Lars Strandh

About

The primarily monochromatic pictures of the Swedish artist Lars Strandh can be seen in the tradition of those monochromatic artists who investigate the nature of colour and its presence/appearance.
With Strandh it is his characteristic style of brush stroke – precise, always drawn horizontally over the mounted linen canvas – that generates before the eyes of the viewer the oscillation of lines that are often applied almost tone-in-tone. These pictures appear simple although they are painted with such great precision. They appear monochromatic from a distance and yet are comprised of many finely drawn brush strokes. They are quiet pictures and invite the viewer to contemplate. But if they are not painted in deep, dark blue-black tones but surprise us with fresh reds or very light blue tones, they can also be lively. Lars Strandh’s pictures are simple and beautiful.

Lars Strandh was born in 1961 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He lives and works in Oslo, Norway since 1984.

Biography

Born 1961 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Lives and works in Oslo, Norway.

1992-96	Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway
1995	Ecole Superieur d´Art, Bourges, France
1996-97	Master-Student at The National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo

Scholarships and Grants

1995	Erasmus Scholarship for Studies at Ecole Superieur D´Art, Bourges
1996	The Foundation of Thv. Eriksen
2002-05	The Norwegian working-grant for 3 years
2006/01/00 & 1997/99	Artists’ Consideration Foundation
2007,-02 & 1997	The Department of Cultural Affairs Exhibition-grant
2012,-11,-07,-05	OCA International Support
2014	The Artists Association’s Blom Grant
2016, -12, -10, -06 & 1999	The Foundation of Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard

Bibliography

2016	Fifty shades of red, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
2014	Faszination Farbe, monochrom minimal konkret internationale Positionen, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich Behind the Horizon, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils
2013	International Plein Air Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils
2012	Zwischen Konstruktion und Reduktion 2, Sammlung Hupertz Lars Strandh, Galerie Renatae Bender It’s all about the sea, Galerie Provence
2009	Lars Strandh: New Works on Linen, Nashville Scene Lars Strandh, New works on linen Galeri Provence Galleri Semmingsen 10-år, catalogue
2008	Lars Strandh Nord Art 2008 Ausdruck, Position, Spuren
2007	Open Studios, Artefact Pardo Gallery, Lake Worth
2006	Konstruktiv Tendens, 25 år Farger og speilinger, Dagbladet
2005	Paint it black now on exhibit, Asbury Park press
2004	A show where light is very heavy, New York Times
2003	Lars Strandh

Collections and Public Commissioned Arts

The National Center for Contemporary Arts, Minsk

Gemeinde Järfälla Arts Committee, Järfälla

Sammlung der Universität Oslo, Oslo

Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils

Sammlung der Gemeinde Gothenburg, Gothenburg

Sammlung der Gemeinde Värnamo

Ministerium für auswärtige Angelegenheiten von Norwegen, Oslo

Sammlung des Straßenverkehrsamtes, Oslo

Der Schwedische Kunstrat, Stockholm

Der Norwegische Kulturrat, Oslo

Sammlung der nationalen Stiftung der öffentlich in Auftrag gegebenen Kunst, Oslo

Sammlung des Landes Östergötland, Östergötland

H.M. Queen Sonja’s Jubiläumssammlung, Oslo

Sammlung der TELENOR Group, Oslo

Sammlung Maximilian und Agathe Weishaupt, München

Sammlung Hupertz, Hamburg

Museum Haugesunds Billedgalleri, Haugesund

Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt

Sammlung des Unternehmens Statoil, Stavanger

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2022	Memories, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg as light transforming color - Kristin Lindberg and Lars Strandh, Drammen Art Museum, Norway Jus Juchtmans - Lars Strandh - Two European Positions in Minimalist Paintings, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich Timeless Lines - Infinies vibration, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2020	Selected Poems - New Drawings, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2019	Sisyphus - a one week drawing performance and exhibition, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome Ewerdt Hilgemann, Sculpture - Lars Strandh, Paintings, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg
2018	Joe Barnes - Lars Strandh - The Presence of the Monochrome, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
2017	Lars Strandh Malerei + Sabine Staub Plastic, Galerie Kautsch, Michelsstadt Selected Poems - Works on Paper, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville
2016	Et le ciel etait bleu, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Paintings, Flaménska Galleriet, Borås
2015	Im Kabinett, Galerie Wenger, Zurich Listen to your Eyes, Nordland Music Festival Exhibitor, Bodø Kunstforening Recollections from the North, Factory 49, Sydney Recollections from the South West, Galleri Gann, Sandnes Lars Strandh à l´honneur chez radial, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Behind the Horizon, Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk
2014	Behind the Horizon, Vitebsk Art Museum, Vitebsk Behind the Horizon, Siauliai Art Gallery, Siauliai Behind the Horizon, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia Night Visions, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Trace Elements, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee Exsisto, Akerus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm
2012	Being there, Galleri Dag Andersson, Norrköping Kind of blue, Galleri Åkern, Kongsberg Simpicité Complexe, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg It’s all about the sea, Galerie Provence, Vadum Side by side, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
2011	Galerie Oijens, Gothenburg
2010	Hidden Places, Buderup Ødekirke
2009	Galleri LNM, Oslo Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville Galerie Schlegl, Zurich
2008	Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund
2007	Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2006	Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2004	Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2003	Gothenburg Art-association, Gothenburg

