Bonniers Konsthall

Mathias Kristersson has exhibited at Ystad Konstmuseum, Lilith Performance Studio, and Bonniers Konsthall. He has participated in film festivals and has been published in OEI and Pequod magazines. He was born in 1979 and educated at Malmö Art Academy and the College of Architecture and Arts, Chicago.

“Mathias Kristersson receives the award for his subtle and visually poetic tussle with language and for his inquiring and impressively wide range of artistic expressions. Through the means of radical transitions between modes of expression, Mathias Kristersson addresses issues of language and communication. Employing sculpture, sound, installation, performance, text and video, he turns the meaning of words inside out. He is particularly interested in the narrative structures and import that arise outside the boundaries of language. Frequently recurring in his works is the gap between statement and interpretation, as well as the materiality of words. In several of his works, language appears in a highly concrete form.”

The Grant Committee’s statement is by Niclas Östlind, jury member and Senior Curator.