New Exhibition: Haunting. Tom Hedqvist & Ingela Håkansson Lamm

This exhibition is the next instalment in the Thiel Gallery’s initiative where artists are invited to present works from the collection in a contemporary perspective. This time, in collaboration with two profoundly experienced artists/designers: Tom Hedqvist and Ingela Håkansson Lamm. Their work in the design collective 10-gruppen helped launch them as pioneers in textile art in Sweden. Their background ties in with a key exhibition tradition at the Thiel Gallery, where textile art is featured regularly. Tom Hedqvist’s past is also linked with Blockhusudden: his father was a curator at the Thiel Gallery in 1961–1977, and the family lived in the staff flat, which has since been converted into the café. This exhibition is a kind of homecoming for him.

Tom Hedqvist and Ingela Håkansson Lamm were given free reins to choose works and objects from the collection, together with their own works created specifically for the exhibition, in an explorative dialogue with history. 

The word haunting can have a variety of meanings. A house can be haunted with misfortune, or destructive forces that may afflict even the happiest of families – such as the sad fate that forced the Thiels to surrender their home and art collection. But it also conveys an elusive, or eerie quality when referring to a house – a dream home, a lost home, the home of others.

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