Leif Palmquist in the landscape of water and air

18 November – 10 December 2023
Opening Saturday 18 November 13:00–16:00


"The paintings in the exhibition are the visual traces of the activity and meeting between rainwater and pigment.

For a few years now, the water in the creation of the paintings has been just collected rainwater. It started during a scholarship stay at the Cité des Arts in Paris about eight years ago. A more or less persistent rain for two months made me decide to collect rainwater and use it in the painting process. Ever since then, this has been part of the material in the watercolors.

The paper becomes like developing discs where something visible grows. Something between totality and resolution. Transitions between light and dark, between day and night. Something about to become a landscape. Something about to exist that in the next moment can dissolve and amount to something new.”

Leif Palmquist
October 2023


Leif Palmquist (b. 1961, Karlskrona) is a Stockholm-based artist with training from Konstkolan Forum in Malmö (1986–1991). His work has been shown at a number of different galleries and institutions in Sweden as well as internationally, with solo exhibitions at e.g. Teatergalleriet, Kalmar (2021); Gallery Charlotte Lund, Stockholm (1998, 2001, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2018); Karlskrona Art Gallery (2010) and Galleri Leger, Malmö (1991). Selected group exhibitions include Isolation | Communication, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (2020); Ainsi de suite 3, CRAC, Sète, France (1999) and The Edible Compost, Gallery 207, Los Angeles (1998). Palmquist is also represented in collections at the State Council for the Arts and Stockholm County Council.



Image: Leif Palmquist, in bluing current