Andréhn-Schiptjenko at CHART 2025: Art Fair

For this year’s edition of CHART, we are looking forward to present new works by two prominent Swedish artists: Kristina Jansson and Theresa Traore Dahlberg. Jansson’s grand and ambiguous paintings meets Traore Dahlberg’s enigmatic sculptures which are currently also being presented at her critically acclaimed solo-exhibition at Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum in Stockholm. Her work is also included in the 2025 Helsinki Biennial.

Kristina Jansson is one of Sweden's most influential contemporary painters. In the pastten years she has had three major solo exhibitions at Värmlands Museum (2022), Norrtälje Konsthall (2018) and Borås Konstmuseum (2015). Jansson is also Professor of Art, specializing in Painting, at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and her works are represented in several Swedish museum collections.

Kristina Jansson’s paintings often deal with the emblematic relationship between her motifs and various human undercurrents and desires such as money, power and lust. At first glance, her paintings appear to refer to something illustrative, however, the subversive and sensual properties of the material create a barrier between the evident and the unknown. Whatever the painting wants to depict, it remains a fluid and disorderly blend of narrative and what the material itself conveys. In other words, her paintings can be seen as having an inherent friction between the image and the material.

Since graduating from the Royal Institute of Art in 2001, Kristina Jansson's (b. 1967, lives and works in Stockholm) work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. Before that, she also studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France and the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria. 2022 saw the release of Kristina Jansson: Space - Lost and Found, the most comprehensive publication of her work to date. The publication includes works from 2005 onwards and contains texts by Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff, among others.

 

Theresa Traore Dahlberg is a visual artist and filmmaker who formulates engaging and complex narratives through installation, sculpture, photography and film. Her work often reflects her experience of being anchored in two socio-political cultures – Sweden and Burkina Faso – both in the materials used and the narratives which it reflects upon. Traore Dahlberg’s sculptures, created in collaboration with contemporary casters in Burkina Faso from locally sourced, recast bronze materials, are inspired by Science Fiction, Futurism and African folktales. The bronze, in her hands, is not merely a medium but a vessel for layered narratives – of origins, transformation, labour and cultural identity.

This summer, Traore Dahlberg is presenting a critically acclaimed solo-exhibition at Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum in Stockholm, as well as participating in the 2025 Helsinki Biennial with a large-scale installation at Vallisaari Island and sculptures at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Her works are also included in the group-exhibition Where We Are at Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum in Stockholm. Earlier this year, the city of Gothenburg announced a major public commission by Traore Dahlberg and the artist Afrang Nordlöf Malekian, The River Organ (Älvsorgeln), to be inaugurated in 2029.

 

Theresa Traore Dahlberg (b.1983 in Värnamo, Sweden) resides and works in Stockholm. She studied 16 mm experimental film at the New School in New York and the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2017, she graduated with a Master of Fine Art from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Since graduating, her works has been presented in institutional exhibitions and biennials in Sweden and abroad, and her documentaries has thought the years been screened at several prestigious, international film festivals to much acclaim.