Transition I & II

TRANSITION förflyttningar / den rörliga människan / föränderliga mänskliga landskap
Movements / moving man / changing human landscape

Group exhibition at MEKENS Konsthall in Smedjebacken 18.3 – 23.4 2017

During the opeing, at 2 pm, I will be giving an Artist talk.

www.mekensmedjebacken.se

With:
KATE CARR
MAGDALENA DZIURLIKOWSKA
SHWAN DLER QARADAKI
JOHANNA HÄSTÖ
PERNILLA JANSSON
HENNY LINN KJELLBERG
HANNA NIELSEN
BJÖRN OLSSON
LENA STENBERG
MARIETA TONEVA
KNUTTE WESTER
THAMER AL ZAIDI
GABRIEL JONSSON
HÅLLAMS LINNEA HENRIKSSON

“Throughout our human history, we have been on the move, to feed our
animals, to find food, jobs and security. In order to survive, the need to
meet basic requirements. This may be something of the past for some.
For others it is the living and present. But how can these experiences be
portrayed? How do we put in words, give form to or express the human
displacement and migration? To travel across time and landscape, creating
relationships in new places, redrawing and reinterpreting the human map.”

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Stillbild III, Meken

TRANSITION was first shown at Leksands Kulturhus in October – November 2016, as part of the project Vägskäl.

Media from the exhibition at Leksands Kulturhus:

http://www.leksand.se/Uppleva-och-gora/Kultur1/Kulturhuset/Utstallningar/Utstallningar1/Vagskal-konstutstallning—Kulturmote/

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=161&artikel=6535309

http://www.dt.se/kultur/forflyttningar-som-binder-samman
http://www.dalademokraten.se/kultur/konst/vagskal-massa-i-rorelse

The installation “Stillbild” (“Still”) consist of a ruin of bricks and shards of earthenware tiles, with the main part of the piece placed on the ground but also a number of hanging, moving parts that captures a moment, a movement in time. Like a still from an explosion. The piece describes the notions of time, flight, refuge, our fundamental need of protection and the human search for safety but also the importance of remembrance. By illustrating the link between history and present time the piece aims to reflect both upon the conflict situation in today’s world and the general human condition throughout history.

Sponsors (material): Vittinge tegelbruk and Bältarbo tegelbruk (brick factories).

Stillbild II

Stillbild II, detail

Stillbild II, detail

April 25, 2017
* ARCHIVE: 2016-17 Transiton I &II | Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Att slå rot

Here are images from my last solo exhibition, Att slå rot, at Keramiskt Center in Höganäs, in the exhibition hall, February 20 – May 29 2016

For more info please visit http://keramiskt.ops.se/

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Det övergripande temat för utställningen Att slå rot är det mänskliga sökandet efter en trygg tillvaro och vikten av hågkommelse; länken mellan historia och samtid. I utställningshallen visas fyra installationer som alla på olika vis knyter an till den konfliktsituation som råder i världen idag och samtidigt återspeglar människans villkor genom historien.

Verket Archive består av en serie “travar” av porslinsark som sträcker sig från golv till tak och ger en känsla av att vistas i ett slags arkiv där arken representerar minnesdokumentation från en gången tid men samtidigt kan symbolisera byråkrati och långsamheten i politiska beslut.

Installationen Stillbild utgörs av en ruin av tegel och tegelskärvor, med huvuddelen av verket placerat på golvet men även med hängande rörliga delar som fångar ett ögonblick, en rörelse i tiden. Som en stillbild av en explosion. Verket beskriver begreppen hem, flykt, tid och av vårt fundamentala behov av skydd.

I verket Du står här öppnar sig en labyrint, en betraktelse över svårigheten i att få överblick och att finna vägen genom tillvaron. I Gräns/trakt beskrivs en fysisk gräns: en härva av taggtråd, varsamt utformad av tunna tvinnade järntrådar och porslinstaggar, berättar om övervakning och skydd men samtidigt om utestängning. Allt beror på vilken sida betraktaren befinner sig på.
Utställnings titel, Att slå rot, är hämtad dels från filosofen Simone Weils bok med samma titel, som beskriver den europeiska människans öde, och hur hon skall finna en väg till rotfäste i tillvaron, dels ur TS Eliots dikt Det öde landet från 1922. Båda dessa verk är skrivna under mellankrigstid/andra världskriget och beskriver på ett kusligt igenkännbart sätt människans villkor i en brinnande värld och maktens mekanismer.

