– The title is a way of naming the beauty that hits me in the face every time I visit Carl Eldh’s Ateljémuseum. I have wanted to investigate what it is like to stare at something beautiful – what happens to the viewer and the one being watched? says Ingela Ihrman.
In connection with the exhibition, a catalog will be published with in-depth conversations between the artist and curator Caroline Malmström, followed by an artist conversation on Thursday 1 June, when the poet Marie Silkeberg will also participate. During the late summer, Ingela Ihrman returns to treat visitors to the performance piece Ett fikon on Thursday, August 24.
The exhibition is curated by Joanna Nordin and Caroline Malmström.
Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum would like to extend a warm thank you to the generous patrons of the museum and the exhibition, Pontus Bonnier, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and Anne-Marie Lembcke, as well as the Cultural Council and the City of Stockholm for significant cultural support.
Ingela Ihrman, Carl Eldh’s Studio Museum. Photo: Valdemar Asp
About the artist
Ingela Ihrman (b. 1985 in Kalmar) is based in Malmö but during the winter and spring of 2023 has been a scholar at Iaspis Konstnärsnämnden and lived in a studio on Maria Skolgata in Stockholm. With a disarming humor and playfulness, Ingela Ihrman’s art has in the last decade responded to a need to think about questions concerning the future of humanity on earth. Through the work of the hand and the presence of time-consuming techniques, new meaning is created from often organic, recycled and everyday materials.
Ingela Ihrman represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2023, she is also current with the solo exhibition Nocturne at Gasworks in London and will open a retrospective at Malmö Konsthall in September.
