Kv. Noden, Mariesjö/Skövde Science City
Söt smak, leksak, hustak - samtida allmoge
på Skövde Konstmuseum!
Den 5 juni öppnar min utställning Söt smak, leksak, hustak - samtida allmoge, med vernissage kl 17-19. Välkommen!
Utställningen står fram till 17 augusti.
Sea of grass
Necklace made for exhibition Body of Water, Tokyo, Japan.
In the abscence of Lake Vättern
Deep and clear, a shaft of cold with a glass surface
At its southern shore, a continuous movement from an age covered in ice
The body of water slowly tilting, swallowing everything in its path
one grain of sand at a time
In the abscence of Lake Vättern
a sea of grass
Body of Water
COOKIE CANDY CORPUS - söt smak, leksak, hustak
Välkommen på vernissage torsdag kl 17-20 på PLATINA i Stockholm. Utställningen pågår till 6 april.
COOKIE CANDY CORPUS - Söt smak, leksak, hustak
HELENA JOHANSSON LINDELL
VERNISSAGE TORSDAG 21 MARS 17-20
PLATINA, Tegnérgatan 4, Stockholm
www.platina.se
COOKIE CANDY CORPUS - Söt smak leksak hustak är titeln på Helena Johansson Lindells tredje separatutställning på PLATINA. Det låter som kaka på kaka och det är precis vad det är.
Smycken blandas med corpus och objekt som kan tolkas hur som helst. Sammanfogade färgglada delar från leksaker, husgeråd, smycken och andra vardagsföremål blandas vilt. Hon omfamnar material och metoder som ur ett samhällsperspektiv anses ha låg status men flitigt används inom populärkulturen. Plast och trä är återkommande material. Textil och snören läggs därtill.
Helena Johansson Lindell menar att livet och konsten sitter ihop. Inget av dem kan vara utan varandra. Att ordet hustak har kommit med i titeln är en hint till att taket på det nya huset ska läggas om och inkomst från försäljning av konsten bekostar således detta.
Helena Johansson Lindell är utbildad på Konstfack i Stockholm och Konsthögskolan i Oslo. Hon är verksam i Stockholm sedan 2011 och nyligen köpt ett hus i Västergötland som nu behöver ett nytt tak. Hennes arbeten har visats i separatutställningar i Norge, Thailand, USA, Brasilien och grupputställningar såsom Schmuck i Tyskland, 6th European Triennial of Contemporary Jewellery i Belgien, Frankrike, Sverige, och Nordic Bridges i Canada.
PLATINA är ett galleri och studio för samtida smycken. I galleriet visas separat och grupputställningar med nationella och internationella smyckekonstnärer, konsthantverkare och konstnärer med anknytning till konstformen smyckekonst. Utöver utställningar i galleriet samarbetar PLATINA med en rad andra gallerier, institutioner, museer, skolor och fria aktörer runt om i världen.
Varmt välkommen!
Öppettider under utställningen ti-fr 11-18, lö 11-15 och andra tider enligt överenskommelse.
"They became like warriors"
I was interviewed by Brian Medina from the Harbourfront Centre. Here is a short extract that was posted on Harbourfront Centre’s instagram:
“They became like warriors. They empowered the work and the work empowered them.” — Helena Johansson Lindell, on the skaters who model and wear her jewellery.
Jewellery Salon invitation
Dear Animal Vegetable Mineral Artists!
You are warmly invited to a salon evening, Jewellery: Catalyst for Conversation, at Harbourfront Centre to celebrate the Animal Vegetable Mineral exhibition, meet the artists and connect with like-minded guests in the community.
Animal Vegetable Mineral brings together artists who embrace debris and detritus, running counter to widely held ideas about what constitutes “fine jewellery” and what represents value. Much like contemporary art, contemporary jewellery expands our view of society, culture, the world around us and ourselves. Jewellery is significant for its direct associations with bodies, its ability to convey ideas at an intimate level and its movement through space and time.
We encourage you to wear your favourite piece of statement jewellery – it will act as your access to enter this reception! We hope that each person’s piece of jewellery will serve as an ice breaker to great conversations.
Jewellery: Catalyst for Conversation
Salon evening
Thursday, September 22, 2022 | 7–10pm
Light food and a cash bar
Harbourfront Centre | Lakeside Terrace
235 Queens Quay West, Toronto
This exhibition is part of Nordic Bridges, Harbourfront Centre’s year-long cultural initiative celebrating Nordic art, culture and ideas in Canada.
We hope you can join us!
Tack Iaspis!
Pandemin har gjort att utställningen Animal Vegetable Mineral på Harbourfront Centre i Toronto, Kanada, har flyttats fram ett flertal tillfällen. Nu äntligen blir det av! Stort tack Iaspis för stödet jag fått som gjort det möjligt för mig att delta vid vernissagen.
Opening of Nordic Collaborations: Animal Vegetable Mineral etc.
Dear Helena,
Marah Braye
Chief Executive Officer, Harbourfront Centre
and
Tenio Evangelista
President of the Board of Directors, Harbourfront Centre
are pleased to invite you and a guest to the opening reception of the Nordic Collaborations exhibitions: Animal Vegetable Mineral, Fuglakvæðið (The Bird Ballad) – Edward Fuglø and Eyes as Big as Plates. Part of our year-long cultural initiative Nordic Bridges, these exhibitions, led by Nordic and Canadian artists, will explore human nature’s relationship, connection and disassociation with the natural world around them.
The evening will also showcase new installations by Olivia Mae Sinclair, LAYERS, and Mary Anne Barkhouse, Animal Vegetable Mineral c. 1700s.