Ur The Waste Land i översätting av Karin Boye:

Vad kan slå rot, och vilka grenar växer
ur grus och bråte? Du människobarn,
vad vill du svara eller gissa-allt du känner
är bilder, splittrade under solens tyngd,
där döda träd ej skänker någon skugga, syrsan ingen lättnad
och torra stenen inget sorl av vatten. Blott här,
här finns det skugga under den röda klippan,
(kom hit i skuggan av den röda klippan),
så skall jag visa dig något annat
än skuggan, som kliver bakom dig om morgonen,
och skuggar. som växer för att möta dig om kvällen;
jag skall visa dig ångest i en handfull stoft.

Utställningen sponsras med material från Vittinge Tegelbruk, Uppsala.

“Archive”, porcelain, wire. Photo: Titti G. Persson

“Stillbild”, earthenware, brick, roof tiles

Detail from “Stillbild”. Photo: Titti G. Persson

“Du står här II”, black stoneware

Detail from “Gräns / trakt”, porcelain, iron wire. Photo: Titti G. Persson

Ur The Waste Land i översätting av Karin Boye:

Utställningen sponsras med material från Vittinge Tegelbruk, Uppsala.

October 12, 2016
* ARCHIVE: 2016 - Att slå rot | Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Figurante

“Figurante”, porcelain, wood. Detail.

The fall of 2015 I participated in Uppsala municipality’s art project “Inside out”, where 8 artists made works using Andreas Vesalius’ anatomical illustrations from 1514 as starting point. The pieces were presented on big screens in Odinslund for three months starting September 12th. My piece could also be seen at Uppsala Art Museum during the same period of time. It is now a part of Uppsala Kommuns permanent art collection.

The piece ”Figurante” uses the historical settings of the anatomical theatre and the dissections of Vesalius’ time as a starting point for a discussion about the connection between body and landscape, or rather cityscape. The dissections seem to have been carried out as plays, the audience being figurants in dark dramas.

White porcelain shards on a dark matt red brown surface describe both a female figure with scarred arms and at the same time a city map, drawing parallell between body and landscape and the vulnerability of the human body, especially women and girls, in today’s society and public space.

(Figurante: a female performer with no spoken lines.)

Work in progress

January 15, 2016
* ARCHIVE: 2015 - Figurante | Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Solo / Duo

SOLO / DUO, a solo exhibition at Galleri 1, Uppsala, April 25 – May 10 2015

These are the pieces presented:

“Du står här” stengods / stoneware

“Utan titel”, porslin och ljud / porcelain and sound

“Solo / Duo”, stengods / stoneware

Rescension av utställningen på konsten.net av Marit Jonsson (Swedish only): http://konsten.net/junkkonen-och-kjellberg-i-uppsala/samt i Uppsala Nya Tidning av Sebastian Johans: http://www.unt.se/kultur-noje/konst/kjellberg-briljerar-pa-galleri-1-3716997.aspx

August 14, 2015
* ARCHIVE: 2015 - Solo / Duo | Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Passage – Rånäs slott

July 4th – August 9th I presented an outdoor installation at “Magiska Rum”, a summer exhibition at Rånäs Castle Park, Norrtälje.

“Passage”, detail. Stoneware, wood, hemp rope.

“Passage”, stoneware, wood, hemp rope.

“Passage”, stoneware, wood, hemp rope. Installation overview.

August 14, 2015
* ARCHIVE: 2015 - Passage | Land art Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Ohana – Musca Infernalis

May – September 2014 this piece was featured in the exhibiton “Ohana” in Uppsala Botanical Garden.

The work is called Musca Infernalis and consist of more than one hundred large scale flies, made from stoneware. The piece is a comment on invasive species and the fear of the unknown and “ugly”.

