Hans Andersson’s work involves materials such as textile scraps, colored and dyed paper, sheets of painted paper and bits of labels and fragments torn out of magazines. Add shellac, coffee grounds, watercolor, and pencil, not to mention dusts and other surface dirt. This was initially a kind of attachment process, as the poor materials are reminiscent of his anscestors struggles in poverty as farmers and working in the mines. The surface texture of the works is accentuated by the many materials they are created with.

Hans Andersson’s process and work are undefined but characterized by discipline; periods of meditation and pondering alternate with indefinite and rigorous action; a balancing act between chance and necessity; between error and aesthetic considerations; long hours. A way of painting that can be viewed as a kind sibling of very dense improvisational music. 

His works turn into a of distillation of what is experienced: snapshots of memories transcribed as shifts in color or texture. The passage of time is present, as well as fragrances, meditations over phemenology and garden paintings.

Hans Andersson, born 1979 in Kalmar, Sweden, currently lives and works in Stockholm. Hans Andersson holds a MFA at Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2005.

Hans Andersson’s work has been shown at LOKO Gallery, Tokyo; Revolver Gallery, Lima; Galeria F2, Madrid; Fenberger House, Nagano; The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Liljevalchs, Stockholm; Fullersta Gård, Stockholm; Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm and Helsinki; Angelika Knäpper Gallery, Stockholm, among others.

Hans Andersson has received several art grants such as Gerhard Bonnier Exhibition Grant, the Helge Ax:son Johnson Grant, and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s Working Grant and Travel Grant.

Hans Andersson’s work is in the permanent collection of Malmö Konstmuseum; Ståhl Collection, Norrköping; The Public Art Agency Sweden; The Swedish Embassy, Beijing; Fenberger House, Nagano; among others. Public art commissions include Södertälje Hospital and Region Kalmar, Sweden.