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"Three black eyes looking me up and down"
Oil on canvas, 70x50 cm

Part of Emma Åvall’s exhibition The Unruly, which opened last Saturday. The exhibition is on view until November 1st

Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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6 days ago

Isak Anshelm: "Unremembered 6"
Oil on canvas, 26x20 cm

Part of the ongoing exhibition "The Other Memory" by Isak Anshelm, Linn Lindström and Mats Danielsson

Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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6 days ago

Join us tomorrow for the opening of "The Other Memory" between 12:00 and 16:00

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"The Other Memory"
Isak Anshelm, Linn Lindström & Mats Danielsson
10.10 - 01.11 2026

In the exhibition The Other Memory, artists Isak Anshelm, Linn Lindström and Mats Danielsson take as their starting point a set of sentences written to warn future generations, for example about sites where nuclear waste is stored. The sentences are intended to capture the feeling that is then to be conveyed through media other than language. Research in the field also discusses physical solutions. One proposal is to cast a gigantic concrete block over the site, so that nothing can grow there and the landscape becomes so unsettling that people do not want to stay. Another is to create a religion around the danger the site holds. Most of the proposals appeal to the emotions of future people rather than to their reason.

Looking at our own time and at written history, human arrogance seems to be central. We constantly place ourselves at the centre and regard animals, nature and other cultures, both contemporary and extinct, with a sense of superiority. What early cultures wished to convey and preserve, we have both rejected and dug up. But what happens if we instead listen to a different kind of memory? The exhibition asks whether there is a genetic or inherited memory in our consciousness, or in the subconscious, that causes us as a species to react with the same gut feeling, to feel the same unease, fear and joy in response to the same things. A shared memory across time, one that is not learned. taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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10 days ago

Opening: "The Other Memory"
Isak Anshelm, Linn Lindström & Mats Danielsson

Join us this Saturday, October 10, for the opening between 12:00 and 16:00

In the exhibition The Other Memory, artists Isak Anshelm, Linn Lindström and Mats Danielsson take as their starting point a set of sentences written to warn future generations, for example about sites where nuclear waste is stored. The sentences are intended to capture the feeling that is then to be conveyed through media other than language. Research in the field also discusses physical solutions. One proposal is to cast a gigantic concrete block over the site, so that nothing can grow there and the landscape becomes so unsettling that people do not want to stay. Another is to create a religion around the danger the site holds. Most of the proposals appeal to the emotions of future people rather than to their reason.

Looking at our own time and at written history, human arrogance seems to be central. We constantly place ourselves at the centre and regard animals, nature and other cultures, both contemporary and extinct, with a sense of superiority. What early cultures wished to convey and preserve, we have both rejected and dug up. But what happens if we instead listen to a different kind of memory? The exhibition asks whether there is a genetic or inherited memory in our consciousness, or in the subconscious, that causes us as a species to react with the same gut feeling, to feel the same unease, fear and joy in response to the same things. A shared memory across time, one that is not learned. taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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14 days ago

Join us tomorrow, 12–16, for the opening of The Unruly, Emma Åvall’s third exhibition with the gallery.

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Emma Åvall
"The Unruly"
10.10 - 01.11 2026

The works in this exhibition are attempting to live their own lives. Patterns are breaking free and running away from their role as decoration on a dress and buttons multiply to spread like a virus. A shirt collar stretches itself out to absurdity and morphs itself into a weapon while a painting of a jacket wishes it was a birthday cake. A painting cuts itself in half and, like the myth of the earthworm, several emerge where there was once only one. The paintings refuse to be restrained. They are unruly, feral, rowdy. The paintings rebel against the surface and question themselves.

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Emma Åvall (b.1990 in Gothenburg, Sweden) earned her MFA from HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg in 2021. Previous solo exhibitions include Domeij Gallery, Stockholm (2022); Sotheby's, Stockholm (2022); POM Gallery, Mariefred (2021, 2026); and Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg (2020, 2023). Her work is represented in various public and private collections in Sweden, Norway, and the USA.

Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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10 days ago

"Sunset Safari", 2026
Watercolor on paper, 110 × 82 cm

Part of Erik Kihlbaum's ongoing exhibition "There's a Riot Next Door"
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In There’s a riot next door, images of leisure, wealth and privilege unfold like fragments from a private archive.

