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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Group Show /  by Martin Ålund

Measures of Poetry

Bogardenkapel Brugge, Katelijnestraat 86, 8000 Brygge, Belgium
May 10–26, 2019

Measures of Poetry is an international group exhibition by Curator Jan Van Woensel with the members of GoGo Collective: Sarah Blood (United Kingdom/United States), Monique Pelser (South Africa), Mia Chaplin (South Africa), Martin Ålund (Sweden), Jonas Vansteenkiste (Belgium), Elle van Uden (Australia), Torbjörn Johansson (Sweden).

In Measures of Poetry the curator applies Vito Acconci's concept of spatial poetry as a curatorial methodology. The process of methodologically adding artwork to the exhibition space of Bogarden's Chapel provokes an evolution from a linear to a rhizomatic reading. 'Measures of Poetry' is approached as a situational confrontation of space, artwork, meaning, order, body, sound and language.

The exhibition is supported by Stedelijke Acedemie voor Schone Kunsten and IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international programme for Visual and Applied Artists

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”Otherworld”, Charcoal on wall, Martin Ålund 2019

Solo Show /  by Martin Ålund

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Open Studio | Room 8208 | August 16, 2018 | 19.00-21.30

 

Energy

Photo: Martin Ålund

Scribbles, movements, shapes and lines that move in different directions. Looking like an intensity tightly packed together. Just like the Sun’s surface looks like in the movies. I paint and draw my mind, my nerves, my energy, my thoughts and feelings, and all I see out there: the world, all people. The whole of existence as x-rays of energy and the sensual.

I jump into the undergrowth. It tears me up. I flop through the marsh. Get wet. Jump from rocks. Twist the ankle.

An alter ego has appeared. Could it be that instead of going crazy, he is a saint? I don’t know. I’m not sure. I dress in his plastic in the night. Trying to understand.

Clip from video "Energy" by Martin Ålund, Paris 2018

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Martin Ålund is in residence at the International City of Arts through Sweden’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Konstakademien)

Group Show /  by Martin Ålund

 

Showroom: Mia Chaplin, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Sarah Blood, Elle van Uden & Martin Ålund

Photo/Work by: Sarah Blood

The group exhibition Showroom combines the work of five artists, Sarah Blood (United Kingdom/United States), Mia Chaplin (South Africa), Martin Ålund (Sweden), Jonas Vansteenkiste (Belgium) and Elle van Uden (Australia), currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts, who live and practice in different countries.

Showroom takes place in a former shop front on rue de l’Hôtel de ville and offers a play on the context of display and merchandising. The exhibition presents a visual conversation between the works of the artists in an exploration of relationships, content and materiality.

Solo Show /  by Martin Ålund

June 3 – July 30, 2017 | Körsbärsgården, Gotland

Artist Talk: Martin Ålund & Jonas Ellerström, Körsbärsgården, July 5, 2017

Performance /  by Martin Ålund

For Jeanette
Concept by Martin Ålund
Illuminated waterplay on Saltsjön
Lights: Dr Ljus
Sarabande in D-moll by G.F. Händel
performed by Festibyn
Ship: Marin- & Haverikonsult KA AB
From
30 years with the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation
Nedre Manilla, Saturday May 21, 2016