Solo Exhibition: Pär Strömberg, ANIARA, Galleri Aniara in Sollentuna

To the Mountains II

Opening Friday June 30 3PM-6PM
Opening speech by Municipal Cultural Director Helene Burmeister at 4PM

Upcoming solo shows (save the dates):

June 30th, Galleri Aniara in Sollentuna (S)
The series To the Mountains, Mother North, Transylvania and more. Oil on canvas, watercolor on paper and charcoal drawings (even perhaps some prints will be available).

CHARLIE SMITH LONDON
Exhibition dates: 17 February – 25 March 2017
Private View: Thursday 16 February 2016, 6-9pm
Opening Times: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 11 – 6pm

Hermione Allsopp / Jemima Brown / Andrea Cotton / Lisa Denyer / Tracey Eastham / Zavier Ellis / David Hancock / Florian Heinke / Phill Hopkins / Hilde Krohn Huse / Sam Jackson / Monica Ursina Jäger / Vincent James / Chris Jones / Richard Meaghan / Alex Gene Morrison / Narbi Price / Mitra Saboury / Jenny Steele / Pär Strömberg / Zhu Tian / Lisa Wilkens / Simon Woolham / Hannah Wooll / THE CULT OF RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ featuring Yang Younghee

Semiotic Guerilla Warfare marks a new collaboration between CHARLIE SMITH LONDON and PAPER presented at the London gallery. The artists assembled create artwork from any materials that come to hand; creating a theoretical collage of themes: linguistics, text, the city, psychogeography, found images, appropriation, youth / underground culture, networks, cults / rituals. Exploring popular culture in an attempt to de-value the art object and elevate everyday objects. Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare presents found objects, mass-produced materials, and a lo-fi aesthetics to create a new visual language that comments upon the disposable nature of our culture and society.

The purchase of commodities can be seen to offer a sense of freedom and an escape. By manipulating and appropriating high street fashions youth subcultures create a unique identity and transform themselves into street art. These concepts might be equally applied to artists, who use appropriation in their art to subvert the meaning of the subjects that they transform. This creative use of commodities is exploited for the purpose of resistance, altering the meaning of a chosen mass produced object through the concept of bricolage. This cultural appropriation or theft and transformation of a commodity highlights each of these artists as conspicuous consumers. Dick Hebdige, the subcultural theorist, quoting Umberto Eco, describes these subversive practices as “semiotic guerrilla warfare”; raiding the dominant culture for their trophies. These commodities are desired simply because they are status symbols of the privileged. They are essentially “empty fetishes”, desired and appropriated from those that are their antithesis. These artists essentially adopt the lifestyles they appropriate, employing their visual language to subvert the meaning of the very images they incorporate into their work.

The exhibition contains individual works from internationally renowned artists such as Chris Jones, Jemima Brown, Florian Heinke, Pär Strömberg, Lisa Wilkens, Phill Hopkins, and John Moore’s prizewinner, Narbi Price. Alongside these artists is the avant-garde cyber Hip Hop performance art group, The Cult of RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ, present <The Book of Bitumen>, a residue recording the Cults’ live street performance rituals.

BMG #10
Watercolour on Paper
31 x 23cm
2015
£666

PAPER #33: The Cat Show Exhibition dates: 12 November – 17 December 2016
Private View: Thursday 10 November 2016

Featuring a number of artists including: Pär Strömberg Peeter Allik, Tilo Baumgärtel, Alan Birch, Mike Chavez-Dawson, David Hancock, Sarah Jeffries, Ilona Kiss, Leonard Lapin, Cathy Lomax, Rui Matsunaga, David Miles, James Moore, Narbi Price, Brian Reed, The Royal Art Lodge, Miho Sato, Lucy May Schofield, Sharon Shields, Martin Symons Lisa Wilkens and more.

