Galleri Magnus Karlsson
Stockholm
Galleri Magnus Karlsson was founded in 1990. The gallery is located in the building of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
The gallery focuses on long-term representations of Swedish artists. Galleri Magnus Karlsson functions as a platform with public exhibitions, talks and events, and collaborates with fellow galleries and institutions both in Sweden and internationally. Galleri Magnus Karlsson will present a solo exhibition with Swedish artist and painter Ebba Svensson (born 1997) at Market Art Fair 2024. She graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in 2023, and this will be her first solo presentation with the gallery. Ebba Svensson will present a series of new paintings made especially for the fair.
Featured artists
Ebba Svensson
Ebba Svensson’s paintings are based upon experiences of nature and landscapes but open up to a mysterious and abstract world with an ambivalence to what is depicted. In the works, there is a visual struggle between what happens on the surface and in the depth of the image. The gardens and parks depicted in her works are reminiscent of post-impressionist painting from the early 20th century, but with a distinct relation to the present, where the lush greenery turns into suffocating sweetness and in the thicket of the shrubs rests a certain mystique.
The large scale paintings have a vibrant surface. The detailed brush strokes combined with vast, blurry colour fields, build the images almost like a noise or a flicker. Using painting as a tool, I try to create a place where fiction merges with reality. –Ebba Svensson
Ebba Svensson (Sweden, b. 1997) lives and works in Stockholm. She studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2018–2023).
Ebba Svensson, 'Mutation' (2023). Oil, 190 x 180 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Ebba Svensson, 'Rodnad' (2023). Oil, 200 x 190 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Ebba Svensson, 'Scilla' (2023). Oil, 180 x 130 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Ebba Svensson, 'Scilla' (2023). Oil, 200 x 190 cm. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
Ebba Svensson, Portrait of the artist. Courtesy of the gallery and the artist.
