Guided tour – with Roland Persson

16 May

13.00–14.00

Main Hall, Färgfabriken

Drop in, no pre-registration required. Limited number of seats. Included in the entrance fee.

Welcome to a gudided tour with Roland Persson!

Artist Roland Persson talks about the exhibition Being Mortal Hurts with his own words, his working process and the artworks included in the exhibition.

In Being Mortal Hurts, we are invited into a poetic and unsettling dreamlike exhibition. The title reflects human vulnerability and the traces it leaves in our lives. It is a beautiful yet brutal visual world, filled with stories of broken relationships, memories, and dreams. In recent years, Roland Persson has explored nature as a projection surface for our desires and our attempts to mend what has been broken. As seen in the work Remorse From Far Away (2021), a gigantic cactus whose roots search for water.

About Roland Persson

Roland Persson (b. 1963 in Hudiksvall) is an artist educated at the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Värmdö, Stockholm. Persson works with sculpture and drawing, emerging from a meticulous exploration of nature. His work is represented in around 50 private and public collections in Sweden and Finland. He has participated in the Liverpool Biennial (2021), exhibited at the Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa (2023), and in 2025, he will present two exhibitions in Helsinki—at Amos Rex and later in the fall at HAM—as one of five artists nominated for Finland’s most prestigious visual arts award, Ars Fennica.