“Kittens” was the answer Tim Bernes Lees famously gave in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) when asked what was the one thing that surprised him most about the way his invention of the World Wide Web has been adopted, 25 years on. It hardly needs stating: The Internet has provided us with instant access to an unprecedented amount of knowledge (power) and an incredible tool for mass communication (mobilization). Yet “Cats” is one of the most commonly searched for keywords, cat videos and images are among the highest viewed online content (described in the New York Times as ‘the essential building block of the Internet’), and cat celebrities are abound (Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub, Maru, Nala Cat and Cattycake to name a few). An entire subculture has developed around LOLcat memes.

More info:

PAPER

AxisWeb

Pär Strömberg
Satanic Feminist Kitten
Ink and watercolor on paper
23 x 20 cm
2016
£500

Nu delar Sollentuna kommun ut sammanlagt 130 000 kronor i stipendier och utmärkelser inom kultur- och fritidsområdet. Det stora kulturstipendiet går till konstnären Pär Strömberg!

Kulturstipendiet till internationellt etablerad konstnär

Konstnären Pär Strömberg, född 1972, utbildad vid Gerrit Rietveld Akademie i Amsterdam och Kungliga Konsthögskolan i Stockholm. Han är bosatt i Sollentuna och verksam konstnär. Han är ett etablerat namn på den internationella konstscenen och har under många år undervisat i måleri på konstskolan i Örebro och på Rietveld Akademin i Amsterdam. Pär målar ofta i stora format med olja på duk av öde landskap, djupa skogar och mörka himlar men under senare år har hans fokus skiftat åt mindre verk på papper. Hans konst finns på flera stora museer och i privata samlingar världen över. Stipendiet på 60 000 kr gör att Pär kan frigöra mer tid för sitt måleri:
– Jag undervisar redan mindre än förra året för att frigöra än mer arbetstimmar. Med små barn hemma är jag i behov av tid för kommande utställningar och för att bredda min produktion av målningar som kräver både resande, förkovran och ateljétid. Jag har redan påbörjat arbetet med en ny svit akvareller, eventuellt även en svit litografier som bygger på naturbetraktelser med äldre byggnader i bland annat Törnskogen i Sollentuna. Genom Sollentuna bibliotek har jag hittat en del intressant material och hoppas kunna undersöka platser på egen hand för att fullborda en omfattande Sollentunasvit under kommande år, säger Pär Strömberg.

Läs mer: https://www.sollentuna.se/sv/nyheter–press/nyhet-uppleva–gora/stipendiater-2016/

Örebroguiden: http://www.orebroguiden.com/?p=75420

Tidningen Mitt i: https://mitti.se/noje/kultur/kulturstipendiet-internationellt-etablerad/

Vi i Sollentuna: http://pdf.direktpress.se/flashpublisher/magazine/15747/page/14

Örebro Kuriren: http://www.orebrokuriren.se/2016/10/25/konstnaren-par-stromberg-tilldelas-kulturstipendium/

Psalms of the Black Light IX, watercolor on paper, 40.6 × 30.5 cm

Pär Strömberg has been awarded the Sollentuna Municipality Cultural Award 2016 for his contribution to the contemporary art scene and for putting Sollentuna on the international map. The prize amount of 60000 SEK will be handed out at a ceremony at Edsbergs Slott mid December. More press and info will come shortly.

Pär Strömberg on Artsy: https://www.artsy.net/artist/par-stromberg-1

Coming exhibitions in October

Art The Hague 2016 with Galerie Helder (NL)

5 okt – 9 okt

Yves Beaumont, Stephan van den Burg, Sander Reijgers, Pär Strömberg, Marena Seeling, Kevin Bauer, Harry Markusse, Eelke van Willegen ,Demiak, Damian Kapojos, Bart Benschop

As The Shadows Rise, oil on canvas, 140 x 190 cm

A BAD END STORY hits BERLIN / September16, 2016

This international ART and Music project, now makes a Berlin stop. While on our way to VENICE we have our first big one day show during Berlin Art Week. Exhibition open from 12pm (afternoon) and a huge opening-after-party from 8pm till 2am!

