Galleri Cora Hillebrand (SE)

Galleri Cora Hillebrand is a non-profit hybrid exhibition space located in Gothenburg, Sweden. The gallery was founded in 2018 by curator Cora Hillebrand and aims to promote a wide range of artistic practices, and be an inspiring space for the local community and the Nordic art scene at large. Since its start, Galleri Cora Hillebrand has also collaborated with various established writers with the ambition to foster a closer relationship between art and text.

Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2025, Galleri Cora Hillebrand will exhibit a solo presentation by Swedish Artist Fredrik Åkum, dealing with the relationship between painting and fanzine/artist books- making, and his relationship to abstraction. Åkum’s practice most often involves painting, sculpture, photography, fanzines/artist books, and printmaking. The presentation will focus on wall-based works together with new sculptural works.

Fredrik Åkum (SE)

Fredrik Åkum's work can be seen as an attempt to depart from an expected and comfortable result. Most often, there are traces of figurative starting points, imprints of something that seems to have been forgotten between the constant repetitions and variations, which preceded the result. An appreciation of printing techniques and a fascination with the errors of the replicated image is central to his art, and his work with fanzines and artist books is ever-present in his paintings and sculptures. He is also the founder of the publishing imprint Sunless Press, where he explores the fanzine as a counterpoint to the gallery space.

Fredrik Åkum (b. 1987, SE) lives and works in Gothenburg. Åkum holds an MFA from Valand Academy. He has received many awards including Beckers Art Award, Sten A Olsson Scholarship and Hasselblad Foundation Photo Book Grant. Recent solo exhibitions include Färgfabriken (SE), Höganäs Museum och Konsthall (SE), Dalslands Konstmuseum (SE), SKAL Contemporary (DK), and Lidköping Konsthall (SE).

Promemoria 1

Mixed media on paper, oak frame
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Cora Hillebrand

 

Promemoria 8

Mixed media on paper, oak frame
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Cora Hillebrand

 

Promemoria 13

Mixed media on paper, oak frame
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Cora Hillebrand

 

Promemoria 15

Mixed media on paper, oak frame.
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Cora Hillebrand

 

Untitled

Oil on canvas, pine frame
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Cora Hillebrand

 

Imprint

Resin
2024

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Cora Hillebrand

 

Portrait of Fredrik Åkum

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Cora Hillebrand

Galleri Cora Hillebrand Facade

Courtesy of Galleri Cora Hillebrand