Cato Lein is a famous portrait photographer from Norway, living in Sweden. Frekles is one of his own projects, fantastic portraits of red frekles. In black and white.
Slow Light 25/4 - 16/5 2010
Slow Light was an exhibition with and about pinhole cameras.
25th of April was the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD) and we celebrated it by opening this exhibition. Please read more on www.pinholeday.org
The Photographers at the exhibition were:
Iwo Myrin Lena Källberg Peter Wiklund Stéphane Chabrier Svante Warping
Appearances 8/4 - 18/4 2010
Appearances av Linda Sundqvist
[uh-peer-uh ns-is] "Variations in the physical appearance of humans, known as human looks, are believed by anthropologists to be an important factor in the development of personality and social relations."
Vi lever idag i en tid där allt är föränderligt. Inget är bestående. Retuschnormen står för det normala och den rådande trenden bestämmer läpparnas färg. Men smink är för mig något mycket mer fundamentalt. Människans behov av att förändra sig genom sitt yttre, den fasad man vill visa när allt rämnar inuti, sin grupptillhörighet eller sitt oberoende att tillhöra en. Skådespelaren som genom sin spegelbild ser karaktären komma till liv genom de rätta attributen. För den transexuelle, sitt totala beroende att genom sitt ansikte visa vem han eller hon egentligen är. Eller kvinnans, genom tiderna fragmentariska ansikte som stöps i nutidsformen; 20-talets lilla mun eller 90-talets stora. Tonårsflickans narcissism som speglas i den bästa vännens likadana hår och färgval på läppar, för att visa sin osårbarhet gentemot omvärlden. Tillsammans står vi starka i våra val. Ensamma sticker vi ut, sårbara. Till sist ikonerna, de odödliga som vågar sticka ut så mycket att det blir normen för de övriga dödliga.
Detta är smink för mig.
Linda Sundqvist.
En utställning av Linda Sundqvist i samarbete med fotograferna Anka Bardeleben Anna Mattsson Jesper Brandt John Gripenholm Julia Hetta Tomas Näsström
DAWID - FSCC 6/3 - 4/4 2010
DAWID had three different exhibition at the same time in Stockholm, at three different galleries in walking distance. The theme is cars and motoring but with totaly different expressions in each and every gallery. Galleri ikon showed colorful still life pictures from the series FSCC, some of them shown at Skövde Art Museum 2008.
Björn Abelin - Escapes 6/2 - 28/2 2010
Björn Ablins beautiful series of landscapes were published as a book in 2006. The book was nominated in Sweden as the Photobook of the Year. Björns work is a ongoing project for at least ten years. He has carried his full format camera in Sweden but also in other parts of Europe. But the places are not important, the pictures gives Björn and the viewer time for reflection and consideration. Escapes.
Lennart Jonasson - Wild Cards 9-31/1 2010
The music festival Storsjöyran in Östersund has a legendary status among artists. The photographer Lennart Jonasson brought his studio every year and created amazing portraits of famous artists, for over 20 years. A selection, of at least a thousand portraits, are published in the book Wild Cards. We show some of them at galleri ikon during January.
Micke Berg - café del mare 7/11 - 6/12 2009
Micke Berg, born in Lappland, the very northern part of Sweden, is intimately connected to Stockholm since the 1960s. He documents his city and his life and for that he was awarded with the Lennart af Petersen price 2009. Galleri ikon shows another part of Micke this time, his greek side. Micke spends his summers in the Greek Archipelago and this summers picture will be exhibited on galleri ikon during the period 7th of November until 6th of December.
Sara Arnald - 50%gray 1/10 - 25/10 2009
A blog is often based on words but there are others too. There are wordless blogs. The photo blog is often a non comment dairy, a space for pictures without connections. Pictures who are selected among the unselected, pictures in between. You were able to follow the photo blog www.50percentgray.net at galleri ikon during the period of 1-25th of October, in print.
Anna Clarén - Puppy Love 5/9 - 27/9 2009
Puppy Love is a journey through the old Photo Album. Up and down, from pink to red. This story is about girly things and teenagers puberty. Its about the need to be seen and to be loved. To find a way home, both by yourself and by somebody. Anna Claréns last book Holding (Journal) was selected as the Photobook of the Year 2006 in Sweden.
