Culture scholarships
Culture scholarships
Every year, the Sten A Olsson Foundation awards culture scholarships in several artistic disciplines such as performing arts - music, dance, theatre, circus - visual arts, literature and film.
Culture scholarships 2024
Karin
de Frumerie
For two years now, Karin de Frumerie has been a member of the ensemble at Göteborgs Stadsteater, where she has portrayed the title character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet but also Monica Zetterlund in the musical Monica’s Waltz.
The most liberating and worthwhile thing about being an actor is working as a group, that everything depends on communication, on working together.
Daniel
Lemma
Singer-songwriter Daniel Lemma got his big break in 2001 with “If I Used to Love You”, featured the Swedish movie Jalla! Jalla! Ever since, Lemma has continued to hone his multifaceted and diverse musical expression, where reggae, roots blues, and soul cozy up to pared-down acoustic music.
To me, music is fundamentally a social activity, a way to get together and communicate.
Gabriela
Pichler
As a director, screenwriter and editor, Gabriela Pichler directs her gaze to everyday life and experiences only rarely depicted in Swedish films.
To me, film continues to be a living material far into the editing and postproduction process.
Emelie
Röndahl
For the past decade, figurative rya weaving has had a starring role in Emelie Röndahl’s artistry. One central feature is the innate duality of the rya, where the front and the back can have totally different expressions.
The fact that the rya weave produces motifs with completely different and even contradictory expressions – an inner and an outer image, and a kind of underworld – appeals to me.
Lena
Trapp
Lena Trapp’s art moves in the borderlands between dreams and reality, nature and technology, regardless of whether she works with advanced 3D-technology and innovative animations or with more traditional materials and expressions.
When it comes to creating, I never exclude anything. And in a decade from now, when lots of new things are around, maybe I’ll express myself in completely different ways.
Hannes
Öberg
Hannes Öberg, a baritone, has been a member of the Göteborg Opera soloist ensemble since 2021. He made his opera debut while he was still in training and has devoted himself to opera roles and chamber music performances ever since.
Telling stories in such a way that people are moved by the destiny of the characters has always been the most important thing to me.
164 successful culture scholars
Once a year, the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture awards three to six exceptional talents in the arts & culture sector – stage and screen acting, music, dance, pictorial arts, art handicraft, sculpture, literature, and circus performance art, to name a few. 164 individuals have been awarded since it was instated in 1996, providing them with the means to evolve as cultural practitioners. They represent Sweden’s top tier in the arts & culture sphere, and many have achieved international acclaim.
The Foundation selects candidates; it is not possible to apply for this scholarship.
