Arcrafteopteryx was a public decoration above the door of Crystal gallery in Stockholm 2008-2009. It can be read as a sign, a protective animal, icon or a grotto placed in an urban surrounding, a prehistoric bird caring for happiness and … Read More
“Aestheticly influenced by renaissance painting, objet d´art and contemporary spiritual movements I’m now showing the pieces First and Second Haven. First Haven is a museumlike piece with no other function than to carry art. A rickety wooden framework decorated with … Read More
”Arriving at dusk to the scout cabin – The Eagles nest. The winter is hard on us with the snow pounding in our faces. Together we carried 300 kilos of clay, firewood and food for three days 200 meters up … Read More
I’m a member of the craft and design group We Work In A Fragile Material. We all have a background in the ceramics and glass institution in Stockholm and together we’ve worked on projects in Stockholm, Oslo, London and New … Read More
Extract from the text Difference and recemblance. The reconstruction of signs by Jivan Astfaclk. Published in the book ”Six views on a practice in Change”, Craft in dialogue, 2005
My third solo exhibition was in Akershus kunstnersenter, Lilleström just outside Oslo in Norway 2004. It was about a being seduced by a romantic tourist image of France and being just fine about it. The exhibition showed three installations with … Read More
I Ferry to my son kan man leka och leva sig in i rollen som kapten, resenär eller bogvisirsmaskinist. Bilden är tillrättalagd och befriad från den reella platsens hierarkier, faror, smuts och vardagsproblem. Lekaren har möjlighet att välja när hon … Read More
Forgetting to look at the view was first shown at Svensk samtidskeramikk, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo in 2003. The exhibition was curated by Päivi Ernkvist, Sara Isaksson From and Åsa Jungnelius and opened by queen Sonja of Norway.
Love Jönsson, art ctitic, writer, curator and commissary at Röhsska museum in Gothenburg wrote a catalogue text about my work for Twelwe Hertha Bengtson grant recipients, an exhibition I attended which was shown in
Second solo exhbition was in 2001 in the craft and design gallery Agata, near Nytorget in Stockholm. The gallery was run by Maj Sandell and Agnes Lidman. The piece was accompanied by the following text. Myself, my girlfriend and our … Read More
My first solo exhibition, right after graduation, was in Gallery Inger Molin in 1999. Most pieces were untitled and crafted in unglazed porcelain. Read more in map.linusersson.com, Art or craft?
My first exhibition after graduating Konstfack was a group exhibition with the title Present in Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway. Curated by Harald Solberg