Sonja Landberg is sharing her work in the Tushita projectspace.
Working Practice
“I pick up one thing that finds me, ( a found element ) print it on linen and discover that. Opens up another world to which I respond. Transformation happens. Something ordinary becomes extraordinary. I paint areas of “Silverbirch Technology” with wide brushstrokes, (my inspiration for painting is the regular Swedish house paint ). Texts get painted and painted out to reveal a way of drawing that lights up the mystery.
Matter and antimatter meet. Silence and wonder happen and I find myself inspired. My painting practice is integrated with life itself. There is no separation.” Sonja 2022
AUSSTELLUNG
am 28. Oktober, 30. Oktober, 4 November, 6 November, 11 November 2022
15:00 - 18:30
ABOUT
Sonja Landberg born 1963 in Oslo, Norway 1982-1986 Kunstakademiet, Trondheim, Norway.
Selected Single Exhibitions:
1988 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
1992 Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway 1993 Hordaland Kunstnersentrum, Bergen, Norway 2021 Konstkraft Ljusne, Ljusne, Sweden
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1985 ”UNK-Ung Nordisk Konst”, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden 1990-91 ”Nettopp ankommet”, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway 1994 Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany
2015 ”Schwarz auf Weiss” Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Collections:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany
Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Germany
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Maximillian and Agathe Weisshaupt Samlung, Munich, Germany Goethe Institut, Munich, Germany
Deutsche Bank, Munich, Germany
Champion International Corporation, USA
Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
Museum für Konkrete kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Sonja Landberg makes art which is poetic and allegorical, it is the story in which her life is charted and made visible.
So intensely personal are these art works they transform through passion and become a universal language which speak of all our lives. From a world of forgotten objects, old cutting boards, old trees, stones and old linen, using ancient printing techniques and a sewing machine she gives new life to discarded everyday materials.
These combinations of images are fashioned into modern day Thanka’s which emanate poetry of a deeply spiritual and devotional nature. The paintings address our modern age in which we yearn to reconnect with nature and specifically the nature of ‘things’.
Sonja’s work manifest as prayers for humanity and for our continued existence on planet earth.
Jon Groom, Munich, August 2019
