Matts Leiderstam
Leiderstam has since his early career in the late 1980s worked primarily with painting, often based on photographic sources. During the first half of the 1990s his work took a political turn, for instance in his work The Shepherds, and his field of interest was expanded to the landscape – the park as a gay cruising area. This parallel perspective was later transposed to art-history and more specifically to the physical space of the museum.
By the use of multiple forms of interpretation as well as the relationship between original and copy as method, such as in the extensive exhibition project Grand Tour, he was able to challenge the patriarchal gaze that has characterized art-history. Since the mid 00s, when he completed his PhD, he has been working primarily with photography, installation and text in relation to landscape and portraiture as genres, all the while with painting and the gaze as an underlying theme.
His on-going conversation with art history and its materials has led him into museum storage facilities and archives. He has a keen interest in the circulation of artworks through commissions, acquisitions, theft and confiscation and what these things tell us. His work also deals with how ways of seeing change over time and he seeks out alternative – queer - stories connected to the act of seeing or looking at painting. For Leiderstam it is the very moment of encountering a painting that guides all the permutations his work might take within an exhibition space.
Matts Leiderstam, born 1956, lives and works in Stockholm and Malmö. Selected solo presentations from the last decade include: Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2018), Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (2017), Collectors Space, Istanbul (2016) Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2010). Selected group shows: Art Encounters Biennal 2019, Timisoara (2019), The 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, Generosity. The Art of Giving, The National Gallery, Prague (2016), Recto Verso, Fondazione Prada, Milan, In Search of Matisse, Heine Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2015), 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Ciclorama, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2013)
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Matts Leiderstam - Vu à travers la grille
Paris 21 Jan - 6 Mar 2021Matts Leiderstam is a visual artist working with painting, installation and photography, who seeks out stories connected to the very act of painting. One could even argue that his practice...Read more -
Matts Leiderstam - Panels
Stockholm 22 Nov - 21 Dec 2018We are pleased to announce Panels, Matts Leiderstam’s sixth solo-exhibition at the gallery. The opening takes place on Thursday November 22 between 5-8 pm at our temporary space at Artillerigatan...Read more -
Matts Leiderstam - Unknown Unknown
Stockholm 22 Aug - 29 Sep 2013It is with great pleasure that we inaugurate the new season with Matts Leiderstam’s fourth solo-exhibition with the gallery. The personal viewing experience of historical paintings is the point of...Read more
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Seen Through the Grid', Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2021
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Seen Through the Grid', at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2021. Photo: © C. Maignien
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Seen Through the Grid', at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2021. Photo: © C. Maignien
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Seen Through the Grid', at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2021. Photo: © C. Maignien
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Seen Through the Grid', at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2021. Photo: © C. Maignien
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Seen Through the Grid', at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2021. Photo: © C. Maignien
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Seen Through the Grid', at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France, 2021. Photo: © C. Maignien
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Contemporary Obsessions' at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Whither the winds' at Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden, 2017
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, The 11th Shanghai Biennale, 'Why Not Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories', Shanghai, China, 2017
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, The 11th Shanghai Biennale, 'Why Not Ask Again? Arguments, Counter-arguments and Stories', Shanghai, China, 2017
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Generosity. The Art of Giving', The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2016
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view 'Generosity. The Art of Giving', The National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2016
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Recto Verso', Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, 2015
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Recto Verso', Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, 2015
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany, 2014
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany, 2014
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany, 2014
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Neanderthal Landscape', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Neanderthal Landscape', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Neanderthal Landscape', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Neanderthal Landscape', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Neanderthal Landscape', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Neanderthal Landscape', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2010
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Ciclorama', at Museuo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2013
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view, 'Ciclorama', at Museuo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2013
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Matts Leiderstam
Installation view Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
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Panel (60), 2020
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Panel (53), 2020
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Panel (47), 2020
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Panel (59), 2020
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Panel (56), 2020
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Panel (49), 2020
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Panel (50), 2020
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Archived (Examining), 2020
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Archived (Pan-tomine), 2020
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Seen Through the Grid, 2020
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Panel (48), 2020
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Panel (55), 2020
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Panel (22), 2018
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Panel (26), 2018
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Panel (28), 2018
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Panel (34), 2018
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Panel (35), 2018
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Panel (39), 2018
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Okänd man/ Unknown Man, 2016
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Förlorade pendanger / Lost Pendants, 2016
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Tårarnas Gåva (II) / The Gift of Tears (II), 2016
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Självbild/Selbtsbildnis, 2016
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Kat. Nr. 84.08 (Unknown Unknown), 2014
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UU 765 (Unknown Unknown), 2013
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After Image (The 8th Duke of Hamilton with Dr John Moore and Ensign Moore), 2012
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After Image (Castle Huntly, Perthshire), 2012
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After image (L'Eruption du Vésuve), 2011
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After Image (Vesuv-Ausbruch) , 2011
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After Image (The Cardinals' Friendly Chat), 2011
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Proveniens, 2007
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View (Papago Park), 2007
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Inside Outside, 2004
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View (West Point) , 2003
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Selbstbildnis, 2002-2003
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The Eruption of Vesuvius, 2000
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Matts Leiderstam
Nachbild / After Image Texts by Anja Casser and Wolfgang Ullrich, 2010 Softcover, 49 pages
Publisher: Argobooks
Dimensions: 240 × 195 mm Read more -
Matts Leiderstam
Seen From Here Text by Maria Lind, Friedemann Malsch, Dieter Roelstraete, Bettina Baumgärtel., 2010 Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Nürnberg : Verlag für Moderne Kunst
ISBN: 9783869840291
Dimensions: 200 x 260 mm Read more