September 7 — October 22, 2022
Brussels
Gladstone is pleased to present an exhibition of historic work by Stockholm-based artist Cecilia Edefalk, with watercolors from her botanical series made in the late 1970s as well as two short films. Previously exhibited only in part at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, and Nordiska Akvarellmuseet alongside watercolors by Hilma af Klint, this expansive body of works on paper and film– some of which have never before been shown–meticulously documents the native plants of beaches and other natural sites along the coastline of Europe, observed during a series of significant road trips the artist took. Minimal yet layered, informative but abstract, these methodical compositions form a bridge between the artist’s ethereal, conceptual practice and the physical world from which many of her ideas are borne.
Installation
Work
About
Photo by Axel Öberg.
Cecilia Edefalk (b. 1954, Norrköping, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm. In 2020, her work was the subject of a major retrospective at Norrköping Museum of Art and in 2016 at Prins Eugens Waldmarsudde, Stockholm. She has had significant museum exhibitions around the world at institutions such as Lund Cathedral, Lund; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of Berkeley, California; Crystal Palace, Stockholm; Parasol unit, London; The Art Institute of Chicago; Malmö Konstmuseum; Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden; Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany; and Kunsthalle Bern. Her work has appeared in group shows, including Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden; Documenta 11, Kassel; the 22nd São Paolo Biennial; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conneticut; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; and Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
