Mats Bergquist

About

In his monochrome works Mats Bergquist is using old icon technique with a contemporary language and creates a unique space of silence. His objects are made in a thorough and elaborate process of encaustic - cut wood with a coating of pigments and wax on rough canvas and many layers of chalk, which he meticulously sands before putting them on again. The light is appealingly reflected in the predominantly black and white squares and rectangles.

Biography

Born 1960 in Stockholm. Lives and works in Lövestad, South Sweden.

Education

1978-79	Etienne Decroux, Paris
1979-81	Gerlesborgsskolan, Stockholm
1981-82	Atélier 17, S. W. Haytr, Paris
1986-87	History of Art, Stockholm University

Public and Privat Collections

Bocconi Universität, Milan
Sweden House, Brüssel
Arrhenius laboratory, University Stockholm
Hupertz, Hamburg
Schuler, Munich
Antonia Johnson Mörner, Stockholm
Giuseppina Panza di Biumo, Italy

Exhibitions

2022	Till lucia (with Jonas Malmberg), Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris Mats Bergquist - Jon Groom : Migratory Bird, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg Rest, Konstakademien Stockholm (solo)
2021	Broken Monochrome, Galerie Wichtendahl, Berlin (solo)
2019	Mats Bergquist, Galerie Stefan Vogdt, Munich almost nothing, Galerie Pugliese Levi, Berlin
2018	Mats Bergquist - rest, Galeria San Fedele, Milan Mats Bergquist - Vintersaga, Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm (solo) What Walls Want, Marignana Arte, Venice Marignana Arte, Project Room, Venice
2017	Painting Black, Raum Schroth im Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest (cat.) En konstruktiv tendens, Tomarps Kungsgård, Kvidinge, Sweden Ingenting, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden (solo)
2016	Thou hast beheld thyself in what thou seest, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg (solo) Ero Soltano, Grossetti Arte, Milan Tango, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm (solo) Ashes to ashes. Encausti, Museo Archeologico, Naples (curated by Elena Dal Molin and Marco De Gemmis, solo)
2015	Heart Modulation, 56. Biennale in Venedig, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Giudecca, Venice
2014	White Sensation, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg Galleri Weinberger, Kopenhagen (solo) Painting Black, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York City
2013	Saint Catherine, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm (solo) Best Of, Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg Rinascere, Museo del Territorio, via Quintino Sella, Biella
2012	Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen (solo) Hypericum, Schaltwerk Kunst Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg (solo) Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milan (solo)
2011	Via Lattea, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Cologne (solo, cat.)
2010	Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen (solo) Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milan (solo)
2009	Galleria Johan S, Helsinki (solo) Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm (solo)
2008	Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen (solo) Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2007	Galleri de Suede, Paris (solo)
2006	Nordiska Galleriet, Stockholm (solo) Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2005	Dalarnas Museum, Falun
2003	Amedeo Porro, Milan (solo) Boffi ShowRoom, Milan (solo)
2000	Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen (solo)
1999	Nilufar, Milan (solo)
1998	Doktor Glas Gallery, Stockholm (solo) The Gallery, Växjö (solo) Sölvesborg Konsthall
1997	Södermanlands Museum, Nyköping Galleri Peter Weinberger, Copenhagen (solo)
1994	The Gallery, Växjön (solo) Doktor Glas Gallery, Stockholm (solo) Ann Westin Gallery, Stockholm (solo)
1991	Eralov Gallery, Rome (solo)
1988	The Gallery, Växjö (solo)
1987	Christina Gallery, Eskilstuna (solo) Lång Gallery, Malmö (solo)
1984	Sten Eriksson Gallery, Norrköping (solo)
1983	Gunnar Olsson Gallery, Stockholm (solo)