The Gallery Group is a collective of artists who, together with the two employees of Galleri Konstepidemin, shape the gallery’s operations. The group curates the program and drives the gallery’s long-term visions.

Members

Ellen Dynebrink

Ellen Dynebrink is a textile artist who works primarily with patchwork. Through distortions between material and image, she investigates the gap between the figurative and the abstract, as well as the relationship between the gaze and the picture. She holds an MFA from HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg and a BFA from the Swedish School of Textiles. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has participated in residencies such as IASPIS and the Wassaic Project, NY.

Website: www.ellendynebrink.se

Instagram: @ellendynebrink

Amanda Karlsson

In her practice, Amanda Karlsson (b. 1989, Karlstad) uses oil paint and works with wood in both two- and three-dimensional forms. She constructs scenographies and stages events, which she then documents and recreates in installations and paintings. In her work, she explores human striving, impulses, and the sense of inadequacy through a process akin to “digging where you stand.” In the pit, she finds myths, humor, and symbolic worlds of ideas that attempt to explain human vulnerability and suggest ways to navigate it. She is represented in several public commissions, and her work has been shown at Värmlands Museum, Avesta Art, the Ebeling Museum, and the Ståhl Collection.

Website: www.amandakarlsson.com

Instagram: @amandajohannacarina

Jonathan Ollio Josefsson

Jonathan is an artist with a studio at Konstepidemin, where most of his work is created, though he also works extensively at KKV in Gothenburg. He holds an MFA in Textile Art from HDK. Jonathan works primarily with textiles and painting. With a background as a graffiti artist, he enjoys working on a large scale with vibrant colors. He continues to paint murals across Sweden and internationally. A significant part of his practice involves tufted rugs, which have a very distinct expression: playful, colorful, and often in organic shapes.

Website: www.jonathanjosefsson.se

Instagram: @ollio

Gülbin Kulbay

Gülbin Kulbay works as a ceramic and stone artist, archaeologist, and pedagogue based in Göteborg. Her practice explores entanglements between history, heritage, and personal narratives through a postcolonial and intersectional lens. Using curiosity and exploration as methods, she creates delicate assemblages of shattered fragments – forming new objects, new stories from the remains of the past.

Instagram: @studio.gulbin

Eva-Teréz Gölin

Eva-Teréz Gölin bases her practice on online-sourced photographic images. She processes this material to include a digital materiality in the final physical execution of the works, testifying to the images’ previous lives. A recurring theme in her work is a duality where motifs associated with relaxation, sun, and leisure can also be seen to carry something more unsettling. In recent years, she has exhibited in Sweden and Finland and is represented in several collections. Eva-Teréz has studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Novia University of Applied Sciences in Jakobstad, and holds an MFA in Photography from Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg.

Website: www.e-t.se

Instagram: @eva_terez

Erik Torstensson

Erik Torstensson is a textile artist educated at HDK-Valand (BFA 2020 and MFA 2022). He moves epicyclically along the brink of the ruin—a place where the surface breaks and human life is worn down to the point of unrecognizability. Through sewing, weaving, and textile printing, these losses are materialized in works that appear broken or aged despite being newly made and rendered in bold colors. Textiles are his primary medium. Within their fragile, resilient threads lie stories of the passage of time: wear, repair, and inevitable dissolution. He creates images of breaking patterns and deviating figures. In this way, he makes visible that which breaks and disappears—between one another and within ourselves.

Website: www.manofwool.com

Instagram: @man_of_wool

Lena Lindahl

Lena is an internationally active jewelry artist and exhibition curator. Building on an MFA in Jewellery Art and Silversmithing from HDK-Valand, she has also studied how contemporary Anthropocene issues affect art through studies in ecological art theory. Her jewelry art explores the human relationship with nature, stemming from an interest in evolution in all its forms and stages. In her pieces, she often utilizes materials such as bark, titanium, and fish skin.

Website: www.linalindahl.wordpress.com

Instagram: @evolutionaryjewellery

Petter Yxell

Petter Yxell’s artistic practice combines an interest in ecology and history with an investigation of the built environment. He explores an expanded and post-anthropocentric concept of architecture; how even the most artificial construction processes are ecologically entangled; and how “wild” landscapes can be understood as co-created habitats. This most often takes the form of built installations or spatial interventions, but he also works with text, photography, drawing, and printmaking. Much of Petter’s work centers on residencies and results in site-specific outcomes. He holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London, and a BFA from the Glasgow School of Art, and also works as a project manager at Borås Art Museum.

Website: www.petteryxell.se

Instagram: @petteryxell_art