Mamma Andersson

Mamma Andersson’s pictures open up a universe of suggestive and emotionally charged narratives: extensive landscapes where trees apparently dissolve before our eyes, interiors where painted areas abruptly open up for visions into different worlds, portraits of figures with their backs turned, and black holes where our gaze seems to be drawn into a free fall.

Mamma Andersson builds her paintings up from a wealth of art-historical references and found photo­graphs, films, and historical cuttings. This is painting on painting, imagery on imagery. In the end all of this is filtered through her distinctive artistic vision – at once drily registrative and colorfully poetic – and a new world appears.

The exhibition of Mamma Andersson reaffirms the museum’s commitment to painting and extends the scope of earlier exhibitions of artists of the same generation such as Cecily Brown, Daniel Richter, and Peter Doig.