Ida Ekblad Explained

Ida Ekblad (born 1980) is a Norwegian artist who works across painting, sculpture, installation and poetry.^[1]

Her work is inspired by a multitude of sources and one can recognize sub-cultural and pop-cultural influences. Art historically, Ekblad's oeuvre is often linked to the ideas and gestures of movements such as CoBrA, Situationism, and Abstract Expressionism and is influenced by a variety of artists such as Odilon Redon, Paula Modersohn Becker, Marie Laurencin, Paul Thek, Harriet Backer, Florine Stettheimer, and Helen Frankenthaler. Her style is signified by a genre-crossing approach and incorporates, for example, the aesthetics of graffiti, manga culture, arts and crafts, old master paintings, deviant art, and meme culture. Ekblad's practice is focused on our hyper-retinal culture which she tries to visually record and comprehend. “Whatever sense I find,” she says, “is primarily an aesthetic sense. In painting, sculpture, and via material twists and turns, I am striving to make a personal and decent pattern of what happens to come my way.” (Ida Ekblad, Artist Statement, “A mansion for all lovely forms,” 2018)^[2]

Background

Ekblad was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1980. She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London before earning both her BA and MA in Fine Art from The National Academy of Art, Oslo, graduating in 2007.^{[3] [4]} In 2016, she founded the exhibition space^[5] and record label^[6] SCHLOSS in a former Porsche car repair workshop in Oslo.

Exhibitions

Ekblad's work has been exhibited in many institutions such as the Venice Biennale,^[7] the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo,^[8] Kunsthaus Hamburg,^[9] Palais de Tokyo, Paris^{[10] [11]} and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK. In 2019, Ekblad had major museum shows at Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City^[12] and Kunsthalle Zürich.^[13]

Solo exhibitions

• 2010: Digging. Treasure. Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden^[14]
• 2010: Poem Percussion, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway^[15]
• 2013: The Root cellar, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands^[16]
• 2013: Ida Ekblad, National Museum of Norway - Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway^[17]
• 2015: Ida Ekblad, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom^[18]
• 2017: Ida Ekblad – Diary of a Madam, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany^[19]
• 2018: Leda Bourgogne | Ida Ekblad, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany^[20]
• 2019: BLOOD OPTICS, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico^[21]
• 2019: FRA ÅRE TIL OVN, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland^[22]

Group exhibitions

• 2011: ILLUMInazioni, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy^[23]
• 2013: Revolution, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland^[24]
• 2015: Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland^[25]
• 2015: The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway^[26]
• 2017: University of Disaster, Venice Biennale, National Pavilion Bosnia & Herzegovina, Palazzo Malipiero, Venice, Italy^[27]
• 2018: Faithless Pictures, National Museum, Oslo, Norway^[28]

Collections

Her artwork is part of numerous public collections, among them are the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Moderna Museet, the Astrup Fearnley Museum, the Preus Museum and the Hessel Museum of Art.^[29]

Publications

• Ida Ekblad: The Root Cellar, SBKM/Vleeshal & MER Paper Kunsthalle, 2014,
• Ida Ekblad: Poem Percussion, Bergen Kunsthall,

External links

• Galerie Max Hetzler, Ida Ekblad

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Ida Ekblad. Store norske leksikon. Norwegian. 8 July 2019.
2. Web site: Ida Ekblad. Peder Lund. 2020-03-10.
3. Web site: Ida Ekblad. www.greenenaftaligallery.com.
4. Web site: Ida Ekblad. Galerie Max Hetzler.
5. Web site: Info. SCHLOSS. en-US. 2020-03-11.
6. Web site: Artists Schloss Records. schlossrecords.bandcamp.com. 2020-03-11.
7. Web site: Venice: Ida Ekblad at the Arsenale (Contemporary Art Daily). www.contemporaryartdaily.com.
8. Web site: Ida Ekblad. www.nasjonalmuseet.no.
9. Web site: Ida Ekblad – Kunsthaus Hamburg.
10. Web site: DO DISTURB. March 27, 2018. Palais de Tokyo EN.
11. Web site: "Champs Élysées" at Palais de Tokyo (Contemporary Art Daily). www.contemporaryartdaily.com.
12. Web site: Ida Ekblad at Museo Tamayo. www.artforum.com. 25 June 2019 .
13. Web site: Ida Ekblad | Kunsthalle Zürich. kunsthallezurich.ch.
14. Web site: Ida Ekblad. Konsthall. Bonniers. Bonniers Konsthall. en-US. 2020-03-11.
15. Web site: Ida Ekblad: Poem Percussion. Bergen Kunsthall. 2020-03-11.
16. Web site: Vleeshal. 2020-03-10.
17. Web site: Ida Ekblad. Nasjonalmuseet. en. 2020-03-10.
18. Web site: Ida Ekblad :: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.. baltic.art. 2020-03-10.
19. Web site: Ida Ekblad. Hamburg. Kunsthaus. Kunsthaus Hamburg. en-US. 2020-03-10.
20. Web site: Leda Bourgogne & Ida Ekblad - Kunstverein Braunschweig. kunstvereinbraunschweig.de. 2020-03-10.
21. Web site: Museo Tamayo. www.museotamayo.org. 2020-03-10.
22. Web site: Ida Ekblad Kunsthalle Zürich. kunsthallezurich.ch. 2020-03-10.
23. Web site: 54th Venice Biennale 2011. universes.art. en. 2020-03-11.
24. Web site: Revolution: John Chamberlain, Ida Ekblad, Christine Streuli. KUNSTMUSEUM LUZERN. en-US. 2020-03-10.
25. Web site: Raw and Delirious. Kunsthalle Bern. en. 2020-03-11.
26. Web site: Astrup Fearnley Museet. www.afmuseet.no. 2020-03-11.
27. Web site: University of Disaster.
28. Web site: Faithless Pictures - Announcements - e-flux. www.e-flux.com. en. 2020-03-11.
29. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/528a0b52e4b016c0d8346859/t/5b89663c0ebbe8811fe13cfa/1535731260602/Ida_Ekblad_CV_HS.pdf