MAGNUS WALLIN (1965) Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden


Education:

1989-95
The Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen

1988-89
Valand School of fine art, University of Gothenburg


Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2022
meso-, Magnus Wallin, Trelleborg Museum, Sweden

2021
Magnus Wallin, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden

2019
Magnus Wallin, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

2018
Magnus Wallin, Tjörnedala Konsthall, Brösarp, Sweden

2017
Magnus Wallin, Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden

2016
SEVEN MONOCHROMES AND A SMILEY, Solo show at Oslo Kunstforening, Norway
Mission Elements Unnamed, Konsthall Jönköping, Sweden

2014
Gravity, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden

2013
Ternal, A Two-Person Show by Adriane Wachholz & Magnus Wallin
Young Projects (@Pacific Design Center #B230) Los Angeles, USA
Magnus Wallin, Regional Museum in Kristianstad and the Center of Contemporary Art! Sweden

2011
Assembly, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden – Magnus Wallin
ELASTIC Gallery, Malmö, Sweden

2010
Magnus Wallin, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Falkhallen, Sweden

2009
Instrument, Millesgården Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2007
Educated, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

2006
Physical Sightseeing, Kunsthalle Wien / Ursula Blickle videoarchiv, Austria

2003
SOLO, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

2002
Magnus Wallin, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Solo/ Physical Sightseeing, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden

2000
Skyline, Modern Museet Stockholm, Sweden


Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
Det våta språket, Bie biennal, Sweden

2021
Art Odyssey 2021, Serlachius-museerna, Finland

2021
ARS FENNICA 2021, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland 

2020
Generation. Borås Museet. Borås, Sweden

2019
iwillmedievalfutureyou1. Art Sonje Center. Seoul, Korea

2018
Towards pure colour
. Moderna Museet. Stockholm, Sweden

2016 – 2017
The thought of death Older European prints meets the contemporary
from the Collection of the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

2014-15
Progress and Hygiene, Zacheta – Norodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa, Poland

2013
PLAY Stars of Media Art, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki – Copenhagen 93
Galleri Nicoial Wallner, Köpenhamn

2012
THE SUPERSURREALISM, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
UMSTÜLPUNG, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin – Collection Exhibition
Son et Lumière – Materia. Transition. Time.

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. Kanazawa, Japan

2011
Absolute Installation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo Norway

2010
The exhibition Beyond Mediations The Biennale in Poznan, Poland
Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

2009
Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love.
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
DROPSTUFF.nl@ the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy

2008
Collection II Zone, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
TRY AGAIN, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Spain

2007
Time Present Time Past – Views from the Bosphorus, Istanbul Modern, Turkey
COMIX, Kunsthalle Brants Klaedefabrik Odense, Denmark
Group show, Kistefos Museum, Norway
Meet the New You, Des Moines Art Center, USA

2006
Black box Magnus Wallin, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, USA
Modernautställningen 2006, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2005
Animated Sessions, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain
Kiss the Frog! – The Art of Transformation, The National Museum of Art,
Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Anatomic Flop, MAGASIN, Grenoble, France
Firewall, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

2004
THE JOY OF MY DREAMS, I Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla Pabellón Spain

2003
Himmelschwer, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
ArtBOX, The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

2002
Roxy Paine Richard Long Magnus Wallin. James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

2001
Egofugal, Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Egofugal, 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Hieronymus Bosch, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Plateau of Mankind, 49 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

1999
End of the World & Principle Hope, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland


Public Collections:

Ystad Art Museum, Sweden
Serlachius Museums Gösta, Finland
Public Art Agency, Sweden
Regional Museum, Kristianstad, Sweden
Malmö Art Museum, Sweden
Gothenburg Art Museum, Sweden
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Christen Sveaas Kistefos-Museet, Norway
Contemporary Art Museum Construction, Kanazawa, Japan
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum Utrecht The Netherlands
Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
Borås Konstmuseum, Sweden
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden
Private collectors


Bibliography:

2022
Dan Jönsson. Seductive and evocative illusions at Magnus Wallin’s “meso-“ Dagens Nyheter 

2021
Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen. Zero point 1:1, Ars Fennica 2021 Catalog

2020
Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen. Passivity and Materiality and The Intimacy of a World
Magnus Wallin, Works 1994-2019.  Published by Kalejdoskop Förlaget, Åhus.
www.kalejdoskopforlag.se ISBN 978 91 7936 126 6

2020
Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen. Magnus Wallin – Från smärta till lidande
Film Form 1950 – 2020. Published by Stiftelsen Filmform.www.filmform.com
ISBN 978 91 519- 7370-8

2019
Jonas Ekeberg. Det nordiske mirakelet – Out of the North, Stuttgart.
Postnordisk – Den nordiske kunstscenens vekst og fall 1976 – 2016.
ISBN 978-82-93104-22-3

Dec 2015-Jan 2016
1985 – 1995 Exhibition views. Mousse Magazine. Contemporary Art Magazine, issue #51
ISSN 2035-2565 9 772035 256097

2014
Pod Redakcja  and Anda Rottenberg. Progress and Hygiene. Zacheta – Norodowa Galeria Sztuki.

2013
Maria hirvi-Ljäs and jorma Saarikko. Play Aesthetics of technology
KITADE Chieko. Son et Lumiére. Material, Transition, Time and Wisdom.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

2009
Medicine and Art. Imagining a Future for Life and Love – Leonarde de Vinci, Okyo, Damien Hirst
This book was published in conjunction the exhibition – Mori Art Museum
ISBN 978-4-582-20662-3

2007
Anna Krogh. Sanne Kofod Olsen. Matthias Wivel. COMIX, Kunsthalle Brants Klaedefabrik.
Yuko Hasegawa – Egofugal, 7th International Istanbul Biennial, 2001.
This catalog was published in conjunction the exhibition
Time Present Time Past – Views from the Bosphorus, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul.
ISBN 978-975-6167-19-9

2006
Lars Nittve. Magdalena Malm. John Perter Nilsson. Modernautställningen 2006. Moderna Museet. Stockholm.

2005
Torsten Weimarck, Kroppen, och den anatomiska kroppen. This book was published in conjunction the exhibition.
Kroppen. Konst och vetenskap
– Nationalmuseum. Stockholm
ISBN 91-7100-722-9

2004
Harald Szeeman. THE JOY OF MY DREAMS
Hans-Joachim Müller. “The Artist, I Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla Pabellón,
”Deposito Legal CA-631/04.
Martin Henatsch: “Magnus Wallin: anon,” Firewall, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst: Münster.

2003
Johannes Rauchenberger. Himmelschwer. Religion, Kunst, Scherkraft: Ansatz, Landesmuseum Joanneum,
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, München.

2002
Torsten Weimarck. “Reality is its own description,” Solo/ Physical Sightseeing, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö.

2001
Sara Arrhenius. “Magnus Wallin,” Plateau of Mankind, Venice Biennial 49 –01, Venice.