Nordic Collaborations
Reception
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | 6pm
Light refreshments
Harbourfront Centre | 245
245 Queens Quay West, Toronto
Please RSVP to development@harbourfrontcentre.com by Tuesday, September 20.
Coronasamlingen
Skulpturer inköpta av Statens konstråd till Coronasamlingen.
Kakfat, sculpture/object, plastic, wood, steel, acrylic paint, 2019
Photo: Paul Kokamägi
Re-handle, sculpture/object, plastic, aluminium, steel, 2017
Photo: Paul Kokamägi
#pandemicmacramé at Burton Snowboards
A few necklaces from Between colourful cliché and pandemic macramé are now on display at Burton Snowboards Flagship Store in Stockholm. Go have a look at Norrlandsgatan 20. The mini exhibit runs until June 21st.
Art Crush International - revised episode from 2017
During the summer 2017 Svea Vikander from Art Crush International and her daughter Evla visited me in my studio. Link to the conversation below.
https://artcrushinternational.com/helena-johansson-lindell.html
ZOOM JEWELLERY EXHIBITION - @PLATINA 2.0
December 5-23
Deltagande konstnärer: Ammeli Engström, Andrea Wagner, Anna Talbot, Annika Pettersson, Carina Shoshtary, Caroline Lindholm, Catarina Hällzon, Hanna Liljenberg, Helena Johansson Lindell, Helena Lehtinen, Helena Sandström, Jelizaveta Suska, Julia Maria Künnap, Julia Walter, Karin Roy Andersson, Liana Pattihis, Luzia Vogt, Manon van Kouswijk, Pernille Mouritzen, Sanna Svedestedt Carboo, Sondra Sherman, Tanel Veenre, Volker Atrops
PLATINA
Bondegatan 6, Stockholm, Sweden
Julia Walter med en brosch tillverkad av tvålsten.
Blå brosch av Helena Lehtinen, gul brosch av Andrea Wagner och röda örhängen av Sanna Svedestedt Carboo.
Studio visit by Current Obsession Magazine
https://www.current-obsession.com/between-colourful-cliche-and-pandemic-macrame/
Photo by Cassie Abraham
DN skriver om Konsthantverkshimlen
Just nu pågår Stockholm Craft Week och Platina visar min utställning Between Colourful Cliché and Pandemic Macramé. DN:s Annica Kvint besökte utställningen och skrev bland annat följande:
“Den okonventionella svenska smyckekonsten har rönt stort intresse utomlands under de senaste 20 åren, men syns fortfarande märkligt lite i svenska medier. På smyckegalleriet Platina kombinerar nu Helena Johansson Lindell kasserade plastleksaker med det makraméknytande som både hon och många andra ägnat sig åt under coronaperioden. De lika färgstarka som slagkraftiga halsbanden är tänkta att fungera även i kombination med hennes skateboardåkande.
Det är ofta på de små, konstnärsdrivna gallerierna man först kan blicka in i framtiden. Det har man förstått internationellt, där det svenska, konceptuella konsthantverket länge stått högt i kurs. Frågan är bara: när ska vi i Stockholm inse att vi har himlen runt hörnet?”
Läs artikeln i sin helhet här: https://www.dn.se/kultur/annica-kvint-vi-har-konsthantverkshimlen-runt-hornet/
#pandemicmacramé at Klimt02
https://klimt02.net/events/exhibitions/between-colorful-cliche-and-pandemic-macrame-helena-johansson-lindell-platina
Artist talk during Sthlm Craft Week
October 3rd, 15.00-16.00 at Platina
Invitation to Between colourful cliché and pandemic macramé
WELCOME TO THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE AUTUMN SEASON 2020 AT PLATINA
HELENA JOHANSSON LINDELL
BETWEEN COLOURFUL CLICHÉ AND PANDEMIC MACRAMÉ
OPENING ON SATURDAY, 12TH OF SEPTEMBER, 12.00-17.00
THE EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL 10TH OF OCTOBER 2020
ARTIST TALK DURING STOCKHOLM CRAFT WEEK SATURDAY 3D OF OCTOBER, 15.00-16.00
LIMITED SEATS. REGISTRATION TO PLATINA@PLATINA.SE. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.
PLATINA, BONDEGATAN 6, STOCKHOLM
OPENING HOURS: TU-FR 11-18, SA 11-15
WWW.PLATINA.SE
Please keep distance from your fellow visitors and visit us as a larger group on appointment.
Helena Johansson Lindell works with hierarchical structures and prejudices in the field of art jewellery. She embraces materials and methods that from a societal perspective are considered to have a low status but are frequently used in pop culture. Colorful plastic and wood have been recurring materials and in the new works Helena Johansson Lindell has used macramé. In parallel with her artistic practice, we find her on roller skates in Stockholm's skate ramps. Sports, arts and crafts with pop cultural elements meet in wonderful surprising combinations.
Helena Johansson Lindell is a jewellery artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Helena Johansson Lindell studied at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm and at KHIO - Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo shows in Norway, Thailand, USA and Brazil; and in group exhibitions such as Schmuck 2017-2018 during the International Craft Fair in Munich, the 6th European Triennial of Contemporary Jewellery that toured Belgium, Sweden and France in 2017-2018 and It’s green at Galerie Handwerk, Munich.
At PLATINA you find a broad range of high-quality art jewellery. During the years we have been working internationally with artists and clients from all over the world and we have been working outside the gallery as well, with exhibitions, popup events, fairs, experimental projects, lectures, education, seminars and more.
Necklace made for ATTA Gallery's Anniversary
Plastic, nylon cord, brass, wood, 2020
ATTA Gallery's 10th Anniversary Celebration
I feel honoured to be part of Atta Gallery’s anniverary exhibition!
52 artists, one jewellery piece by each, all priced the same.