Ylva Carlgren Swedish, b. 1984

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Ylva Carlgren works with non-figurative watercolor painting. The work is experimental and systematic. Through a meticulous and controlled layering technique, fields of color are gradually charged with light, manipulating the perceptual field. The work is an exploration of the limitations of her medium. It is a process of perfection where the artist's practice becomes and end in and of itself. Relinquishing any and all mimetic pretension, Carlgren creates a reduced visual language characterized by presence and stillness.
 
Ylva Carlgren was born in 1984 in Luleå. She currently lives and works in Stockholm. She is the recipient of grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation. Carlgren is represented by Gallery Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm, where she had three solo exhibitions. She was featured at Market Art Fair, Stockholm and Chart Copenhagen. Recently, she has been exhibited in Paris and Tokyo. Galerie Leu will present her first solo exhibition in Germany in 2023.
 
"An entity reduced to units, arranged through disintegration, considered in detail; among the fundamental material constituents, grasping for something unintelligible, snatching at the finely divided. In pursuit of borderlines, trying to transgress a boundary by dissolving it. The inherent difficulty of delimiting the transitory - in studying a state of temporary becoming. Arranged examples, vertical exclamations and spaces, varying degrees of ambiguity. To perceive something in the difference between this and that - and losing focus again. A unit divorced from entity, an ongoing separation, a recurring issue. A halting question, incomplete conclusions regarding the undefined." - Ylva Carlgren
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Ylva Carlgren

Born 1984, Luleå, Sweden
Based in Stockholm

 

EDUCATION

2010-2012: MFA, Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg
2009: Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2007-2010: BFA, Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg

 

SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2024           

Space of Time Gallery, Beijing
Nothing But, Tom Reichstein Galerie, Hamburg
Repititions and Reversals, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
Light Compositions, Koki Arts, Tokyo
Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden

2023            

Accelerating Frame, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm
Light Implies Shadows, Galerie Leu, Munich
3:e Våningen, Göteborg

2022           

Gradience, duo show with Charlotte Walentin, Rackstadmuseet, Arvika
2021           

The Elsewhere Condition, Norrtälje Konsthall
2020          

From a Material Point of View, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2018           

300 Layers, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2017           

In light of absence, Market art fair, Färgfabriken, Stockholm
2016           

Ellipsis, duo show with Tomas Lundgren, Galleri Box, Göteborg
2016           

The Shadows' Call, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2014           

Self-destruct, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2012           

Eau de Satin, Galleri Rotor, Göteborg

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024         

Various Perceptions - Mixed Media, Galerie Leu, Munich

 Glass Tableware in Still Life, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Glass Tableware in Still Life - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Glass Tableware in Still Life. Group show at The Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto

2023         

WInter Show - Full House, Galerie Leu, Munich

Glass Tableware in Still Life, The Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

Our Winter Show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
Utopia Now, See Galerie, Paris
2022         

Unfolding image, Swedish Embassy Tokyo, Japan

Our Winter Show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
ESPACE, 236 rue saint Martin, Paris, France
2021         

Market Art Fair, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
Unfolding image, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
Chart Art Fair, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
Glass Tableware in Still Life, Olle Nymans ateljéer, Saltsjö-Duvnäs
2020          

Repetitions, Loko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Photons, from the sky to the sea. Galeria e Bregdetit, Vlorë, Albania
Chart Art Fair, Stockholm
2019           

The family show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2018           

Our winter show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2017            

Autumn Sweater, Alma, Stockholm
2016           

Our winter show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm

2016           

GIFC, Galerie Agnès B, Paris, David Risley Gallery Copenhagen
2016           

Market projects, Market art fair, Stockholm
2016           

Vårutställning, Galleri Thomassen, Göteborg
2016           

Fade to Grey, Liljevalchs Hubb, Stockholm
2015           

Our winter show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2015           

Artists for refugees, Södra teatern, Stockholm
2013           

GSB 5 years, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2012           

Anna-Lisa Thomson till minne, Uppsala konstmuseum
Our Winter Show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
Bomp Bomp. Chik, Chik-a-Chika, Göteborgs Konsthall
Painting for real, Östergötlands Länsmuseum
2011            

Boxennial, Galleri Box, Göteborg
2011            

Virginia Howells, San Francisco, CA
2010          

Our Winter Show, Galleri Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
Momentum Design, Momentum konsthall, Moss, Norway
Zwölf, Kandidatutställning, Konsthögskolan Valand, Göteborg
Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm
2009          

Drawing so far, Teckningsmuseet Laholm
2008 

Ya, Priroda, First Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow

 

GRANTS

2021            Exhibition grant, Royal Academy of Art, Sweden
2019            Two year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2018            IASPIS Residency, Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT) Tokyo
2017             Travel grant, Royal Academy of Art, Sweden
2016            One year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2015            Helge Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse
2012            Anna-Lisa Thomson till minne
2012            Stiftelsen Eric Ericsson
2012            Eva & Hugo Bergmans minnesfond
2011             Marta, Wivi och Åke Liljesons stiftelse
2009           Travel grant, Arnulfska stipendiefonden

 

 

 

 

 

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