Hans Malm - Sleeping With The Lights On 28/5 - 14/6 2009
This project started five years ago when Hans after twenty years moved back to Gustavsberg. He noticed that the calm suburb has changed a lot and started to document the community. But only during night time and only with old technic, to be able to catch the colors we normaly don't see. His work is slowly, the exposure times are often about 20 minutes. His work are surrealistic and full of details at the same time, an empty road a beautiful summer night or his old kindergarten in ruins.
With old pictures from Moscow 1964 and new ones from Swedens industrial era, Stéphane compares the two social spaces. Architecture has always been used for political reasons and these pictures shows how it affects our releationship to the rest of the world. Its contructions brings a social reality. A bridge, a square, a stadium - trough this graphic and abandoned architectural shapes, two epochs can be compared.
Stéphane Chabrier is educated at E.T.P.A school in Toulouse, France. By investigating unconventional issues, his reasearch about cities and farmland which is hidden or forgotten, can continue. His method is both documentary and conceptual and his profession as an illustrator affects his view of photography.
Edvard Koinberg - book release Herbarium Amoris 23/4 - 26/4 2009
Edvard Koinbergs exhibition Herbarium Amoris has been travelling the world since 2003. At the moment the exhibition is in Frankfurt. During four days we were able to show a part of it at galleri ikon, at the same time as the release of the book. The book has six different languages in six different editions from Taschen.
Jonas Linell 26/3 - 19/4 2009
Jonas Linell has been a photographer for a long time. Among other mandators he has been working with the swedish rock group kent and made their album covers. For the first time you were able to see them as an exhibition. They are full of integrity and doesn't need to be accompanied by the music. And they are very beautiful!
Naun Juarez - El Pepenador 26/2 - 22/3 2009
We carry our history with us and continues to fill our luggage every day. We can not throw our memories away, not our experiences either. We can not lock them in and not hide. In the exhibition "El Pepenador", Nauns brings us to an inner process about mixed cultures and identity.
Naun Juarez is a art student at The Royal University College of Fine Arts (KKH) in Stockholm, Sweden and has a genuin list of educations in Photography and Film from Mexico. Ha has also studied Photography at Kulturama in Stockholm. Nauns work always contains large format camera and there is only one edition of each work.
Annika Thörn Legzdins 22/1 - 15/2 2009
Thirty years ago, before I began the study of Zen, I said, 'Mountains are mountains, waters are waters.' After I got insight into the truth of Zen through the instructions of a good master, I said, 'Mountains are not mountains, waters are not waters. 'But now, having attained the abode of final rest, (that is, Awakening) I say, 'Mountains are really mountains, waters are really waters.'
Ch'ing yuan Wei-hsin
A woman with a distant gaze is the main character in Annika Thörn Legzdins early images. Most often she is in her home, alone, frozen in the middle of some everyday activity, but eventually she finds her way outside. In the photograph "Untitled" she is standing in an anonymous suburb with her back towards us. She seems cut off, unfamiliar with the place, but maybe now she sees the world around her for the first time? Later her gaze melts together with what she sees and in "Neverlands" she has been overpowered by her surroundings and become part of the landscape rushing by.
There is a change in the artist's perception over these ten years, from slight aversion to a commencing appetite, nature seems more and more magnificent. However, her way of looking at the world remains essentially neutral and one gets the impression that the beauty in her later photos does not come from esthetic decisions, but from the fact that reality happened to be beautiful when the picture was taken.
Johan Hedbäck, artist
Henrik Isaksson - Fetus 29/11 - 21/12 2008
Henrik Isakssons surrealistic photographs are waiting to fasten and grow in your fantasy. We are able to study another world in large format. Our thoughts will leed us to extra terrestrial life forms. Henrik has made his pictures in different laborations for the past year and his technic is barely discribable. He started with a large format camera and from there every photograph has grown their own way.
Håkan Strand - Water Works 30/10 - 23/11 2008
Like silk, the ocean looks like silk. Håkans photographs are like poetry, tiny tunes and bombastic at the same time. The human eye isn´t capable to stare for 50 minutes and store the light to a crescendo. But Håkans pictures can, he paints with light. He gives us movies in stills.
