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until 17.01. | #4846ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake shows from 01. November 2025 (Opening: 31.10.) the exhibition “Stimmen / Röster” by the artist Ann Edholm.
In Voices / Röster, Ann Edholm brings together significant works from the early 1990s and a new body of paintings from this year that mark a new phase in her practice. Together, they reveal the richness and force of her distinctive, physically engaged approach to abstraction, while highlighting her significant position within Swedish and European painting.
Image as Act, the title of two large-scale canvases, can be seen as emblematic of the new works. Edholm developed each painting individually through the painterly process itself, correlating them to the human body. They demand an active, bodily engagement – “from navel to navel,” as Edholm explains – to fully grasp their subtle complexity and contrasting painterly effects. In Image as Act, vivid red “zips” run horizontally across the canvases as evenly as lines on a page, while smoky gestures of black color seem to press against the grid from behind. Depending on the viewer’s perspective and the interplay of light, the black shifts in depth and tonality, revealing an intricate web of traces and allusions.
Ann Edholm, Image as Act / Part Two Nr. 1, 2025, acrylic and vinyl on canvas, 240 x 180 cm
About Ann Edholm
Ann Edholm was born in Stockholm in 1953. She lives and works in Nyköping, Sweden.
Recent solo exhibitions include Vandalorum, Värnamo (2025); Hedvig Eleonora Church, Stockholm (2024); Ravinen, Båstad (2023); Lund Cathedral and Ronneby Konsthall (with Tom Sandqvist, both 2022); Dalslands Konstmuseum, Åsensbruk (2021); Bildmuseet Umeå University (2019) and Strandverket Art Museum (with Hilma Af Klint), Marstrand (2016). She participated in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Ahlen and Gothenburg Museum of Art (both 2025); EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art (2024) as well as Foundation CAD, Brussels (2020).
Other significant group exhibitions include Morán Morán, Los Angeles (2018); Skissernas Museum, Lund (2014); Denise René, Paris (2014); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010, 1995 and 1991); Millesgården (with Håkan Rehnberg), Stockholm (2007); Gothenburg Museum of Art (2003); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main (1995); and PS1, New York (1988). She participated in the Carnegie Art Award in 2012 and the Tirana Biennial in 2009. Edholm’s monumental curtain Dialogos was commissioned for the UN headquarters, ECOSOC Chamber in New York in 2013. She was awarded the Carnegie Art Award second prize in 2012 and the Prince Eugen Medal in 2016. Her works are included in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art; National Museum, Stockholm; Gothenburg Museum of Art; Skissernas Museum, Lund and The Council of the European Union, Brussels, among others. She is represented by Galerie Nordenhake since 1994.
Opening: Friday, 31. October 2025, 6 – 8 pm.
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 01. November 2025 – Saturday, 17. January 2026
To the gallery
Title image caption: Ann Edholm, Där is är / Where Ice is IV, 2023, oil on canvas, 150 x 125 cm.
Exhibition Ann Edholm – Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
