Biografie von Öyvind FAHLSTRÖM (1928-1976)

Personal data


Birth : 12/28/1928 - São Paulo, Brazil
Death : 11/08/1976 - Stockholm, Sweden
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Sweden

Education

1949 – 1952 : Faculty of Letters (Art and Archeologia History) – Stockholm, Sweden

Professional data


Work and Life

1961:Lived and worked with wife ÖSTLIHN Barbro, in the USA
1952:Began painting as an autodidact, Firenze, Italy
1948:Became swedish citizen
1939:Moved to Sweden


Other professions

Poet

Writer

Work


Categorie and medium


Painting : Acrylic - Enamel - Mixed media - Oil - Waterpaint
Print-Multiple : Lithograph - Offset - Poster - Serigraph
Drawing-Watercolor : Collage - Gouache - Ink - Pastel - Watercolour
Performing Art : Performance

Subject

allegory
eroticism
war
death
consumer society

Movements and styles

Happening
Pop Art

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2002

Moderna Museet – Stockholm, Sweden
02/16/2002 – 05/12/2002

Öyvind Fahlström
IAC Institut d’art contemporain – Villeurbanne, France
02/15/2002 – 05/26/2002

2001

The Complete Graphics, Multiples and Sound Works
Bawag Foundation – Vienna, Austria
12/07/2001 – 03/03/2002

The Complete Graphics and Multiples
The Laura Mesaros Gallery – College of Creative Arts – West Virginia University – Morgantown WV, United States
09/05/2001 – 10/14/2001

1980

Rétrospective
MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Paris, France
1980

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2006

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – Berlin, Germany

2004

Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany

2003

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany

The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany

2002

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany

The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany

2001

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany

The Armory Show 2001
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/23/2001 – 02/26/2001
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany

1999

Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galerie Aurel Scheibler – St.-Apern-Strasse 20-26 – Cologne, Germany


Group exhibitions

2003

Fin des Histoires ?
Chambéry, France
11/07/2003 – 02/09/2004

2002

Utopie quotidiane
PAC Padiglione de Arte Contemporanea – Milan MI, Italy
10/2002 – 01/2003

1966

Biennale di Venezia
Venice VE, Italy
06/18/1966 – 10/16/1966

Bibliography (Selected)


By the artist


Books

2000

Heterotopie/Heterotopias
Publisher: Editions JRP – Geneva GE, Switzerland
2000
ISBN : 2940271089


On the artist


Dictionaries

1999

Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975 – 400 years of Artists in America
Publisher: Sound View Press – 859 Boston Post Rd. – Madison CT, United States
Director of publication: Falk Peter – 859 Boston Post Rd. – Madison CT, United States
1999
ISBN : 0932087558


Periodicals

2002

BETHEMONT Hauviette – Le trait subversif d’Öyvind Fahlström
in: Petites Affiches Lyonnaises p. 13
Lyon, France
27/03/2002

Öyvind Fahlström in der Bawag Foundation
in: Kunst-Bulletin n° 1/2 p. 56
Zürich ZH, Switzerland
01/2002-02/2002

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