Linnéa Sjöberg
CHART Art Fair 2024
29.08—01.09.24

Gallery Steinsland Berliner returns to CHART Art Fair with a solo presentation by acclaimed Swedish artist Linnéa Sjöberg who will be showing a series of newly created woven tapestries in booth nr 30.

The tapestries are woven on traditional loom by the artist herself and tell personal tales of grief as well as the thoroughly human experience of coming to terms with one’s own corporeality. A chronological shift in the works’ stylings can be observed throughout the presentation. The later dated works bear titles such as I Lost Something Years Ago or Tom Vass Klarhet (transl: Empty Sharp Clarity) and contrast Sjöberg’s work from the last few years with their darker more subdued color palette and jaggedly diffuse figures which have been plucked from Sjöberg’s sketch book. Suggested is a new development for the ever-evolving artist.

Linnéa Sjöberg (b. 1983, SE) lives and works in Berlin. She holds an MA from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Linnéa Sjöberg’s artistry is characterized by a dedicated research practice wherein her own life conditions are continuously hypothesized and put to the test.

The artist’s earlier work saw her take on performative projects lengthy enough to border on personal life chapters, in which the artist immersed herself in roles such as the striving businesswoman in Gtds4810 (2009-2011) and the unruly tattooist in Salong Flyttkartong (2012-2014). Cloaked in these characters she gathered information concerning the implications of identity formation.

In a chapter ending of sorts this information was processed and accounted for in the form of physical manifestations as varied as vacuum-sealed clothing, cardboard collages and intricate textile weavings which have become the artist’s main area of expression.

The woven tapestries by Linnéa Sjöberg function as textile archives: woven images and narrative tools in the form of words are interspersed with assemblages consisting of mixed materials. The act of weaving goes back to her childhood and runs through her family line, tracing back to her grandmother’s rag rugs that were woven together by the family’s old clothes.