Welcome to the book release of PERSONAL STATEMENT – ASTRID SVANGREN, published by Marrow Press, at the gallery’s corner space Karlavägen 15, Thursday 31 August, 5–7 PM. Personal Statement is an extensive monograph covering two decades of artistic practice with interviews and essays by Christine Antaya, Emily Berry, Estelle Hoy, Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Gertrud Sandqvist, and Juliette Desorgues. The book launch will be accompanied by new works by the artist and at 6 PM there will be an artist talk between Astrid Svangren and Camilla Larsson, curator and writer. The works will be on display until 24 September 2023, open by appointment.

Astrid Svangren’s painterly work is multidimensional. Her paintings relate to the limitations the stretcher provides, but they also expand three dimensionally into their surroundings, and move from ceilings and wooden constructions. The spatial paintings can be interpreted as an extension of the traditional painterly process, and the materiality differ from tulle to fish net and cellophane. In her artistry, Svangren avoids the expected and she lets the working process be portrayed as part of the finished work. The outcome of this somewhat organic process are paintings and spatial installations that are in constant movement and that dwell in a borderland, both in regards to their material and to their subject matter. The works speak of memories and dreams and very elegantly challenge all the senses of the viewer.

Astrid Svangren is currently part of the group show Animal Kingdom at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden. On view until 3 September 2023. Upcoming solo show at Molekyl Gallery in Malmö (1 September – 1 October 2023).

Astrid Svangren, born 1972 in Gothenburg, currently lives and works in Nora, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark. Astrid Svangren holds a MFA from Malmö Art Academy, 1998.

Astrid Svangren ́s work has been shown at Quartz Studio, Turin; Kohta, Helsinki; Art Basel, Miami Beach; Gl. Holtegaard, Copenhagen; Moderna Museet, Malmö; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Malmö Konstmuseum; Kiasma, Helsinki; Wanås Konst, Knislinge; Artipelag, Stockholm; Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn; The Margulies Collection, Miami; Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris; Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York; Maria Stenfors, London; Christian Andersen, Copenhagen; KUNSTHALLE São Paulo; and KRAFT, Bergen, among others.

Astrid Svangren’s has received grants from The Danish Arts Council; The Swedish Arts Grants Committee; Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation; The Edstrand Foundation, among others. In 2017 Astrid Svangren received the Award for Excellence in Exhibition from the Danish Arts Council.

Astrid Svangren’s work is in the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Denmark; The Danish Arts Foundation; New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Public Art Council Sweden; Stockholm School of Economics; Göteborgs kommun; Ystad Art Museum; Malmö Art Museum; Helsingborg Art Museum; Gothenburg Art Museum; The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn; Lunds kommun; and The Margulies Collection, Miami, among others.

Astrid Svangren has done public commissions for Bredan Daghem in Lund, in coorporation with Lunds konsthall; Hemstagården in Gävle, in cooperation with Gävle Konstcentrum; UMAS Barnkliniken, Malmö; and for The Nordic Public Art Council at C4-Skolan in Kristanstad, Sweden.