David Ohlsson’s and Dit-Cilinn’s “Flood” exhibition

David Ohlsson and Dit-Cilinn, are this year’s Designer and Residence participants, that will present their solo exhibition „Flood“  on October 26 at 7pm at the Transformart Gallery. The exhibition will be opened for viewing until October 31st. 

“Flood” is a performance sculpture inspired by the muddy embrace of the Sava and Danube rivers. It shows the mass of intertwined bodies that are stretched across a metal structure. Bodies are in a collective dream, drawn by an invisible current. It is unclear whether these individuals were forcibly forced or captured or willingly surrendered to a force greater than themselves. The masses and its movements are the embodied desire for existence downstream of the flow of things, not opposite to it.

(from the artist’s text)

In their artistic oeuvre, David and Dit-Cilinn explore the concepts of mythology and ecology through poetic precision-executed installations in which they contrast nature and culture. Working with topics such as human existence and spirituality, their work is the negotiation between today’s urban life and the desire for something transcendent.

David Ohlsson (born 1985) graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, with a master’s degree from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He is the recipient of the 2013 Barclay Simpson Award as well as the 2012 Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship Award and Scholarship. He has exhibited his work at solo exhibitions in Stockholm, Turin, Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Brussels, Gothenburg and San Francisco, as well as significant group exhibitions such as Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Nordic Contemporary Art Collection, Sculpture Unleashed and many others. David Ohlsson often works and exhibits as part of an art duet with artist Ditt-Cilinn.

Dit-Cilinn (born 1983) attended the Valand Academy in Gothenburg and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She completed her master’s studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has exhibited at the For-Site Foundation, Nevada City, and the Oliver Art Center, Oakland, USA, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg and Gothenburg Art Museum. In 2014, Dit-Cilinn was the recipient of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Grant. In 2017, she completed her two-year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.

We invite you to follow our programs of public presentations of this year’s Designer and Residence program.