ISSUES

Issues is a newly established gallery without a permanent home. Starting in the fall of 2014 and onwards, Issues will regularly produce exhibitions featuring contemporary artists. Issues will both represent and invite Swedish and international artists to exhibit and realize projects in Stockholm and its surroundings. A gallery without fixed spaces creates a flexible operation and a dynamic environment for projects to be realized. Homelessness provides Issues with the opportunity to execute and explore artistic ideas and create new types of art experiences for the audience in Sweden.

In this first exhibition presented by Issues, works by four artists come together in a six-room apartment near Karlaplan in Stockholm. The location for this project is provided after a question posed by the owner and architect Julia Eriksson, which revolves around what the apartment can do beyond serving as a home for the individual.

Visitors to this now abandoned place encounter Celia Hempton's paintings presented in the innermost rooms but also the most intimate one – the bedroom. Anna Uddenberg's two sculptures, depicting scaled-down figures, inhabit the dining room and living room. In the drawing room, Alec Kronacker's two paintings evoke a sensation that is hard to judge as a dream or something that actually happened. Oscar Carlson's somewhat sterile aluminum units with printed vector graphics hanging in the hallway bear witness to a tentative interest in the gallery and the contemporary art scene. Each of the paintings and sculptures offers a chance for reflection on how one relates to the artwork in the home and ideas about the gallery and its possibilities. The exhibition aims to open up thoughts about ownership but also the role of the visitor in a home with its inherent intimacy.

CELIA HEMPTON b. 1981 Stroud, England. Lives and works in London.

Celia is educated at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London and since graduating in 2007 has been the recipient of a number of prizes and awards. In 2014 Hempton has solo exhibitions in Rome and London as well as new works at the Gwangju Biennale in Korea and for the Fiorucci Trust at Stromboli, Italy. Celia also participates in two group exhibitions in London and Los Angeles in 2014.

ANNA UDDENBERG b. 1982 Stockholm. Lives and works in Berlin.

Anna graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 2011. Since then, Anna has worked with Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch in Los Angeles and has had several presentations both in group and solo exhibitions around the world; Its Get Better, curated by Stewart Uoo at Artist Space in NYC 2013, Booty Dummy Demo at Hidden Projects in Germany and with the work Power Bottom at the acclaimed Paramount Ranch Art Fair via M/L Art Space.

OSCAR CARLSON b. 1982 Stockholm. Lives and works in Stockholm.

Oscar studied at Central Saint Martins in London and Städelschule in Frankfurt. His videos, sculptures and images have shown in Paris, Berlin, Vestfossen in Norway but above all in London and there among others at Auto-Italia South East, Camden Arts Center and Tate Britain.

ALEC KRONACKER b. 1981 Antwerp. Lives and works in London.

Alec completed his MA in Painting at the Slade, University College of London in 2011. Solo exhibitions include Casablanca Moon at Jerwood Space 2013, Life at Sea at Southard Reid and a solo at New Contemporaries at ICA 2010. Alec has also shown in Istanbul and Blackpool. This is the first time we get to see Alec's paintings in Sweden, which also applies to Celia Hempton.