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Mathilda Frykberg

2025.02.15-2025.05.05

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Victory over the victory, Havremagasinet, Boden. Curated by Sona Stepanyan and Natasha Dahnberg. Titled Victory over the Victory this exhibition strives to touch upon some of the current and historical events, related to questions of war, loss, sorrow and memory. The participants’ collective focus revolves around the theme of communication in times of conflict, as well as the notion of a victory. Driven by artists’ direct and indirect experiences and active socio-political stance, several questions are put to the fore: is it possible to win a war, what defines a victory and who becomes a winner? For us who live in Sweden and follow various wars through the media narration or friends’ testimonies and personal stories, it is important to listen and take a chance to reflect together on our own experiences and values. Therefore we have invited international and Swedish artists to show their works. We see this exhibition as a possibility to align with participants’ diverse artistic practices and experiences by voicing their opinions.
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2024.09.23-2024.10.07

Sopra sotto & Mikidou life drawing residency, Tuscany. Exploring community building and relational practice through drawing and food culture. Two weeks of art residency at La Tegolaia, a house in the countryside of Florence. Initiated and arranged by curator Constance van Berckel and artist Milena Kiourtsidou. Participating artist: Lara Wischert, Clara-Lilian Berger, Mathilda Frykberg, Neetlje De Jong, Katarina Juričić, Rosalie, Kause, Nathalie Ashraf. Photo: Carmela Prins

2024.04.06-2024.04.21

Victory over the victory, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala. Opening 6 of April, 2024.

2023.06.11

Hunger & thirst, dinner performance with Gustav Lejelind at Göteborgs konsthall.

2023.06.09-2023.08.27

I’m imagining a home - Göteborgs konsthall LINK

2023.02.17-2023.03.18

Kyrie eleison - Verkstad konsthall LINK

Kyrie eleison foregrounds food in relation to themes of decay and crisis. In 2022, the world faced an acute grain shortage as a result of the war in Ukraine, as well as the worst drought in East Africa in more than 40 years. A shaken world was reminded of the complex yet fragile systems underlying food production. The exhibition at Verkstad Konsthall presents a series of dry pastel drawings and a video work, all depicting the same scene: halls adorned with crystal chandeliers and long dining tables stand abandoned, chairs overturned, food left to rot. Is this a party that has spiralled out of control, or have the dinner guests suddenly been forced to leave everything behind and flee? A brutal state of decay or an act of violence seems to have reached even the most elegant of drawing rooms. What does this tell us about the world beyond these walls?
The exhibition opens up questions of class, as well as our relationship with food, the earth, and the body. A series of dinner gatherings will take place in the exhibition space.

2023.02.10-2023.05.14

Raised in a lie - Valsta konst
As the security order in Europe comes under increasing strain, with Russia having launched an attack on Ukraine, it is becoming ever clearer that we have entered a new chapter in European history. The many former satellite states of the Soviet Union all carry dramatic histories that are shaped by the current political climate, in which old wounds are being reopened while others have never been given time to heal. Through this exhibition, we seek to present and explore a fraction of the many human stories that emerge from this historical moment, both past and present. Curator: Marcus Modh

2022.04.23-2022.06.02

Vault behind vault - Sigtunastiftelsen, Rosengårdssalen
Opening and artist talk 13-17

2021.10.29-2021.11.14

Silent mail – 3d floor dance and art venue, Gothenburg. Group show, part of GIBCA Extended. Opening 10.29 17-21.
Participating artistic duos: Jenny Johansson & Leopold Olivares Dunberg, Alexander Gustaf-Thompson & Ela Polkowska, Mathilda Frykberg & MissGoff Etown, Cecilie Penney & Line Finderup Jensen, Hanna Antonsson & Sara-Lovise Ask Ewertson, Andreas Sandberg & Adam Haugbak

3:e Våningen has invited six artists to participate in the group exhibition Silent Mail. Each artist has been tasked with selecting and inviting another artist whose work inspires and interests them. Using artistic dialogue as a method, each artist duo explores what emerges from the encounter between concepts, materials, artworks, and processes. Over the course of two weeks, the exhibition presents photography, painting, installation, and sculptural works by a total of 12 artists from Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Poland.

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Image: Cecilie Penney

2020.09.04-2020.09.2

We’ve been sent a strange sign – HDK-Valand alumnis from fine art photography master and bachelor. In Landskrona, during Landskrona foto festival.

2020.05.25

Interviewed in C-print by Ashik Zaman, The spring graduates 2020. Read the full interview here: LINK

“What happens when your planned degree exhibition at a credible and well-cherished art venue is canned in a force majeur situation like the reality of the past months, and you are necessarily forced in short time to adapt and translate your work for an online platform instead? We speak to five highly talented 2020 graduates in Photography at HDK-Valand about their respective degree projects and aspirations. What could easily have been your run-off-the-mill interview instead turns into one of the most poignant exchanges altogether we’ve had with artists in a long time, with each of Matilde Søes Rasmussen, Hanna Antonsson, Monika Balu, Oskar Kardemark and Mathilda Frykberg, sharing thoughts and experiences that genuinely will leave a mark on your mind. “I like the idea of starting a simple life with maybe less money but more time. Now, when so much takes place online, maybe geographical distances are not creating the same gaps anymore”, notes Mathilda Frykberg.”

2020.05.15

2020.01.21-2020-01-24

SATIN 300GSM Group exhibition at Campus Vasa, Gothenburg, students at the bachelor program of fine art photography. Posters in A1 size. Opening: 21/1 16.00-18.00. Also: concerts and zine launch at HPKSM 23/1 19.00-00.00.

2019.09.26-2019-09-27

HAROLD Valand Academy, a two day exhibition together with Elton Wååg. Drawings and photographs.

2019.09.20-2019-09-21

Velvet Ropes / Got it for cheap - Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm

GSB will be hosting GIFC and Velvet Ropes at the gallery Sep 20 - 21. Opening hours are 18.00 - 21.00 (Friday Sep 20) and 12.00-15.00 (Saturday Sep 21. Payment by cash or Swish only. Open for all.

Got It For Cheap (GIFC) is a traveling art show series curated by artists Charlie Roberts and Chris Rexroad that features more than 1,000 participating artists from around the world. Well-known artists are displayed alongside a range of their up-and-coming contemporaries. The broad selection of works available are all originals, roughly the size of A4 (8,5x11") and priced at the local equivalent of 30 USD. Velvet Ropes copies the concept of GIFC but includes work in a larger size (A3) priced at the local equivalent of 100 USD.

2019.05.17

0_o* Spring exhibition, Valand Academy, BA2 Fine art Photography

2019.05.10

God is the source of light in all luminous objects, solo show at Gallery Rotor, Valand Academy.

2019.05.10

Ordna livet - 17 böcker, exhibition at Göteborgs stadsmuseum with the BA2 Photography class at Valand Academy.

Second-year students on the BA Photography programme at Valand Academy exhibit photobooks created in response to the themes explored in the exhibition Work, Live, Dwell – Images of a Society. In many cases, the students have drawn on their own life circumstances, events and places from their past, or archival material. These have served as starting points for raising important questions concerning, among other things, gender roles, restrictive social structures, and human impact on the environment.

The exhibition runs from 26 January to 24 March 2019. Opening reception: Saturday, 26 January 2019.

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