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Untitled
(Cumulus)

Gabriel Karlsson

14 April – 6 May
(2023)

Opening
Friday 14 April
17 – 20

StudyForArtPlatform

In his project at StudyForArtPlatform, Gabriel Karlsson shows an installation where vertical steel bars hold up objects in the ceiling. The title of the work, Untitled (Cumulus), refers to the fluffy cloud in which we humans often see objects and figurations. The name derives from the Latin cumulus, meaning heap or pile. The objects, stuck in the ceiling are fragmented parts of a fossilized heel bone of a woolly mammoth, an object that has been excavated from the ground. The exhibition proposes a spatial reversal of the exhibition space, and at the same time a shift in the meanings of the objects presented.

Artist
Statement

Gabriel Karlsson´s practice deals with the question how as much as what. His sculptures combine a slow and traditional craftsmanship with a conceptual thinking that makes the viewer reflect on the sculpture and the ability of the objects to exist in the in-between of an interior and an exterior space. Karlsson refers to his sculptures as thought objects.

Links

@gabriellokekarlsson

Education

2014 – 2019; MFA; Malmö Art Academy; Malmö, Sweden

2012 – 2014; Gerlesborgsskolan; Bohuslän, Sweden

Selected Solo
Exhibitions

2022 ”Krummholz”, Landings project space; Vestfossen, Norway

2021; grant exhibition, Fredrik Roos; Artipelag; Stockholm, Sweden

2019; grant exhibition; Edstrandska Stiftelsen; Gallery KHM2; Malmö, Sweden

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2022; Galleri Arnstedt; Östra Karup; Sweden

2022; part of Johan Lundqvist's work "On-Hold"; Malmö Konsthall; Malmö, Sweden

2022; ”Hommage à Erik Dietman”; group exhibition; One day one room – ADDO; Malmö, Sweden

2021; ”Jag Bor i en Annan Värld, Men Du Bor Ju i Samma. Drömmare Söder om Hallandsåsen”; Ravinen; Båstad, Sweden

2020; ”Repose”; with Anna Andersson; Canopy; Malmö, Sweden

2020; Galleri Arnstedt; Östra Karup, Sweden

2019; ”Nordart”; Konstforum Viborg; Viborg, Denmark

2019; ”Flux”; Skissernas Museum; Lund, Sweden

2019; ”Soft city”; Coyote; Stockholm, Sweden

2019; ”uTurn”; master exhibition; Gallery KHM1; Malmö, Sweden

Selected Grants
and Awards