Group Show by Martin Ålund

Distance/Timing/Precision

Martin Ålund/ Mathieu Verhaeghe / Malin Arnedotter Bengtsson

at The wrong house, Kortrijk, Belgium.
Curator: Jonas Vansteenskiste
October 27, 2023 – 14 February 14, 2024

Distance/Timing/Precision is a visual dialogue between two Swedisch and one Belgian artist. Swedish artists Martin Ålund and Malin Arnedotter Bengtsson and Belgian artist Mathieu Verhaeghe. The title indicates the area of tension these artists have in their working process. The expo challenges each artist to step out of the safe environment of their studio and enter into a dialogue with each other and the public. In doing so, they reflect on the position of the artist.
Jonas Vansteenkiste, Curator

With support of Wonder Creativity Festival, Kortrijk Art Weekend &
Iaspis – International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts

Distance/Timing/Precision

Group show by Martin Ålund

Tidsmaskin

October 8 - october 31, 2021
Benhuset, STOCKHOLM

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”Tidsmaskin” är en konstinstallation i ett unikt rum, Benhuset. Det var givet för Muskot, gruppen bakom utställningen, att utgå från platsen i sig, att hämta inspiration från rummet - för att tala om tiden.

Performance by Martin Ålund

With Escarleth Pozo, ”Tender Points”, Heat/Energy, Kummelholmen, September 11 2021

Group Show by Martin Ålund

Heat/Energy
Värme/Energi

www.kummelholmen.se
September 11 – October 17, 2021

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The theme Heat/Energy emanates from the former power plant of Kummelholmen in the form of location, architecture, function and history as well as in terms of how art, culture, society and ecology are intimately linked and necessary prerequisites for a warm humanity.

Artists of varying ages and with different experiences from large parts of the world meet in the exhibition Heat/Energy at Kummelholmen, on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden, 2021. The project originates with international artist collective GoGo. GoGo meet in various places for new site-specific processes and collaborations. The curators for Heat/Energy are Jonas Ellerström, Torbjörn Johansson and Martin Ålund.

Artists: Lydia Belevich, Sweden, Malin Arnedotter Bengtsson, Sweden/Norway, Sarah Blood, USA, Sarali Borg, Sweden, Mia Chaplin, South Africa, Cecilia Edefalk, Sweden, Anna Engver, Sweden, Leif Elggren, Sweden, Olivia Pettersson Fleur, Sweden, Sofie Winthe Foge, Sweden/Denmark, Daniela Hedman, Sweden, Torbjörn Johansson, Sweden, Berit Lindfeldt, Sweden, Tilda Lovell, Sweden, Monique Pelsér, South Africa, Javier Alvarez Sagredo, Sweden/Denmark, Marja-leena Sillanpää, Sweden, Alex Mahmoud Valijani, Sweden, Elle van Uden, Australia, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Belgium, Ulla Wiggen, Sweden, Sofia Zwahlen, Sweden, Martin Ålund, Sweden

Interview by Martin Ålund

C-print
A journal about contemporary art
February 2021

The Bipolar Suite

“There is power through art and a spiritual outlook to accept and understand the imperceptible and carry on beyond the point where sense and sensibility end. I move between realities and somewhere in the midst can extract trust, knowledge and insights that I’m not able to find or articulate other than through my artistic practice”, says Martin Ålund, who is currently presenting the new solo exhibition The Bipolar Suite (Otherworld) with Wadström Tönnheim Gallery in Marbella.

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Solo Show by Martin Ålund

The Bipolar Suite (Otherworld)
JANUARY 30 – APRIL 30, 2021

Wadström Tönnheim Gallery, Marbella, ES

The Bipolar Suite arises from the Otherworld theme. This theme has to do with juxtaposing extremes through the use of diptychs and creating a charge and establishing a contact. It is like creating energy, an interaction where one touches upon both origin and downfall at the same time. The theme Otherworld deals with the interface between different realities. Where does the insanity, the imagination, and the irrational begin and end? How can one move between the different realities and find experiences, as well as messages, that one alternates between?

I think of Alice in Wonderland, shamanism, alchemy, Orpheus and Eurydice as well as romantic myths of the artist as magician, madman and messenger. I also often think of how the magic and the irrational can both be a means to escape, and a way to grasp the unfathomable.

Martin Ålund presenting the exhibition

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