Exhibition Text
In his project at StudyForArtPlatform, Gabriel Karlsson shows an installation where vertical steel bars hold up objects in the ceiling. The title of the work, Untitled (Cumulus), refers to the fluffy cloud in which we humans often see objects and figurations. The name derives from the Latin cumulus, meaning heap or pile. The objects, stuck in the ceiling are fragmented parts of a fossilized heel bone of a woolly mammoth, an object that has been excavated from the ground. The exhibition proposes a spatial reversal of the exhibition space, and at the same time a shift in the meanings of the objects presented.
Gabriel Karlsson
Gabriel Karlsson´s practice deals with the question how as much as what. His sculptures combine a slow and traditional craftsmanship with a conceptual thinking that makes the viewer reflect on the sculpture and the ability of the objects to exist in the in-between of an interior and an exterior space. Karlsson refers to his sculptures as thought objects.
Education
2014-2019 MFA, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö
2012-2014 Gerlesborgsskolan, Bohuslän
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Group exhibition, Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup
2022 Group exhibition, part of Johan Lundqvists work On-hold, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
2022 ”Hommage à Erik Dietman”, group exhibition, One day one room – ADDO, Malmö
2022 ”Krummholz”, Landings project space, Vestfossen, Norway
2021 ””Jag bor i en annan värld, men du bor ju i samma.”, Drömmare söder om Hallandsåsen”, group
exhibition, Ravinen, Båstad
2021 Grant exhibition, Fredrik Roos, Artipelag, Stockholm
2020 ”Repose”, duo exhbition with Anna Andersson, Canopy, Malmö
2020 Group exhibition, Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup
2019 Grant exhibition, Edstrandska stiftelsen, Gallery KHM2, Malmö
2019 ”Nordart”, group exhibition at Konstforum Viborg, Denmark
2019 ”Flux”, group exhibition, Skissernas museum, Lund
2019 ”Soft city”, group exhibition, Coyote, Stockholm
2019 ”uTurn”, master exhibition, Gallery KHM1, Malmö