Alena Grahn

Alena (she/her) is an artist and experience designer working with ecosomatic and multisensory practices that explore relationships between bodies, land, and more-than-human worlds from a queer and poetic lens.

 

She creates experiences that unfold non-linearly, working with expanded choreographies, ritual structures, and site-specific engagement to investigate how we organize perception and sense our entanglement with the living world. 

 

Her recent work Mushroom Memories is a multisensory forest installation created for elderly people in care homes in collaboration with other artists, designed for people of all abilities and for those who can no longer access conventional cultural spaces. Centered around a 100-year-old birch root, the work combines responsive sound, vibrations, forest scents, and augmented reality. The installation transforms institutional spaces into sites of wonder and sensory connection, challenging who has access to art and where meaningful cultural experiences can happen. Presented across five care home locations, it reached nearly four hundred residents.

 

She also works with small groups in participatory formats. Recently shown at Stockholm Fringe 2025, Divination for the Apocalypse is a durational participatory work exploring our relationship to the apocalypse through somatic practice, water ritual, and collective exchange. Drawing from hydrofeminism and divination, the work treats water as connective tissue between bodies, entities and time. Part of the ritual happens at home over several days through vessels participants take with them, extending the experience across time and space.

 

Alena's practice treats art as a site of disobedient care and ecological attunement, exploring how we might deepen our sensitivity to the relationships that connect us to our ecologies and other life forms.