“I’m not sure I have to define myself. I rather go on wondering and puzzling about things, for I find that very enjoyable.”
MY DISCOVERIES ALONGSIDE JONAS FALCK IN ÄNGELHOLM
Getting ready for konsthallen in Ängelholm (Galleri Moment), accompanied by Jonas Falck and a mutated aglais urticae – as it previously had the longest lifespan of Eurasian butterflies, it now lacks functioning mouthparts. After two weeks, it has starved to death.
PUBLIC COMMISSION AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
A little over 200 years have passed since my traveling companion Jonas Falck made some remarkable findings around Kultsjön and Fårö. The day have now come when the Swedish state recognizes Jonas Falck’s discoveries: we have installed some of our findings at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Together with the rectification of a scientist overlooked, we offer the courage to shed light on what could have been. Some findings are just too significant, and some eccentrics will always be ignored because they don’t fit our worldview. But today we know (the state included) that history and nature is always changing. Commissioned by Statens Konstråd – Public Art Agency Sweden.
LANDSCAPE TAKEOVER – A GROUP EXHIBITION LULEÅ
Landscape Takeover is a project run by Galleri Syster in Luleå. They have curiously looked at what happens when women transform traditional landscape painting into new interpretations and perspectives. The last exhibition in Landscape Takeover opens on June 5th and I have been invited to show my work alongside the artists Linnea Henriksson and Carolin Koss.
LIV I EN STEN – JONAS FALCKS ÅTERSKAPADE IAKTTAGELSER
Exhibiting my journey alongside the forgotten scientist Jonas Falck in Stockholm. In addition to drawings of mutated animals and extinct sea creatures, an inner dark room will display studies of stones found by the lake Kultsjön in northern Sweden. It was inside these stones that I found my explorer. The exhibition at TEGEN2 runs between May 8-30, 2020.
IUS INTER – A GROUP EXHIBITION
Nine of my bewinged friends are hanging out at Björkholmen Gallery in Stockholm. They are in great company, conversing with works by artists as Anders Widoff, Daniel Jensen, Dawid, Fabian Bergmark Näsman, Hans Isaksson, Jenny Källman, Lina Bjerneld, Lukas Göthman, Thomas Elovsson and Åke E:son Lindman. The gallery is open by appointment.
SOLO EXHIBITION IN UMEÅ, WITH MY IMAGINARY EXPLORER JONAS FALCK
In the exhibition you get to follow on a journey alongside the forgotten scientist Jonas Falck, a nature enthusiast active in the late 18th century. For six years, I have recreated his discoveries of mutated animals in Lappland, extinct sea creatures on Fårö and bone-filled mushrooms at Norra Kvarken. Opening on January 10th 2020, noon-2 PM at Galleri Alva in Umeå, Sweden. The exhibition runs until February 4th.
TWO ART-ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN THE MAGAZINE TIDNINGEN KULTUREN
Contributed with two essays in two different issues of the Swedish magazine Tidningen Kulturen. One essay reflects over my relationship to transgressions, loneliness, death and icons. The other essay descries the desire to be totally absorbed in details. It’s an essay about my own artistic work where my source material is my grandfather’s art historical archive. It tells about the things we just need to do, even if the reason to why is almost impossible to describe.
JONAS FALCK REVEALS NEW FUNGAL DISCOVERIES IN NORRA KVARKEN
During the summer I will travel with Jonas Falck – a misunderstood explorer from the late 18th century – to Norra Kvarken in Västerbotten. The mysteries of Norra Kvarken are still partly hidden, but when shell fragments of mushrooms rise to the surface, it is clear that something is to be discovered. New interesting encounters and theories are expected! The solo-show at Konsthall Norra Kvarken runs between July 13 and September 1, 2019. Grand opening Saturday 12.00-4.00 PM. Art talk between the artist and cultural editor Sara Meidell at 1 PM. Music with Fanny Källström och Sammy Schroderus between 3-4 PM. Opening festivities continues in the evening with dinner at 7 PM.
“MISSFÄRGADE GLASRUTOR” SOLO SHOW AT KRAMFORS KONSTHALL
In the exhibition “Missfärgade glasrutor” (stained glass windows), I will show an ongoing work in which I dig into the legacy after my art-interested grandfather: a slide archive of about 25,000 images depicting Western art and architecture. I paint water colors to scale, depicting the slide itself, where the frame, the label with handwritten text, dust, fingerprints and moisture damage constitute the core. Opening on March 16 at 12.00. The exhibition runs until April 9.
SEMINAR AT CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
I will participate in Chalmers AHA-festival on November 19. In a seminar with the title “From Cave Art to Smartphones” I will present my current art project based on an art-historical slide archive of nearly 30,000 images. The archive is a legacy of my grandfather. During the presentation, I will focus on cave paintings in box 1, “Iceage”. The seminar will be between 13.00-17.oo in Seminar RunAn.
