Denise Grünstein

Photographer, born on June 27, 1950 in Helsinki, Finland and died on June 23, 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden. Grünstein and her family moved to Sweden in the 1950s and, from 1958 until her death in 2023, she had her home address in Stockholm. In her youth, Grünstein studied photography both in the U.S.A. and Sweden. In the early 1980s, she was widely recognized and became known as one of Sweden's best portrait and fashion photographers. She worked for the worldwide lifestyle magazine Elle and Albert Bonniers Förlag's 'Månadsjournalen', sometimes called Sweden's best cultural magazine, and also as a still photographer at AB Svensk Filmindustri. Gradually, Grünstein then shifted more and more to fine-art photography. In 2001, she had her first major solo exhibition, "Figurer i landskap" at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and for the first time introduced audiences to her muse and model Marta Oldenburg, who would remain Grünstein's collaborator for decades to come. In 2010 you could see some of Grünstein's photography at the prestigious Kiasma Museum Of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2014 at Nationalmuseum Stockholm. In 2018 she started a collaboration with the gallery CFHILL in Stockholm.