WINTER EXHIBITION
Saturday November 14th 2024 to Saturday January 4th 2025
Welcome to our winter exhibition, where we showcase a collection of artworks by our artists. Between Saturday December 14th 2024 and Saturday January 4th 2025 this show is on view.
Opening Saturday December 14th 1-4 pm.
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Open: 14/12, 19/12, 20/12, 21/12, 27/12, 28/12
Other days by apointment.
Galleri Artem
Galleri Artem
Galleri Artem
Galleri Artem
Coming Exhibition
Åsa Landström
Firmamentum
Thursday 9/1 – Saturday 1/2 2025
Previous Exhibition
Tommy Strömberg
Epifani
Thursday 14/11 – Saturday 7/12 2024
A revelation of harmony can describe the exhibition Epifani. Monumental, symmetrical, and architectural are three aspects of Tommy Strömberg's painting. At the same time, a mystery hovers over these imaginary and often claroscuro places. In the middle of the process, Tommy Strömberg can add a small detail that ties the whole work together. Changing something small can make everything come together. When the color and shape suddenly match and give a deeper insight into the artist. It is these finely balanced details that make the artwork in tune, perhaps a little like an instrument.
However, what begins with technical perfection ends in something else. You can talk about the technical aspects, but rarely find the whole answer. What makes the painting interesting is what is not visible. What is behind the painting and whispering to us. Perhaps the paintings mean something different than the buildings, houses, and landscapes they depict. The light from darkness or the light from light. A sense of wholeness and context. The motif continues with openings, corners, and ledges. In the background, the light rises or falls on the horizon, in contrast to the static buildings. But the forms of architecture are not just fixed points, they are like faces open for conversation. The structure and order of the works can here give form to dialogue and possible new insights.
Previous Exhibition
Johan Andersson
Prospects
Thursday 17/10 – Sunday 10/11 2024
Something unfathomable is going on in Johan Andersson's paintings. An ambiguous alienation that is not only obscure, but contains bright reliefs, a sense of freedom. In the motifs, we transcend between the present, memories, and dreams. We can't put it into words: a muteness over the vulnerability one is faced with. The paintings can seem ordinary to the point of invisibility, that one seems to have an overview and control.​
However, there is a fragility here, as if they are urging us to reduce the viewing and turn up the seeing. The pale noise over the surfaces makes the agreement that it is about something simply depicted, that one would be a safe observer of something finished. Perhaps the images are in the haze of memory, a sadness over something lost, a world that has become unfamiliar. Is it possible to forget something you don't really remember?
In the exhibition Prospects, Johan Andersson shows a series of paintings that were created over a long period of time, and which were continuously built on with new motifs.
Previous Exhibition
Linus Bronge
The Space Between
Thursday 19/9 – Sunday 12/10 2024
The exhibition The Space Between shows new works by Linus Bronge. People enclosed in interiors, light, and shadow, mass, and void. The characters in the paintings are in the void between two events, on their way from something that has happened, towards that which has not yet happened. It is a gap, a breath right before the next moment that both raises questions, and perhaps creates an uneasiness about what is to come. In his artistry, Linus Bronge explores classic figurative painting crossed with evocative motifs that may seem familiar at first glance, but which on closer inspection lead to uncertainty. In the enclosed room, a meeting occurs that leads to questions. Here it is up to the viewer to load this with meaning, and give their own interpretation. In any case, they are scenes that like to stay, and continue in the viewer's mind.
Previous Exhibition
Marie Dahlstrand
The Land Beyond
Thursday 22/8 – Saturday 14/9 2024
In the exhibition The Land Beyond, Marie Dahlstrand shows new paintings and objects. The paintings, with their complex compositions and their intense color language, have an expressive manner. The colour is selected through an intuitive and careful process and is applied in several layers where it is reconsidered and processed over a long period of time.
Here are references and fragments of the landscape's variety of surfaces, play of lines, and structures. We can see zoom-ins of different leaves, stones or the annual rings of a tree. Memory images from own observations are combined with views and fields taken from various photo books. In the meeting between the natural and the man-made landscape, traces, wounds, and cavities arise, which during the work process are transferred to painterly experiments. As the fixed boundary point and the horizon line are often replaced by a variety of spatialities, the sometimes labyrinthine rooms form a kind of dreamlike reflection of the outside world, beyond the real.
