Leif Elggren b. 1950
Overview
Photo: Hrvoje Goluza
Leif Elggren is a writer, visual artist, art book publisher, stage performer, and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden. His varied and prolific output routinely involves dreams, subtle absurdities, and social hierarchies turned upside-down. His works often includes iconographical material like royal crowns, emblematic symbols, viruses, contagious diseases, furniture and the combination of yellow & black. His audio works are often created as the sound track to an installation or a performance.
Exhibitions
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Work in progress
Leif Elggren / Fatima Moallim / Timothy Wilson 18 Mar - 18 Apr 2021Work in Progress A collaboration with creative consultancy ACNE 18.3.2021 from 14:00 Norrmalmstorg 1 18.3-18.4.2021 Opening the 18.3 at 14:00 Belenius in collaboration with creative consultancy ACNE proudly presents an...Read more -
Semlan
Leif Elggren 25 Feb 2020The bakery was located in the corner of Kungsgatan / Repslagaregatan, it was called Kladdas, on the bottom floor with tiny cottage windows facing out towards both streets, sometimes wide...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 -
Macula Lutea
Leif Elggren 30 Mar - 27 Apr 2019Leif Elggren was born in Linköping, anno domini 1950. As a young man he wanted, by all his heart, to study at an aesthetic gymnasium in order to improve his...Read more -
Ekonomi
Leif Elggren 25 Nov - 23 Dec 2016I meet with Leif in his studio where he provides visual explicatives. But Leif and I don't really require visuals; it's a formality. Inevitably, artists, curators, gallerists and critics get...Read more -
MARKET Art Fair, Stockholm
17 - 19 Apr 2015Miriam Bäckström Leif Elggren Ilja Karilampi Bigert & Bergström Mads Aaroe Willem AnderssonRead more -
Artissima, Turin
7 - 9 Nov 2014Karl Norin Leif Elggren Alexander Gutke Jakob Simonson Hilde Retzlaff Sophie Tottie Simon MullanRead more -
A Dormitory for Celebrities
Leif Elggren 22 Aug - 29 Sep 2013”My name is Legion: for we are many”, an obsessed man replies when Jesus asks for his name (Mark 5:9). The Swedish artist Leif Elggren is also best described in...Read more -
TATORT — A History of (Mostly) Violence
25 May - 23 Jun 2013TATORT Brottsplats/Crime Scene Gösta Adrian-Nilsson Bigert & Bergström John Duncan Leif Elggren Öyvind Fahlström Paul Fägerskiöld Allen Grubesic Philip Grönberg Sten Hansson Carl Michael von Hausswolff Magnus Wallin Weegee –...Read more -
The Armory Show, NY
Leif Elggren, Miriam Bäckström 8 - 11 Mar 2012Leif Elggren, is a Swedish artist born 1950, who lives and works in Stockholm and New York. Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most...Read more -
Physiological Frequencies
Leif Elggren 3 - 31 Dec 2009Drawings from 2004 to 2009 Leif Elggren is a conceptual artist that are combining worlds of audio, visual- and performance-art. Its about signals, sounds, anatomy and ideas about death and...Read more -
ROMA – The Road to Contemporary Art
Willem Andersson, Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff 2 - 5 Apr 2009Read more -
Isola di San Michele (The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren, Jan Håfström, Marja-Leena Sillanpää 14 Feb - 9 Mar 2008ATTENTION! With effect from the 10th of June 2007. We, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, are annexing and occupying Isola di San Michele, the Island of the Dead,formerly a part of...Read more -
Something like seeing in the dark
Leif Elggren, John Duncan 25 Oct - 23 Nov 2007The name of the show, Something like seeing in the dark, refers to the first collaboration between artists John Duncan (b. 1953, Kansas, USA) and Leif Elggren (b. 1951, Linköping,...Read more -
Autistisk kilskrift
18 Nov - 23 Dec 2006Styx has been publishing since the summer of 2005 produced books in a borderland between art, literature, music, film and philosophy. The books are often rooted in exhibitions and performance...Read more
