Current exhibitions

– For me, art is a relationship that starts a process inspired by what arises in the space between us. For me, it is best interpreted through the work of the hand with the brush on the canvas. There, the spontaneous movement takes place that can give unexpected responses in signs, colors or shapes.

Working with different materials adds new dimensions. The transparency of glass, the possibilities of fabric for different textures, shiny silver or nylon threads, air and density, that's where the creative process continues.

When reality is often fragmented and confused, art offers me unity and coherence, and becomes a relationship to the self and the world.

"What I have seen of Gerd Ekdahl's painting has given me the impression that she, more than her peers of the same generation, seeks expression for inner experiences. You can barely see any traces of the decades' style changes and trends of opinion. Her imagery has nevertheless changed a lot. I want to remember from the past, a lyrical finesse with an inward light in a quiet time, so to speak without a clock. In the latest paintings, time is strongly present, throbbing, in a clearly dramatic inner process illuminated by colors that seem like calls, prayers and restrained screams. It is a self-disclosing work with the means of expression for an acknowledgement of the conditions of life - bold in a time when visual art is dominated by rebuses and irony."

Rolf Anderberg