Scholarship Exhibition: Alexander Bäckman, Maja Möller, Peter Andersson

Opening reception Thursday, August 20, 4–7 p.m.

Gallery Helle Knudsen is pleased to present a scholarship exhibition with Alexander Bäckman, Maja Möller, and Peter Andersson. Each year, Galleri Helle Knudsen awards several grants to promising artists in collaboration with the art society Konstsällskapet Våga Se. As a natural extension of this work, the gallery has over the years hosted numerous scholarship exhibitions, giving emerging artists the opportunity to present their work to a broad audience in a professional exhibition setting. These exhibitions have become a valued part of the gallery’s program and serve as a way to introduce new artistic voices to the art scene. Alexander Bäckman, Maja Möller, and Peter Andersson were three of the recipients in 2025.

Alexander Bäckman
Alexander Bäckman (b. 1993) is based in Stockholm, where he is studying for a Master’s degree in Fine Art at Konstfack. In his artistic practice, he seeks to move beyond his habitual visual language, the things his hand intuitively wants to create, while also embracing familiar intuition.
I am interested in the moment when our gaze encounters the world, whether through open or closed eyes. I anchor my work in a symbolic language that I balance on the borderline of the banal, an area I experience as liberating in its creative potential. I am drawn to small movements or fleeting moments and investigate and amplify their significance. 

Maja Möller

Maja Möller, The Tied Knot, picture weaving with leftover/unwoven warp, 40 x 70 x 70 cm

Maja Möller (b. 1990) is based in Uppsala and is studying the Master’s program Craft! with a focus on textiles at Konstfack. Illusions and shadow effects recur throughout Maja’s work. She is inspired by various optical illusions and strives to create works in which the search for a solution is more important than whether a solution actually exists.

I am fascinated by the way our brains take in information but sometimes distort it or filter out parts of it. How we can trick our eyes and create works that seem to distort reality and cross dimensions.


Peter Andersson
Peter Andersson (b. 1988) is based in Umeå, where he is studying for a Master’s degree in Fine Art at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. By observing and recreating scenes in which people wait together, Peter explores their interactions and the social codes expressed through subtle gestures, glances, and shifts in posture.
During the bachelor’s program, I was introduced to bronze casting at an early stage and fell completely in love with the process. The steps from making a mold of a sculpture to producing the finished bronze each involve unique and intricate techniques and methods that must be experienced and felt in order to learn what problems and solutions may arise along the way.
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