May 13 to June 17, 2023 – Hudiksvallsgatan 8, 2nd floor – Open TuesdayโFriday 11โ18, Saturday 12โ16 and by appointment.
ABOUT the artist
Viktor Kopp (born 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden) holds an MFA from Malmรถ Art Academy (2000). Kopp has exhibited at Fullersta gรฅrd, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Malmรถ Art Museum, Ystad konstmuseum, Lunds konsthall, Turku Art Museum, Finland, Bureau, New York, Frieze New York, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland and Galerie Rolf Henegesbach, Wuppertal, Germany, to name a few. Viktor Kopp was awarded IASPIS New York Fellowship at ISCP in 2013, the Edstrand Foundation Scholarship in 2012 and the Ellen Trotzig Grant in 2001. He is represented in the collections of Malmรถ Art Museum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Region Skรฅne, Malmรถ Municipality and Lund Municipality as well as in private collections in Sweden and abroad. Public commissions include Botrygg, รvre Vasastaden, Linkรถping, Bardisanen, Lund and The Library of Tollarp. Marcus Matt (born 1992 in Dalkรถpinge, Sweden) holds an MFA from Malmรถ Art Academy (2017). He has also studied at Cooper Union, New York, USA (BFA). Matt has exhibited at Malmรถ konsthall, the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Gรคvle Art Center, Ravinen Kulturhus, Bรฅstad, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Galleri Arnstedt, รstra Karup, ANNAELLEGALLERY, Stockholm and Sรถlvesborgs Konsthall. This year, Marcus Matt received the Ellen Trotzig Grant 2023 from Malmรถ Art Museum. In addition, he was awarded The Swedish Arts Grants Committeeโs one-year working grant in 2022 and 2019, Eric and Inger Olson-Ekdahls grant in 2021 and the Bernadotte Scholarship in 2017. Matt is represented in the collections of Public Art Agency Sweden, Gรคvle Art Center, Region Skรฅne and Region Dalarna.
https://www.marcusmatt.com/
ABOUT the exhibition
Cecilia Hillstrรถm Gallery is pleased to introduce a duo exhibition with two artists not previously shown at the gallery, Viktor Kopp (b 1971) and Marcus Matt (b 1992). They are both alumni of Malmรถ Art Academy. As painters, Kopp and Matt are united in their exploration of painting as both a site and an object. In the exhibition, Mattโs small-scale paintings work as a backbone, creating a rhythm in the space. Koppโs works, being at times unconventional in shape, are expanding the exhibition as interventions in the gallery space. Viktor Kopp, who recently had a comprehensive solo show at Fullersta Gรฅrd, presents new and recent works. His painterly process involves an investigation of the concepts of โsiteโ and โobjectโ. Experimenting with horizontal and vertical installations and arranging paintings in groups allows Kopp to expand the image space into the exhibition room. The tension between the surface and the site of the image as well as the exhibition room is key. With an intuitive colour scheme and a treatment of the paint bordering on the impressionistic, he explores the paintingโs possibility of being both space and surface. Similarly, Marcus Matt is intrigued by the thought of the painting as an object, adding a wooden board on the backside to โliftโ the paintings off the wall. His small-scale works suggest a range of purposes, the portable format offering a widened possibility for experiencing the work. Mattโs content is intuitive and based on a personal experience of perceiving the world, of seeing. The paintings are created in one single flow โ the challenge is to capture the essence of the memory of his experience, rather than a specific motif. Where Viktor Koppโs focus lies more on the space within the painting, Marcus Mattโs interest is the flat canvas. They are, however, in a sense both focusing on the inner and outer image and how to create a mental space in which the viewerโs gaze can find rest.
ABOUT the gallery
Cecilia Hillstrรถm Gallery was founded in 2012 in the gallery district at Hudiksvallsgatan in Stockholm and is owned and managed by Cecilia Hillstrรถm. The gallery represents both well-established and emerging artists, who have been represented by the gallery throughout their careers. Having recently relocated to a larger space, Cecilia Hillstrรถm Gallery may now present parallel exhibitions.
Gallery artists work in a variety of media; painting, photography, sculpture, video or interdisciplinary projects. A focus on the artistic process, strong contextual ambitions and inherent materiality are key components of the artistsโ practice. Cecilia Hillstrรถm has successfully launched emerging Swedish artists. At the same time, it represents artists who over their careers have exhibited at prominent Nordic institutions such as Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Malmรถ Art Museum, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway, as well as at institutions such as Whitechapel Gallery, London, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Walker art Center, Minneapolis, PS1 and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
The gallery frequently arranges artist talks and seminars and co-produces artist books and other publications in connection with its exhibitions.
The gallery does not take responsibility for unsolicited artist submissions.
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