Maya Eizin Öijer - Et in Arcadia Ego: Works 1990 - 2022: Stockholm

Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present Maya Eizin Öijer’s solo exhibition Et in Arcadia Ego. The exhibition opens on Thursday, October 6, between 5-8 pm and runs until November 13.

 

Maya Eizin Öijer has without doubt played an important role on the Swedish art scene since the 70’s. Making use of a rich vocabulary of images, heavily charged with symbols, she has from the very start been interested in the archetypical landscape of the subconscious. During the 80’s she mainly worked with a fusion of painting, appropriated images from art history and popular culture fused with her own photography. She was an early adopter of new technology, using the computer as a tool already in the early 90’s. Still working in this manner, her work is even now characterized by the concept of dualism such as romanticism-pragmatism, love-death, dream-reality. Maya Eizin Öijer’s work creates a visual and an emotional link from the present to our memories of the past. With her unique visual expression, she is as relevant today as she has been ever since her debut at the National Museum, Stockholm in 1967.

 

Et in Arcadia Ego presents works spanning over 30 years, and Eizin Öijer has utilized the entire gallery to create a room-specific installation with painted walls and wallpaper in colours and patterns characteristic of her artistic expression. Seminal works like The Swing from her Fragonard-series, which became an emblem of Swedish postmodernism in the beginning of the 90’s, are presented alongside her most recent work. The exhibition will be the artist’s seventh with the gallery. The silk screen printed silk fabric presented in this exhibition and the wallpaper incorporated in the installation were both part of the very first collaboration between the artist and the gallery at Enkehuset in Stockholm in 1991.

 

Running parallel with the exhibition, Maya Eizin Öijer’s work can also be seen in the exhibition When Postmodernism Came to Town at The Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, October 15 – November 19.

Maya Eizin Öijer was born in 1946 and lives and works in Stockholm. She studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where she was later a professor, and at the Tokyo University of Art. A retrospective of her work toured Swedish museums in 2004/2005. Maya Eizin Öijer is represented in several collections, including that of Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Maya Eizin Öijer was featured together with the poet Bruno K. Öijer in the documentary Wilderness – 2 x Öijer on Swedish Public Television in 2011. They also made the exhibition Once The Tree Was In Bloom, The 1st at Moderna: Maya Eizin Öijer at Moderna Museet, Stockholm in 2007.

 

For information and visuals, please contact Hanna Lundberg at hanna@andrehn-schiptjenko.com.