Carin Ellberg
A constant characteristic of Carin Ellberg’s work is change – a continuous exploration of boundaries, between painting and sculptural objects, between wall and floor, between reality and representation and between the self and the surrounding world. Trains of thought and association morph into new, evocative visual forms. Her point of departure is to a large extent a series of wayward image worlds, her feeling for unpretentious and unglamorous materials appears to mean that everything can be used – tights, broken toys, second-hand clothes. Combined with, say, silicon and book-binding glue, these often trivial and unassuming objects expand our habitual attitudes to painting and sculpture. Her process is one of a flow of ideas, thoughts and images in constant and unfinished transformation.
In her paintings and sculptures, Ellberg approaches landscape as both an art historical trope and a physical and sensorial place. Featuring softly coloured mounds and cloud shapes, her acrylic paintings resemble gentle, dream-like pastorals. Her mixed-media sculptures approach landscape more obliquely, suggesting natural forms through their assemblages of disparate materials and suggestive titles.
Carin Ellberg is one of Sweden’s leading artists, born 1959 and living and working in Stockholm where she received her MFA at the Royal Academy of Art in 1989. Her work is to be found in a wide range of public and private collections and she has made a number of permanent works in the public space.
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Carin Ellberg - Stones Have Long Threads
Stockholm 25 Feb - 10 Apr 2021Even though Carin Ellberg’s art may show elements of different movements in art history, her peculiar work is uniquely her own style. Like so many other female artists before her,...Read more -
Carin Ellberg - Selfportraits
Stockholm 24 Aug - 30 Sep 2017Starting in September 1985 Carin Ellberg has done more than 600 dated self-portraits, sometimes one a day, sometime one per week, sometimes less often and all resembling one another, a...Read more -
Carin Ellberg - Mother of Pearl and the others
Stockholm 7 Apr - 7 May 2016Andréhn-Schiptjenko has the pleasure to announce a new solo-exhibition by Carin Ellberg, the artist’s seventh at the gallery. To a great extent Ellberg’s art has its point of departure in...Read more
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Carin EllbergInstallation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
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Carin EllbergInstallation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
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Carin EllbergInstallation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Self-Portraits, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Self-Portraits, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Self-Portraits, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Kristianstads konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden, 2016
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Kristianstads konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden, 2016
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden, 2015
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Carin EllbergInstallation view Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden, 2015
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Carin EllbergInstallation view, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
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Carin EllbergInstallation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
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Flyger förbi, 2021SEK 22,000.00
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Bubblor, 2021
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Okända landskap med trådar 1, 2021
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Närvaro, 2021
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Stenarna har långa trådar, 2021
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Sjöstjärna 1, 2021
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Sjöstjärna 2, 2021
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Guldsvans, 2021
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Länk, 2021
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Vecklar ut, 2020
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Slingrar iväg, 2020
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På väg, 2020
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På väg I, 2020
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På väg II, 2020SEK 22,000.00
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På väg III, 2020
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Lyfter sig, 2020
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Leker, 2020
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Landskap och trådar, 2020
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Landar, 2020
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Känner sig fram, 2020SEK 22,000.00
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I vinden, 2020
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Gömsle, 2020
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Flyttar sig, simmar, 2020
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Faller ut, 2020
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Insidan, 2020
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Okända landskap med trådar 2, 2020
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Okända landskap med trådar 3, 2020
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Ledsagare och havet, 2019SEK 22,000.00
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Andra kroppar och havet, 2019
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Annan kropp, strand och hav, 2019
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Svävar, landskap, 2018
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Species (spirit, jellyfish), 2016
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Plants, 2016
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Vindlande, 2016
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Kroppsdjuret, 2015
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Without words, 2015
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Drömfigur 2 (framed), 2012
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Figur med släp, 2009
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och långa halsar, 2007-2009
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den lossnade och försvann in bland träden., 2007-2009
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Jag följde efter och letade (framed), 2007-2009
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Jag lyssnade på min gamla handväska, 2007-2009
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En av dem hade två halsband. (framed), 2007-2009
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Det blev mycket att göra framöver., 2007-2009
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Veins of Water
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Carin Ellberg: Existentiell konst i sensuellt svävande former
Birgitta Rubin, Dagens Nyheter, March 6, 2021 -
Carin Ellberg: Behagligt gnissel i Carl Eldhs ateljé
Sebastian Johans, Dagens Nyheter, May 29, 2018 -
Carin Ellberg: Målerisk meditation och rymdskulptur
Bo Madestrand, Dagens Nyheter, August 31, 2017 -
Carin Ellberg: Carin Ellberg på Andréhn-Schiptjenko i Stockholm
Birgitta Rubin, Dagens Nyheter, April 28, 2016