Coulisse Gallery, SE

For Market Art Fair 2026, Jonatan Pihlgren will present a continuation of his current body of work, an exploration of the home, transforming interiors into still lifes and memento mori of the everyday, turning domestic spaces into a psychological theatre where nostalgia is entangled with unease. Childhood, when reality and imagination are porous, is often recalled through a softened lens that edits experience into warm recollections, concealing its more troubling dimensions. Yet lived experience can be far stranger. A hallway light at night might shelter a lurking shadow, and the monsters under the bed might be both realand imagined.

Pihlgren captures this duality with interiors that contain tenderness and menace, beauty and distortion, intimacy and alienation. Guided by improvisation and emotional intuition, Pihlgren paints from life, documenting people close to him. Family, friends, and animals all become protagonists in these interior dramas.