Image: Johanna Karlsson

Johanna Karlsson - Notes
A new series of sculptures / reliefs are presented in the inner room of the gallery.
The exhibition opens in connection with Stockholm Art Week 2024
Reception Wednesday May 15, 12–5 pm.

Mette Björnberg's exhibition 'For My Girls' is on view in the main gallery.
Gallery hours during Stockholm Art Week
May 14–19: Tuesday–Friday 12–5 pm, Saturday–Sunday 12–4 pm

We are delighted to announce a presentation with Johanna Karlsson in the inner room of the gallery. In the exhibition a series of small-scale landscape reliefs previously not shown in Sweden are presented. Johanna Karlsson was recently one of the contemporary artists included in the comprehensive Caspar David Friedrich exhibition Art for a New Age at Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany.

Johanna Karlsson (b. 1968) lives and works in Stockholm. She is educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (1991–1997). Johanna Karlsson constructs meticulously detailed portrayals of landscapes in her dioramas, using a mixed media technique including copper and silver wire, paper, textile, pigment and plaster. She takes fragments of nature into a cultural context, and the result is a laboratory-like presentation with an emotional load – a personal and poetic natural science. Johanna Karlsson does not add any special symbolic or thematic narratives to her nature studies. They belong to the larger story of all thing’s birth, construction and destruction. The time spent making the works becomes synonymous with its content.

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is a contemporary art gallery in Stockholm.