Amanda Karlsson

Amanda Karlsson was born in Karlstad, 1989. Today, she resides and works in Gothenburg. In her artistic practice, she uses oil paint and works with wood in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms. She constructs scenographies and stages imagined events, which she then documents and recreates in installations and paintings. Her aim is to craft narratives from a fictional reality alongside our own. This alternate reality has been shaped by her upbringing in Värmland, steeped in mythological storytelling, working-class culture, and dense forests. Through painting, sculpture, and installations, she seeks to explore our need for narratives and how a fictional space can serve as a stage for our eternal quest for comprehension. From this place, she endeavors to discover new perspectives and, if not approach a truth, at least process the longing for it.

Karlsson’s current work places a strong emphasis on spatial installations. She is interested in creating spaces, scenographic events where one can physically step into the artworks and approach both the paintings and oneself from a new perspective. She believes that by being in new external spaces, one can also discover new inner spaces.

Selected Exhibitions
2024 Enter Art Fair, group exhibition with Galleri Helle Knudsen, Copenhagen
2024 Igelfesten, solo exhibition, Trollhättans Konsthall
2024 Everything Must Go, Market Art Fair duo exhibition with Lukas Cornix Galleri Helle Knudsen
2024 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs Konsthall
2023 The Leech Party, solo exhibition, Värmlands Museum Karlstad
2023 Vargfabriken i Vattentornet, solo exhibition, Säffle Vattentorn
2023 Scholarship exhibition, Kristinehamns Konstmuseum
2022 Vargfabriken, solo exhibition, Ebelingmuseet Torshälla
2021 Portrait Now! The Carlsberg Foundation's Portrait Award, Frederiksborg
2020 Du och vilken armé installation for Ståhl Collection Contemporary Art Museum, Norrköping
2020 Group exhibition, Galleri Thomassen Gothenburg
2020 Beacon, solo exhibition, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm
2019 Here Be Dragons, solo exhibition, The Contemporary Garage - OpenArt, Örebro
2019 Den stora oron, solo exhibition, Flaménska galleriet, Borås
2018 BLUEPRINT, solo exhibition, Brohuset, Upplands Bro
2018 Vad Letar Du Efter? Arvika Konsthall, Arvika, (with Marie Thorslund and Johanna Friberg)
2016 Vi Är Flockdjuren, solo exhibition, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm
2013 Ultimate Existence, solo exhibition, Galleri Ori, Berlin
2012 Cow Home, solo exhibition, Galleri Morgenrot, Berlin
2012 Under Influence, solo exhibition, Galleri Zeitzone, Berlin

Public Art Commissions
2024 En flock vilda hästar, Kristinegränd Våbo, Borås Municipality
2022 Lodet, Mural, Ulricehamn Municipality
2022 Ett kungarike för, Göteborg Kretslopp & Vatten, Sättfärgpå
2021 Levande arkiv, Rimbo kulturscen, Norrtälje Municipality
2021 Mural, Higab, Sättfärgpå, Gothenburg
2020 Gränsland, installation for Sommargatan, Falköping
2019 Mural, Trafikverket, Gothenburg
2018 Ritz Kulturhus, Arvika
2018 Westcoastwalls, Halmstad
2018 Värdelösa riddare, commissioned by Wermlands Invest and Karlstad El- och Stadsnät