CHARLOTTE GYLLENHAMMAR

About

Charlotte Gyllenhammar’s artistry is among the most idiosyncratic and expressive within contemporary Swedish art. Many of her works represent states of mind or highly emotionally charged situations that often provoke in the viewer a reaction of anxiety and fascination.

Since the early 1990s, she has shown impressive consistency in exploring issues central to the question of identity and the conditions governing artistic creativity. Her art keeps returning to themes such as gravity, the borders between outer and inner space, lack of freedom, memories and threatening images. She also frequently touches on concepts such as power and vulnerability, beauty and femininity.

Gyllenhammar’s most well-known works include the hanging Oaktree ‘Die for You’, 1993, placed in the city center of Stockholm; ‘Bursting’, 1991, depicting a crime scene; and the different variations of a woman hanging upside-down as in ‘Fall’, 1999, ‘Hang’, 2006/2011 and ‘Human Load’, 2014. Gyllenhammar has made several public artworks among them 'Meteorite', 2017, University of Lund, '&child', 2016 and 'Mother', 2014, in Malmö, Sweden.

Autumn 2020 Gyllenhammar is participating in Venice Unbreakable, Venice, Italy and at the 9th edition of BIWAKO Biennale in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

Solo show at Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden 2022.

For more info visit charlottegyllenhammar.com