Water Works has recently been shown at PhotoPlus in New York, Saatchi Gallery in Nice and at the Phototriennal in Hamburg. Water Works are awarded all over the world and published in Photo Magazines in for example Canada and England.
Joakim Strömholm - Looking back 27/9 - 25/10 2008
This is an exhibition about the soul of the rock music. Rock music has its myths, back stage life and rock stars and it has inspired photographers all over the world. Joakims pictures has a vibrating closeness, not as distanced as many others. Welcome to some classical moments with Nina Hagen, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan and many more.
Thomas Wågström - Boxare 5/9 - 21/9 2008
Thomas Wågströms book "Boxare" (2000) was chosen as one of the 32 most important swedish photo books of all time at Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg 2004. Here you had a rare opportunity to see them again, exhibited in Stockholm for the first time in many years.
Jessica Silversaga 29/5 - 19/6 2008
Jessica Silversaga is a young talented photographer, very faithful to her style. Staged, self portraits and very often pale colours is Jessicas hallmark. Her inner feelings always leads her pictures but she never use sketches. Jessica is a senior student at Gamleby Photography School but her pictures are much more poetic then commersial. Two years ago she was chosed to be one of Swedens most interesting photographers.
Rikkard Häggbom - Before you go. Stay. 26/4 - 25/5 2008
"I wanted to document a changing Estonia. But I ended up with a broken heart and something else then a documentary." Rikkard went to Estonia more then 20 times in a period of four years. He wanted to make a fair portrait of a State who went through a great deal of change, from a part of the Sovjet Union to becoming a member of EU. Suddenly he realized that the whole project was about his own change. The documentary transformed into a romantic story about a broken young love.
Rikkards pictures are subjective and personal, always focusing on something else then the obvious.
Helena Påls - För att/Because 27/3 - 20/4 2008
How to give form to a self destructive inner condition? A process when undermined forces seems to take control. One way to overdue is to take a head of them - to stage the captured pain before it attacks from behind. Or, to imitate your nightmares to repaint them. Trying to invisible visiting places full of memories and experiences. Helena Påls photo book För att/Because is a brave statement. The photographer doesn't try to hide behind a mask. She comes forwards you without any cover. Naked, hurt and bloody.
Adam Wittsell 21/2 - 16/3 2008
Adam works continuously with filtrating the reality and manipulating time. This exhibition starts in Archimedes famous words "give me a place to stand and I will move the earth". Adam work as much as with the final presentation as with the photographic exposure. Especially here where his photographs has transformed into artifacts. You will meet movements and abstraction in a colourful symbiosis.
At the opening night we had Magnus Östergren as our disc jockey. Magnus accompanied Adams live grafic by playing both his own and others music.
Lars G Säfström 26/1 - 17/2 2008
Lars G Safstrom at galleri ikon! He started the photo agency Mira in 1971, and now it is time for us to see his artistic work. An odd but wellknown story told by a grafic language on classic fibre copies.
Fotoskolan finis/ineo 17/1 - 20/1 2008
The end is the beginning of something new. To be thrown into the reality after years of education is a huge step in life. Its a moment of journey to a world of posibilities. This exhibition showed six students from the Photography School in Stockholm, and it showed the leap! It is a complex world, and this world is their own.
The photographers were Karin Stenvall, Sara Axelsson, Åsa Persson, Jeanette Boljang, Linda Åkerberg and Martim Guerra-Silva. More about the students and their work at www.finisineo.com
Kulturama - julexpo 1/12 - 23/12 2007
There are no translations available.
Relationer. Julen handlar om våra relationer, relationer till våra närmaste och till våra önskningar om klappar, värme eller lugn och ro. På ikon visades relationer begränsade till tre. De fjorton eleverna från Kulturamas högre fotografiska utbildning visade varsin triptyk. Varje bild relaterade till de andra och berättade något för oss om vår samtid. 10% av försäljningen gick till Stadsmissionen.
Misha Pedan - STEREO_TYP 3/11-25/11 2007
There are no translations available.
