Mats Bergquist

Vintersaga, 2019, encaustic on wood, 37,5 x 60 cm – 37,5 x 30 x 5 cm – 37,5 x 37,5 cm

Iconostasi, 2016-17, encaustic on wood, variable dimensions

Vintersaga IV, 2018, encaustic on wood, 37 x 30 – 125 x 100 cm

La Suite di Brigida, 2018, encaustic on wood, 90 x 90 cm each

Tango, 2015, encaustic on wood, 45 x 30 cm each

Iconostasi, 2017, encaustic on wood, 25 pieces 17 x 13 cm each

Bethlehem, 2008, encaustic on wood, 3 pieces 120 x 90 each – 3 pieces 30 x 30 cm

Concav Convex, 2012, encaustic on wood, each 34 x 27 cm

Siah, 2014, egg tempera on acrylic and wood, 100 x 75 cm

Ayiasma 2, 2017-2018, egg tempera on acrylic and wood, 8 x 210 cm

Broken Monochrome, 2018, encaustic on wood, 37 x 30 cm

Daruma Raku, 2015, Raku ceramic, various sizes

Tango, 2015, encaustic on wood, 30 x 24 cm

Broken Monochrome, 2014, encaustic on wood, 62 x 50 cm

Concav Convex, 2014, encaustic on wood, each 34 x 27 cm

Tango, 2015, encaustic on wood, 25 x 20 each

Monaco, 2010, encaustic on wood, 15 x 45 x 5 cm

Monaco, 2013, encaustic on wood, 26 x 20 x 5 cm

I dreamed a dream – Chapter 1 (group show), curated by Domenico De Chirico, Marignana Arte, Venice, November 2019 – March 2020

Stanze (group show), curated by Ilaria Bignotti and Maria Savarese, Marignana Arte, Venice, 2019

Rest (solo show), curated by Bruno Corà and Andrea Dall’Asta, San Fedele Gallery, Milan, 2018

W.W.W. – What Walls Want (group show), curated by Ilaria Bignotti, Marignana Arte, Venice, 2018

Mats Bergquist. The darkness of light (solo show), curated by Ilaria Bignotti, Marignana Arte, Venice (project room), 2018

Daruma, site-specific installation, January-February 2017, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
Installation view by Mats Bergquist, Daruma, site-specific installation, January-February 2017, Palazzo Ducale, Genova

Ero Solo (solo show), March – April 2016, Milan
Installation view by Mats Bergquist, Ero Solo (solo show), March - April 2016, Milan

Installation view by Mats Bergquist, Ero Solo (solo show), March - April 2016, Milan

Installation view by Mats Bergquist, Ero Solo (solo show), March - April 2016, Milan

Mats Bergquist. Allt Vad Vi Onskat Sonderkysst. Tutto quello che abbiamo sempre desiderato. Consumato di baci (solo show), curated by Alfonso Cariolato, May – July 2015, Atipografia Arzignano (VI)
Installation view of Mats Bergquist. Allt Vad Vi Onskat Sonderkysst. Tutto quello che abbiamo sempre desiderato. Consumato di baci (solo show), curated by Alfonso Cariolato, May - July 2015, Atipografia Arzignano (VI)

Installation view of Mats Bergquist. Allt Vad Vi Onskat Sonderkysst. Tutto quello che abbiamo sempre desiderato. Consumato di baci (solo show), curated by Alfonso Cariolato, May – July 2015, Atipografia Arzignano (VI)

Heart Modulation III: Mats Bergquist, Walter Cascio, Dado Schapira (group show), June 2015, Milan
Installation view of Heart Modulation III: Mats Bergquist, Walter Cascio, Dado Schapira (group show), June 2015, Milan

Installation view of Heart Modulation III: Mats Bergquist, Walter Cascio, Dado Schapira (group show), June 2015, Milan

Installation view of Heart Modulation III: Mats Bergquist, Walter Cascio, Dado Schapira (group show), June 2015, Milan

I dreamed a dream, GREY Magazine, April 2020
I dreamed a dream at Marignana Arte
, Art Viewer, March 2020

I DREAMED A DREAM, CHAPTER 1. UN SOGNO MAI RIVELATO, Francesca Di Giorgio, Espoarte, November 2019
Marignana Arte. Sei artisti per tre stanze
, Lucia Longhi, Espoarte, March 2019
Mats Bergquist. Rest
, Gagarin-Magazine, March 2019
Organi, tempo e materia. Sei artisti a Venezia, Arianna Testino, Artribune, March 2019

Mats Bergquist in mostra a Bologna, Niccolò Lucarelli, Artribune, March 2019
Tutto il tempo in un quadro, Gregorio Botta, La Repubblica, February 2019, Download
Art Cities: Venice – Stanze, Dimitris Lempesis, DreamIdeaMachine, February 2019

