The Postcard Exhibition
67 artists reflect on time, care, and the simple act of a postcard at Saskia Neuman Gallery.
Once a simple way to send a thought or a glimpse from a journey, the postcard carried both message and time. Today, the act of buying, writing, sending, and waiting feels like a small, thoughtful gesture. This deliberate practice is at the heart of The Postcard Exhibition, opening this week at Saskia Neuman Gallery.
Using the postcard’s standard format, 10.5 x 14.8 centimetres, as its starting point, the exhibition brings together 67 artists and more than 100 works, making it the largest show in Saskia Neuman Gallery’s three-year history. Featuring artists such as Jens Fänge, Karin Mamma Andersson, Tal R, and Jordan Wolfson, alongside a wide range of Swedish and international artists, working across diverse mediums and artistic styles. Even if the works are small in scale, collectively they span a wide range of approaches and ideas, reflecting different perspectives on the postcard as an object and a concept.
The postcard format raises questions about time, care, digitalisation, and the shifting symbolism and context of the postcard. It moves between mass production and intimacy, between souvenir and visual communication, carrying a quiet paradox: personal yet universal, fleeting yet enduring. In today’s digital age, the postcard feels almost radical in its simplicity – a physical image that requires an address, a hand to write it, and the patience to wait. It reminds us of the slowness of images and the significance of human gestures, creating a subtle dialogue between sender, object, and viewer.
The wide range of artistic practices in the exhibition presents diverse perspectives, and offers a chance to discover new artists – making it a perfect stop during Gallery Weekend. And perhaps afterwards, you might write a loved one a line or two about what you saw this weekend?
Saskia Neuman Gallery
The Postcard Exhibition, 6 November– 19 December
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Featured artists include: Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Jakob Solgren Nordenskiöld, Niklas Delin, Josef Jägnefält, Pia Ferm, Dimen Hama Abdulla, Nadine Byrne, Edit Sihlberg, Sofie Josefsson, Jonas Lipps, Harry Anderson, Mark Dion, Kasper Nordenström, Emma Jönsson, Hans Olof Abrahamsson, Erik Jeor, Geraldine Swayne, Lily Hargreaves, Gavin Gleeson, Tobias Bradford, Fredrik Söderberg, Christine Ödlund, Jens Fänge, Karin Mamma Andersson, Jim Thorell, Sanya Kantarovsky, Tal R, Andreas Eriksson, Gina Hejdebäck, Simon Fujiwara, Paul Fägerskiöld, Eric Magassa, Katarina Löfström, Jordan Wolfson, Jill Tate, Monika Chlebek, Jason Bailer Losh, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Jonas Nobel, Tobias Rehberger, Amy Simon, Ira Shalit, Julieta Aranda, Lydia Ericsson Wärn, Jenny Källman, Lisa Tan, Meta Isaeus Berlin, Inez Jönsson, Dan Wolgers, LG Lundberg, Sigrid Sandström, Sophie Tottie, Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Inaki Bonillas, Min Ha Park, Haim Steinbach, Polly Apfelbaum, Giulio Bonfante, Seana Gavin, Przemek Pischeck, Ruth Patir, Lyn Liu, Matti Hoffner, Yael Bartana, Hans Berg & Nathalie Djurberg, Kayo Mpoyi.