KONSTA ACADEMY AWARDS, REWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2022
Katarina Andersson, Gaze, 2019. Egg oil tempera on canvas. Photo Carl Henric Tillberg
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Axel Theofron Sandberg's Watercolor Prize in 2022 to
KATARINA ANDERSSON
for her shimmering still paintings that express timelessness and eternity at the same time.
No one and all time, and how everything is divided and at the same time the same.
They carry the seriousness of the sacred, which at the same time as it is serious is also everyday,
like a breath or an ocean. The obvious simplicity.
With layers upon layers of transparent colors, images are painted with depth and light.
Martha Ossowska Persson, Vein, 2022, watercolor.
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Axel Theofron Sandberg's Watercolor Prize in 2022 to
MARTHA OSSOWSKA PERSON
for her large-scale watercolors of human bodies in close-up.
The gestures of the hands, where you can feel blood and will under the surface of the skin.
Human behaviors, strength and weakness.
With the transparent watercolor she paints hands like caves,
the architecture of the movement, and everyone's vulnerability in the vast space that is our reality.
Peter Koehler, Wild Adversary, 2021. Ink and acrylic on paper. Photo: Nora Bencivenni / Galleri Magnus Karlsson
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Axel Theofron Sandberg's Watercolor Prize in 2022 to
PETER KÖHLER
for his intricate images where the viewer's eye wanders in and gets lost in a fantastic crowd.
Anything can and does happen. Stories are woven together and expanded.
In his detailed works in ink and watercolor, the perspectives in rooms and landscapes shift
and fairy tales appear where figures wear disguises, and dreams and nightmares are mixed
like eternal stories.
Tilda Lovell, Sandlands, 2018. Photo Hendrik Zeitler.
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to award the Hans and Desy Vikstens Scholarship in 2022 to
TILDA LOVELL
for its artistic height.
With dark humor, craftsmanship and great aesthetic sensitivity invites
Tilda Lovell into a post-apocalyptic world where utopia coexists with the disturbed
and gives expression to the unconscious and existential.
Maria Lindberg, Grow up, 2013
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Inez Leanders Award in 2022 to
MARIA LINDBERG
on the ground
Maria Lindberg has accurately created strong and courageous multi-layered images.
For several decades, with her humor and language at the center, she has illuminated various fragmentary
interpretations from everyday life. Her pictures have given the viewer an opportunity to fill in
with their own experiences and thereby enrich their own lives.
Claes Hake, Sledgehammer, 2020, gray granite. Photo by Claes Hake
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Göran Lagervall's prize in 2022 to
CLAE'S CHIN
for a powerful expressionist artistry, often in a large format.
Claes Hake receives the award for his precise, organic encounters in the rust-brown bronzes.
And he gets it for his huge arches in Bohuslänsk granite and for his paintings
on handmade paper. It never looks doubtful. It is intricate, poetic and beautiful.
Jarl Ingvarsson, Eternal Low, 2022, oil and acrylic on panel.
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Augusta, Oscar and Harry Höckerts Prize in 2022 to
JARL INGVARSSON
on the ground
Jarl Ingvarsson's artistry is bright and explosive.
Arching with confident rebelliousness.
It is raw, vital and restless in its pasty physicality.
There is nothing to reveal, more to reveal.
The literal becomes the figurative in the everyday mysteries.
Something emerging in a painting of power transfer, where the inner movement
turns into a visually expanding opportunity.
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Paul Hedqvist Award in 2022 to
CLAES CALDENBY
on the ground
Claes Caldenby, architect and former professor at Chalmers University of Technology,
has made clear the qualities of Swedish contemporary architecture with a sharp and critical eye.
His perspicacity has led him to analyzes and comparisons on an impressive level
with publication in around 60 books, for example "To build a country" from 1998.
With unfailing clarity, he has imparted his insights to generations of students.
Christian Andersson, marrow, 2022. Plaster sculpture with electric light. Photo: Andreas Zimmermann.
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Asmund and Lizzie Arles sculptor prize in 2022 to
CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
on the ground
Christian Andersson likes to take a subversive point of view and shows in his works
that fiction can be more real and productive than dry facts.
In video, drawing and installation, with popular cultural and random building blocks,
he shapes visual frameworks to demonstrate that there are multiple and parallel ways of seeing
on reality and our history. The world appears rudderless, open to speculation
and just like in our dreams, it remains a mystery.
André Nordstrom, End Game, 2021. Installation. Graphite and pastel on paper, MDF, steel, glass, speakers, various sizes.
Photo: Jean Baptiste Béranger
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Vera and Göran Agnekil's scholarship in 2022 to
ANDRÉ NORDSTRÖM
on the ground
The installation "End Game" is like stepping into someone else's dream. It's familiar and eerie at the same time. Things are recognizable – a door, a chair, speakers and pictures on the wall. Which mountain, which people, where are we?
Maybe André Nordström takes us on a journey in the imagination and in history,
Vienna, Morocco, Paris, New York, just follow along until the game is over.
Nada Ali, The Making and Breaking of an Icon, 2021 (ongoing). Sculpture, performance, installation, and video works. Photo: Geska & Robert Brečević.
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to give
Vera and Göran Agnekil's scholarship in 2022 to
NOTHING ALI
on the ground
A practice that does not relate to any rules allows me to create
and remain in playful and experimental worlds, writes Nada Ali herself.
She starts from personal experiences that turn into collective experiences
through sculpture and performance. In "The Making and Breaking of an Icon",
a large clay figure changes form, it is destroyed, burned, repaired.
The work depicts man's inner contradictions.
Photo: Kerstin Östberg
The Art Academy's Prize Committee has decided to award a prize from Erik Lindberg's fund for the promotion of Swedish medal art in 2022 to
KERSTIN ÖSTBERG
on the ground
Kerstin Östberg has masterfully demonstrated her professional skills as an engraver
and in medal art produced medals that arouse curiosity and admiration.
Examples of this are "Birdwatchers" from 2013 engraved directly in copper and a stylish portrait
almost a face over the author Sophia Elisabeth Brenner 2019 in silver executed in the same way.
The striving for renewal in the art of engraving appears in a sympathetic portrait
"Sara Lidman – Live" executed on leaf-thin enamelled copper plate.
ANNIVERSARY DAY 2022
Top row from left: Tilda Lovell, Kerstin Östberg, Claes Caldenby, Claes Hake, André Nordström, Katarina Andersson.
Front row from left: Jarl Ingvarsson, Permanent Secretary Isabella Nilsson, President Helena Tallius Myhrman, Vice President Klara Kristalova, Peter Köhler, Martha Ossowska Persson, Nada Ali. Photo: Björn Strömfeldt / Art Academy.