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.

Fredsgatan 12
111 52 Stockholm
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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2025, Galleri Magnus Karlsson will present a two-person exhibition with artists Duda Bebek and Tommy Hilding – both painters, but from different generations and backgrounds. The exhibition will preferably be presented as two separate propositions dividing the room in two parts.

Tommy Hilding works carefully and methodically with a painting that constantly develops and deepens in its theme. His later, more personal paintings are still characterised by a distanced and socially engaged view of the world. Duda Bebek's paintings are highly autobiographical and revealing. Her works are expressive and dreamy diary entries of contemporary life.

Tommy Hilding (SE)

Tommy Hilding works with a large variety of expressions in his paintings. He explores several paths simultaneously, and sometimes combines them in one painting. At the core there is a documentary and realistic visual language in which Hilding carefully 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. Tommy 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. He has exhibited at galleries and institutions since the late 1980s. He is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Västerås Konstmuseum, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Stockholm City, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Kramfors, and The Public Art Agency Sweden.

Substratum

Olja på duk / Oil on linen
2025

Photo: Nora Bencivenni / Galleri Magnus Karlsson

Break of Day

Olja på duk / Oil on linen
2025

Photo: Nora Bencivenni / Galleri Magnus Karlsson