Axel Lundgren – Archipelactica

Axel Lundgren is an urban planner and visual artist with a master’s degree in landscape planning from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Through photography, sculpture, and installation, he explores themes such as place identity and history.

Archipelactica explores how places function as the center of our inner narrative and how they, in turn, relate to the idea of a “we.” The works are a synthesis, built on fragmentary moments and fantasies together with personal memories and historical observations from Axel Lundgren’s home island of Saltö in the Karlskrona archipelago. The story moves freely beyond truth and falsehood, beyond representation and reality, and beyond the specific place.

Johanna Schartau – Around me – where I live

Johanna Schartau is an artist and filmmaker with an MFA from Konstfack and studies at the Royal Institute of Art. She works on a project basis, often around her own and our shared history with photography, sculpture, installation, and film.

Around me – where I live….

Several years ago, Johanna Schartau began photographing the sheds riddled with bullet holes at the Kabusa firing range. The first time was during the large influx of refugees in the autumn of 2015. She thought about the war in Syria, about refugee camps, about people fleeing their homes. Thus began the project Around me – where I live, but over time the meaning of the places changes. We live on the periphery of wars taking place in Ukraine, in Israel, in Gaza… Here, an echo can be heard. Far away, but near.

At the exhibition, Johanna Schartau shows, among other things, a series of photopolymer etchings from military sites: Kabusa, Ravlunda, and Peenemünde.

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(Centrum) is a series of exhibitions shown at Galleri Format, Projektrum Hjärne, Kristianstad Art Gallery, and Tjörnedala Art Gallery during the period April 19 – June 9. Eight photographers participate – Linnéa Cramer, Erich Hörtnagl, Axel Lundgren, Alice Millet, Anna Nordquist Andersson, Jens Nordström, Johanna Schartau, and Henrik Wejfeldt. Their works revolve around issues of representation, norms, equality, identity, exclusion, place, belonging, history, and the future. The project is carried out by the Center for Photography with the support of Region Skåne.

Read more about (Centrum) and the other exhibitions in the project here.