STEREO_TYP vill varken idealisera ögonblicket, tiden som ständigt flyr, eller maskera ögonblicket till evighet. Istället präglas bilderna av en befriande osentimental hållning inför det egna mediets möjligheter och begränsningar. Bilderna är svartvita, och sedan kolorerade. Färgerna är subtila, ibland knappt märkbara. En gräsmatta, eller en skugga som glimrar till. Koloreringen är visserligen diskret, men har en alldeles egen röst: Den utgör en störning i kommunikationen av den svartvita ”dokumentationen”. Störningen hindrar en omedelbar avläsning av bilderna, förlänar dem ytterligare ett skikt av tid. Men en tid som nästan är avstannad. På så vis uppstår en lek med fotografiska konventioner, där olika attityder bryts mot varandra, men ändå samsas inom samma motiv och ram.
I betraktandet av stereo_typ synliggörs ett språk som struktureras av kontraster och sekvenser, närhet och likhet, vertikalitet och horisontalitet, tid och tidlöshet. I alla språk uppstår mening ur skillnader. Skillnaden är ofta ordlös, stum: ett mellanslag på tangentbordet, en hastig andhämtning, eller bara en svart linje mellan två bilder.
Vad är ett hem? Hur upplevs en människa av dess plats och de objekt som omger dem? Hur påverkar de personen?
I utställningen Hemlikt återvänder fotograf Fredrik Sjöberg till sin uppväxt i Kungsbacka. Han fångar barndomens föremål och platser med vuxna distanserade ögon. Föremålen som inte längre tillhör honom eller hans hem blir annorlunda, främmande och samtidigt nästan kusligt bekanta. Platserna är ödsliga och karga. Sedda utan det romantiska skimmer som ofta finns i tillbakablickar.
Micke Berg - Dagar utan mening 8/9 - 30/9 2007
There are no translations available.
Vi känner igen oss, det är klassiska Mickebilder om än helt nya. Gråskalan, sammanflätningen av melankoli och glädje, Stockholmsljuset. Mickes kärlek till sin omgivning får ta plats även dagar utan mening.
"Klockan i Sofia slår tre, eftermiddag. Det är kaffestund på arbetsplatserna, men jag ligger kvar, löven faller över mig. Det kommer att bli vinter om ett tag. Jag kan redan känna de starka vindarna som skall blåsa bort de sista löven. Några löv faller brevid mig. Jag fångar det på bild med min nya digitalkamera. Jag vet inte om jag är lycklig, men jag är iallafall inte olycklig."
Boken säljs till specialpris på ikon!
Lotta Bengtsson - 4xK + 3xT 9/6 - 1/7 2007
There are no translations available.
galleri ikon visade fotografier av Lotta Bengtsson från Göteborg. Delar av den stora utställningen Lotta Nordic Collection som visades i Washington, USA år 2005 visades på galleri ikon.
Lottas beställningsjobb är allt från matporträtt på Göteborgs krogar via verkstadsgolvet på Volvo till Stadsteaterns interiörer och scen. Kontrasterna är viktiga i Lottas bildskapande. På ikon fick vi se en färgstark blandning av pictoralism och abstraktion, helt synonymt med hennes bildspråk.
Gustaf Sandström, bokrelease för 42-33 19/5 - 3/6 2007
There are no translations available.
Gustaf Sandströms bilder skapas genom att han ser en metafor, en symbol till sina känslor - sen räknar han till 42 - tar en bild - räknar sen till 33 - sen fångar han den andra bilden. Projektet började med metoden och beslutet om bilderna, sedan kom texterna, allt var en summa av många år och en längtan att beröras och beröra.
Julians bilder handlar om tankar kring avbildning och representation, om definitioner och identiteter. Vad är en bild? Vad är ett ord? Vad är ett ting? Julians fotolingvistik pekar på ett godtyckligt förhållande mellan ett ord och dess betydelse, för vad är till exempel en bild av ett ord?
Linda Sim och Joakim Hansson - Obfuscated Bouyancy 14/4 - 29/4 2007
Linda Sim (Australia) and Joakim Hansson (Finland) are examining aspects of interpretative perception, considering the influence of its general context and the relation of past/future recollection.
