Jon and Jonas – fellow travelers among waves and rocks

In the exhibition Jon and Jonas – fellow travelers among waves and rocks, Rödén shows discoveries she recreates through conversations with two scientific travelers from the 18th century. The acquaintance with Jonas Falck was established in 2014 during the artist’s trip to Lapland and further developed during a stay at Bergmangårdarna on Fårö in 2016. Conversations with Jon Brand began in 2023 during an expedition across the Arctic Ocean. Rödén was invited by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat as part of a research expedition on board the icebreaker Oden. The exhibition shows drawings and ceramic fossils of mutated animals from Lapland and extinct aquatic animals from Fårö, as well as drawings of islands that rest far down in our deepest glacial seas.

Ida Rödén (b. 1981, Härnösand) is educated at Umeå University of the Arts (BFA 2009) and Californa College of the Arts, San Francisco (MFA 2011)). Rödén has exhibited in Sweden and internationally at, among others, TEGEN2 and Björkholmen Gallery in Stockholm (SE), Bildmuseet and Norrlandsoperan in Umeå (SE), Länsmuseet Västernorrland (SE), Södertälje Art Gallery (SE), Art Hall Norra Kvarken in Nordmaling ( SE) , Sundsvalls museum (SE), OpenART in Örebro (SE), Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen (DK), Kunstwerk Carlshütte in Büdelsdorf (DE), Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (DE), the FILE festival in Sao Paolo (BR) , CoCA in Seattle, Wattis Institute and Southern Exposure in San Francisco (USA). Ida Rödén lives and works in Stockholm.