Kristoffer Zetterstrand

2010-02-07

BTJ

Posted in Media

2010-02-04

Artist talk

Artist talk at Gallery Charlotte lund
Saturday February 6th, 16.00 – 17.00
Jason Middlebrook speaks about his ongoing exhibition with the artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand. Moderator: Dragana Vujanovic.

Jason Middlebrook
”With The Grain”
4 februari, 2010 – 20 mars, 2010

Posted in Events

2010-01-23

SAK 2010 Art Lottery

‘Match’ @ the SAK 2010 art lottery
Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, SAK

Posted in Events

2009-12-10

Shithead and Garbage Man

Participating with a work for the Burn Barrel @
Sara Meltzer Gallery
Friday, December 11, 2009, 6-8pm
525-531 West 26th Street, New York

Posted in Events, Exhibitions, Group shows

2009-12-06

Commission: Lillhagsbadet

Proposed tile design for Lillhagsbadet, Gävle.
Animated 3D visualization sketch in HQ here.

Posted in Commissions

2009-11-28

It's Nice That

Virtual artifacts noticed @
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2277-things

Posted in Media, Publications

2009-11-04

Labyrint 09

Labyrint 09- Writings and observations.
Botkyrka Konsthall. 7 Nov-13 Mar 2010.
Participating with the book Virtual Artifacts.

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows, Publications

2009-11-03

Open Critic

Open Critic / Öppen kritik. Liljevalchs konsthall, Wed 4 Nov. 18:30

Dali Dali med Francesco Vezzoli, Caspar David Friedrich, Kristina Jansson, Kristoffer Zetterstrand

Posted in Events, Media

2009-10-22

Scenes from the void

Kristoffer Zetterstrand. Solo show. October 23 – November 21
ALP/Peter Bergman, Torsgatan 41, Stockholm.
Press release [swe]
Press images

Posted in Exhibitions, Solo shows

2009-10-21

Book release – Virtual Artifacts

“Virtual Artifacs”, featuring selected works 2002-2009.
Text by Håkan Nilsson
Available at Biondi Books. ISBN:978-91-974422-5-1

Posted in Media, Publications

2009-10-13

Artlover

Article/interview featured in Artlover, issue 2, 2009
Read [swe]

Posted in Media

2009-09-11

Art Copenhagen 2009

Participating at Art Copenhagen – The nordic art fair
18 – 20 September 2009
Stand 39, ALP/Peter Bergman

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows

2009-08-18

Library bus opening

Photos of the finished work published here

Thursday 27 august 13:00-14:30
Poseidons Torg, Haninge
Map | Info

Posted in Commissions

2009-07-09

18 konstnärer, Galleri Mårtenson & Persson
Påarpsvägen 444, Båstad
7 July-19 July
Jan Edlund – Carl Fredrik Ekström – Kerro Holmberg – Stefan Johansson – Lone Larsen – Niclas Malmström – Daniel Millton – Frida Oliv – Jet-te Ranning – Mari Rantanen – Alexandra Skarp – Michael Schleu – Katarina Sundkvist Zohari – Anna Svensson – Il Wiberg – Kristoffer Zetterstrand – Pernilla Zetterman – Sofia Änghede.

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows

2009-06-11

Cut my legs off and call me shorty!

Opening June 17th 17:00-21:00
Exhibition period: June 17th – September 19th 2009

Tensta Konsthall

Cut my legs off and call me shorty! is an exhibition that explores elements of humour and surprise. The thirteen Swedish based artists included work with ideas and ways of making that force us to look and look again. We may think we have understood an image but when we allow ourselves a closer examination there are unexpected twists, shocking details, hidden pratfalls, double and triple meanings. There are 5 artists showing in the main hall who work with photography, painting and illustration: Susanna Hesselberg, Ulf Lundin, Emma Rendel, Ulla West & Kristoffer Zetterstrand. The second part of the exhibition is a selection of Swedish video art curated by Gunnel Pettersson in association with Film Form and includes works from 1962 – 2009 and includes: Henrik Andersson, Reuben Henry, Tove Kjellmark, Karin Kihlberg, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Malin Skjöld, Per Teljer, Christine Ödlund. We have taken the following quote by American writer E.B. White as good advice for the show. “Analyzing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it”.

Exhibition webpage
Exhibition Catalogue [PDF, 4Mb]
Press images, Zetterstrand

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows

2009-05-06

Rescene – Haninge konsthall

Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Solo show
Poseidons torg 8, Haninge centrum [map]
16 may – 29 aug 2009

opening may 16th 12-16

Exhibition webpage
Press release [SWE]
Text by PO Hagström [SWE]
Card [PDF]

A translated extract from PO Hagströms’ text:
Rescene: Kristoffer Zetterstrand at Haninge konsthall

Background
Kristoffer Zetterstrand was born in 1973, and graduated from the Royal University College of Fine Art in 2001. Since then, he has become well known for his visual art, where motifs from various epochs blend together, and where the investigative and the narrative are central parts.
Looking at Zetterstrands’ art, we often find ourselves in the middle of a story, as if we have stepped into the darkness of a cinema theater in the middle of the film. The brain starts to work, how does the different parts relate to each other? What does the deployed objects mean, and what relations are there between the main characters? We recognice the different parts: ruins, mountains, figures from renaissance and computer games, Plato’s cave and the enlighting or consuming fire – but there is also something askew in the images. We discover that the stories we have read into Zetterstrand’s motifs are like the enthusiastic but inadequate efforts of a conspiracy theorist, trying to make things make sense. It’s all connected, but something is not right. And it is that gap that keep us engaged.

