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Karl Holmqvist
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Karl Holmqvist is known for using a wide range of formats–poetry readings, installation, and sculpture–to bring out the primal qualities of language. He is one of a current generation of artists working with language and text as a sculptural or performative material. Holmqvist says his work is meant to spark the creative process in the viewer, seeing his art and poetry as a translation of the complexities of contemporary life. He blends poetry with pop music and his texts, composed of anecdotes as famous as they are diverse, explore the theme of communication and language. For example, Read Dear (2016) is a text-based series in an intimate installation of digitally printed canvases, graffiti, and concrete poetry. Together, the works unpack the many operations of language, how it can occupy space and provoke “invisible images” within memory and imagination.
He has had solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre in London, Bergen Kunsthall, Gaga ARTE CONTEMPORANEO in Mexico City, Hollybush Gardens, London, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Argos Centre in Brussels, and The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, among others. His work has been presented in group exhibitions at institutions such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, London’s ICA, Moderna Museet …
Karl Holmqvist is known for using a wide range of formats–poetry readings, installation, and sculpture–to bring out the primal qualities of language. He is one of a current generation of artists working with language and text as a sculptural or performative material. Holmqvist says his work is meant to spark the creative process in the viewer, seeing his art and poetry as a translation of the complexities of contemporary life. He blends poetry with pop music and his texts, composed of anecdotes as famous as they are diverse, explore the theme of communication and language. For example, Read Dear (2016) is a text-based series in an intimate installation of digitally printed canvases, graffiti, and concrete poetry. Together, the works unpack the many operations of language, how it can occupy space and provoke “invisible images” within memory and imagination.
He has had solo exhibitions at Camden Arts Centre in London, Bergen Kunsthall, Gaga ARTE CONTEMPORANEO in Mexico City, Hollybush Gardens, London, Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Argos Centre in Brussels, and The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, among others. His work has been presented in group exhibitions at institutions such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, London’s ICA, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, White Columns in New York, Zürick Kunsthalle, Manifesta 7 in Trento and the 54th Venice Biennial.
Courtesy of Camden Arts Centre
Born 1964
Hometown Västerås, Sweden
Lives and Works Berlin, Germany
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