'Flora, Fauna & Kroppens tunna skal' at Akvarell Museet

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Nordiska Akvarellmuseet

Important information for our visitors

The coronavirus pandemic has had a severe impact on people’s lives around the world, and has altered the everyday we have taken for granted.

It has also led to great changes in this year’s exhibition programme here at The Nordic Watercolour Museum. Our planned celebration of the museum’s 20th anniversary, along with our major anniversary exhibition Animal Kingdom, featuring a host of international artists from the 17th century to the present day, has been cancelled.

Instead we are proud to present a new exhibition, Flora, Fauna och Kroppens tunna skal.

21.5 – 13.9 2020

Flora, Fauna & Kroppens tunna skal

Bernd Koberling, #larslerin, #brunoliljefors och Maria Nordin

Lars Lerin, Maria Nordin and #berndkoberling are well-known names, representing three different generations of artists. They move in different thematic circles, work with different forms of expression and radiate different kinds of energy. What they have in common, apart from the virtuoso watercolour technique, is a close friendship with the museum. Their art also incorporates the aesthetic values that are always so relevant. #brunoliljefors worked around the late 19th and early 20th century, but has inspired many artists and has been a trendsetter in his approach to portraying birds. In the exhibition, he is presented alongside #larslerin.

The exhibition is comprised of three distinct parts: Flora, Fauna and Kroppens tunna skal

Bernd Koberling / Flora
Bernd Koberling’s art tends to focus on the plant kingdom, and his inspiration is often found in the nature of northern climes. Over the past 30 years, the artist has regularly returned to Iceland. His vision focuses on the innumerable shifts in Arctic flora. Koberling’s sensuous watercolours are like alchemy experiments, where water and pigment reflect life in microcosm. The upcoming exhibition shows some of the artist’s more recent paintings, in which the colour palette has been intensified and the visual idiom is more towards the abstract than the figurative. 

Lars Lerin & Bruno Liljefors / Fauna
Lars Lerin is one of Sweden’s best-loved artists, famous for his masterful treatment of chiaroscuro. An industrious art producer, Lerin creates paintings that embody ambiences and etch themselves into the memory. One of the vital elements in Lerin’s diverse creative portfolio is pictures of animals. With technical skill and a heartfelt passion for the humblest of creatures, Lerin depicts small birds, field mice and hares. His sensitive watercolours are shown alongside several studies by wildlife painter #brunoliljefors (1860–1939).

Maria Nordin / Kroppens tunna skal
“The old-world body is linked to the cosmos. The new-world body is autonomous, but alone,” as ideas historian Karin Johannisson wrote. Nature and culture come together in portrayals of the body. The human body is also the starting-point for Maria Nordin’s creation. Her art depicts the body as the literal human shell, but also as a container for everything that is individual within us. The exhibition presents Maria Nordin’s latest paintings, which show the shell and surface, but is about making the invisible, visible.

We sincerely hope to be able to open the museum to visitors on 21 May 2020. The safety of our staff and visitors must of course come first, so please bear with us if we should need to change our plans.

We all need to learn how to adapt to a new everyday of social distancing, and we are developing methods to ensure everyone in the building feels safe. The works in the exhibition will be hung in a way that ensures visitors can keep two metres apart.

Opening hours for summer 2020 are daily at 11 am–4 pm.

Nordiska Akvarellmuseet

Södra hamnen 6
471 32 Skärhamn
Sweden
Tel. +46 304-60 00 80

www.akvarellmuseet.org