Galleri Magnus Karlsson (SE)

Magnus Karlsson founded his eponymous gallery in 1990 in Västerås. In 1997 the gallery moved to Stockholm and now has its location on the ground floor of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Over the years the gallery has worked closely with artists on a long-term basis, producing exhibitions, attending fairs and realising special projects both in Sweden and internationally.

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111 52 Stockholm
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CHART

For CHART 2024, Galleri Magnus Karlsson will present the group exhibition 'Scenes and Arrangements' featuring six gallery artists; Amy Bennett, Jens Fänge, Tommy Hilding, Johanna Karlsson, Bruno Knutman and Ulf Lundin. The works included span across a wide range of mediums and techniques such as painting, assemblage, sculpture, photography and drawing.

Jens Fänge (SE)

In Jens Fänge’s imagery, elements from distant places in time and space coexist side by side. Fänge’s works consist of paintings in different sizes that combine various techniques and materials to create dense composite sceneries. The images capture recurring figures, patterns and compositions in different contexts and perspectives, as if to recreate encounters and narratives that have fallen apart. In the pictorial space, doors open to new inner rooms in a seemingly endless hall of mirrors. Here it is easy, but rewarding, to get lost, and while astray there is a chance that we will meet ourselves.

Jens Fänge (b. 1965, Gothenburg; SE) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Fänge was educated at Valand Art Academy (Gothenburg; SE) between 1989–1994. Fänge has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums internationally and his works are included in the collections of Gothenburg Museum of Art (Gothenburg; SE), Moderna Museet (Stockholm; SE), Nasjonalmuseet (Oslo; NO) and Magasin III (Stockholm; SE).

Escalier

Oil and vinyl on panel
2020

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

La Gran Aventura

Oil, vinyl, textile on panel
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Ljusår

Oil, vinyl on panel
2020

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Nocturne

Oil, inks, board, fabric
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Installation ABC Berlin

Installation View
2013

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Installation Bonniers konsthall

Installation View

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson. Photo by Mikael Olsson

Installation

Installation View
2013

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Installation Perrotin Shanghai

Installation View
2023

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Portrait of Jens Fänge

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson. Photo by Nora Bencivenni

Amy Bennett (US)

The paintings of Amy Bennett depict crucial but elusive moments of everyday life. She studies, processes and recreates passages and fragments of life in paintings that can be compared to short stories. As viewers, we are thrown into environments, contexts and narratives in the core of the event. This frozen process allows reflection and encourages one’s own fantasies and reflections. We stand outside and look into a private sphere that we can recognize from our own lives.

Amy Bennett (b. 1977, Portland, Maine; US) lives and works in Cold Spring, USA. Bennet graduated from the University of Hartford, USA (BFA, 1999) and New York Academy of Art (MFA, 2002). She has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums and her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; US) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston; US).

One By One

Oil on panel
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Off Leash

Oil on panel
2021

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Mourning

Oil on panel
2020

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Ladies Room

Oil on panel
2019

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Couple

Oil on panel
2019

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Camp

Oil on panel
2020

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Portrait of Amy Bennett

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Tommy Hilding (SE)

Tommy Hilding works with a large variety of expressions in his paintings. He explores several paths simultaneously, sometimes combining them in one painting. At the core there is a documentary, realistic visual language in which Hilding constructs images of urbanity or the surrounding nature. A more abstract and spontaneous way of painting eats its way into the imagery and exists both inside and outside the motif itself. In recent years, Hilding has integrated samples from art history into his paintings. These are usually motifs from 19th-century romantic painting which either blend seamlessly into the image or are put in contrast with the contemporary. Hilding’s paintings portray an ambivalence and rootlessness that exist in our time. He challenges chronology and reverses concepts with a language that is playful yet urgent.

Tommy Hilding (b. 1954, Skagersvik; SE) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Hilding has exhibited continuously at galleries and museums in Sweden and internationally and his works are included in the collections of Moderna Museet (Stockholm; SE), Västerås Konstmuseum (Västerås; SE), Norrköpings Konstmuseum (Norrköping; SE), Folke Bernadotte Academy (Kramfors; SE), among others.

Interfaces

Oil on linen
2020

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Stratum

Oil on linen
2021

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

The Northern Passage

Oil on linen
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Spacetime

Oil on linen
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Portrait of Tommy Hilding

Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson. Photo by Nora Bencivenni

Galleri Magnus Karlsson (SE)

Curated forCHART