The exhibition Rescene
The title of the exhibition is a play with words. It originates from reusal, or re-seeing, or perhaps a scene being brought back into use. And accordingly, the exhibition is also a recap of the paintings of the last few years, where Zetterstrand’s method of constructing different environments, like a scenoghrapher, is a recurring theme. To do this, he uses the computer as his scetching tool.
By three-dimensionally building the scenery, he can turn the image around and see it from all directions. He can also move around, remove and place different pictorial elements and then light the motif in different ways to see how the shadows move. After this, the painting can begin. Zetterstrand describes the painting as the part of the work process where he, with his own words, can allow himself to improvise upon the themes he worked out in the computer. This, therefore, is the most important part of the work, where the ideas are physically tested, as the brush meets the canvas.

Posted in Exhibitions, Solo shows

2009-03-30

Commission: Library bus

Design for Haninge Kommun library bus
Animated 3d visualization scetch here: bokbuss

Posted in Commissions

2009-02-20

Pedagogiska Magasinet

Theme artist for issue 1/2009, “Gränslösa mötesplatser”
Text in swedish here
The complete issue here

Posted in Media

2009-02-11

Iaspis Open House

Friday 13 February 15-22
Saturday 14 February 12-16

Iaspis
Konstnärsnämnden
Maria skolgata 83, Stockholm

Participants: Igor Antic, Eva Arnqvist, Maja Bajevic, Linnea Carlsson, Anna Kindgren & Carina Gunnars, Alevtina Kakhidze, Erik Olofsen, Daniel Peltz, Pratchaya Phinthong, Azat Sargsyan, Karin Seufert, Patrik Söderstam, Pelin Tan, Alexander Vaindorf, Steina Vasulka, Tris Vonna-Michell, Kristoffer Zetterstrand

Welcome to the Open House at Iaspis. This is one of Stockholm’s recurring open meeting-places for contemporary artists and their audience – a unique opportunity to gain an insight into a number of exciting Swedish and international artists’ work. During Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of February, we will present 17 Iaspis grant recipients. The artists will present their projects in the open studios and in a programme of lectures and video screenings.

The Open House will include: a lecture by Patrik Söderstam covering a fictitious fashion company and his time as an Iaspis grant recipient in Tokyo in 2008; a comment on the Swedish IKEA culture by Igor Antic; a lecture on consumption and desire by artist Alevtina Kakhidze; the sound installation Detroit Dream by Tris Vonna-Michell; an exhibition of Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s paintings which he has created by a computer animation process; a screening of experimental video works by the electronica artist Steina Vasulka, and much more.

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows

2008-11-26

Stockholms Stadsmission

Auction for the benefit of the homeless

Donated work: Stageworkers (2008)

Konstakademien, Fredsgatan 12
Saturday 6 december 2008
Display of works from 15.00
Auction at 16.30

Auction webpage
Auction catalogue

Posted in Auctions

2008-10-26

Update: Work description

About section added to the page.

Posted in Messages

2008-07-24

New works, Galleri Mårtenson & Persson

New works, Galleri Mårtenson & Persson
Påarpsvägen 444, Båstad
24 July-24 aug
Gallery homepage
Press images / Pressbilder

[also showing: Anders Krisàr, Frida Fjellman, Sigurdur Gudmundsson]

Posted in Exhibitions, Solo shows

2008-06-05

IASPIS

receives IASPIS grant
(International Artists’ Studio Program in Sweden)
Artist in residency 6 months 2008-2009

Posted in Grants

2008-05-27

Royal academy grant

awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts grant
’stiftelsen Thorwald Alefs stipendium’

Posted in Grants

2008-05-17

Konstakademiens stipendiater

Konstakademiens stipendiater
The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
Fredsgatan 12, Galleri Öst
May 17 – 25, 2008

Posted in Grants

2008-04-22

'Old school'

‘Old school’
7 glass mosaics commissioned by Stockholm Art Council.

Public opening
Thursday April 24 – 17.00-19.00

Bromma gymnasium
Nyängsv. 152-154, Bromma. T-bana: Stora Mossen
Project website
Map

Posted in Commissions

2008-03-28

MyComputer – the computer in contemporary art

300m3 Artspace Göteborg, 28/3 – 20/4 2008
Kastellgatan 22, Göteborg
Exhibition website
Press Images

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows

2008-02-15

Market 2008

Market 2008
Konstakademien, ALP galleri Peter Bergman
15-17/2 2008
Press images

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows

2008-01-23

Creative Commons

I’m hereby releasing all images of my paintings on this site as Creative Commons (cc by-nc-nd ). This means you are free to copy, distribute and transmit my images under the conditions specified in the license. Permissions for commercial purposes are still available via BUS.

Posted in Messages

2007-11-17

Nymålat

Nymålat
Konstakademien, galleri öst
17 Nov-16 Dec 2007
with:
Andrea Hvistendahl , Charlotta Mickelsson , Linn Fernström, Kristoffer Zetterstrand, Monika Marklinger , Johan Löfgren , Niklas Seglevi, Loulou Cherinet, Christoffer Paues, Sara Olausson

Posted in Exhibitions, Group shows

2007-09-21

Art Copenhagen

Art Copenhagen, the nordic art fair
21-23 september 2007
Alp galleri Peter Bergman, stand 117
Exhibition homepage

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2007-08-23

3d visualization

Animation for the commissioned mosaics at Bromma gymnasium.

Posted in Commissions

2007-01-22

ALP galleri Peter Bergman @ MARKET

Konstakademien, Fredsgatan 12, 22-25 februari 2007.

Galleriet visar nya verk av följande konstnärer:
Anna Bjerger
Peter Ern
Daniel Jensen
Oskar Korsár
Katarina Lönnby
Tova Mozard
Fruls Tilpo
Kristoffer Zetterstrand

press images

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2007-01-22