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Red to Grey, 2018
Oil on canvas
175 x 160 cm
Cabinet Painting II, 2018
Oil on board, brass piano hinges
20 x 40 cm
Fredrik Brånstad constructs architectural spaces in his paintings, made up of references, art historical as well as contemporary, blended into new pictures. His works depict reduced surfaces that build up these architectural conditions. Brånstad’s image world resides at the boundary between security and vulnerability where the public space becomes the carrier of the subjective experience. Stating a certain mood.
Through his craft, he creates an expression where personal presence in the paintings is an important carrier of the content. He puts great effort in finding the point where the formal and the content support each other, how to treat the color, which approach to have to material and format. And also, how the relationship between painting, room and viewer appears.
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Fredrik Brånstad Born 1973, lives and works in Stockholm and in Björkvik, Sweden
Education
Master, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 1997-2002
Pernby målarskola, Stockholm, 1995-1997
Bachelor, Art science, Stockholm University, 1994-1995 and 2021
Konstskolan i Stockholm, Stockholm, 1993-1994
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Engrained, Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm
2023 Divergence, Galleri PS, Göteborg
2018 Cabinet paintings, SPGallery, Stockholm
2017 No titel, Gällivare konstmuseum, Gällivare
2016 Inspräng, Galleri 1, Göteborg
2014 Dark adaptation, SPGallery, Stockholm
2013 Målningar, Galleri 1, Göteborg
2012 Passways, Gallerie aux 4 vents, S:t Julien le montagner, Frankrike
2011 Circuit ride, SPGallery, Stockholm
2010 Cave, Galleri 1, Göteborg
2010 Passways, Konsthallen Hishult, Hishult
2008 Clandestine public, SPGallery, Stockholm
2007 Passager, Galleri Odvalds, Gotland
2007 Månskenssonaten, Formverk, Nyköping
2002 Avgångsutställning, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
Group Exhibitions
2020 Ronneby lullaby, short film, Tempo filmfestival
2018 Ett långt farväl, Galleri 1, Göteborg
2012 Ilusion futile, with Juri Markkula och Ulrik Samuelsson, Konsthallen Hishult
2012 SAK vinstutställning, Sven Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm
2011 Market, SPG, Stockholm
2010 Market, SPG, Stockholm
2010 Art Copenhagen, SPG, Köpenhamn
2010 Akademiens stipendieutställning, Stockholm
2010 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs, Stockholm
2009 Art Copenhagen, SPG, Köpenhamn
2008 Arvet, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2004 Ronneby Konsthall
2003 AuctionWork, Biblioteksgatan, Stockholm
2002 M3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
Collections
Stockholms stad
Göteborgs stad
Region Västra Götaland
Statens konstråd
Gotlands kommun
Uppsala kommun
Kungälvs kommun
Private collections
Grants
2024 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
2020 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
2019 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
2016 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
2015 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
2011 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
2011 Jenny Linds fond, Konstakademien
2010 Jenny Linds fond, Konstakademien
2003 Stockholm stads konstnärsstipendium
2002 Konstakademien