Video still of Elementary, 2024. HD video, colour, sound, 29:20 mins
Runo Lagomarsino
Runo Lagomarsino was born in Lund, Sweden in 1977, he lives and works in Malmö.
Prominent solo exhibitions include Marabouparken, Stockholm (2024); Lunds konsthall (2021); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019); Dallas Museum of Art (2018); LaCriée centre d’Art contemporaine, Rennes and Malmö Konsthall (with Carla Zaccagnini) (both 2015). In 2019 he was awarded the Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize, and was DAAD artist-in-residence in Berlin.
In 2024 Lagomarsino curated the retrospective exhibition 'Lenke Rothman – Life as Cloth', together with Rebecka Katz Thor, and Mats Stjernstedt, at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden.
He has taken part in group exhibitions at Kiasma, Helsinki (2024); CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2022); ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen (2021); daadgalerie, Berlin (2019); LACMA, Los Angeles; Fondazione Trussadi, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (all 2017); The South London Gallery (2016); Guggenheim Museum, New York and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (both 2014).
Lagomarsino’s work is constantly featured in global biennials: Gwangju Biennial (2024 and 2008), Venice Biennial (2015 and 2011), Gothenburg Biennial (2021 and 2015), Ural Biennial (2021), Prospect New Orleans (2017), São Paulo Art Biennial (2012), the Istanbul Biennial (2011), and the Guangzhou Triennial (2008).
Lagomarsino’s work can be found in public collections including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, New York, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guandong, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Coppel Collection, Mexico City, Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Malmö Museum of Modern Art, Malmö, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, The National Museum of Art, Oslo and Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center (MAC/CCB), Lisbon.
Runo Lagomarsino: Silence Answers All. Marabouparken Konsthall, Sweden, 2024. Photo: Johan Österholm
The Persistent Action of a Falling Tear, 2023. Mechanical puncher, motors, metal structure and paper.
Nobody Forgets Nothing, 2024. HD video, colour, sound, 9:35 mins
Unlike All Other Empires (for Edward Said) , 2023. Europium (EU), glass, lightbox, prints, air and time. Performance.
Spaces of light, 2024. Public permanent work for the entrance hall of the new hospital building in Malmö, commissioned by Region Skåne. 164 glass globes, cables, wire, control units and printed glass.
Runo Lagomarsino: We are here because you were there, Base/Progetti per l’arte, Florence, 2023. Photo: Leonardo Morfini
Geometry Is Hope, Geometry Is Fear, 2021. Stamp on wall in black and red ink, dimensions variable.
Runo Lagomarsino: Tales from the Underworld, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2021
Runo Lagomarsino: Tales from the Underworld, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2021
Runo Lagomarsino: The Square between the Walls, Lunds Konsthall, curated by Debora Voges, 2021. Photo: Daniel Zachrisson
Runo Lagomarsino: The Square between the Walls, Lunds Konsthall, 2021. Photo: Daniel Zachrisson
Runo Lagomarsino: The Square between the Walls, Lunds Konsthall, 2021. Photo: Daniel Zachrisson
Freedom for Fire, 2020, iron, candles, lightbulbs and cables, here 10 lamps and 10 candle holders
Yo tambien soy humo / I am also smoke, 2020, video, 3:16 min
Words which really were clouds (The Geography of Hunger), 2019-2020, burned parchment paper, 43 x 38.5 cm each
America I use your name in vain, 2019, 16 mm film transferred to HD with sound
America I use your name in vain, 2019, 16 mm film transferred to HD with sound
We live on the ruins of previous futures, 2015 - 2019,
burned light bulbs collected in the artist's apartments, and glass jars, variable dimensions
Parenthesis, 2018, school map, overhead projector and nails
Screwed into the ground, nailed into the past, 2018, paper print, copper and metal, 6 × 102 × 27 cm
Screwed into the ground, nailed into the past, 2018, detail
La place entre les murs, 2017, 40 gelatin silver prints and extraction of silver from the used photographic fixer, prints 26.7 x 40 cm (each); silver 1 x 1 x 1cm
La place entre les murs, 2017, detail
AmericaAmnesia, 2017, ink applied on wall, two rubber stamps and black ink, variable size
Como Si Fuera Piedra la Arena / As if the stones were sand, 2015, HD Video, 5 min
Sea Grammar, 2015, Dia Projection loop, 80 perforated images in a slide projection carousel with timer, variable projection size
Pergamon (A Place in Things), 2014, incandescent bulbs, fluorescent tubes, halogen lamps and other light devices from the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 500 x 600 x 75 cm
Pergamon (A Place in Things), 2014, detail
Violent Objects, 2014, wood and golden sheets, 64 corners, each 14 x 14 x 28 cm
Stolen Light (Abstracto en Dorado), 2013, composition gold leaf applied to the wall, cabinet with lightbulbs, and neon tubes stolen from the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, variable dimensions
Las Casas Is Not a Home, 2008-2010, objects, collages, photographies, video, sculptures and shelfs, variable dimensions