The Spring Salon is Stockholm’s surest, and perhaps earliest, sign of spring. This year’s jury comprises Pontus Hammarén, Director of Alingsås konsthall, Karolina Peterson, Director of Mjellby konstmuseum, and Claudia Schaper, Curator at Kristianstad konsthall. Liljevalchs konsthall is represented by Mårten Castenfors and Mårten Åhsberg, who chairs the jury. The concept of a jury-selected Spring Salon is based on a fine old French tradition. Since the 1920s, Liljevalchs’ version of this arrangement has driven some people up the wall, while others have appreciated the salon’s democratic ambitions. A warm welcome to the exhibition. All the works are for sale!

 

The Young Spring Salon, located one floor down in the art gallery, displays works by Stockholm upper secondary school students – in other words, the artists, designers, film makers and art directors of the future. The jury-selected exhibition and application process can quite simply be described as a smaller-scaled and younger version of our well-known concept The Spring Salon. However, none of the works are for sale. At Liljevalchs we believe that it is the young participants themselves that are best suited to decide what to do with their works after the exhibition and in the future. Remember where you saw them first!

 

Serious girls are the protagonists in Rita Lundqvist’s paintings. Also present are boys, men and women depicted in different scenes or tableaux. In all their paleness and everydayness, they are all magnificent presences – sometimes mystics, sometimes entertainers in fastidiously created images. The exhibition presents some fifty works of a production known for its slowness, meticulousness and small format. Rita Lundqvist was born in 1953 and was educated at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
Exhibition curator: Mårten Castenfors.

 

Liljevalchs’ summer exhibition presents the best of those artists who operate outside the established art world. This is a different kind of art – an art that does not “fit in” but whose power, integrity and expression will astound the viewer. This is a presentation of accomplished bodies of work off the beaten track – a rare opportunity to experience singular art which is seldom displayed in galleries and museums.
Exhibition curators: Borghild Håkansson, Staffan Backlund and Mårten Castenfors.

 

The exhibition presents a unique and wondrous glimpse into a private collection of Swedish expressionist painting. During three colourful weeks we will provide the public with a chance to delve into some of the country’s most prominent colourists – Åke Göransson, Birgitta Liljebladh, Alf Lindberg, Olle Skagerfors and many more. This exhibition is presented in three of Liljevalchs’ galleries and the entrance fee is reduced to 20 SEK.
Exhibition curator: Mårten Castenfors.

 

In the autumn’s major exhibition, Liljevalchs casts new light on Einar Jolin (1890–1976). Our presentation of the portraitist, still life painter and Stockholm portrayer is a reappraisal and a reconstruction of his playful elegance. The audience will encounter a thematic exhibition, in which works from the 1910s and 1920s are interwoven with Jolin’s later production. Where some have complained about “surface” we point to style, and where others have exclaimed “mass production” we highlight an artist who never grew tired of using the refinement of paint and lines to create his own sophisticated universe. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Mjellby konstmuseum.
Exhibition curators: Karolina Peterson and Mårten Castenfors.