Previous Exhibition
Rosa Häggbom
Curtains
Saturday 1/6 – Tuesday 25/6 2024
Rosa Häggbom uses spiritual symbolism, folkloric aesthetics, and theatrical figures that coexist in abstract dreamscapes. Oil painting is Häggbom's main medium, but she also works with textile, sculpture, and performance art which together constitute a transcendent experience. Many of her works are different physical mediums combined. The material choices are also connected through the use and preservation of older crafts and techniques. In Häggbom's textile work, she uses vintage materials that have a history and thus also contribute to the narrative of the work. She works with existential themes on several levels through motifs, form, and materials. Contemplation about life, death, and rebirth are constantly present. Rosa Häggbom wants to invite the viewer to an esoteric experience that evokes thoughts about spirituality and escapist fantasies about an alternative reality.
Previous Exhibition
Kristina Thun
At Pathways End
Saturday 4/5 – Tuesday 26/5 2024
Kristina Thun works with watercolour, painting, and printing in her artistry. Fragments from everyday life take a central place in her pictures. Objects, places, people, and animals become part of small events that can become a larger story. Like a collage, Thun joins the different parts of figures, events, and abstract forms into a myriad of stories. The figures become actors in imaginative worlds. Here we find unknown people, with their eyes turned away and on their way somewhere, as well as animals that can sometimes look towards the viewer. Where they are going is not stated, the gaze is like ours, directed towards an unknown horizon. This invites the viewer to interpretation, and the opportunity to become part of the story. At the same time, the images hide secrets, as if only the figures in the image know where the path ends.
Previous Exhibition
Pelle Perlefelt
Between the Trees
Saturday 6/4 – Sunday 28/4 2024
Nature is an essential place in Pelle Perlefelt's artistic work. As a child, he explored the forests around his grandparents' farm in Småland. There he later used to sit and draw or just observe the nature around him. The memory of a deer passing close by, without spotting him, was a wonderful experience that still gives creative power. It was a moment where the feeling of being almost in a dissolved state with nature became like floating freely, a kind of weightlessness. Painting becomes a way to relive nature more closely, to let oneself be drawn into it and become part of the landscape. The experience is complex and personal but at the same time so simple. It is difficult and sometimes impossible to describe in words, where they end, weightlessness takes over, and in it live shades of colors and shapes.
Previous Exhibition
Lina Stenqvist
Transformation
Saturday 9/3 – Tuesday 2/4 2024
The art project Transformation is about the angst of the upheaval of time. Water, foaming seas, bath houses, fog, dusk, and dawn represent transitions in life. The women who bathe symbolize physical and mental purification on the individual level and escaping for a moment from a troubled world. Furthermore, there is a lingering uncertainty as the water is changeable and perhaps bottomless. Where is she going? She stays just above the surface of the water - an inner place as much as an outer one. The exhibition revolves around the polarization in our time between clean and dirty, evil and good, black and white, hope, and hopelessness. The veil of Veronica is empty here, the meaning has shifted. Still, clean towels at dawn can indicate the transition to a new but uncertain future.
Previous Exhibition
Emelie Björck
Location
Saturday 3/2 – Sunday 25/2 2024
Emelie Björck pauses in her works. The distance between the past and future is decreasing. She becomes present and stops in the current. In this very place and no other place. Björck observes how the elusiveness of nature's shifts is clarified. The recognizable is short. The elements shift and the impermanence surprises. It will grow back. By the next summer, the log has rotted away. The location is still there but changed. She believes that the physical color behaves similarly. From being accurate and determined to hesitantly lie flat in the wrong place. The colour dries, fades, changes, and acquires new meaning, bearing properties just like nature. Can one capture a piece of nature? A section of forest, a key biotope? Emelie Björck shows a series of oil paintings on metal in the exhibition Location at Galleri Artem.
