Astrid Kajsa Nylander b. 1989

Astrid Kajsa Nylander was born in Gothenburg.

Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Nylander graduated with an MFA from Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg in 2018. Previous solo exhibitions include Belenius in 2022, Page (NYC) in 2020 and Kunstverein Siegen in 2019. Nylander is represented in the collection of Moderna Museet in Stockholm with works from her ongoing series "minijobs". The series function as fierce bursts of ideas, adding to a bigger body of work altogether where nostalgia, dark humor and vibrant pops of color meet. In 2019 she was awarded the Stiftung Sparkasse Siegen prize for ”Junge Kunst” followed by a solo presentation in Kunstverein Siegen.

Button by button by button, role playing. A childhood memory of grandmother’s colour-sorted button collection. Thread in, thread out, thread through and tie a knot on the thread. Astrid Kajsa Nylander indulge in the joy of colour and experiments with reality. Her minijobs are hyper-realistic, decorative and colourful, but have an underlying daunting tone. They form intricate patterns where they are fixed on the wall, and the threads over the surface of the paintings are braided together like something akin to runic writing. She lays them out in irregular patterns composing new formations. They bounce off their wall-hung seats and look for each other. They are fascinating geometric figures reminiscent of pop art, and yet something completely different. They are of a world of their own.

– Lena Holger