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“Using various media and physical elements, Anders Rönnlund invites the viewer to think of the world as a mutually dependent system of nature, history and human actions. The works offer space for reflection on life, transience and our place in the environment. For Anders, art itself is a way of understanding reality and confronting its many dimensions.”
Tomasz Matuszak, Artist, Associate Professor, Art Academy of Lodz, Poland
Anders Ronnlunds Since the 1980s, his work has revolved around installation, sculpture, sound, movement and interaction. Environmental issues and political events have been a recurring driving force in his artistic work.
Since the first large installation in the disused factory premises of Ekeby Bruk in 1985, he has developed a personal visual language where mechanics, water, sound and rhythm interact with sculptural forms. In the exhibition Oppression summarizes several of the central expressions of his artistry – a journey through spaces characterized by reflection, interaction and a changing world.
Rönnlund has had solo exhibitions at Upplands Konstmuseum, Uppsala Konstmuseum and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) in Santiago de Chile, among others, and has exhibited in Europe, Asia and Latin America. His works are represented in public collections, including the Swedish National Arts Council, regions and municipalities.
Jan Håfström wrote about his art in Dagens Nyheter: »What Anders Rönnlund has achieved is something as unusual and refined as a physical thought.«
Caption: Detail from the work Ode to a Dead Lake© Anders Rönnlund/BUS 2026
PROGRAM DURING THE EXHIBITION
Saturday, October 3 at 3:00 PM in Salarna
Ode to a Dead Pond – closing noise in the exhibition
Mikael Strömberg, synthesizer and keyboard, and Anders Rönnlund, drum machine, conclude the exhibition period with a noise improvisation where sound, rhythm and experimentation take center stage.
Mikael Stromberg is active in a broad artistic field that encompasses music, sound, text and image. He has participated in a wide range of music and literature festivals, exhibitions, as well as film and electronic music festivals in Sweden and internationally, including the Venice Biennale.
Alongside his artistic work, Strömberg has been active as a cultural journalist for many years, including for Aftonbladet and Sveriges RadioHe works regularly with sound art and sound environment issues and has published several books, including The audio library together with Joakim Pirinen and But first some music together with Göran Greider.
With the experiment as a starting point, he continues to move between different forms of expression. Current projects include the performance My life as Erik Satie together with Joakim Pirinen and a performance based on Maldoror's songs by Isidor Ducasse, where he participates together with Amanda Ooms, among others.
Welcome to a conclusion where unexpected sound worlds, improvisation and artistic curiosity take place in the exhibition.
PREVIOUS PROGRAMS
Saturday, September 26 at 2:00 PM in Salarna.
Performance in the exhibition
Exhibition Oppression hosted by SU-EN, artistic director of SU-EN Butoh Company, choreographer, dancer, performance artist and curator. Since 1997 she has been active at Haglund Skola outside Uppsala, where she runs an international center for butoh art.
SU-EN was educated in Tokyo and has been active internationally since 1992. Her artistry is based on the Japanese butoh tradition and is characterized by a physical and poetic expression where body, place and presence are at the center.
SU-EN and Anders Rönnlund have collaborated on several occasions over the years. In connection with Oppression their artistic practices meet once again in an exploration of movement, space and existential experiences.
Saturday, September 19 at 2:00 PM in Salarna.
Artist Mats Caldeborg (Konsthall Norra Kvarken) talks with Anders Rönnlund.
Mats is a sculptor with an idea-based artistic practice, focusing on nature and ecology from an existential perspective, where spatiality is always a design principle. He has had exhibitions and made public designs mainly in Sweden. He is the artistic director at Konsthall Norra Kvarken. He lives and works in Järnäsklubb, Nordmaling. In addition, he writes and contributes texts in various contexts, including in “Thoughts for the Day” on Sveriges Radio.
Saturday, September 12 at 2:00 PM in Salarna
Book presentation and artist talk
Anders Rönnlund talks with Sebastian Johans, author of the main texts in the book Oppression.
Sebastian Johans is a writer and art critic, active, among other things, in Dagens Nyheter and Art.netHis latest fiction book is Swan Jump: A Novel About a Dead Father (Nirstedt/literature). In his writing he moves between literature, art criticism and essays with a particular interest in the meanings of memory, the body and the image.
Wednesday, August 26 at 6:30 PM, Salarna
Ode to a Dead Pond – improvisation in the exhibition
With Stina Hellberg Agback, harp, and Anders Rönnlund.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Stina Hellberg Agback and Anders Rönnlund perform an improvised musical performance where place, space and moment shape the expression.
Stina Hellberg Agback is a harpist, composer and improviser with a unique voice on the Nordic jazz scene. By expanding the expressive possibilities of the harp, she unites jazz, free improvisation and art music in a personal and innovative musical language. Her work has made her one of Sweden's most noted jazz harpists.
Wednesday, September 2 at 6:30 PM in Salarna
Ode to a Dead Pond – improvisation in the exhibition
With Eva Lindal, violin, and Anders Rönnlund.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Eva Lindal and Anders Rönnlund perform an improvised musical performance where music, space and moments are woven together in a sensitive encounter.
Eva Lindal is a violinist with a broad artistic practice that encompasses improvisation, contemporary music and historical baroque playing. Through international collaborations and experimental projects, she explores the possibilities of the violin across genre and time boundaries.
In 2026 she is up to date with The Biber Project, where she performs Biber's works together with organist Lukas Arvidsson Mystery Sonatas, with the release of Sofia Ganeshian's music on Sharakan Music and with performances around Queen Christina's 400th anniversary in Rome, Athens and Stockholm.