Previous Exhibition
Petter Kreuger
Konstruktioner
Saturday 6/1 – Sunday 28/1 2024
Petter Kreuger's art is a meeting between materiality and story. Kreuger's world is discovered in miniatures, in boxes, lines, and transparent surfaces. The materials are central, reused for a new purpose - that is where the stories grow. At the same time, the works are also objects in their own sense, it is a piece of furniture but still an art object without a clear message. Balance and accuracy are accompanied by the more haphazard nature of the works and disturb the apparent harmony. Strong colors are contrasted against wood, small objects are surrounded by emptiness. The works are almost architectural, they are like small houses and cities where different stories can take place and develop. Kreuger takes objects, often used and with a history of their own, and places them in a new context. In the boxes, playful stories often emerge, which also leave the viewer with unanswered questions. The objects in the boxes have their own agency, their own life that goes on and can seem independent of us viewers.
Previous Exhibition
Collective Exhibition 2023
Thursday 14/12 – Sunday 30/12
Previous Exhibition
Magdalena Cavallin
Fall
Saturday 25/11 – Sunday 10/12 2023
In Magdalena Cavallin's artwork, space, time, memory and dreams take a prominent place. Her scenes are set in desolate landscapes, characterized by architectural details and geometric shapes, where people, animals, and objects move. The creative process usually begins with a small detail that captures Cavallin's interest and acts as a guide through the work. The motif gradually emerges, and the artist searches for fragments in old magazines, and books, combines them with painting, and processes them until a sense of the unmentionable emerges.
Previous Exhibition
Monica Larsson
Från plats till plats
Saturday 4/11 – Sunday 19/11 2023
In some of Monica Larsson's paintings, the patterns are enclosed in a circular shape, the colors are saturated, applied in thin layers, and with great accuracy. In the meditative state in which Monica Larsson's paintings are executed, a personal presence emerges in the painting, a kind of introspection. The shapes in the paintings create a movement and rhythm that evokes associations with nature's forms and architectural elements. The colors in it are related to the shades that adorn the homes of Mongolian nomads, the so-called yurts. The colors allude to the four elements that surround the entire earth: air, water, earth, and fire. Here there is stillness and movement at the same time. Colors and light reflect the Mongolian landscape with miles of desert and endless horizon.
Previous Exhibition
Erik Sigerud
Mellan sken och verklighet
Saturday 14/10 – Sunday 29/10 2023
In his paintings, Erik Sigerud creates several layers where he combines dystopian places, psychological tensions between people, his own symbols, and abstract elements. Through his art, he explores connections between political events, personal experiences, and events in his immediate environment. Sigerud sees painting as a tool for reflection and a platform for testing ideas. His artwork explores the connection between individual and cultural identities, as well as the connection between individual feelings and drives on the one hand and political events on the other.
Previous Exhibition
Lina Stenqvist
Befrielse
Saturday 23/9 – Sunday 8/10 2023
Lina Stenqvist's art project Liberation revolves around issues of suffering and hope, as well as the border between life and death. She has had religious rites and baroque paintings as sources of inspiration for her creation. As a starting point in Stenqvist's pictures, she has chosen the sacrificial lamb. The sacrificial lamb is a strong and multi-layered motif that recurs in Western art history. With the lamb as a symbol, Lina Stenqvist tries to portray the limitation and suffering of man in a human breakdown as well as a liberation from this on both the individual and general level. Furthermore, the exhibition contains other rituals such as purification. Rituals that we humans engage in in different ways in all cultures around the world.
Previous Exhibition
Susanna Salifou Nygren
Makaon
Saturday 2/9 – Sunday 17/9 2023
Susanna Salifou Nygren works primarily with painting but also with drawing, watercolor, collage, and a mixture of these. The different qualities and properties of the materials provide different conditions in the work process. In the process, Salifou Nygren experiments with the relationship between the properties of colors, surfaces, and structures. Painting is an intuitive act where the tools - scrapers, palette knife, brush, and hands are an extension of the body - in a pulsating current flow. Her images can be seen as both places and bodies. The painting moves in the borderland between the beautiful, sensual, and the ugly raw. In the abstract story, Salifou Nygren rather seeks intensity beyond the unmentionable. For her, painting is a way of thinking, an inner dialogue in process.
