The Bouquet Scarves
Helsinki Flowers
The Bouquet Scarves
Helsinki Flowers
Photographer
Minttu
Featuring
Antti, Janne, Yonah, Bo, Saffet
Retouch
La Machine
Available at
Jus
Together
15 February – 24 August 2025
This year, the Thiel Gallery is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The centennial begins with Together, an exhibition to highlight the fact that the Thiel Gallery is the result of concerted efforts. This is true, of course, of its founders, Ernest and Signe Maria Thiel, who built one of Sweden’s most impressive art collections together, but also of the many artists they supported and whose works have shaped the Gallery. It also focuses on the venue itself; the Thiel Gallery immediately became a meeting place for the art scene of its day. Based on a few collaborations that exist in the building, the exhibition turns our attention to our own time, exploring how artists create together today, how artistic disciplines interact with each other and with other aspects of life.
The Fjæstads
The Together theme is present throughout the total work of art that is the Thiel Gallery. Many of the male artists that form the core of our art collection had life partners who were also artists, including Carl and Karin Larsson and Karl and Tekla Nordström. Another seminal couple were the first director of the Thiel Gallery, the author and art critic Tor Hedberg and the actor Stina Hedberg. The architect Ferdinand Boberg, who designed the building, was married to the artist Anna Boberg. This exhibition asks in what way these relationships have influenced the individual artists and the Gallery.
The Fjæstads ran their own company and had an unparallelled say on the Thiel Gallery interior. Gustaf and Maja, along with Gustaf’s siblings, are represented with several paintings, textiles and a suite of furniture. Their total design is a reminder of the interaction and collaboration of artists and art forms.
The word Together can also address how we organise ourselves. One group with a dominating presence in the Thiel Gallery collection is Konstnärsförbundet, a federation in which artists rallied around shared ideals. Here, we focus on their collective identity: how did they perceive and communicate their shared belonging?
Contemporary artists duos
100 years after the Thiel Gallery was founded, we note how similar collaborations are relevant to this day, even if the perspectives have shifted. Co-existing with nature has taken on new dimensions compared to when Ferdinand and Anna Boberg painted mountains and glaciers in northern Norway. What does it mean to create something together today? How does community influence artistic creativity? What does making site-specific works entail? How do we engage with the issue of working together, if we look beyond the interpersonal exchange?
To gain perspective on these questions, we have invited four contemporary artist duos: Bigert & Bergström, Linda Pedersen and Henning Hamilton, Bella Rune and Jonas Nobel, and Martin Bergström and Thomas Klementsson. These artists work (and some of them also live) together. They employ a wide range of styles and materials, in various forms of collaboration – with one another, with other people, and with their surroundings.
A richly illustrated catalogue in Swedish and English with an essay by art critic Bo Madestrand will accompany the exhibition.
Press pictures: Urban Jörén
Opaque Objects, Martin Bergstrom x Skultuna
Henbane Space Vase
ANOTHER MAGAZINE
PHOTO: JULIA HETTA
STYLING: OLA EBITI
SET DESIGN: MARTIN BERGSTRÖM
The Bouquet Scarves
Helsinki Flowers
Photographer
Minttu
Featuring
Antti, Janne, Yonah, Bo, Saffet
Retouch
La Machine
Available at
Jus
Dialogues Fashion Beyond the Wearable
In the exhibition Dialogues: Fashion Beyond the Wearable, four of the most renowned Swedish fashion designers of the 21st century engage in a dialogue with some of the classics of art history found in the collection of the Gothenburg Museum of Art. They present new works and installations with connections to artists such as Louise Nevelson, Berit Lindfeldt, Rodin, Henry Moore, and the 17th-century German artist Ottmar Elliger the Elder.
Sandra Backlund, Martin Bergström, Helena Hörstedt and Diana Orving have set the tone in Swedish fashion since the turn of the millennium. With fashion beyond the wearable, they engage in a dialogue with the collection of the Gothenburg Museum of Art. These four fashion designers’ work, methods, and questions have many similarities with contemporary artists, not only visually but also conceptually.
LITHAFLORA HYSTERICA
PHOTOWALL 2024
LAAVA GLASS COLLECTION
AVAILABLE AT JUS STOCKHOLM
Flora Poetica – Edith Södergran i växtriket
Martin Bergström in dialogue with Edith Södergran.
