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Kent Iwemyr
Bio
Kent Iwemyr (b. 1944, Hallstahammar) lives and works in his hometown in Sweden. He studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and worked for some years as an art teacher before making his artistic debut in 1992 at the age of forty-eight.
Iwemyr creates poetic, pictorial ballads and intimate tableaux, rendered with deliberate brushstrokes in acrylic on linen. His intuitive and open compositions give form to observations and reflections drawn from everyday life, most often rooted in his local surroundings in the small post-industrial town of Hallstahammar. Returning to imagery he first explored as a teenager, he began telling the stories of relatives and local figures from his hometown.
Since then, Iwemyr has exhibited regularly in Sweden and internationally. His work has been described as both “a strange bird in contemporary art” and “a Swedish rural Chagall.”
Exhibitions
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Born 1944 in Hallstahammar, Sweden
Lives and works in Hallstrammar, Sweden
EDUCATION
University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITONS
2025
Från en dag till en annan tid, Bror Hjorths Hus, Uppsala,
Sweden
2024
For the Geniuses of the Art there
Are no Limits, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023
DEN BLÅ RYTTAREN / THE BLUE RIDER, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2022
Poesi från det vilda, Dalslands konstmuseum, Åsensbruk, Sweden
2021
Strange Are the Ways of Man, V1 Gallery,
Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
Nya mästerverk / New Masterpieces, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
En udda fågel / A Strange Bird, Ebelingmuseet, Torshälla, Sweden
2018
The Red House in the Woods, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, United States
Poetry From the Wilds, V1 Galley, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
It’s not that damned easy!, Galerie Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg
2016
Now or Never, A private exhibition
curated by Julie Sylvester, Helsinki, Finland The Painting Genius / Målargeniet, The Inner Room of the Gallery, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
2015
The Painting Genius / Målargeniet, Västerås
Konstmuseum, Sweden
Kent Iwemyr, Värmlands museum, Karlstad
The Painting Genius, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany
2013
The Vintage Show, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
The Extra Rough Collection, Galleri
Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
With the Pace of My Heart, Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan, Italy
2008
Welcome to Paradise, Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan, Italy
2006
Shaggy Dogs, Galerie Clairefontaine,
Luxembourg
2004
It’s not that damned easy!, Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2002
Vildanden, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
The ACE Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
2001
On the Home Ground, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2000
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
1999
Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
1998
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
1996
Dogenhaus Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1992
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Västerås, Sweden
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2025
Landscapes, V1 Gallery & Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022
V1 XX – Twenty Years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interior Dialogues, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Act 1–Act 2, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
KÄLLAN / THE SPRING, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2021
Root in the North, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Stockholm Calling, Asia House, London, United Kingdom
MINE II, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Painting, Chart Art Fair, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Horses, Eighteen / V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
Spotlight #2, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2015
c/o Hotel le Manoir, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
2014
Bruegel Land, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
The Cambridge Rules, Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany
An exhibition of current interest, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
Summertime and the living is easy, Galerie
Clairefontaine, Luxenburg
Time Waits for Us, Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2012
Herr Gren, Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden
2011
Today’s special, Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Today is Yesterday Tomorrow, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Fernweh..., Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
2009
Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milano, Italy
Nordic Twalking, Galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany
2005
Summer Group Show, Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
1999
Rötter, Mora Kulturhus, Sweden
Rötter, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
Selected Works
Installation view For the geniuses of art there are no limits
The Locked Pavilion!, 2024
Acrylic on linen in floating oak framed
93 x 123 cm
Installation view for the geniuses of art there are no limits
STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MAN. 2021
INSTALLATION VIEW
V1 GALLERY
WHEN MOM AND I WENT TO A PRAYER MEETING / NÄR MORSAN OCH JAG SKULLE PÅ BÖNEMÖTE. 2020
ACRYLIC ON LINEN IN FLOATING OAK FRAME
63 X 75 CM
MY SIMPLE LITTE ROSE / MIN ENKLA LILLA ROS. 2020
ACRYLIC ON LINEN IN FLOATING OAK FRAME
70 X 84 CM
STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MAN. 2021
INSTALLATION VIEW
V1 GALLERY
THE COLD BATH HOUSE / KALLBADSHUSET. 2020
ACRYLIC ON LINEN IN FLOATING OAK FRAME
103 X 119 CM
STRANGE ARE THE WAYS OF MAN. 2021
INSTALLATION VIEW
V1 GALLERY
A WINTER STORY / EN VINTERSAGA. 2020
ACRYLIC ON LINEN IN FLOATING OAK FRAME
70 X 84 CM
Play It Again. 2018
Acrylic on canvas
54 x 47 cm
The Midsummer Pole. 2018
Acrylic on canvas
54 x 54 cm