Workshops, kurser och föreläsningar:

Jag har kurser i min verkstad både för vuxna och barn. De flesta kurserna hålls i samarbete med Studiefrämjandet. För mer information se www.studieframjandet.se/uppsala. Vissa vuxenkurser sker i egen regi. Ring eller maila gärna för mer information.

September 6, 2014
* ARCHIVE: 2014 - Ohana | Land art Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Critical Mass

In mid-April 2013 I installed the piece “Critical Mass” at ROCHESTER ART CENTER, Minnesota, USA. For more info visit: http://www.rochesterartcenter.org. The installation was on display until August 2014.

: Photo: Naura Webb

Wells Fargo Atrium Series
HENNY LINN KJELLBERG: CRITICAL MASS
April 26, 2013 – August, 2014

Known for her cutting-edge ceramic swork, Swedish artist Henny Linn Kjellberg has created an original, site-specific installation called Critical Mass that considers dual interpretations of this frequently used term. As described by Kjellberg: “Critical mass is most often used within nuclear science to describe the smallest amount of fissile material for a sustained nuclear chain reaction. It is also used as a socio-dynamic term to describe the existence of sufficient momentum in a social system, such that the momentum becomes self-sustaining and creates further growth. Critical Mass will reflect on the idea of the growth of human knowledge and the force of the group dynamic such as political movements and uprisings, and how actions and events sometimes can grow fast, or out of control, with either positive or negative outcomes.”
Critical Mass is made of more than 1,500 thin, paper-like white porcelain sheets that hang and seem to float from the RAC Atrium’s 50-foot ceiling in a dense cluster. On each sheet is black underglazed text from the 1651 political-philosophical book Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.

The Wells Fargo Atrium Series is made possible through funding by Wells Fargo. Support for this exhibition provided by The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, The Windgate Charitable Foundation, and Judy & Robert Douglas, in Honor of Ed & Virginia McKevitt.

40 Civic Center Drive SE | Rochester, MN 55904 | 507-282-8629 | www.rochesterartcenter.org

Here are some images of the finished piece and from the installation process. All photos by the artist if not specified.

: Photo: Naura Webb

: View from below. Photo: Naura Webb

: Top view. Photo: Naura Webb

: Detail, afternoon sun

: Detail, evening sun.

: Placing the porcelain sheets. Photo: Naura Webb.

: Unpacking. Photo: Naura Webb

: Hanging process. Photo: Naura Webb

: Lowering down each strand. Photo: Naura Webb

: Halfway done.

September 6, 2014
* ARCHIVE: 2013/14 - Critical Mass | Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Rågång – Ricklundgården

During the month of April I have been a resident artist at Ricklundgården in Saxnäs, southern Lappland. I’ve been making the piece “Rågång”, which has been on display there until the end of summer 2014. The installation, made from porcelain and wood, is based on one hundred year old maps over the local area and the name Rågång refers to the the markings that through time have been used to show ownership of land, marking territory. For further info: www.ricklundgarden.com

September 6, 2014
* ARCHIVE: 2014 - Rågång | Land art Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Enter/Exit and Re-growth – JAPAN

July 16 – August 25 2013 I was showing with the Swedish artist group Art Miners at Independants Yokohama 3rd, Yokohama and at Asahimashi Museum at Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.

My pieces were installed in the Japanese garden at the home/museum of the writer Ango.

Re-growth: earthenware, detail

Enter/Exit: bamboo, hemp rope

September 17, 2013
* ARCHIVE: 2013 - Enter/Exit and Re-growth - JAPAN Uncategorized | Land art Sculpture & Installation | Comment

Min mamma är en import – Gottsunda Dans & Teater

Stage design for the dance performance “MIN MAMMA ÄR EN IMPORT” at Gottsunda Dans & Teater, Uppsala. Shown between March 8-23 2013. For more info please visit http://www.gottsundateater.com/

The stage design is made of 10.000 small porcelain pieces, hanging in pilar shapes and placed on the floor.

KOREOGRAFI Lotta Gahrton
MUSIK Lars B Almkvist och Rikard Borggård
DANS Lotta Gahrton & Melody Sheikh
LJUSDESIGN Thijs Wiessing
SCENBILD Henny Linn Kjellberg
KOSTYM Helena Sjöstedt

FOTO: Kerstin Helsing