AVIVA SCHEIMAN
Aviva Scheiman is a professional craftsman and metalsculptor from Viksjö, Stockholm. She has a degree as a gold & silversmith from Copenhagens Technical School.
Since 2004 she has run her own studio and workshop on Tegnergatan in Stockholm. The first 10 years she mostly focused on costumemade orders and became a member of the goldsmiths master´s association in 2013. Among other things she has participated in exhibitions such as “Liljevalchs Vårsalong”, “Raoul Wallenberg 100 år” and “Sverige Sverige fosterland”. Aviva is represented at the Malmö Art Museum, The Jewish Museum and The National Museum of Stockholm.
Much of Avivas work is based on her own genealogy, diligent studies and an exploration and a desire to tell even stronger stories artistically. In recent times, exhibitions have become a larger part of Aviva’s work.
Her work constantly flows between different artistic spaces, such as installations, architecture, corpus, jewellery, arts, crafts and traditional goldsmith work. The installations are poetic with a theme and foundation of recollection and memories that leaves the viewer inspired to start learning more about their own history. The jewellery can be worn, but is sometimes ment to be presented by themselves as artistic installations.
Aviva’s drive, when it comes to her profession, is strongly attached to her roots, to get to know her familylegacy, women's history, craftstraditions and the Swedish cultural heritage. In metal she wants to recreate thoughts and choices but also to put their destinies in a new light. In sculptures and objects with inspiration from solid archival research, Aviva interprets the ancestors' stories and traditions with a focus on what we can learn from our familyhistory and what we should take with us to the future.
2021 Aviva was the first to receive the “Märta Måås Fjetterström” scholarship for her exhibition Femme Soles. Femme Soles is about the women that inspired us and the women that made us who we are. In the exhibition she weaves together the stories of her own great great grandmother "The hatmaker" Pearll Rebecka "Berta" Neuberg and Märta Måås-Fjetterström.
The installations objects and jewellery were all made of precious metals. Behind the exhibition Femmes Soles is a deep dive into women's craft history, a subject Aviva is passionate about. Who were the women who built the Swedish art scene for us women today?
Together with her female collective 21Gram, they wanted Femmes Soles to put the craft skills and the women in the light.
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