Groupshow:
– Marie Aly, Germany
– Wisse Ankersmit, Netherlands
– Ronald de Bloeme, Germany
– Aldo van den Broek, Germany
– Matthijs Booij, Netherlands
– Kim David Bots, Netherlands
– Bram Braam, Germany
– Jenny Brosinski, Germany
– Aukje Dekker, Netherlands
– Wolfgang Flad, Germany
– Janina Frye, Netherlands
– Galen Gibson-Cornell, United States
– Eveline van de Griend, Germany
– Esmay Groot Koerkamp, Netherlands
– Christian Henkel, Germany
– Henk-Sjoerd Hinrichs, Netherlands
– Jan Hoek, Netherlands
– Paul de Jong, Netherlands
– Noortje Knulst, Netherlands
– Jerry Kowalsky, Germany
– Mati Lempart, Germany
– Sanja Marija Marušić, Netherlands
– Mok-C, Netherlands
– Sven Robin Nibbeling, Netherlands
– Janine van Oene, Netherlands
– Marijn Ottenhof, Netherlands
– Henny GM Overbeek, Netherlands
– Cas van der Pas, Denmark
– Thomas van Rijs, Netherlands
– Tanja Ritterbex, Germany
– SA-PO (Sven Sauer & Igor Posavec), Germany
– Chris Shaw, France
– Julia Sossinka, Germany
– Pär Strömberg, Sweden
– Boris Tellegen, Netherlands
– The Books Happen
– Emilio Veendorp, Netherlands

From 21:00 there will be music provided by: A BAD END STORY (Germany), BARTEK (Netherlands), HOT° (Germany), Baywaves (Spain), DJ MFK – Analogue Mutations (Netherlands), Vinilette (Spain) and more tba.

There will be free Jägermeister!

Next stop: A BAD END STORY – Venice, Italy – May 2017

FREE ENTRANCE

Musikbrauerei, Greifswalder Straße 23, Prenzlauer Berg, 10405 Berlin

Fasaskogen I, 2016
28 x 28 cm
Watercolor on Paper

Fasaskogen Il, 2016
28 x 28 cm
Watercolor on Paper

Fasaskogen Ill, 2016
28 x 28 cm
Watercolor on Paper

Adam Batchelor / Kaspar Bucher / David Hancock /
Roy Andres Hofer / Louise Isbjørn / Jeffrey Knopf /
Sharon Leahy-Clark / Marina Lutz / Tyrone Richards /
Pär Strömberg /

Exhibition Dates: 21 August – 25 September

In collaboration with a-space in Switzerland, PAPER presents Into the Deep Woods. Drawing inspiration from the interpretation of the forest as the unconscious, 10 artists and a poet have responded to this notion, creating within their works a narrative construct to explore the theory of the forest as a psychological space. The forest signifies the realm of the imagination, which, according to Lacan, is the psychic place, or phase, where the child projects its ideas of self in order to develop its own identity, sexuality, and gendered self. A recurrent theme in fairytales is the protagonist entering the forest. Through the ensuing narrative and their chilling encounters, they inevitably gain a sense of the changes in their lives, particularly from child to adult, and also a sense of morality.

More on PAPER:

PRESS about the show:

http://www.fluxmagazine.com/into-the-deep-woods-manchester-exhibition/

https://www.artsy.net/show/paper-par-stromberg-black-metal-girls

https://papergallerymagazine.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/paper-31-into-the-deep-woods/

https://www.evensi.uk/into-the-deep-woods-paper-gallery/183421482

This week/weekend (1-5 of June) Pär Strömberg will show with Galerie Helder (NL) at the KunstRai Art Amsterdam fair. You will find the work in booth 18.

The Spring Of Lethe (Ameles Potamos) (2012) 140×190 cm, oil on canvas

http://galeriehelder.nl/

http://www.kunstrai.nl/

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A-Space and PAPER presents:

Into The Deep Woods

Leo 15, Luzern 10 – 13 June

(more info on the invite below)