Video still of Elementary, 2024. HD video, colour, sound, 29:20 mins
Runo Lagomarsino
Runo Lagomarsino was born in Lund, Sweden in 1977 and lives and works in Malmö and São Paulo. He recently curated the retrospective exhibition 'Lenke Rothman – Life as Cloth', together with Rebecka Katz Thor, and Mats Stjernstedt, at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden.
Recent solo exhibitions include 'Silence Answers All' at Marabouparken konsthall, Stockholm (2024); 'We are here because you were there' at Base/Progetti per l’arte in Florence, 'The Persistent Action of a Falling Tear' at Nils Stærk, Copenhagen (both 2023); 'Tales from the Underworld' at Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, and 'The inner circles' Galerie Mendes Wood, Brussels, 'The Square Between the Walls', Lunds Konsthall, Lund (all 2021); 'I am also smoke' Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (2020); and Moderna Museet Stockholm (2019), as part of the Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize. Earlier solo exhibitions were held in venues such as the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas in 2018; La Criée Centre d’art Contemporain, Rennes and Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, both in 2015; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the Reina Sofia, Madrid in 2014.
Lagomarsino participated in the Gwangju Biennale in 2024; the Gothenburg Biennial in 2021 and 2015; the 14th Cuenca Biennial in 2018; the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015; and the 2012 editions of the Sao Paulo and Liverpool Biennials. Group shows include 'Feels Like Home: Kiasma’s Collection Exhibition' (2024), The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (all in 2019); Colección FEMSA; Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago; Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan; MAM-Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Vienna, La XIII Bienal FEMSA, Zacatecas (all in 2018); LACMA, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Kadist, San Franscisco (all in 2017).
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.
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