Emma Bjurström b. 1986
Emma Bjurström was born in Uppsala, Sweden.
Lives and works in Virrestad, Sweden.
Bjurström graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2014 and has since focused primarily on painting as her medium of choice. Her work explores how artifacts and symbols from the past can be reinterpreted, re-evaluated, and brought back to life. What once was is transformed. Through meticulous studies and enlarged depictions of historical objects, Bjurström breathes new energy into the past while highlighting the evolving distance between different eras. Objects from history acquire renewed meaning in a new millennium. Nineteenth-century painting serves as a key reference point in her practice, and she cites artists such as Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent, and Édouard Manet as major influences.
Her solo exhibitions include In Three Acts (2023) at Lamb Art Gallery, London; Timber and Stone (2021) and Absentminded Deformation (2018), both at Belenius in Stockholm and at Överkloster (2017) in Skåne, Sweden.
Through her art, Bjurström gives rise to new ideas, insights, and relationships by engaging with old materials and ideals. In a world shaped by dualistic thinking, her work insists on a dialogue between the past and the present.
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Preludium, 2025
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Slackvatten, 2025
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Spår av rök från trakterna i dess närhet, 2025
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Someone else is breathing, 2024
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Breaking Tree (of Itself), 2023
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Cast Outside, 2023
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Exit /Enter II, 2023
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Exit/Enter, 2023
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Imprinted Vectors, 2023
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Lacking Qualities, 2023
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No-Matter(What), 2023
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Untitled, 2023
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Knitted Square, 2019
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Dressed Up for Departure
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Timber and Stone Act with Tin Pants Artifact
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Untitled
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Someone else is breathing
Emma Bjurström 9 May - 7 Jun 2025Someone else is breathing While working on her new paintings, Bjurström has asked herself whether a work in a series of paintings can push aside the one that came before...Read more -
Everything Except Itself
Emma Bjurström 25 May - 22 Jun 2023A conversation between Emma Bjurström and Sofia Curman Sofia: In earlier series you have used painting as a method to research your own family history as well as art history....Read more -
Timber and Stone Act of Tin Pants Artifacts
Emma Bjurström 18 Feb - 20 Mar 2021(English below) Emma Bjurström undersöker i denna utställning den svenska myllan och platsbundna företeelser. Detaljstudier och förstoringar av föremål från en svunnen tid. Det binära som infinner sig i motståndet,...Read more -
One work by each artist
16 Nov - 7 Dec 2019One work by each gallery artist, exhibition curated by intern Märta Öringe for gallery weekend Stockholm 16-17th of November. Exhibition runs until the 7th of December Beth Laurin Bigert &...Read more -
Backdrop
Emma Bjurström 13 Apr - 23 Jun 2019At Six, Brunkebergstorg 6 With a touchdown in art history Bjurström initiates a dialogue with the early modernists. The circle is a recurring theme through her work. It’s a universal...Read more -
Absentminded deformation
Emma Bjurström 22 Nov - 22 Dec 2018There is a movement, much like a whisper from the ancient elevated classics via the masters of our time that flows through Emma Bjurströms painting. She amplifies and throws new...Read more