Marrow, 2022, plaster sculpture, electric light, height 224 cm

Christian Andersson

Christian Andersson was born in 1973 in Stockholm and currently lives and works in Paris, France and Coimbra, Portugal.

As a point of departure in history, popular culture and the canon of western civilization, Andersson is fusing together myths and given facts into something of a hybrid encyclopedia. Juxtaposing emotion and reason, he’s leaving a door open to the unprompted, impulsive and extemporaneous as legitimate paths towards the limbo he conjures out of truth’s fictions.

Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad and Borås Konstmuseum (both in 2024). Christian Andersson has had solo exhibitions at FRAC Normandie, Rouen and CAV - Visual Arts Center, Coimbra (both 2022), Museum CIAJG, Guimaraes (2018), the Kunstmuseum Thun (2015), as well as at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Moderna Museet, Malmö (both 2011). His work has been on view in group exhibitions at Borås Art Biennale (2024), Sinkka Art Museum, Kerava and Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium (both 2023), Centre Pompidou Metz (2022), Havremagasinet Länskonsthall, Boden (2022), Hallands Konstmuseum, Halmstad (2020), Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm (2019), Malmö Konstmuseum (2017), Boimans van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (both 2016), Magazin 4, Bregenz (2014), Matadero, Madrid and the 12th Biennale de Lyon (both 2013).

Installation view, "I hear the roar of a big machine", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2025

Installation view, "I hear the roar of a big machine", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2025

Two Worlds and In Between, 2025, amethyst cave, lock, key, 78 x 28 x 34 cm, plinth 82 x 50 x 50 cm

Two Worlds and In Between, 2025, amethyst cave, lock, key, 78 x 28 x 34 cm, plinth 82 x 50 x 50 cm

Two Worlds and In Between, 2025, amethyst cave, lock, key, 78 x 28 x 34 cm, plinth 82 x 50 x 50 cm

Installation view, "No Prospect of an End", Borås konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden, 2024.

Installation view, "No Prospect of an End", Borås konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden, 2024.

Installation view, "No Prospect of an End", Borås konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden, 2024.

Installation view, "No Vestige of a Beginning", Hallands konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 2024

Installation view, "No Vestige of a Beginning", Hallands konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 2024.

Installation view, "No Vestige of a Beginning", Hallands konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 2024.

Public commission, The Third Phase of the Iron Age, Hydraulic grabber, glacial erratic boulder, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden

Cache nr 22, 23, 24, 2022, paper, recycled acrylic resin, plexiglass, MDF, 41 × 37 × 27 cm

Cache nr 22, 23, 24, 2022. Paper, recycled acrylic resin, plexiglass, MDF. 41 × 37 × 27 cm

Installation view, "Smile and Say Time", FRAC, Rouen, France, 2022.

Primer, 2022, painted polymer 3d print, 37 x 33 x 31 cm,

Primer, 2022, painted polymer 3d print, 37 x 33 x 31 cm

Public commission, 4+1, 5 iron tubes, 5 manhole ground fittings, 5 manhole lids casted in iron, 2019, Tierp, Sweden

Installation view, Christian Andersson – Cache, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, 2018

Installation view, Christian Andersson – Cache, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, 2018

Installation view "Christian Andersson – Put the Cobwebs Back in Place", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2016

Installation view "Christian Andersson – Put the Cobwebs Back in Place", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2016

Pills, 2015, archival inkjet print, framed, 50 x 75 cm

One Day, 2016, 6 gobo lights, dimmers, cable, wood, metal, dimensions variable

Installation view "Christian Andersson – Legende", Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun 2015

Installation view "Christian Andersson – While You Were Sleeping", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2013

Strike, 2012, painted metal stand, bronze sculpture, match, 15 x 10 x 25 cm

Installation view "Christian Andersson – From Lucy with love", Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö 2011

Installation view "Christian Andersson – From Lucy with love", Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö 2011

Angel of the Hearth, 2011, plaster, metal, 70 x 100 x 100 cm

Paper Clip (The Baghdad Batteries), 2009, 49 replicas of the "Baghdad battery" (clay jar, copper, iron, vinegar), copper wire, electromagnet (iron rod, copper wire), paperclip, 200 x 200 x 100 cm

Installation view "The 1st at Moderna: Christian Andersson", Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2005