ASTRID SVANGREN
Astrid Svangren’s painterly work is multidimensional. Her paintings relate to the limitations the stretcher provides, but they also expand three dimensionally into their surroundings, and move from ceilings and wooden constructions. The spatial paintings can be interpreted as an extension of the traditional painterly process, and the materiality differ from tulle to fish net and cellophane. In her artistry, Svangren avoids the expected and she lets the working process be portrayed as part of the finished work. The outcome of this somewhat organic process are paintings and spatial installations that are in constant movement and that dwell in a borderland, both in regards to their material and to their subject matter. The works speak of memories and dreams and very elegantly challenge all the senses of the viewer.
Astrid Svangren, born 1972 in Gothenburg, currently lives and works in Nora, Sweden and Copenhagen. Astrid Svangren holds a MFA from Malmö Art Academy, 1998.
Astrid Svangren´s work has been shown at Quartz Studio, Turin; Kohta, Helsinki; Art Basel, Miami Beach; Gl. Holtegaard, Copenhagen; Moderna Museet, Malmö; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Malmö Konstmuseum; Kiasma, Helsinki; Wanås Konst, Knislinge; Artipelag, Stockholm; Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn; The Margulies Collection, Miami; Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris; Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York; Maria Stenfors, London; Christian Andersen, Copenhagen; KUNSTHALLE São Paulo; and KRAFT, Bergen, among others.
Astrid Svangren’s has received grants from The Danish Arts Council; The Swedish Arts Grants Committee; Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation; The Edstrand Foundation, among others. In 2017 Astrid Svangren received the Award for Excellence in Exhibition from the Danish Arts Council.
Astrid Svangren’s work is in the permanent collection of The National Gallery of Denmark; The Danish Arts Foundation; New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Public Art Council Sweden; Stockholm School of Economics; Göteborgs kommun; Ystad Art Museum; Malmö Art Museum; Helsingborg Art Museum; Gothenburg Art Museum; The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn; Lunds kommun; and The Margulies Collection, Miami, among others.
Astrid Svangren has done public commissions for Bredan Daghem in Lund, in coorporation with Lunds konsthall; Hemstagården in Gävle, in cooperation with Gävle Konstcentrum; UMAS Barnkliniken, Malmö; and for The Nordic Public Art Council at C4-Skolan in Kristianstad, Sweden.