Current exhibitions
RICKARD GULLMANDER
Den stora snurren
Opening Saturday, August 15, 12–4 p.m.
The exhibition runs from August 15th to September 6th.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13–17, Saturday-Sunday 12–16
– My name is Rickard Gullmander and I am an artist born in Stockholm in 1966, but since 2007 I have lived in Gothenburg.
My MS and schizophrenia affect and limit my everyday life, but even though I have difficulty getting out on my own, I feel both dedicated and free in my painting.
I want to depict my motifs based on the environment I live in, my home and the city life outside. My paintings are a story about me and my life, but it is also a joyful search in the wayward world of painting.
I choose my subjects based on inspiration and the ability to see beauty where others might see something completely mundane or even ugly. When I see something that interests me, I take a photo of it, which then becomes the starting point for a painting when I get home. It could be a building, a construction site, a train station, a container, a window, a jacket - well, really anything.
My disabilities have prevented me from attending so-called regular art schools, so instead I have studied painting at ArtistLab Academy - a teacher-led distance learning course via the internet (4 1/2 years acrylic and 1/2 year drawing). This teaching has made me develop and find my expression in painting. Before that, I have also studied for a year at Gyllenkroken and a semester at Folkuniversitetet.
In recent years I have had some health problems, so I have not painted or exhibited as much as before. That is why it feels very fun to exhibit again at the Gothenburg Art Association.
Art is my great passion in life and I love it in all its forms.
Exhibitions: Liljevalchs vårsalongen 2019, 3 works. Backlunds vårsalong Gothenburg 2019, 3 works. Göteborgs Konstförening solo exhibition in Stora galleriet 2019, approx. 50 works. Liljevalchs vårsalongen 2020, 5 works. Liljevalchs vårsalongen 2021, 1 work.
ANGELICA OLSSON
Hon ber om eld
Opening Saturday, August 15, 12–4 p.m.
The exhibition runs from August 15th to September 6th.
Open Tuesday-Friday 13–17, Saturday-Sunday 12–16
Angelica Olsson’s artistic practice is rooted in black-and-white visual storytelling, in which she moves—through drawing, collage, and moving images—in a space between the concrete and the abstract. Through micro-stories, personal experiences are linked to larger narratives that explore how history and social structures influence perception and the space for thought.
The exhibition features drawings alongside an essay film and an electroacoustic choral work titled *Still a prison of this virtual space*, a collaboration between Angelica Olsson and composer Dag Rosenqvist. The narrative takes its starting point in the image of Mary Magdalene, one of the most frequently depicted and mythical figures in Western art history. The choral work features Anne Garner, Claire Deak, Lisen Rylander Löve, Malin Wättring, and Sofia Nystrand.
Angelica Olsson studied Fine Arts at the Nordic Art School in Kokkola, Finland, and at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg, as well as art history at Uppsala University. Dag Rosenqvist is a composer who works with music for film, theater, and recordings, both as a solo artist and in various ensembles such as Småland and From the Mouth of the Sun.