The photographic images contain a diffuse painterly allusion; surpassing conventional illustrative photography with a delicate visual sensitivity.
Kulturama elevutställning 3/2 - 18/2 2007
There are no translations available.
Ung ny fotografi. En samling kreativa bilder från Kulturamas kommande avgångsklass. Hur gestalta vår omvärld? Mänskligt - både nära och flyktigt bekanta, både djur och människor, både kända och okända porträtteras kärleksfullt ibland huvudlöst.
Cato Lein is a famous portrait photographer from Norway, living in Sweden. Frekles is one of his own projects, fantastic portraits of red frekles. In black and white.
Slow Light was an exhibition with and about pinhole cameras.
Appearances av Linda Sundqvist
DAWID had three different exhibition at the same time in Stockholm, at three different galleries in walking distance. The theme is cars and motoring but with totaly different expressions in each and every gallery. Galleri ikon showed colorful still life pictures from the series FSCC, some of them shown at Skövde Art Museum 2008.
Björn Ablins beautiful series of landscapes were published as a book in 2006. The book was nominated in Sweden as the Photobook of the Year. Björns work is a ongoing project for at least ten years. He has carried his full format camera in Sweden but also in other parts of Europe. But the places are not important, the pictures gives Björn and the viewer time for reflection and consideration. Escapes.
The music festival Storsjöyran in Östersund has a legendary status among artists. The photographer Lennart Jonasson brought his studio every year and created amazing portraits of famous artists, for over 20 years. A selection, of at least a thousand portraits, are published in the book Wild Cards. We show some of them at galleri ikon during January.
Micke Berg, born in Lappland, the very northern part of Sweden, is intimately connected to Stockholm since the 1960s. He documents his city and his life and for that he was awarded with the Lennart af Petersen price 2009. Galleri ikon shows another part of Micke this time, his greek side. Micke spends his summers in the Greek Archipelago and this summers picture will be exhibited on galleri ikon during the period 7th of November until 6th of December.
A blog is often based on words but there are others too. There are wordless blogs. The photo blog is often a non comment dairy, a space for pictures without connections. Pictures who are selected among the unselected, pictures in between. You were able to follow the photo blog 
This project started five years ago when Hans after twenty years moved back to Gustavsberg. He noticed that the calm suburb has changed a lot and started to document the community. But only during night time and only with old technic, to be able to catch the colors we normaly don't see. His work is slowly, the exposure times are often about 20 minutes. His work are surrealistic and full of details at the same time, an empty road a beautiful summer night or his old kindergarten in ruins.
With old pictures from Moscow 1964 and new ones from Swedens industrial era, Stéphane compares the two social spaces. Architecture has always been used for political reasons and these pictures shows how it affects our releationship to the rest of the world. Its contructions brings a social reality. A bridge, a square, a stadium - trough this graphic and abandoned architectural shapes, two epochs can be compared.
Edvard Koinbergs exhibition Herbarium Amoris has been travelling the world since 2003. At the moment the exhibition is in Frankfurt. During four days we were able to show a part of it at galleri ikon, at the same time as the release of the book. The book has six different languages in six different editions from Taschen.
Jonas Linell has been a photographer for a long time. Among other mandators he has been working with the swedish rock group kent and made their album covers. For the first time you were able to see them as an exhibition. They are full of integrity and doesn't need to be accompanied by the music. And they are very beautiful!
We carry our history with us and continues to fill our luggage every day. We can not throw our memories away, not our experiences either. We can not lock them in and not hide. In the exhibition "El Pepenador", Nauns brings us to an inner process about mixed cultures and identity.
Thirty years ago, before I began the study of Zen, I said, 'Mountains are mountains, waters are waters.'
Henrik Isakssons surrealistic photographs are waiting to fasten and grow in your fantasy. We are able to study another world in large format. Our thoughts will leed us to extra terrestrial life forms. Henrik has made his pictures in different laborations for the past year and his technic is barely discribable. He started with a large format camera and from there every photograph has grown their own way.
Like silk, the ocean looks like silk. Håkans photographs are like poetry, tiny tunes and bombastic at the same time. The human eye isn´t capable to stare for 50 minutes and store the light to a crescendo. But Håkans pictures can, he paints with light. He gives us movies in stills.