Appell Förlag
The Bouquet Scarves
Helsinki Flowers
Photographer
Minttu
Featuring
Antti, Janne, Yonah, Bo, Saffet
Retouch
La Machine
Available at
Jus
WREATH SCARVES
AVAILABLE AT JUS STOCKHOLM
Printed Positions The Textile Museum of Sweden
Since the turn of the millennium, pattern design has undergone a technical and aesthetic revolution, to a great extent spurred on by the development of digital technology. In Printed Positions, contemporary textile-pattern design is explored through works by 14 Nordic designers and artists.
Curated by Martin Bergström and Andrea Hasselrot, Printed Positions looks at how the field of textile patterns has been revolutionised from the ground up over the past 25 years, with changes to design methods, production techniques, and attitudes to patterns.
Patterns are present in nature, in our homes and on our bodies. They are ubiquitous in all kinds of design, not least in the textile field. But what constitutes a pattern today when digital technology has upended traditional ideas of repetition and printing techniques?
The exhibition takes us on a journey through the multidisciplinary patterns of today, where distinctions between interior design and fashion, ugliness and beauty, digital and analogue, and abstract and concrete are becoming increasingly blurred. This is an age that in one moment takes inspiration from nature and the next works with abstraction, moving between the future and the past, the playfully humorous and the graphically strict.
The participating exhibitors are:
Daniel Palillo
Edda Gimnes
Henrik Vibskov
Ingrid Berg
Klaus Haapaniemi
Liselotte Watkins
Lovisa Burfitt
Margrethe Odgaard
Martin Bergström
Patrik Söderstam
Reeta Ek
Thora Stefansdottir
Tronhjem Rømer
Tuuli-Tytti Koivula
Printed Positions/Mönstrade Positioner is curated by Martin Bergström and Andrea Hasselrot. Production by Andrea Hasselrot and Skarp Projects in collaboration with the Textile Museum of Sweden. In connection with the exhibition, Studio Bon designs a catalogue that presents all of the exhibitors, featuring in-depth discussions of the topic with contributions from professors, researchers, designers, and design critics from all of the Nordic countries.
The exhibition Printed Positions and its catalogue are produced by the Textile Museum of Sweden and Skarp Projects with support from the Swedish Arts Council, the Nordic Culture Fund, Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland, Stiftelsen Clara Lachmanns Fond and the Letterstedtska föreningen
Set Design for Beauty Papers
Photographer: Julia Hetta
The Bouquet Scarves
Helsinki Flowers
Photographer
Minttu
Featuring
Antti, Janne, Yonah, Bo, Saffet
Retouch
La Machine
Available at
Jus
The Gothenburg Museum of Art
Dialogues: Fashion Beyond the Wearable
12 May 2023–7 January 2024
Floor 6, room 29, floor 5, room 4 and 15 and the Sculpture Hall.
In the exhibition Dialogues: Fashion Beyond the Wearable, four of the most renowned Swedish fashion designers of the 21st century engage in a dialogue with some of the classics of art history found in the collection of the Gothenburg Museum of Art. They present new works and installations with connections to artists such as Louise Nevelson, Berit Lindfeldt, Rodin, Henry Moore, and the 17th-century German artist Ottmar Elliger the Elder.
Sandra Backlund, Martin Bergström, Helena Hörstedt and Diana Orving have set the tone in Swedish fashion since the turn of the millennium. With fashion beyond the wearable, they engage in a dialogue with the collection of the Gothenburg Museum of Art. These four fashion designers’ work, methods, and questions have many similarities with contemporary artists, not only visually but also conceptually. In the exhibition, they show new site-specific textile sculptures, installations, and moving images.
The relationship between the fashion world and art has been varied throughout history but is constantly recurring and more or less clear. During the 20th century, the boundaries between art and fashion were sometimes strict. Fashion has often been regarded as something superficial, as an artistic genre without depth where most of it has been about beautiful creations and attitude. Today, the difference between different artistic genres is no longer as sharp. Over time, the concepts have become more unruly. Both fashion and art expand, mutate, and merge into each other. Much of what happens in the borderland between them gives us keys to understanding what is going on around us. In fashion, just as in art, the prevailing zeitgeist and its ideals are reflected and thus give expression to the rhythm and taste of our time, what we call contemporary.
