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10 September 2022 - 29 January 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This autumn, the Thiel Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Stockholm since 1945 of the ground-breaking modernist Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m (1880-1967). Her practice is dominated by powerful portraits and expressionist experiments. On a trip to Finland in 1912, Holmstr\u00f6m experienced a colouristic liberation. In her own words, \u201cReflection is the first step towards art.\u201d From then on, paintings such as Strangers<\/em> (1913-14) and Outside a Music Cafe, Biskra <\/em>(1929) earned the artist national renown, and even a small international breakthrough after they were shown in London and Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition began with Carl Wilhelmson\u2019s painting M\u00e5larinnor<\/em> (1902) in our collection, an allegory on the gravity, uncertainty and battle of being an artist, portraying Holmstr\u00f6m together with her student friends Adelheid von Schmiterl\u00f6w and Hanna Borrie. The trio, who had Wilhelmson as their teacher at the Valand Academy in Gothenburg, called themselves \u201cThe Three Musketeers\u201d. Holmstr\u00f6m is the only one of the three who was to make a career as an artist. This exhibition seeks to highlight an exciting oeuvre, relating it to, and commenting on, the collection of the Thiel Gallery, where only nine out of a hundred artists represented are women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In the Gallery, the first thirty years of Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m\u2019s practice are presented. Her style proceeds from pointillism and art nouveau, via modernist mosaics and billowing lines, towards a vibrant expressionism. The imagery in her works is often described as eternal and universal, but in this exhibition, the ground-breaking artist is positioned in her era, with paintings on the theme of women\u2019s suffrage, working-class conditions and the post-traumatic stress of the surviving colonial soldiers from the First World War \u2013 Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m blazed her own trail, in both life and art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is curated by the art historian Adam Korpskog, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tora Vega Holmtr\u00f6m, Figurkomposition<\/em>, 1916, Stiftelsen Tomelilla Konstsamling. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m, Portr\u00e4tt av Gerda Kjellberg-Romanus<\/em>, 1916, privat \u00e4go. Foto: Per Myrehed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m, Anna Paulina<\/em>, 1909, privat \u00e4go. Photo: Per Myrehed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Carl Wilhelmson, M\u00e5larinnor <\/em>(Fr. v. Adelheid von Schmiterl\u00f6w, Hanna Borrie och Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m), 1902, Thielska Galleriet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m, Fr\u00e4mlingar, <\/em>1913-14, Moderna museet. Photo: Albin Dahlstr\u00f6m\/Moderna Museet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m, Ung man med fiskar, <\/em>1918, G\u00f6teborgs konstmuseum. Photo: Hossein Sehatlou\/G\u00f6teborgs konstmuseum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tora Vega Holmstr\u00f6m, Tavastl\u00e4nningar,<\/em> 1912, Malm\u00f6 Konstmuseum.  Photo: Malm\u00f6 Museer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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