This is an exhibition about the soul of the rock music. Rock music has its myths, back stage life and rock stars and it has inspired photographers all over the world. Joakims pictures has a vibrating closeness, not as distanced as many others. Welcome to some classical moments with Nina Hagen, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan and many more.
Thomas Wågströms book "Boxare" (2000) was chosen as one of the 32 most important swedish photo books of all time at Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg 2004. Here you had a rare opportunity to see them again, exhibited in Stockholm for the first time in many years.
Jessica Silversaga is a young talented photographer, very faithful to her style. Staged, self portraits and very often pale colours is Jessicas hallmark. Her inner feelings always leads her pictures but she never use sketches. 
"I wanted to document a changing Estonia. But I ended up with a broken heart and something else then a documentary." Rikkard went to Estonia more then 20 times in a period of four years. He wanted to make a fair portrait of a State who went through a great deal of change, from a part of the Sovjet Union to becoming a member of EU. Suddenly he realized that the whole project was about his own change. The documentary transformed into a romantic story about a broken young love.
How to give form to a self destructive inner condition? A process when undermined forces seems to take control. One way to overdue is to take a head of them - to stage the captured pain before it attacks from behind. Or, to imitate your nightmares to repaint them. Trying to invisible visiting places full of memories and experiences. Helena Påls photo book För att/Because is a brave statement. The photographer doesn't try to hide behind a mask. She comes forwards you without any cover. Naked, hurt and bloody.
Adam works continuously with filtrating the reality and manipulating time. This exhibition starts in Archimedes famous words "give me a place to stand and I will move the earth". Adam work as much as with the final presentation as with the photographic exposure. Especially here where his photographs has transformed into artifacts. You will meet movements and abstraction in a colourful symbiosis.
Lars G Safstrom at galleri ikon! He started the photo agency Mira in 1971, and now it is time for us to see his artistic work. An odd but wellknown story told by a grafic language on classic fibre copies. 
The end is the beginning of something new. To be thrown into the reality after years of education is a huge step in life. Its a moment of journey to a world of posibilities. This exhibition showed six students from the Photography School in Stockholm, and it showed the leap! It is a complex world, and this world is their own.
Relationer. Julen handlar om våra relationer, relationer till våra närmaste och till våra önskningar om klappar, värme eller lugn och ro. På ikon visades relationer begränsade till tre. De fjorton eleverna från Kulturamas högre fotografiska utbildning visade varsin triptyk. Varje bild relaterade till de andra och berättade något för oss om vår samtid. 10% av försäljningen gick till Stadsmissionen.
_TYP vill varken idealisera ögonblicket, tiden som ständigt flyr, eller maskera ögonblicket till evighet. 
Vad är ett hem? Hur upplevs en människa av dess plats och de objekt som omger dem? Hur påverkar de personen? 
Vi känner igen oss, det är klassiska Mickebilder om än helt nya. Gråskalan, sammanflätningen av melankoli och glädje, Stockholmsljuset. Mickes kärlek till sin omgivning får ta plats även dagar utan mening. 
galleri ikon visade fotografier av Lotta Bengtsson från Göteborg. Delar av den stora utställningen Lotta Nordic Collection som visades i Washington, USA år 2005 visades på galleri ikon. 
Gustaf Sandströms bilder skapas genom att han ser en metafor, en symbol till sina känslor - sen räknar han till 42 - tar en bild - räknar sen till 33 - sen fångar han den andra bilden. Projektet började med metoden och beslutet om bilderna, sedan kom texterna, allt var en summa av många år och en längtan att beröras och beröra.
Julians bilder handlar om tankar kring avbildning och representation, om definitioner och identiteter. Vad är en bild? Vad är ett ord? Vad är ett ting? 
Linda Sim (Australia) and Joakim Hansson (Finland) are examining aspects of interpretative perception, considering the influence of its general context and the relation of past/future recollection.
Ung ny fotografi. En samling kreativa bilder från Kulturamas kommande avgångsklass. Hur gestalta vår omvärld? Mänskligt - både nära och flyktigt bekanta, både djur och människor, både kända och okända porträtteras kärleksfullt ibland huvudlöst.