Gunnel Wåhlstrand
For many years, Wåhlstrand has worked exclusively with what could be described as a re-development of private photographs using ink-wash. This technique, that she masters to perfection, is a manner of painting where tonality and shading is achieved by varying the ink density, both the ink load and the pressure within a single brushstroke. Once a stroke is painted, it cannot be changed or erased.
Her body of motives has previously consisted of images from her family photo album, and the close connection between life and art is intact when Wåhlstrand in her new works chooses to leave the earlier albums behind and focus on images she has taken herself.
Wåhlstrand’s depiction is a deeply personal process yet has a universally affecting presence. The procedure of making this meticulously reconstructed documentation is painstakingly slow – the precise and demanding technique commands a very spare production and physically taxing. Wåhlstrand literally works on hands and knees, immersing herself in an image in order to see it, as a way for her to physically and psychologically approach a personal history or place.
Gunnel Wåhlstrand (born 1974) lives and works in Stockholm. She receievd her MFA from Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2003 with a much acclaimed graduation exhibition, and has since then developed an exceptional, albeit very spare, œuvre. Her most recent institutional solo-exhibition was at Göteborgs Konstmuseum in conjunction to the Sten A Olsson Cultural Scholarship (2019) and prior to that at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden (both 2017).
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GUNNEL WÅHLSTRAND
Paris 12 Sep - 31 Oct 2020It is with great pleasure that Andréhn-Schiptjenko presents an exhibition of new paintings by Gunnel Wåhlstrand. The exhibition is her first in Paris and her fourth with the gallery. For...Read more -
Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Stockholm 4 Oct - 17 Nov 2018It is with great pleasure that Andréhn-Schiptjenko presents Gunnel Wåhlstrand’s third solo-exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will take place in the temporary space at Artillerigatan 40, an intimate room...Read more
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2020
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2020
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2017
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2017
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, 2013
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Uppsala konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, 2013
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2013
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2013
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2013
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2013
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view Nordic-by-New York at ASF Scandinavia House, New York, USA, 2011
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Installation view at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
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Reef, 2021
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Small Flowers Below Puddle, 2021
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Sandhaken, 2020
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Shallow Waters, 2020
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Rose, 2020
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Shallow Waters, 2020SEK 75,000.00
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Grey Sea, 2019
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The End of July / Slutet av juli, 2018
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The Islets / Vattenholmarna, 2018
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The Oak Tree / Eken, 2018
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The Rowan Tree, 2017
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Sandstranden, (The Beach), 2016
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Wave, 2015
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Lupins, 2015
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Slope / Sluttning, 2014
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Viken (The Cove), 2013
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Hällkaret (The Rock Pool), 2012-2013
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I stugan (In the Cottage), 2012-2013
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Anna-Lena, 2012-2013
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Den sista ön (The Last Island), 2012
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ID, 2011
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Walk, 2011
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Biblioteket, 2010
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Mother Profile, 2009
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L.Atlestam, 2009
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Descension, 2009
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Mother Blue, 2008/2009
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Looking at Paintings, 2008
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White Peacocks, 2007/2009
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Tore, 2007
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand: Hon vill bli ett med sina bilder
Malin Eijde, Dagens Nyheter, July 12, 2019 -
Gunnel Wåhlstrand: Gunnel Wåhlstrand söker nya berättelser
Sebastian Johans, Dagens Nyheter, October 10, 2018 -
Gunnel Wåhlstrand: Gunnel Wåhlstrand på Magasin III i Stockholm
Jessica Kempe, Dagens Nyheter, February 15, 2017 -
Gunnel Wåhlstrand: Jag upplever att motivet ser mig
Sandra Stiskalo, Dagens Nyheter, February 10, 2017
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand
Gunnel Artist Book Text by Jasper Sharp, Ben Street, David Neuman , 2013Hardcover, 78 pagesRead more
Publisher: Art and Theory Publishing
ISBN: 9789198046809
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Gunnel Wåhlstrand & Cecilia Edefalk
Time and Memory Foreword: Ziba Ardalan Text by: Daniel Birnbaum, Peter Cornell, 2012Hardcover, 100 pagesRead more
Publisher: Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN: 9780956024732