Cecilia Hillström Gallery
Stockholm
Cecilia Hillström Gallery was founded in 2012 in the gallery district at Hudiksvallsgatan in Stockholm.
The gallery represents both well-established and emerging artists, who have been represented by the gallery throughout their careers. Having recently relocated to a larger space, Cecilia Hillström Gallery now presents parallel exhibitions at the gallery.
Gallery artists work in a variety of media; painting, photography, sculpture, video or interdisciplinary projects. A focus on the artistic process, strong contextual ambitions and inherent materiality are key components of the artists’ practice.
Featured artists
Linnea Rygaard
Known for her unmistakably painterly style and monumental expression, Linnea Rygaard gathers inspiration from architecture but also small details like ornaments or digital elements from a contemporary video game.
For Rygaard, the central perspective is key to the process of painting. In Rygaard's large-scale paintings, it contributes to an almost overwhelming experience. Breathtaking depth is put in contrast to roughly cutout symbols or shapes, lingering on the surface of the canvas. Rygaard uses an ambivalent scale in her paintings, playing with macro and micro perspectives, and highlighting the dissolution between various dimensions.
Linnea Rygaard (b. 1990) holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2016) and
attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, USA, in 2015. Rygaard received the Edstrand Foundation Scholarship in 2022. Public commissions include a sculptural installation in Jönköping, site-specific paintings for Stockholm City Council/Stockholm Konst in Rågsved, Uppsala Municipality, Gävle Municipality, and an
upcoming project of ceiling murals for Stockholm City Council/Stockholm Konst. Rygaard is represented in the collections of Uppsala Konstmuseum, Västerås Konstmuseum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Stockholm Konst, Region Uppsala, Region Dalarna, Region Gävleborg, Knivsta Municipality, Jönköping Municipality as well as several corporate and private collections.
Linnea Rygaard, 'Tele-X', (2023). Acrylics on canvas, 80 x 80 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Linnea Rygaard, 'You Only Live Twice', (2023). Acrylics on canvas, 140 x 280 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Linnea Rygaard, Studio Portrait. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Linnea Rygaard, Portrait of the artist. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Katja Larsson
Transformation sits at the core of Katja Larsson’s practice. Through skillful and tactile use of materials, her artworks speak of anachronistic object relationships, whether they describe the metamorphosis of a prehistoric fossil into the fuel of a modern-day combustion engine or how the hydrocarbon industry borrows virtue from the gods, heroes and symbols of the ancient world. Larsson’s work highlights the arch of mythology that bridges antiquity with the present day. She imbues modern-day things with classical beauty and creates contemporary relics of our time. Sculpture by sculpture, Larsson tells a compelling story about the textures of our world.
Katja Larsson (b. 1987) is a Swedish artist based in London. She graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art (MFA) in 2015 and received her BA in Fine Art Photography from The Glasgow School of Art with 1st Class Honours in 2013. The same year, she was selected for the Saatchi New Sensations award and exhibition at Victoria House, London.
Larsson has since exhibited at The Armory Show, Aicon Contemporary NYC, Abu Dhabi Art and India Art Fair, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, CHART Copenhagen, MARKET Art Fair, UCL Art Museum, National Sculpture Prize UK, OK Corral Copenhagen, Assembly Point, Chelsea Arts Club and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London. Museum shows include Shapeshifters, Malmö Konstmuseum and SNITTET, Borås Konstmuseum. Residencies include the EIB Institute’s residency and exhibition Representing the Anthropocene, 2017. She has received awards from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Arts Council England, Artquest and Royal Art Academy Sweden, among others. Larsson has produced permanent public works for Örebro Municipality and East Dunbartonshire in Scotland. She recently completed a public bronze sculpture for Uppsala Main Square.
Larsson is represented in the collections of Malmö Konstmuseum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Region Stockholm, Uppsala, Jönköping, Knivsta and Örebro Municipality, Soho House Stockholm, Boston Consulting Group, Ståhl Collection, Stockholm School of Economics, AxFast AB and European Investment Bank as well as private collections in the US, UAE, UK, Sweden and Denmark.
Katja Larsson, 'Trickster', (2022). Jesmonite, gold pigment, marble dust, plywood, 80 x 80 x 10 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and artist.
Katja Larsson, 'Torso II', (2023). Jesmonite, terracotta, mild steel, 80 x 60 x 36 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and artist.
Katja Larsson, Portrait of the artist. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