Ski resorts, swimming pools and holidays evoke a world seemingly insulated from whatever lies beyond its borders. Drawn from photographs of the past, the images nevertheless speak insistently to the present.
They inhabit the uneasy space between nostalgia and denial, beauty and detachment. A portrait of privilege not through excess itself, but through the luxury of looking away.

Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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a month ago

Opening: Emma Åvall - "The Unruly"
10.10 - 01.11 2026

Join us this Saturday, October 10, for the opening between 12:00 and 16:00

The works in this exhibition are attempting to live their own lives. Patterns are breaking free and running away from their role as decoration on a dress and buttons multiply to spread like a virus. A shirt collar stretches itself out to absurdity and morphs itself into a weapon while a painting of a jacket wishes it was a birthday cake. A painting cuts itself in half and, like the myth of the earthworm, several emerge where there was once only one. The paintings refuse to be restrained. They are unruly, feral, rowdy. The paintings rebel against the surface and question themselves.

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Emma Åvall (b.1990 in Gothenburg, Sweden) earned her MFA from HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg in 2021. Previous solo exhibitions include Domeij Gallery, Stockholm (2022); Sotheby's, Stockholm (2022); POM Gallery, Mariefred (2021, 2026); and Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg (2020, 2023). Her work is represented in various public and private collections in Sweden, Norway, and the USA. taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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14 days ago

Last weekend to visit Erik Kihlbaum's ongoing exhibition "There´s a riot next door"

Opening hours
Friday-Saturday: 12-16
Sunday: 12-15

Welcome!

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Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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18 days ago

Hein Spellmann - ”Building Skin”

"Fassade 555", 2026
silicon, acrylic color, CLC-Print, foam, wood
25,5 x 20,5 x 9 cm

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Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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18 days ago

Opening:
Erik Kihlbaum - ”There’s a riot next door”
12.09 - 04.10 2026

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In There’s a riot next door, images of leisure, wealth and privilege unfold like fragments from a private archive.

Ski resorts, swimming pools and holidays evoke a world seemingly insulated from whatever lies beyond its borders. Drawn from photographs of the past, the images nevertheless speak insistently to the present.
They inhabit the uneasy space between nostalgia and denial, beauty and detachment. A portrait of privilege not through excess itself, but through the luxury of looking away.

Erik Kihlbaum (born 1976 in Örebro) lives and works in Stockholm. He studied at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. He has exhibited at, among others, Örebro Konsthall, Rättviks Konsthall, Galleri Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm, and Gallery 0-0 LA in Los Angeles. His works are represented in municipalities and regional authorities throughout Sweden, as well as at Moderna Museet, the British Museum, His Majesty the King’s Graphic Collection, and in private and corporate collections.

Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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a month ago

"Roc Mondriaan"
Silicone, acrylic paint, CLC print, foam and wood, 54,5 x 91,5 x 9 cm

Part of Hein Spellmann's exhibition "Building Skin", on view in the gallery until October 4th

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Since 1996, Spellmann has exhibited regularly in exhibitions in Germany and internationally. His works are held in numerous private and public collections, including the National Museum Szczecin, Museum Ephraim-Palais, Berlin City Museum, and the National Public Art Council, Sweden.

Photo: Carl Andér taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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a month ago

Opening:
Hein Spellmann - ”Building Skin”
12.09 - 04.10 2026

Opening today, between 12–4 pm. Welcome!
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Hein Spellmann (b. 1962 in Bassum, Germany) is a Berlin-based artist whose practice combines photography and object art. His work focuses on urban spaces and architectural façades, transforming photographic fragments into three-dimensional objects.

Building Skin, Spellmann’s fifth solo exhibition at Gallery Thomassen, explores the architecture of Tokyo, Gothenburg, and The Hague. Single three-dimensional façade objects featuring photographic details of buildings are arranged in varying forms, colours, and lighting to create an urban composition within the gallery space.

Since 1996, Spellmann has exhibited regularly in exhibitions in Germany and internationally. His works are held in numerous private and public collections, including the National Museum Szczecin, Museum Ephraim-Palais, Berlin City Museum, and the National Public Art Council, Sweden. taken in Galleri Thomassen by @gallerithomassen

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a month ago