Exhibitions – Thomas Liljenberg

SAFTMASKINEN

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

SAFTMASKINEN

Solo-exhibition with objects, paintings, cataloque and poster. Exhibited in conjunction with FIREWORK CENTRALBADET, at Centralbadet, Stockholm 1985

PAINTINGS:
QUADRILATERAL PAINTING (hanging), mixed media (acrylic on masonite and wood)
THE CAKE (nine sections), mixed media (acrylic on mdf)
ROTATING PARASOLE (four sections), tempera on paper
BROWN PAINTING WITH PARASOL FRAGMENT, mixed media (oil and silkscreen print on canvas, textile fragment and glass)
BROWN PAINTING WITH IRON PLATE, mixed media (oil on canvas, iron plate and wood box)
BROWN PAINTING WITH MIRROR AND VEIL, mixed media (oil on canvas, mirror and textile)
BLUE/WHITE PAINTING (diptyk), mixed media (oil on canvas)
YELLOW/WHITE PAINTING (diptyk), mixed media (oil on canvas and tempera on paper)
SIEVE PAINTING, mixed media (painting on canvas and steel plate)

OBJECTS:
CRADLE ON RAIL, mixed media (painted wood, steel and rubber wheels)
DOOR (door in frame)
SIEVE A (four sections), acrylic glas
SIEVE B WORLDMAP (three sections), silkscreen on acrylic
THREE TARGETS, prints on paper in wood boxes

LA TEMPEST

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

LA TEMPEST

Solo-exhibition at FIREWORK EDITION, Västmannagatan 69, Stockholm, 1989. Installation with printed copies of Giorgiones painting LA TEMPEST (1506–1508), spotlight, prepared window, and exhibition catalogue.

PARTIET (The Party)

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

PARTIET (The Party)

Exhibition in collaboration with Leif Elggren in conjunction with the Swedish General Election 1994. Installation with party program (proposal for a party platform), ballot paper, voting poster, photos and video.

SVERIGE DRÖMMER

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

SVERIGE DRÖMMER (SWEDEN DREAMS)

Solo-exhibition at Kalmar Konstmuseum and the Swedish Parliament Building, Stockholm 1993. Installation with objects (screenprint on acrylic glass) and lighting equipment (size: 260 x 230 x 60 mm).

Parts of SWEDEN DREAMS was also exhibited at Bukowskis, Stockholm 2005 in connection with the exhibition ERASE and REWIND.

The exhibition Sweden Dreams consist of a combination of dream texts and photographs of Swedish Prime Ministers. The dreams were obtained and collected through advertisements in Swedish local newspapers during 1992 and 1993. The photographs of the ministers were copied directly from the Parliment’s books on file. The dream texts and the photographs of the ministers were then combined completely at random – one dream for each Swedish Prime Minister during the twentieth century until 1993.

Images (from top): 1. Sweden Dreams, installation at Kalmar Konstmuseum 2. Sweden Dreams, installation at Kalmar Konstmuseum 3. Sweden Dreams, installation at Kalmar Konstmuseum: Per Albin Hansson/Dream from Stig 4. Sweden Dreams, installation at Swedish Parliament Building: Olof Palme/Dream from Lena

THE NEW KISTA SCIENCE CITY MODEL

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

THE NEW KISTA SCIENCE CITY MODEL

Installation with semitransparent building (wood and polyeten), spotlights and posters. In conjunction with the exhibition PERFORMING THE COMMON, Husby konsthall and Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2012. Curated by Karin Hansson, Johanna Gustavsson Fürst and Thomas Liljenberg in conjunction with the Department of Computer and System Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University and The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

The New Kista Science City Model was closely connected to the project KAC (kistaartcity), a project about place, public space and identity in the district of Rinkeby-Kista, Stockholm.

”Thomas Liljenberg looks at how place is created, not from an individual perspective, but how a collective structure is constructed from the single actions of a crowd of people. His activities in Rinkeby-Kista highlight the role a collaborative artistic practice can play in reproducing and communicating the place as something in common. By imitating the making of an institution – the rhetoric and the rituals – he emphasized both the performative and the playful in the making. In the project The New Kista Science City Model, the brandbuilding and the concept around Kista Science City has been appropriated as the basis for an alternative art institution whose activities are based on local partnerships, collective creation, sharing and interactivity. In the project, the institution is literally portrayed in the form of a semi-transparent, mobile building, which is placed in various public and semi-public places in Rinkeby-Kista. The building is used in workshops, where the results are documented directly on the walls of the building, for immediate interaction with the outside world. By taking over the rhetoric of the science city, in combination with a participatory art practice in which residents are encouraged to take over the concept and the location, the project points to the opportunity and the role that an artistic practice can play in reclaiming and conquering the creation of meaning around the place”. (Performing the Common; Karin Hansson, Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2014)

Images (from top): 1. Poster for The New Kista Science City Model 2. The New Kista Science City Model, installation Husby konsthall 3. The New Kista Science City Model* 4. Push and Pull – An Urban Comedy for Allan Kaprow, workshop Husby** 5. Push and Pull – An Urban Comedy for Allan Kaprow, workshop Husby**

* Semitransparent building in collaboration with Bo Samuelsson

**Workshop in collaboration with Bo Samuelsson and Megafonen

ELEKTROLYS

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

ELEKTROLYS

Installation and performance in collaboration with Leif Elggren, with 30 pair copper and iron plates (200 x 20 cm), electric wires, battery and sulphuric acid. In conjunction with the exhibition IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE (curated by JO Mallander), at Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Helsingfors 1982.

