In my work, I explore how we experience and operate in the world.

My works often begin with simple materials and found objects, which I assemble and transform until they begin to carry something beyond their original function.

I am interested in what occurs when the human encounters the invisible and the uncontrollable. The sculptures become sites where these forces collide and are held in tension.

The process is direct and material. I work through assembling, breaking down, and altering until the work begins to carry itself.

/Olof

Olof Inger (b. 1979) lives and works in Stockholm. He received his BFA from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2012) and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven (2014).

His work has been exhibited at Moderna Museet, Liljevalchs and Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm; Miguel Abreu Gallery and 109 Gallery in New York; Ribordy Contemporary in Geneva; Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway; LOYAL, Stockholm; Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg; Arnstedt, Östra Karup; Yale University; and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, among others. He has also participated in Market Art Fair (Stockholm), CHART (Copenhagen), and Zona Maco (Mexico City).

He has received the Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award and the Yale University Honorary Award, as well as grants from the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, the Bærtling Foundation, and the Eva & Hugo Bergman Memorial Fund.

His work is included in the collections of Moderna Museet, the Public Art Agency Sweden, Region Stockholm, Stockholm Konst, the Bonniers Art Collection, and the Ståhl Collection in Norrköping, as well as in numerous private collections. Public commissions include projects for the City of Gothenburg, Stockholm Konst, and Region Stockholm.