Group exhibitions (selection)

2022	Norrköping Non-Figuration 2022, Galleri Sander/NP33, Norrköping, Sweden The Spring Show, Galerie Pugliese Levy, Berlin
2021	The Annual Christmas Exhibition, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway Summer in the City, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg Covimetry, Ely Center of Contemporary Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Found in the Collection, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia Coast to Coast - works on paper by Zeitgeist artists, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Alle - Grand Finale, Galerie Wenger, Zurich
2020	The Christman Exhibition, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo Summer time, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg Bonanza-za-za, Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm Bien chez soi avec Radial, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Group Show, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Punkt und Linie zur Fläche frei nach Kandinsky, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
2019	Winter Show - L'hiver à la galerie Radial, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg small matters - Kunst im kleinen Format, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg Blue matters, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg Similarities and differences - 4 positions (curated by Lars Strandh), Galerie Wenger, Zurich Big Circle - Into a happy mood, M17 Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine Xanadu - Zeitgeist 25 years, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, USA How white is only the wise know, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
2018	It was one Christmas, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo Small is beautyful, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg ALLE*, Galerie Wenger, Zurich Hydrography V, e9a, projectspace for abstract and minimal art, Freiburg Summer in the city, Galerie Kautsch, Michelsstadt Feed your Soul - Le Noir et le Rouge, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Fiction. (With Only Daylight Between Us.) v.2., Srt Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio
2017	Roter Kunstsalon, Museum Villa Rot, Burgreiden En konstruktiv Tendens, Tomarps Kungsgård, Kvidinge Luminous Animals, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta
2016	Small is Beautiful, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Fiction. (With Only Daylight Between Us.) v.2., Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg Fiction. (With Only Daylight Between Us). v. 2, Corridor, Dayton, Ohio Roter Kunstsalon, Villa Rot Museum, Burgreiden Zeitgeist Retrospective, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee Kinder wie die Zeit Verghet, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich Fifty Shades of Red, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich En konstruktiv Tendens, NP 33, Norrköping
2015	ALLE, Galerie Wenger, Zurich Presence - Stillness - Moment - Reflection, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker Therely Bare Redux, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Kentucky En konstruktiv Tendens, Åminne Bruks Museum. Värnamo Therely Bare Redux, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville Radical Abstraction, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Anual Group Show, Factory 49, Sydney Capetillo/Tegtmeier/Strandh, Kunstbygningen i Vrå, Vrå Mostly Monochrome, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich 4th Anniversary Show, 2014, NOoSPHERE Arts, New York
2014	After St-Art, Radial Art Contemporain, Strasbourg Faszination FARBE , KUNSTHAUS Fürstenfeldbruck Blottr, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville 3 years + 3 days, NOoSPHERE Arts, New York
2013	The assemblance of presence, Galerie Wenger, Zurich The Medium’s Session, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville Gold – Exhibition of the Collection, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils A house full of friends, NOoSPHERE Arts, New York
2012	Open studios, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville Zeitgeist Open Studio, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville Galleri Gann, Sandnes Mark Rothko Residency 2012, Daugavpils Museum for Regional Studies and Art, Daugavpils Non-Figurativ, Edsvik Konsthall, Stockholm To be looked at…,Close to…, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia L’été chez Radial, Radial Art Contemprain, Strasbourg
2011	Appartement d'un collectionneur I, Galerie Gimpet et Müller, Paris White – Hot, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York Cheekwood nights, Cheekwood museum of art, Nashville Northstars, White, Gallery .NO, New York Punkt–Linie–Fläche, C.Wichtendahl Galerie, Berlin An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Therely Bare, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga
2010	Winter, Galerie Schlegl, Zurich Monochromes II, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich Summer Special, Galerie Schlegl, Zurich Galerie Provence, Vadum
2009	What's out there? , Galerie Renate Bender, Munich Von der Poesie des Geometrischen, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz
2008	To Be Looked at… , Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Ausdruck, Position, Spuren, Kunstverein Wiligrad, Lübstorf Dialogues, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee Surfaces – an exhibition about monochromatic paintings, Galleri F15, Jeløy Singular, Luxe Gallery, New York
2007	Konstruktive Tendenzen, Museum Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo
2005	Paint it Black, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, New Jersey
2002	Concrete, Non-figurative paintings in Norway 1920-2000, Lillehammer Art Museum, Bergen Art Museum and Trondheim Art Museum, Lillehammer
2001	Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
2000	G. Keyt Int. Artist Camp 2000", The National Gallery, Colombo