✌ Quiet beauty + Ordinary spaces
MAMMA ANDERSSON
painter
Swedish, b. 1962
Within Andersson's works, she plays with the beauty of ordinary spaces, revealing a wanderlust of truth through everyday simplicity.
-E.L.
ABOUT:
Karin Mamma Andersson (Swedish, b.1962), commonly known as Mamma Anderson, is a Contemporary painter. Her work is often figurative, frequently depicting domestic interiors and snowy landscapes, and is known for its quiet, dreamlike quality, and use of theater-like pictorial space. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and she has been represented by David Zwirner gallery since 2004. Her first solo museum exhibition took place in 2010 in Colorado at the Aspen Art Museum, and she has gone on to have other solo shows at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, the Museum Haus Esters in Germany, and at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others. She represented Nordic countries during the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.
Andersson was born and raised near the Polar Circle, in Luleå, Sweden. She pursued her studies at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, where she adopted the nickname "Mamma," which she continues to use to this day. Her work can be found in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others. She lives and works in Stockholm. - ARTNET
MORE SOURCES
https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/mamma-andersson
https://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/exhibitions/2018/10/mamma-andersson
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