SPIRA/SPIRE 2021
Plastic buckets, scouring rags, wettex cloths
H. 350 cm
The exhibition, Your place in the line, Benhuset, Katarina church 2021
In Swedish,SPIRA is both a verb and a noun. A tower of cleaning material that sprouts, towers and grows. The work is a commentary on the concept of purity within the church. In the buckets and plastic funnels there are remnants of clay, plaster, akrystal that I used to produce sculptures that are displayed simultaneously in the same room.
2023 Soloexhibition Villkor och Integritet /Conditions and Integrity , Aguelimuseet Sala
2022 Group exhibition, Materialitet och Poetik, Tjörnedala konsthall
2021 Group Exhibition, Din plats i kön, Benhuset, Katarina kyrka, Stockholm
CONDITIONS AND INTEGRITY
The Aguéli Museum is delighted to present the artist Karin Häll in a solo exhibition.
The title of the exhibition, CONDITIONS AND INTEGRITY, is inspired by the data protection regulation GDPR. The now familiar words have today mainly acquired a meaning linked to regulations and the internet.
In Karin Häll’s exhibition, CONDITIONS AND INTEGRITY instead alludes to the conditions for borders and distances in the mental as well as the physical space, to what can define a phenomenon. The sculptures that now take place at the Aguéli Museum are modeled, sewn, cast, built from scrub mops, packing blankets, wool sweaters, jeans, plastic, plaster, acrylic and wood and are linked to stories, recognizable objects and situations that represent events in everyday life. In order to describe situations, Häll consistently uses to change the value charge of the materials.
Karin says ”I want to concentrate my sculptures into a clear spatial presence, where in the density you sense a contradiction. A bit like a person who simultaneously distracts and sits comfortably back on the sofa.”
Karin Häll was born in Kungsör but lives and works in Stockholm. She was educated at Konstfack, MFA, sculpture department and at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Häll’s work has been shown at several galleries and art centers in Sweden and abroad. In recent years, Passagen, Linköpings Konsthall, Konst i Ån, Norrtälje Konsthall, Alma Löv Museum, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, Husby Konsthall, Stockholm, Galleri Huuto, Helsinki and more. She is represented at Teckningsmuseet in Laholm and has previously been awarded several scholarships, such as Västmanlands Landsting’s Cultural Scholarship and Bror Marklund’s Sculpture Scholarship. Häll is currently working on a public work for Stockholm Konst.
For more information, contact the Aguéli Museum, tel 0224-138 20 or by email: aguelimuseet@sala.se.
The exhibition is organized with the support of the National Association of Swedish Art Societies, the Kjell and Märta Beijer Foundation and the Municipality of Sala.
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