Solo Show /  by Martin Ålund

The Bipolar Suite (Otherworld)
JANUARY 30 – APRIL 30, 2021
Wadström Tönnheim Gallery, Marbella, ES

The Bipolar Suite arises from the Otherworld theme. This theme has to do with juxtaposing extremes through the use of diptychs and creating a charge and establishing a contact. It is like creating energy, an interaction where one touches upon both origin and downfall at the same time. The theme Otherworld deals with the interface between different realities. Where does the insanity, the imagination, and the irrational begin and end? How can one move between the different realities and find experiences, as well as messages, that one alternates between?

I think of Alice in Wonderland, shamanism, alchemy, Orpheus and Eurydice as well as romantic myths of the artist as magician, madman and messenger. I also often think of how the magic and the irrational can both be a means to escape, and a way to grasp the unfathomable.

Martin Ålund presenting the exhibition

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Group Show /  by Martin Ålund

Measures of Poetry

Bogardenkapel Brugge, Katelijnestraat 86, 8000 Brygge, Belgium
May 10–26, 2019

Measures of Poetry is an international group exhibition by Curator Jan Van Woensel with the members of GoGo Collective: Sarah Blood (United Kingdom/United States), Monique Pelser (South Africa), Mia Chaplin (South Africa), Martin Ålund (Sweden), Jonas Vansteenkiste (Belgium), Elle van Uden (Australia), Torbjörn Johansson (Sweden).

In Measures of Poetry the curator applies Vito Acconci's concept of spatial poetry as a curatorial methodology. The process of methodologically adding artwork to the exhibition space of Bogarden's Chapel provokes an evolution from a linear to a rhizomatic reading. 'Measures of Poetry' is approached as a situational confrontation of space, artwork, meaning, order, body, sound and language.

The exhibition is supported by Stedelijke Acedemie voor Schone Kunsten and IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international programme for Visual and Applied Artists

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”Otherworld”, Charcoal on wall, Martin Ålund 2019

Solo Show /  by Martin Ålund

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Open Studio | Room 8208 | August 16, 2018 | 19.00-21.30

 

Energy

Photo: Martin Ålund

Scribbles, movements, shapes and lines that move in different directions. Looking like an intensity tightly packed together. Just like the Sun’s surface looks like in the movies. I paint and draw my mind, my nerves, my energy, my thoughts and feelings, and all I see out there: the world, all people. The whole of existence as x-rays of energy and the sensual.

I jump into the undergrowth. It tears me up. I flop through the marsh. Get wet. Jump from rocks. Twist the ankle.

An alter ego has appeared. Could it be that instead of going crazy, he is a saint? I don’t know. I’m not sure. I dress in his plastic in the night. Trying to understand.

Clip from video "Energy" by Martin Ålund, Paris 2018

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Martin Ålund is in residence at the International City of Arts through Sweden’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Konstakademien)

Group Show /  by Martin Ålund

 

Showroom: Mia Chaplin, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Sarah Blood, Elle van Uden & Martin Ålund

Photo/Work by: Sarah Blood

The group exhibition Showroom combines the work of five artists, Sarah Blood (United Kingdom/United States), Mia Chaplin (South Africa), Martin Ålund (Sweden), Jonas Vansteenkiste (Belgium) and Elle van Uden (Australia), currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts, who live and practice in different countries.

Showroom takes place in a former shop front on rue de l’Hôtel de ville and offers a play on the context of display and merchandising. The exhibition presents a visual conversation between the works of the artists in an exploration of relationships, content and materiality.

Solo Show /  by Martin Ålund

June 3 – July 30, 2017 | Körsbärsgården, Gotland

Artist Talk: Martin Ålund & Jonas Ellerström, Körsbärsgården, July 5, 2017

Performance /  by Martin Ålund

For Jeanette
Concept by Martin Ålund
Illuminated waterplay on Saltsjön
Lights: Dr Ljus
Sarabande in D-moll by G.F. Händel
performed by Festibyn
Ship: Marin- & Haverikonsult KA AB
From
30 years with the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation
Nedre Manilla, Saturday May 21, 2016