Matti Sumari (FI)
Matti Sumari is interested in investigating the resources that can be extracted from urban surroundings—free slag materials, by-products of our way of life, sorted out through the city's metabolism into dump sites. Different extracted metals are gathered to cast into sculptures. The recurring motif is the slug, a decomposer of organic matter itself. Although, in Matti’s work, these sluggish cucumbers and pickle forms play various roles. Sometimes, they appear as fingers, ornamental floral formations, small birds, or insect-like creatures.
Matti Sumari (b. 1988; FI) lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, and graduated with an MFA from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2014. Recent exhibitions include: Gislaveds Konsthall (Gislaved; SE), Alma Löv Museum of Unexpected Art (Östra Ämtervik; SE), Liste Art Fair (Basel; CH).
Perennial I
Aluminium, cast using metals gathered from dumpsites
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Lena Bergendahl
Slug and baker share a dream II
Stainless steel from illegal catering operation, copper, aluminium, cast using metals from dumpsites
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Lena Bergendahl
Local dish II
Steel, bronze, aluminum
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Lena Bergendahl
Perennial II
Nordic gold, copper, aluminium, cast using metals gathered from dumpsites
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Lena Bergendahl
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Perennial I
Aluminium, cast using metals gathered from dumpsites, 2024
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Slug and baker share a dream II
Stainless steel from illegal catering operation, copper, aluminium, cast using metals from dumpsites, 2024
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Local dish II
Steel, bronze, aluminum, 2024
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Perennial II
Nordic gold, copper, aluminium, cast using metals gathered from dumpsites, 2024
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Matti Sumari, Liste Art Fair Basel, Solo Booth, 2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by GRAYSC
Paul Robas (RO)
Paul Robas’s works are a reflection and an attempt to make sense of the world, to create a narrative from fragments of everyday life. Most of the paintings have an eerie, dreamlike atmosphere. His main medium is painting; colour and surface are central parts of his work and research. He constructs images in layers and different consistencies. In this way, he tries to transfer the historically burdened traditional medium of painting into the present, questioning its role as an artistic medium.
Paul Robas (b. 1989; RO) lives and works in Vienna, Austria, and graduated with an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2018. Recent exhibitions include: Solito (Naples; IT), Gallery Vacancy (Shanghai; CN), The Shophouse (Hong Kong; CN).
Untitled
Acrylic and ink on canvas
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery
Untitled
Acrylic and ink on canvas
2024
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Untitled
Acrylic and ink on canvas, 2024
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Untitled
Acrylic and ink on canvas, 2024
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Paul Robas, A Small Land of Watery Light, 2024, Installation View, Gallery Vacancy
Courtesy of the artist, Coulisse Gallery and Gallery Vacancy
Josefina Anjou (SE)
She is foremost a painter whose work, which sometimes extends the limits of the canvas into its surrounding architecture, varies in their methods of paint application more so than in their motifs. She considers the works co-created, where the artist is one in a series of actors who manifest them.
Josefina Anjou (b. 1993; SE) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Anjou graduated with a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, in 2019 and an MFA at Konstfack, Stockholm, in 2024. Recent exhibitions include: Andy’s Gallery (Stockholm; SE), Konstnärshuset (Stockholm; SE), Galerie Fons Welters (Amsterdam; NL).
Goofball Golfball
Screenprint, ink, & oil on canvas
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Sanna Argus Tirén
Mister Jester Cocktail
Screenprint, ink and oil on canvas
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Sanna Argus Tirén
Type AB Negative
Screenprint, ink and oil on canvas
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Sanna Argus Tirén
Wingdings Weddings!
Screenprint, marker pen and oil on canvas
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Sanna Argus Tirén
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Goofball Golfball
Screenprint, ink, & oil on canvas, 2024
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Mister Jester Cocktail
Screenprint, ink and oil on canvas, 2024
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Type AB Negative
Screenprint, ink and oil on canvas, 2024
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Wingdings Weddings!
Screenprint, marker pen and oil on canvas, 2024
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Christofer Degrér (SE)
Christofer Degrér’s practice encompasses entanglements between text, sculpture, and installation. Lines of inquiry are set by gothic fiction, role-playing games, and nature, which comprise liminal hybrids and consistencies where reality and fiction are encouraged to approach complication and instability. Objects such as symbolically overburdened roses, miniature dioramas, and overgrown meadows reoccur amid often meandering, stretched-out captions and accompanying texts. Degrér’s practice is realized using two main methods of organization: speculative world-building via poetry and role-playing systems, and abductive inference models via allusions to online user interfaces under late capitalism.
Christofer Degrér (b. 1990; SE) lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. Degrér graduated from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, in 2018. Recent exhibitions include: Billytown (The Hague; NL), Sulfur (Malmö; SE), Celsius Projects (Malmö; SE), and Coulisse Gallery (Stockholm; SE).
Catenaries and Dirigibles
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Julia Malmquist
Hemostasis (sloppy dream)
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Julia Malmquist
Rose (xix)
Chroma key paint and rose thorns (removed from dead wild white rose bushes next to a closed observatory in a light-polluted city park under a full moon) on artificial white rose
2024
Courtesy of the artist and Coulisse Gallery. Photo by Julia Malmquist
Rose (xxiii)
Chroma key paint and rose thorns (removed from dead wild white rose bushes next to a closed observatory in a light-polluted city park under a full moon) on artificial white rose
2024
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Catenaries and Dirigibles
2024,
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Hemostasis (sloppy dream)
2024,
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Rose (xix)
Chroma key paint and rose thorns (removed from dead wild white rose bushes next to a closed observatory in a light-polluted city park under a full moon) on artificial white rose, 2024
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Rose (xxiii)
Chroma key paint and rose thorns (removed from dead wild white rose bushes next to a closed observatory in a light-polluted city park under a full moon) on artificial white rose, 2024
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