Artist Gallery

Södra Skolgatan 43c (4tr), S-214 22 Malmö
phone: 0046 40 12 88 64
mobile: 070- 364 55 77
mats.eriksson@brevet.nu


Born 1967, Malmö, Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö


education:

1992 - 98 Malmö Art Academy, Sweden
1995 - 96 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland


solo exhibitions :

2003 Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm ( april 2003 ) )
2003 Båstadgatan, Malmö ( march 2003 )
1999 Galleri Ping Pong, Malmö
1996 Assembly Room Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland


selected group exhibitions :

2002 Schaper Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm
2001 "Kvinnor och män konverserar", Konstfrämjandet, Malmö
2001 "Skånska fotografer", Malmö Museum, Malmö
2001 BoOI, Havslunden, Malmö, with galleri Ping Pong
2001 "Ping Pong artkit", Galleri Ping Pong, Malmö
2000 Roll On Multipelshop II, "www.rollon.net"
1998 Start.98, Stockholm - students from the five Art Academies in Sweden
1998 "Urban angst", Malmö - project with Mark Kremer and Berendt Strik
1997 "Anlagd", Pildammsparken, Malmö,
1997 Wanås - students from Malmö Art Academy
1996 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö - students from Malmö Art Academy
1994 Galleri Index, Stockholm - students from the five Art Academies in Sweden


grants :

2002 Arbetsstipendium, Konstnärsnämnden
2002 Nifca ateljéstipendium
2002 Helge Ax:son Johnsson stiftelse
1999 Nifca Sleipner resestipendium
1999 Molly & Ragnar Rudemars fond
1998 Helge Ax:son Johnsson stiftelse
1992 Nordiska ministerrådet


represented :
Statens Konstråd

Text about my work :

Winning a battle, loosing the war
is a photographic project I´m working on that´s about the lost of the
welfare state Sweden. I want to document the change that Sweden
is / has been undergoing for a some years.

Former hospitals and other institutions is being sold out to the
free market. It´s a huge scandal but also a giant identity crise
that affect the people in sweden deeply.
In that sense Sweden share issues with other socialist countries
that have been moving away from the former socialist - communist
agenda during the last 10 to 15 years.
No longer is the public healthcare to be taken for granted, and maybe
we have been too spoiled with the good circumstances we´ve been
living under.

I recently started photograph buildings who´ve been through a change
and become something new, the former hospital in Malmö ( VÄS ) that
now have became a student home, the house that former socialist
newspaper Arbetet used to be located in is now the home for printing
comercial advertising mail and also the new morningpaper Metro.
Many of these photographs shows empty useless rooms where everything has been removed and nothing new have yet arrived. In these photographs there is a solitude and in the use of colour a way of expressing that is close to a modernist painting tradition. In a way it deals with a modernity ( innocense?) that is since long lost and the silence, emptiness that follows after that.

I exhibited five of these photographs in Stockholm earlier this year at the gallery Schaper Sundberg.

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