Roland Persson

Being Mortal Hurts

Färgfabriken, Stockholm

5 APRIL - 15 JUNE, 2025

In this spring's large solo exhibition at Färgfabriken, Roland Persson explores the intersection between man and nature, the conscious and the subconscious, as well as the private and the public.

The exhibition is a mid-career presentation that spans three decades of creation. Persson creates surreal compositions through hyperrealistic casts of flora and fauna, where the flexible silicone material plays a central role.

Photo: Sara Appelgren

Roland Persson

Twisted Realities

Österbottens Museum, Vasa Finland

27 Oktober2023 - 31 Mars 2024

The exhibition includes several sets of works where the artist deals with their ostensible naturalistic illusions as reflections of reality and comments on them with new pieces made for this exhibition. When we see a giant water lily spreading out as an installation, what exactly are we looking at? The artist has always been interested in the relationship between humans and nature, but its representation acquires an uncanny and ambiguous tension. He does not depict nature for nature’s sake, but instead, it functions as a surface for projecting the subconscious and emotions. Natural objects such as plants appear mistreated at the hands of humans and slightly off-kilter, their meanings having been tuned to a dreamlike form by the artist.

Photo: Noora Lehtovuori

Liverpool Biennial

2021.

In Both Directions at once

Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm 2021

Freud-To//With

Norrtälje Konsthall 2019

Brutal Tenderness

4.6.-4.7.2021

 Mother

Alp gallery, Stockholm 2009

Lust for Life. Group Exhibition

Helsinki Contemporary, Helsingfors 2022

Animal Farm

Helsinki Contemporary, Helsingfors 2016

The phenomenon of materializing a dream

Örebro konsthall 2013

Hear my Train a Comin

Aguéli museet I Sala 2019

Växlighet

Galleri Arnstedt, östra Karup 2024

Verklighetens slumpmässiga natur

Olle Nymans ateljé, Nacka 2016

Blind Spot

Katrineholmskonsthall,  2025

27 MARCH - 8 SEP 2024

I FEEL, FOR NOW

AMOX REX, HELSINKI

Art moves us, or not, in ways that we ourselves do not always quite comprehend, let alone know how to put into words. "I feel, for now" is Amos Rex’s first exhibition of works from its own collections at this big of a scale. The exhibition takes us through the art into emotions.

The more than one hundred art works chosen for the exhibition carry us from feelings of isolation to empathy, and from ecstasy to nostalgia.

17 MAY- 18 AUG 2024

WHO IS AN ANIMAL

HAM, HELSINKI

The exhibition draws attention to how artists strive even more to break the power structure between humans and other animals, and make visible what unites us. Its 80 works are grouped into themes that serve as points of discussion for various topics, such as how animals are depicted, their habitats, mistreatment, coexistence, and agency.

The exhibition is located in one of HAM´s grand arched halls and is primarily based on HAM’s art collection – property of all Helsinki residents. It features works by numerous artists

30 MAY- 8 SEP 2024

ORO

DISELVERKSTAN NACKA KONSTHALL, STOCKHOLM

"Ateljéföreningen Oron" includes: Amalia Årfeldt, Anna Ekros, Birgitta Muhr,

Jan Kruse, Joakim Samson, Nikolina Ställborn,

Roland Persson och Torbjörn Berg.