Seductive low-budget design reshaped and the return of the 1980s courtesy of the youngest generation of contemporary artists. This is what spring 2009 will offer as Bonniers Konsthall presents a major solo exhibition with Gunilla Klingberg and a group exhibition with artists from the emerging Swedish art scene.
Bonniers Konsthall starts off the spring season with a solo exhibition with the Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg, next year’s guest artist at Bonniers Konsthall. The exhibition, which will be the largest presentation of her work so far, includes a production of a new work and a publication. Gunilla Klingberg is already working on site in the gallery, creating new works and developing older pieces in relation to the galleries’ design and the building’s architecture.
Combining pattern images with sculptures and sound pieces, Gunilla Klingberg is perhaps best known for her characteristic patterns of recycled cut-price supermarket logotypes. The modest and mundane logotypes of Sparlivs and Lidl are transformed into seductively beautiful oriental patterns, while the logotype of Spar forms the foundation for a kaleidoscopic animation. In her work Brand New View, which will cover 700 square metres of the Bonniers Konsthall’s glass façade, some ten different logotypes are interwoven into an entirely new design. Gunilla Klingberg is interested in contemporary consumer culture. Employing topical visual expressions, she juxtaposes consumerism with spirituality, low-budget design with Eastern imagery.
Gunilla Klingberg was born in 1966 in Stockholm, where she works. Since the end of the 1990s, Klingberg's art has been shown extensively in Sweden and abroad, including the 2007 Istanbul Biennial, P.S.1/MoMA, New York, 2006, and KIASMA, Helsinki, 2004.
Bonniers Konsthall continues to check out the Swedish contemporary art scene and just what characterises our time. Every year Bonniers Konsthall presents a group exhibition, which provides an insight into what preoccupies the young artists of today. To find out, curator Camilla Larsson has spent the year visiting artists in their studios. At the end of April, the result of her investigation will be presented in the exhibition Mirroring Shapes, revealing a connection between emerging contemporary artists and 1980s post-modernism. Works by some fifteen artists, all at the beginning of their careers, will be juxtaposed with works by an older generation in an exhibition that unites both the ‘80s and the ‘00s, and design and relationships.
Spring 2009 at Bonniers Konsthall
11 February-5 April Gunilla Klingberg
29 April-14 June Mirroring Shapes
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