Gallery Steinsland Berliner
Stockholm
About the gallery
Gallery Steinsland Berliner was established in 2008 by Jeanette Steinsland and Jacob Kampp Berliner.
Gallery Steinsland Berliner is a contemporary art gallery based in Stockholm since 2008. The gallery is built on communal effort and a desire to premiere integrity and inspiration. With foundational ties to all Scandinavian countries, the gallery represents a core group of emerging and established artists with international appeal on a long-term basis.
Featured artists
Fredrik Åkum (SE)
Introduction
Fredrik Åkum
Fredrik Åkum (b. 1987) lives and works in Gothenburg. He holds an MFA from Valand Academy (Gothenburg, SE). Fredrik Åkum is a skilled and experienced painter with an oeuvre displaying dedicated efforts to remove himself and his paintings from a place of comfortable comprehension and expected results. A yearning to be surprised by his own work, to truly experience a work of art as an independent observer has caused Åkum to develop a complex methodological system which assures a certain margin of error for an otherwise precise artist.
An appreciation of printing techniques and a fascination of the inherent conclusiveness of the replicated image is central to his art. Åkum will repeatedly copy his own work, an arduous and lengthy process which gradually takes him further away from the primary painting. He likens this process to the natural glitches and inaccuracies that occur when printing by hand, a sequence of intended copies will rarely turn out identical. His abstract compositions are created by awkwardly crouching on the floor, effectively hindering not only movement but also obstructing a clear view of the canvas. Paint is thinned out with various mediums, making it difficult to control and prone to spontaneous seeping and trickling. It is within these restrictive circumstances that Åkum can experience the suspense of not fully being able to foresee the end result

Bondegatan 70
116 33 Stockholm