Astrid Svangren
Nora & Copenhagen
DA 2: DRAFTS OF ECOLOGY: URD





Astrid Svangren holds a MFA from Malmö Art Academy, 1998. Her painterly work is multidimensional. Her paintings relate to the limitations the stretcher provides, but they also expand three dimensionally into their surroundings, and move from ceilings and wooden constructions. The spatial paintings can be interpreted as an extension of the traditional painterly process, and the materiality differ from tulle to fish net and cellophane.

Nattsomn sov nu inte mer ett rus av rosenblad med smartsam transparans. Wooden stretcher, horse hair, cellophane, dried flowers, feathers, Japanese silk paper, acrylic, polyester, silk chiffon 150x130. 2023
Svangren´s work has been shown at Quartz Studio, Turin; Kohta, Helsinki; Art Basel, Miami Beach; Gl. Holtegaard, Copenhagen; Moderna Museet, Malmö; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Malmö Konstmuseum; Kiasma, Helsinki; Wanås Konst, Knislinge; Artipelag, Stockholm; Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn; The Margulies Collection, Miami; Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris; Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York; Maria Stenfors, London; Christian Andersen, Copenhagen; KUNSTHALLE São Paulo; and KRAFT, Bergen, among others.
Astrid's website
Installation view at Tranen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (DK). 2016