Current exhibitions
Ellen Dynebrink
Intensiteter
Opening Saturday, April 4, 12–4 p.m.
The exhibition runs from April 4th to April 26th.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13–17, Saturday-Sunday 12–16
Ellen Dynebrink is a textile artist and consistently works with themes that concern textiles as historical and aesthetic objects and the relationship between gaze and image. Textiles as such are the recurring motif and come from a long-term collection of images of textiles in different situations in the form of her own photos and found images. Using the patchwork technique, Dynebrink reproduces draperies and folds, textiles in motion, which are displaced and distorted through digital processing of the image models and by the choice of materials and technology. The square as a form also has a central role, both as checkered patterned fabrics in the models and in the typical grid of the patchwork technique, and reinforces the tension between the material that makes up the works and the textile objects in the models. The works thus act both photographically and as textile objects. In the exhibition Intensities, she shows a collection of works that reflect a kind of intense sensations, snapshots of textiles that at the same time examine the desire to lose oneself in process and material – to become one with the object.
Ellen Dynebrink holds an MFA in Textile Art from HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg (2017) and a BFA in Textile Design from the Swedish School of Textiles (2014). She has exhibited in galleries, art galleries and museums, nationally and internationally: BIEN Textile Biennal (Kranj, Slovenia) Wassaic Project (New York), Charlottenborg Kunsthall (Copenhagen), Liljevalchs Vårsalong, 3rd floor / GIBCA Extended, Gustavsberg Konsthall.
She has participated in residencies such as the Nordic Watercolour Museum in 2020, six months at IASPIS, Stockholm in 2021-2022 and one month during the summer of 2024 in Wassaic, New York. Her work has been featured several times in Hemslöjd, Form Magazine and Göteborgs-Posten and was awarded the City of Gothenburg Cultural Scholarship in 2024.
Shapur Akbari
Hängande i luften
Opening Saturday, April 4, 12–4 p.m.
The exhibition runs from April 4th to April 26th.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13–17, Saturday-Sunday 12–16
– This creation is inspired by the fable tradition, where animals are used to reflect human characteristics and social structures. I have drawn inspiration from the ancient Eastern book Kelileh va Demneh and the Western classic Animal Farm by George Orwell. Despite their different cultural and historical contexts, both works deal with themes such as power, manipulation, loyalty and human weaknesses.
By uniting these traditions, I want to show how stories and ideas move through history but at the same time remain current. The animals in the work are composed based on their symbolic characters and have been assigned human behaviors from our everyday lives. They function as a mirror of our society, where hierarchies and conflicts constantly recur.
I have worked with a traditional technique that has existed for thousands of years to strengthen the connection between past and present. Like the fables, the technique carries a long history and symbolizes how humanity often gets stuck in the same patterns – while we continue to move forward.
The movement and positioning between the animals is carefully planned to create a deliberately ambivalent mood. The relationships are not unambiguous and lack an obvious point of assessment, which opens up for interpretation and reflects the complexity of human relationships.
The goal is to awaken recognition and reflection on how little – or how much – we have actually changed throughout history.