Claes Jurander is one of Sweden's foremost cartoonists and also works in a broad artistic field with sculpture, painting, illustration, linocuts and animations.

The artist mixes low-key everyday realism, anecdotes and autobiographical reflections and creates philosophical and humorous picture stories with existential streaks of melancholy and anticlimax. Jurander, with his distinctive line between cartoon art and momentary notes, is in many ways a leading figure in the Swedish cartoon series.

The Academy of Fine Arts shows Claes Jurander's diverse artistry, where visual storytelling and animation are given great attention. The exhibition revolves around subject areas that have been in the artist's production over the years, everything from the child's fascination with expressing himself in images and exploring his surroundings and growing space of thought - drawing seen as a special experimental place to be - to the youth's search to express and understand, to the elderly's multi-faceted content and formulations of presence in genuine moments up to the present day when even challenges from illness and pandemic have colored his visual world. The exhibition is accompanied by Claes Jurander's new book Faith and doubt to buy in the Academy of Fine Arts café.

Claes Jurander was born in 1948 and was a professor at Konstfack from 1992 to 1997. He was educated at Gerlesborg School and Valand Academy of Fine Arts during the 1960s and 1970s and has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts since 2008.