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
Press images, Zetterstrand

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.

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

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

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.

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

About section added to the page.

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]

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

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

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

'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

MyComputer - the computer in contemporary art

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

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

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Press images

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

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

Animation for the commissioned mosaics at Bromma gymnasium.

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

Autistisk kilskrift
Färgfabriken
Färgfabrikens projektrum
En utställning,
performance och bok.
2007-02-17 - 2007-03-11

Exhibition homepage

Galleri Niklas Belenius
18/11-23/12

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Gerlesborgsskolans Konsthall
14/7-20/8
Vernissage 14/7 17:00

Katinka Andersson
Curt Asker
Andreas Eriksson
Juan Pedro Fabra Guemberena
Anna Finney
Hans Wigert
Kristoffer Zetterstrand

Exhibition homepage
Pressbilder / Press images

LISTE 06
- The young art fair in Basel
June 13 - 18, 2006
ALP gallery Peter Bergman
Room: 1/2 Place: G2
Warteck pp, Burgweg 15, Basel

Solo show
ALP galleri Peter Bergman
Riddargatan 35, Stockholm
may 24 - june 17
www.alpgallery.com

*Exhibition images
*Press Images
*Process images

Paintings commissioned by Mando AB, Karolinska institutet.

Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Galleri PS, Gothenburg
15-30 November 2003.

ALP galleri Peter Bergman
22 august - 20 september 2003.

Kristoffer Zetterstrand
ALP galleri Peter Bergman
3-25 may 2002.

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