Mamma Andersson (born 1962) is a Swedish contemporary artist. She is based in Stockholm and is married to artist Jockum Nordström.

Biography

Born Anna Karin Andersson, she drew and painted from an early age without any family members being interested in art. Andersson's birthplace and childhood home of Luleå is in North Sweden, near the Polar circle. She studied at the

Royal Institute of Art The Royal Institute of Art ( sv, Kungliga Konsthögskolan) is an institution in Stockholm, Sweden for higher education in art,Jockum Nordström. She started by painting landscapes because that was what she saw daily as she pushed her kids around in the pram. She worked as a guard at

Moderna Museet Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö i ...

in Stockholm and was influenced by work of Dick Bengtsson. To learn to paint she found she had to engross herself in others work and cites John-Erik Franzén, Enno Hallek and her "greatest teacher" Dick Bengtsson. (from Moderna Museet 2007. Mamma Andersson, Steidl)

Work

Mamma Andersson's paintings depict domestic interiors, lush landscapes, and

genre scene Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...

s. Shaped by her upbringing amidst forests and art books, her work is imbued with beguiling narrative zest and frequent references to the stage and everyday settings as well as to works by other artists. Both familiar and mysterious, most of Andersson's works include images of recognizable paintings by other artists as peculiarly placed accessories.

Exhibitions

in Stockholm hosted a major solo exhibition of the artist's work in 2007, curated by Ann-Sofi Noring. The exhibition traveled to Helsingin Taidehalli,

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, and

Camden Arts Centre Camden Art Centre (formerly known as Hampstead Arts Centre until 1967 and Camden Arts Centre until 2020) is a contemporary art gallery in the London Borough of Camden, England that hosts temporary exhibitions and educational outreach projects. T ...

, London. The exhibition catalogue includes essays by Ann-Sofi Noring, Kim Levin and Midori Matsui, poems by Thomas Tidholm and a conversation between Karin Mamma Andersson and the author and playwright

Lars Norén Lars Göran Ingemar Norén (9 April 1944 – 26 January 2021) was a Swedish playwright, novelist and poet. His plays are realistic and often revolve around family and personal relations, either among people who are impoverished and rooted at th ...

. The artist's prints were exhibited at

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, San Francisco in 2009. In 2010, Andersson exhibited at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado. Her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany in 2011. She had three solo exhibitions at

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in New York City: ''Room Under the Influence'' (2006), ''Who is sleeping on my pillow'' (2010), and ''Behind the Curtain'' (2015). Her solo exhibition ''Memory Banks'' opened in October 2018 at The

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(CAC), Cincinnati, Ohio.

Collections

Mamma Andersson's work is included in the following collections: *

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's ...

, Los Angeles, California * The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California * Hammer Museum, Los Angeles *

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...

, Dallas, Texas *

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

(MoMA), New York City, New York *Apoteket AB, Stockholm, Sweden *Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse, Stockholm, Sweden *City of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden *Folkets Hus och Parker, Stockholm, Sweden *

Göteborgs Konstmuseum Gothenburg Museum of Art ( sv, Göteborgs konstmuseum) is located at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. It claims to be the third largest art museum in Sweden by size of its collection. Collections The museum holds the world's finest collect ...

, Gothenburg, Sweden *Kultur i Länet, Uppsala, Sweden *Luleå Kommun, Luleå, Sweden *Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall *Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden *

, Stockholm, Sweden *National Public Art Council, Stockholm, Sweden *Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden *Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

References

External links

Mamma Andersson solo exhibition 2007
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Mamma Andersson solo exhibition 2007
Camden Arts Center, London
Mamma Andersson: Setting the Scene 2009
Crown Point Press

Steidl {{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Mamma Living people Swedish contemporary artists 1962 births People from Luleå Artists from Stockholm Recipients of the Prince Eugen Medal Swedish women artists