Febbraio in mostra: 10 appuntamenti in galleria da mettere in agenda, Nicola Maggi, Collezione da Tiffany, February 2019
Febbraio 2019: le mostre da non perdere, Alice Traforti, The Art Post Blog, January 2019
“W.W.W. – What Walls Want” and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana “The depth must be hidden. Where? At the surface” at Marignana Arte, Venice, Mousse Magazine, August 2018
Art cities: Venice-W.W.W. What Walls Want, Efi Michalarou, Dreamideamachine, May 2018
Dal muro all’opera. Undici artisti a Venezia, Arianna Testino, Artribune, May 2018
Tra materia e pensiero. Le infinite gradazioni di luce di Mats Bergquist a VeneziaArtslife, March 2018

Gesti e icone: gli encausti di Mats Bergquist al MANN, Chiara Reale, RACNA  Magazine, October 2016
Consumato di baci, Maria Lucia Ferraguti, La Domenica di Vicenza, June 2015
Non tutto è spiegabile a parole, Marco Mioli, Arte Communications, 2015
I quadri-scultura di Mats Bergquist, Rosa Pierno, Trasversale,  September 2011
Mats Bergquist – Less is More, Stefania Portinari, View Magazine, n.8 2004

 

Mats Bergquist was born in Stockholm in 1960. Lives and works  between Italy and Sweden.

Mats Bergquist è nato a Stoccolma nel 1960. Vive e lavora tra l’Italia e la Svezia.

 

SELECTED SOLO SHOW

2019
Vintersaga. Wichtendal Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Rest, curated by Andrea Dall’Asta SJ and Elena Dal Molin, Raccolta Lercaro, Bologna
2018
Rest, curated by Bruno Corà and Andrea Dell’Asta SJ, Galleria San Fedele, Milan
The Darkness of Lights, Project Room, Marignana Arte, Venice
2017
Ingenting, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden
En konstruktiv tendens, Tomarps Kungsgård, Helsingborg, Sweden
2016
Thou hast beheld thyself in what thou seest, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
Ero Soltanto, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Tango, Gunnar Olsson Gallery, Stockholm
Ashes to ashes. Encausti, curated by lena Dal Molin and Marco De Gemmis, Museo Archeologico di Napoli, Naples
2015
Allt Vad Vi  Önskat Sonderkysst, Atipografia, Arzignano
2014
Galleri Peter Weinberger, Copenhagen
2013
Saint Catherine, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm
Mats Bergquist, Galleria Disegno, Mantua
2012
Galleri Peter Weinberger, Copenhagen
Hypericum, Schaltwerk Kunst Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
2011
Via Lattea, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne
2010
Galleri Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen
Silent Prayer, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2009
Galleria Johan S, Helsinki
Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2008
Galleri Peter Weinberger, Copenhagen
Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2007
Mats Bergquist, Gallerie de Suede, Paris
2006
Nordiska Galleriet, Stockholm
Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2003
Amedeo Porro, Milan
Boffi ShowRoom, Milan
2000
Weinberger Gallery, Copenhagen
1999
Nilufar, Milan
1998
Doktor Glas Gallery, Stockholm
The Gallery, Växjö
1997
Galleri Peter Weinberger, Copenhagen
1994
The Gallery, Växjö
Doktor Glas Gallery, Stockholm
Ann Westin Gallery, Stockholm
1991
Eralov Gallery, Rome
1988
The Gallery, Växjö
1987
Christina Gallery, Eskilstuna
Lång Gallery, Malmö
1984
Sten Eriksson Gallery, Norrköping
1983
Gunnar Olsson Gallery, Stockholm

SELECTED GROUP SHOW

2019
I dreamed a dream, curated by Domenico De Chirico, Marignana Arte, Venice
Stanze, curated by Ilaria Bignotti and Maria Savarese, Marignana Arte, Venice
2018
W.W.W – What Walls Want, curated by Ilaria Bignotti, Marignana Arte, Venice
2017
Wopart, Lugano, Switzerland
Incontemporanea, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
Biennale Latitudini, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa
Painting Black, Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany
2015
Heart Modulation, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Venice
2014
White Sensation, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
2008
Choice, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano
2005
Dalarnas Museum, Falun
1998
Sölvesborg Konsthall
1997
Södermanlands Museum, Nyköping

COLLECTIONS

Università Bocconi, Italy
Sweden House, Brussels
Arrhenius laboratory, Stockholm University
Sammlung Hupertz, Hamburg
Sammlung Schuler, München
Antonia Johnson Mörner, Stockholm
Panza Collection, Italy