Belenius

Stockholm

About the gallery

Established in 2006, Belenius is a contemporary art gallery based in Stockholm.

From the outset the key objective has been to form an intergenerational program supporting emerging as well as more established artists of all media including sound, film, mixed media, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. The artwork whilst diverse in presentation is linked by the artists´ commitment to continuously reassess the position of artistic practices within their wider cultural, social and political frameworks. The program includes solo and thematic exhibitions as well as guest-curated projects. Over the last sixteen years the gallery has developed into a vibrant location for performances and exhibitions in different forms.

Featured artists

Isabella Ducrot (IT)

Laleh Kazemi Veisari (SE)

Introduction

Isabella Ducrot

Isabella Ducrot was born 1931 in Naples, Italy, she lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Isabella Ducrot is known for her devoted use of woven cloth as the founding material of her artistic practice. Only beginning her artistic career later in life, the Italian artist has assembled a sublime collection of antique textiles through her extensive travels through Asia, originating primarily from Turkey, India, China, Tibet and Afghanistan.

Isabella Ducrot's recent solo shows include Art Basel Unlimited with Galerie Gisela Capitain and Standard (2022) Standard Oslo (2022) San Giuseppe alle Scalze a Pontecorvo, Napoli (2021); Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2021); Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva (2020); Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2019); and Spazio Parlato, Palermo (2018). In 2014 Ducrot had a major exhibition at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome and in 1993 and 2011 she showed her work at the Venice Biennale. Isabella Ducrot is also the author of numerous publications, including Women's Life, 2021; La stoffa a quadri (also translated and published in English as The Checkered Cloth), 2019; Suonno. Il sonno e il sogno nella canzone napoletana, 2012; Fallaste Corazón, 2012; Pensiero religioso ed elettricità, 2011; La Matassa Primordale, 2008; and Bianca di Pelle, 1995.

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Installation image Isabella Ducrot at Belenius, 2022. Image courtesy of Belenius and the artist.

Isabella Ducrot, 'Yellow Repetition', (2009). Signed Pigments and collage of paper and textile 140 x 71 cm. Image courtesy of Belenius and the artist.

Isabella Ducrot, 'Tendernesses', (2021). Signed Pigments, paper and pencil on Gampi paper. 139 x 87 cm. Image courtesy of Belenius and the artist.

Introduction

Laleh Kazemi Veisari

Laleh Kazemi Veisari's (b. 1983 in Stockholm) interdisciplinary practice embraces drawing, painting, sculpture and writing, and engages in collaborative processes, researching the social and the environmental imaginary. Within these frames of reflection and study her installations develop and entangle questions of displacement and memory.

Among her solo exhibitions are Belenius, Bror Hjorths Hus, Uppsala, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, and Oktogonen, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg. She is the recipient of the 2018 Bror Hjorth Drawing Grant (Bror Hjorthföreningens stipendium för unga tecknare), the 2019 Bernadotte Grant, and only recently announced as the 2022 grant holder of the Beckers Art Award (Beckers Konstnärsstipendium). Laleh Kazemi Veisari holds an MFA in Fine Arts (2019) from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.