NEVVEN (SE)

NEVVEN is an international non-profit hybrid art project, with gallery spaces in Göteborg, Sweden. Situated at the meeting point between a diffused kunsthalle and a multinational art gallery, NEVVEN promotes an intersectional perspective on the contemporary art scene and curates a diverse output of exhibitions, disseminative events and contents in partnership with different public and private institutions. NEVVEN was founded in Sweden in 2015 as an experiment in exhibition making by curator Mattia Lullini and artist Alina Vergnano and still has its main goal in looking for new answers and forms to access visual culture, both structurally and ethically.

Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2026, NEVVEN is pleased to present a solo show by Swedish artist Fanny Hellgren. The space will be balanced between her fascinating sand sculptures and drawings. Both coming from the combination and subtraction of sand, pigments and water, the two series present a unique possibility to access Hellgren's delicate and minimalistic practice. Her work is characterized by its ability to walk the knife's edge between a coherent formal and conceptual process and the ability to create incredibly attractive and mysterious objects.

Fanny Hellgren (SE)

The art of Fanny Hellgren deals with ideas of time, change, and ephemerality in relation to natural and constructed landscapes. She uses sand, stone, water, resin, concrete, pigment, graphite and paper, and allows the properties and agency of materials guide her process based practice to unexpected sculptural results, where natural science and mysticism merge in always new magnetic and fascinating forms.

Fanny Hellgren (Göteborg, 1992) holds an MFA from the Malmö Art Academy (2021), and has studied at HDK-Valand Academy in Göteborg (2017) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2016). She has exhibited at venues such as Göteborgs Konsthall, NEVVEN, Göteborgs Stadsmuseum, and Alingsås Museum, and her work is represented in public collections including Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Statens Konstråd, Ståhl Collection, Region Kalmar, and Region Skåne, to name a few. Hellgren lives and works in Göteborg, Sweden.

Till Solsmältans Rotfäste

Graphite and pigment on paper
2022

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN

 

Oceans of Time

Sand, resin, pigment
2024

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN. Photo by David Eng

 

Dryland (detail)

Sand, epoxy, pigment
2024

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN. Photo by Francisco Nogueira

 

Landmass 1

Pigment and binder on paper
2023

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN. Photo by David Eng

 

Landmass 4

Pigment and binder on paper
2023

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN. Photo by David Eng

 

Till Solsmältans Rotfäste

Graphite and pigment on paper
2022

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN

 

Roots II

Pigment and binder on paper
2022

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN

 

Till Solsmältans Rotfäste

Graphite and pigment on paper
2022

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN

 

Landmass 4

Pigment and binder on paper
2023

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN. Photo by David Eng

 

The Rhythm Beneath II

Glue, sand, glass fiber, pigment
2025

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN

 

Night Is Mother to the Day II

Glue, sand, glass fiber, pigment
2025

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN

 

Portrait of Fanny Hellgren in her studio in Gothenburg, Sweden

Courtesy of Fanny Hellgren and NEVVEN