Gunilla Klingberg @ Bonniers Konsthall

In spring 2009, Bonniers Konsthall presents a solo exhibition with Gunilla Klingberg, this year’s guest artist at Bonniers Konsthall. The exhibition will be the first major presentation of Klingberg’s work in Sweden. For the exhibition Klingberg has both created new works and re-developed older pieces in response to the space at the Konsthall - everything from sculptures and installations to wall paintings and projections.

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 covers 700 square metres of the Bonniers Konsthall’s glass façade, some ten different logotypes are interwoven into an entirely new design. The main gallery hosts Klingberg’s monumental installation Cosmic Matter. Composed of high scaffolding, tape and dreamcatchers, the work’s starting-point is the moon – both as a mythological symbol and as desirable booty for multinational companies.

Gunilla Klingberg is interested in contemporary consumer culture. Employing topical visual expressions, she juxtaposes consumerism with spirituality, low-budget design with Eastern imagery. By combining disparate features, she creates new meanings and new meetings between cultures, forms of expression and traditions.

By inviting a guest artist every year, Bonniers Konsthall enables the creation of new works. The artist is offered the opportunity to work on site in our guest studio and produce exhibitions exclusively for Bonniers Konsthall. Previous guest artists include Michael Beutler (2008), Monica Bonvicini (2007) and Gabriel Lester (2006).

Gunilla Klingberg
11 February - 12 April 2009

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