Petra Lindholm, FI

Petra Lindholm works with different techniques and moves freely between the digital, two-dimensional and the analogue, tactile. She alternates between textile works, sound and moving images.

Petra Lindholm’s assemblages can initially be perceived as paintings, but are in fact made of textiles. She uses thin fabrics in different colours, applied in several layers with glue on panels. Lindholm strives for an existence where she embraces the random and the spontaneity that arises in the process.

The images grow organically as she adds new layers and physically processes the surfaces with her hand and knife. In the new work for Market Extended, she has worked with a landscape motif, but she has also given the abstract and physical qualities more free rein.

Petra Lindholm (b. 1973 in Karis, Finland) lives and works outside Älmhult in Småland, Sweden. She studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden (1996–2001), and has exhibited at galleries and museums in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, and the USA.

She is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Malmö Konstmuseum; Borås Konstmuseum; Västerås Konstmuseum; EMMA, Esbo; Pro Artibus; and Kiasma, Helsinki. In 2001, she received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin scholarship. In 2006, she was awarded third prize at the Carnegie Art Award, and in 2018, she received Axel Theodor Sandberg’s prize from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

In recent years, she has completed a number of public commissions, working with site-specific installations and sculpture.