(born 1985 in Köping, SWE)
is a visual artist splitting his time between Gothenburg (Sweden) and Bergen (Norway).
Artist Statement
My artistic practice is a studio-based investigation into the correlation of pop-culture and history, against a backdrop of post-human philosophies. While the movement forward is firmly grounded in painting, recurring elements include collage, assemblage and recycling, all used in both material ways and on an idea-based level. In this wasteland, nothing goes to waste.
In recent paintings and sculptural works I take on the role of landscape architect: The building blocks are collage-based appropriations mostly scavenged from books on art history, nature photography and atlases, alongside industrial found-object scraps. The mortar holding it all together ranges from resin, glue, varnish and beeswax to acrylics, inks and oil paint. My imagery is assembled on an intersection between geography and geometry, one often so over-populated by details that individual parts are forced to give way to a bigger picture.
The driving force behind the works is a resistance to our apparent need for infinite expansion within a finite space. It is an attempt at coming to terms with the chaos of the contemporary by any means necessary. I try to work this into paintings where it can be deciphered and translated into understanding: Through material-based experiments into representation, symbolism and the idea of the hyper-image, I explore new ways out of seemingly closed and self-destructive systems.
Education
2014 MFA Fine Art, Valand Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden
2008 BFA Fine Art, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Galleri KC, Konstnärscentrum Väst, Göteborg
2024 Forum Munkedal, c/o Akvatinten
2023 'In Tandem' with Hannah McDonald, Konstepidemin, Göteborg
2023 'Post-Human Garden' Galleri Gerlesborg, Hamburgsund
2022 'Dead Center' c/o ASK, Köping/Hallstahammars Konsthall
2022 'Horseplay' with Maja Kristin Nylander, Hallstahammars Konsthall
2022 'Double Back' with Bergthor Morthens, CG Gallery, Malmö
2016 'Lateral Horizon' Stenhuset Konsthall, Surahammar
2016 'Null Legend', Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2015 'A Topography of Time' YTAN, Västerås
2014 ‘A Tale of Two Paintings’ Galleri Jeune, Kolsva
2014 ’Brave New World Order’ Degree-show at Akademin Valand, Göteborg
2013 ‘Feet 4 Hands’ Galleri Rotor, Göteborg
2011 'Incomplete, Incorrect Map of the Universe' Temporart, Västerås
Group Shows
2023 (-22, -21, -19, -18, -17, -16) ArtMobileArtFair, Västerås Konsthall
2021 'L-O-C-A-L-I-S-M', c/o Henrik Haukeland, Västerås
2021 'Vad Är Nytt', Nya Fabriken, Göteborg
2020 'Return to Continue', CG Gallery, Malmö
2020 ‘<insert_title>’, CG Gallery, Malmö
2020 'The Curse of Knowledge', Upper Hand, Göteborg
2020 'Kronisk Ambivalens' Stenhuset Konsthall, Surahammar
2018 'Ur Aska' Västerås Konstmuseum
2017 ‘Föränderlighet’, Skulpturparken, Ängelsberg
2016 'Supermarket Art Fair' c/o YTAN, Stockholm
2016 'Vårsalongen' Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2015 'Decembersalongen' Katrineholms Konsthall
2014 ’Fast Forward’ Göteborgs Konsthall
2013 ‘As if Silence(s)’ Tjolöholm Slott, Kungsbacka kommun
2013 'In the Belly of the Whale' Galleri Rotor, Göteborg
2012 'Collage/Assemblage Centennial' IMCAC, Santa Fe, NM, USA
In Public Collections
Statens Konstråd
Göteborgs Stad
Region Stockholm, Danderyds Sjukhus
Region Jämtland Härjedalen
Västerås Konstmuseum
Stipends
2023 Region Västmanlands Kulturstipendium
2021 Konstnärsnämnden, 1-year working grant
2021 Göteborgs Stads Kulturstipendium
2020 Konstnärsnämnden, Krisstipendium #2, and 2021 #3
2020 Tillfälligt Stipendium, Göteborgs Stad
2018 Konstnärsnämnden, 1-year working grant
2017 Konstnärsnämnden, travel grant
2014 Eric Ericsons stiftelse
2014 Otto och Charlotte Mannheimers fond
Residencies
2023 Gerlesborgsskolan, Sweden
2017 ‘Herhúsið’ Siglufjörður, Iceland
2016 'AiR Tranås' (Kultivera), Sweden
2014 '(S)elswhere' Sel, Norway
In Publications
2020 ‘Physis / Decay’, with Hannah McDonald
2017, Average Art Magazine, July issue
2017 ‘AIOLOS #55: Dark Ecology’, Comp.Lit Magazine
2013 ‘Oskickade Brev, Staying for Dessert and Other Short Stories’
2012 ‘Att Segra Ger: Att Överleva’, fanzine
Other
2022 'LETTERS II' Project continuation c/o Kultivera, Tranås
2021-2022 'ASK - Arbetsfält för Samtida Konst' Konstfrämjandet Västmanland
2018-2020 ‘LETTERS’, Project c/o Kultivera, Tranås
2017 ‘GROSSESTREFFEN’ Nordic Embassies, Berlin