ELEKTROLYS was also exhibited at Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothenburg 1984, at Kristofferskolan, Stockholm 1989 (in conjunction with AGORA) and at Fylkingen, Stockholm 2003 (in conjunction with PERFECT PERFORMANCE).

Images (from top): 1. Elektrolys, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Helsingfors 2. Elektrolys (detail), Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Helsingfors 3. Exhibition catalogue IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Helsingfors 4. Exhibition catalogue Elektrolys, Galleri Mors Mössa Göteborg

EN TREDJE RESULTANT

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

EN TREDJE RESULTANT (A THIRD RESULTANT)

Solo-exhibition at gallery Periscope, Stockholm 1991. Installation with 25 paintings (screen prints on prepared canvas, size: 175 x 100 cm) and 3 light bulbs.

”A Third Resultant is the name of Thomas Liljenbergs exhibition at Periscope. The title alludes to the fact that two given things, put together but without any necessary logical connection, creates a third force; text – work of art, artistic work of art and observer work of art. There is no congruence between text and picture which hints at a revolt against convention. In similar way, there exist no universal truth, only a fictitious reality, created by each one of us. The artist is the first to realize that he has distanced himself from his original idea, and this becomes evident when he looks at the canvas and it’s limitations. He/the world is in darkness, ”we live in a camera obscura”, he/the world is a projection of the light and the paradise outside.

The exhibition consists of thirty black silks-screen paintings, with Latin titles based on the nine different ages of man. In each of the big paintings the ages mixed, creating a sense of timelessness. The room has a devotional and somewhat frightening atmosphere, which is accentuated by the reminiscence of death in the black and in the frozen/dead light of the projected photography’s. By being the forth wall the observer completes Thomas Liljenbergs installation. The game between the myth of light and darkness is the fundamental element of this art. Light and darkness exist in a continuous interaction; from the darkness within each human being to the light in the gallery (reinforced by three hanging bulbs); from the black paintings (which at the same time stands out from and leads into the white wall) to the light in the silk-screen photography’s, and finally from the dark holes to a longing for the light beyond.” (Text: Caroline Ribbing, 1991)

LÄGENHETEN

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

LÄGENHETEN (THE APARTMENT)

Exhibition in collaboration with Leif Elggren, at FORUM, Stockholm 1991. Installation with objects (concret, iron, lightning fixture) and silkscreen prints.

Parts of LÄGENHETEN was also exhibited at Stockholm Art Fair 1992, under the title LÄGENHETEN 92.

The exhibition LÄGENHETEN was the final phase of a project initiated in 1979 by Thomas Liljenberg and Leif Elggren, when the artists exhibited an apartment at Sigtunagatan 5 in Stockholm. The exhibition was documented and formed the basis of several exhibitions, performances and soundworks by Liljenberg and Elggren, between 1979 and 1992.

Images (from top): 1. LÄGENHETEN, Forum 1991. 2. LÄGENHETEN, Forum 1991. 3. Exhibition catalogue, Forum 1991. 4. LÄGENHETEN 92, Stockholm Art Fair, 1992. 5. LÄGENHETEN, Sigtunagatan 5, Stockholm 1979. 6. LÄGENHETEN, Sigtunagatan 5, Stockholm 1979

SERIAL AKTION

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

SERIAL AKTION

Folder with book (52 p.) and poster. Size: 220 x 320 mm. Offset, letterpress and photocopies. Printed in an edition of 100 copies. Firework Edition No. 16. Stockholm June 1983. A documentation of the performance/installation SERIAL AKTION at Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothenburg 1982. Photo: Erik Pauser

STOCKHOLM – GRONINGEN

Thomas Liljenberg — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:57:55 +0000

STOCKHOLM – GRONINGEN

Folder with book (62 p.), booklet and poster. Size: 220 x 320 mm. Offset, letterpress and photocopies. Swedish text. Printed in an edition of 100 copies. Firework Edition No. 13. Stockholm, May 1983. A documentation of the exhibition/performance Stockholm – Groningen, at Gallery Metro, Groningen, 1982.

Image (below): Leif Elggren and Thomas Liljenberg sleeping at Galleri Metro, Groningen. Photo: Lars Wendin