The Rosetta stone was found in Rosetta outside of Alexandria year 1799. The stone was inscripted with the same text in three different languages; at the top: hieroglyphs, followed by ancient Egyptian, and at the bottom classical greek. The Rosetta Stone had a crucial part in solving the mystery of the hieroglyphs. Before it was […]
Welcome to the opening on Friday the 14th of February, 5-8pm! The collage-based artistic practice of Swedish artist Jenny Johansson (*1982) encompasses various mediums, including sculpture, painting, video, and music. Her work interrogates material hierarchies and folk traditions, marked by a DIY ethos and critical reflections on time, labor, and myth. Johansson’s compositions possess a […]
Johannes Samuelsson is an artist and documentary photographer based in Umeå with an MFA from School of Photography in Gothenburg. In his art, he mixes photographic everyday and contemporary documentation with essayistic and journalistic writing. He combines artistic interventions with large and lengthy documentation projects where he uses documentary photography and prose text. Samuelsson has […]
Welcome to the beginning and the end! The Master students of Craft are wrapping up their first year together which calls for celebrations. As something concludes, other things can come along: a spring summer, enlightening ideas and undiscovered paths waiting to be familiarized. Just like the Ouroboros expresses the unity of all things material and […]
In a series of paintings by Susanna Antonsson, floral motifs move across dark, minimal backgrounds. Familiar and everyday objects and spaces are stylized and distinguished by subtle shifts. Clues to personal mysteries gesture toward something inexplicable and wordless. In “Låt det dö,” the flower becomes a kind of revenant—returning each year as a reminder of […]
Hold on takes its starting point in Johan Nahoj’s long-running collaborative project ON-HOLD and borrows many of its components, but now turns inward – towards the artist’s own acts of collecting, sorting, and reshaping. Nahoj works in the borderland between the studio and the exhibition space, between painting and object. Driven by impulse and an associative method, he cuts, […]
Vilde Løwenborg Blom – Etter overfloden It’s overflowing, the tree is brimming with fruit, the fridge is filled, memories are made. After the abundance comes a time of scarcity, did we manage to take care of what was there? Should we stop time and preserve the fruit, or should we let time pass and the […]
“White clouds grey dogs” is inspired by a Chinese idiom that describes how the sky is constantly shifting. The expression alludes to impermanence, the unexpected, and the metamorphosis of the familiar. The exhibition brings together works that hold narratives of the artist’s grandmother and the remnants of bodies that once existed. The space has traces […]