizing making, ritual, play, multimodality, authenticity, and non-hierarchical spaces to deconstruct adult structures and shields, and discover what the loom can teach us about being human. Her practice continuously moves between individual somatic awareness and shared, collaborative experience, transforming the textile process into a living technology of relation within different embodied expressions.

Background

Anna Losefsky holds a foundational background in arts and crafts from Nyckelviksskolan (2005–2007) and Handarbetets Vänner (2022–2024), alongside a degree in Multimodal Aesthetic Learning Processes from Södertörn University (2007–2011). She also holds a Master’s degree in Child and Youth Studies, specializing in ethnographic motherhood studies, from Stockholm University (2017–2019). Her postgraduate studies focus on social structures as well as intergenerational and intercultural relational practices at Stockholm University, Performativity at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (2026), and A/r/tography and Weaving as Expanded Choreography and Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts (2026).

Selected Workshops/ Talks/ Artistic assignments

  • Stockholm Social Administration – Mental Health Initiative, Stockholm, Sweden, Community workshops in Stockholm’s public park playgrounds (parklekar), 2026

  • 125 Kvadrat, Artist-run Cooperative for Art & Craft, held workshops and had showroom, 2024-2025

  • Pedagogical Leader – Practical Aesthetic Practice & Collegium, Eriksdalsskolan, Stockholm, 2021–2026

Grants

  • Recipient of NFH Grant, Swedish National Handicraft Council, 2025

Selected Exhibitions

  • 2026 Group Exhibition, Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan

  • 2025 Solo Exhibition, The Woven Childhood Stage, Kramfors, Sweden

  • 2024 Group Exhibition, 125 KVADRAT, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 2023 Group Exhibition, Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland