Gunilla Klingberg. Photo: Bonniers Konsthall. |
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Bonniers Konsthall
Torsgatan 19
Stockholm
+46 8 736 42 48
Gunilla Klingberg
February 11-April 5, 2009
The exhibition, which is the largest presentation of Gunilla Klingberg's work so far, includes new work and a publication. Gunilla Klingberg is already working on site in the gallery, creating new works and developing older pieces in relation to gallery design and the building’s architecture.
Combining pattern images with sculptures and sound pieces, Gunilla Klingberg is perhaps best known for her characteristic patterns of recycled cut-price supermarket logotypes. The modest and mundane logotypes of Sparlivs and Lidl are transformed into seductively beautiful oriental patterns, while the logotype of Spar forms the foundation for a kaleidoscopic animation. In her work Brand New View, which will cover 700 square metres of the Bonniers Konsthall’s glass façade, some ten different logotypes are interwoven into an entirely new design. Gunilla Klingberg is interested in contemporary consumer culture. Employing topical visual expressions, she juxtaposes consumerism with spirituality, low-budget design with Eastern imagery.
Gunilla Klingberg was born in 1966 in Stockholm, where she lives and works. Since the end of the 1990s, Klingberg's art has been shown extensively in Sweden and abroad, including the 2007 Istanbul Biennial, P.S.1/MoMA, New York, 2006, and KIASMA, Helsinki, 2004.
Klingberg attended Konstfack (University College Of Arts, Crafts and Design), Department of Sculpture, Stockholm from 1993-97. She had a five year working Grant from Konstnärsnämnden / The Swedish Visual Arts Fund, a Stockholms stads kulturstipendium /Stockholm city council grant. In 2004 she participated in an IASPIS residency, International Artists’ Studio Program, Stockholm. From 2002-2004 she was the recipient of a two year working Grant from Konstnärsnämnden / The Swedish Visual Arts Fund.
Recent solo exhibitions have included Zeppelin University, Bodensee, Germany, 2008; Cosmic Matter, June 18-July 26, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Solo Project, Arco, Madrid, 2007; and 10th Istanbul Biennal, IASPIS solo project, Istanbul, 2005. |