In recent years, the Gothenburg Museum of Art has consistently worked with the historical art’s relationship to the present and to raise awareness and problematize taste conventions and hierarchies in the art world. By allowing contemporary art and the collection to interact, new contexts and meanings are created that add new dimensions to both the exhibited works and the museum.
Catalogue
A catalogue is produced for the exhibition in collaboration with Skarp Projects and Studio Bon.
Producer: Andrea Hasselrot
Editor: Johan Lindberg
Preface: Patrik Steorn
Text: Daniel Björk
Design: Magnus Klahr
The project is a collaboration between the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Skarp Projects and producer/curator Andrea Hasselrot.
The Bouquet Scarves
Helsinki Flowers
Photographer
Minttu
Featuring
Antti, Janne, Yonah, Bo, Saffet
Retouch
La Machine
Available at
Jus
The Sailing Stones- Tile Collection
Into the the dawn of history and the mystery of prehistoric times.
The Sailing Stones Collection links remote and ancients Pattern and Tile traditions with the vision of a poetic future and the traces we leave behind.
The Collection is full of options and possiblities and comes in a variety of different colour combinations inspired by the history of Tiles and the ingredients that forms them.
The Collection is produced using traditional pressed Tile teqniques and in a sustainable way.
-Im in love with the phenomenon of wandering stones. The way stones move in desserts
Slowly and mysterious.
The shape of the tracks.
I wanted to incorperate the mystery of the phenomenon and the ancient tradition of Tile making.
I want the Tiles to be loved and treasured.
For now and for the traces we leave behind us. To be found.
Photo: Thomas Klementsson
The Bouquet Scarves
Helsinki Flowers
Photographer
Minttu
Featuring
Antti, Janne, Yonah, Bo, Saffet
Retouch
La Machine
Available at
Jus
Set Design for Carcy Magazine
Photographer: Julia Hetta
Stylist: Mattias Karlsson
Martin Bergström, teamed up with ÄNG Studios to create the rug Biota. The carpet is inspired by mountains eroded over eons and the fragile, tiny place on Earth that we call home. From 2016, this collaboration progressed through concept, sketch and sample stages, with the hand-knotted rug Biota gradually emerging in 2023.
Photographer: Peter Gerkhe
Model: Eliott Marmouset
Tailor: Ulrika Svalling
Producer: Andrea Hasselrot
Design for the Award Statuette for the Great Communication Prize , Kommunikationspriset.
2023
Opaque Objects by Martin Bergström
The Sea Between
Closed borders and separated against our will.
Janne Marja-aho in Helsinki
Martin Bergström in Stockholm
A project made together, despite our separation.
Documented by Heidi Strengell in the archipelago of Helsinki.
Summer 2020
Supported by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.
Havet mellan oss
Dyker i djupet där våren vaknat
Du kan bära längtan för mig
Havet
Du kan bära sorgen för mig
Havet
Ta min kärlek till han som väntar på stranden, där häggen blommar
Havet mellan oss
The Royal Swedish Opera
Choreographer Hlin Hjálmarsdóttir
Scenography and Costumes: Martin Bergström
Light Design: Linus Fellbom
Opaque Objects by Martin Bergström
Photo: Julia Hetta
Photo: Thomas Klementsson
Photo: Thomas Klementsson
Martin Bergström for Photowall
Photo: Camilla Åkrans
The Royal Swedish Opera
Martin Bergström launches his first Scarves Collection
The mysterious and wonderful world of artist Martin Bergström is now materializing in an exclusive collection of scarves. The collection includes 20 different prints, and each motif is made only in a limited edition of 5. Among the motifs are some of the classic Martin Bergström prints as well as new visions; like the projecting of patterns upon old postcards. As always in Martin Bergstrom’s art, the design is built upon layering different techniques, of letting the analogue interact with the digital.
The scarves are made in silk twill with a French hem, and their size is 130X130. They are produced in Northern Italy. Each scarf is a piece of art that can be worn in different modes, or framed and put on the wall.
The collection will be sold at Jus in Stockholm.
Martin Bergström for Photowall
Art of Martin Bergström
by Martin Bergström
