Roland Persson
Solo exhibition, Main hall
Curator: Anna-Karin Wulgé och Emilia Rosenqvist
In this spring’s large solo exhibition at Färgfabriken, Roland Persson explores the intersection between human and nature, the conscious and the subconscious, as well as the private and the public. The exhibition is a mid-career presentation that spans over three decades of work, where Persson’s artistic journey is portrayed from early self-reflective works about childhood and inner trauma to recent works with a focus on damaged and distorted nature.
Persson creates surreal compositions through hyperrealistic casts of flora and fauna, where the flexible silicone material plays a central role. With a painterly method and experimental techniques, he succeeds in creating an extraordinary richness of detail in his sculptures. The details are so meticulously executed that they appear as real fragments of nature – frozen moments in a surreal, dreamlike world where nature clings to life despite human destruction.
About the artist
Since his master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University in 1993, Roland Persson has exhibited frequetly both in Sweden and internationally, for example at the Liverpool Biennale 2021, The Ostrobothnian Museum in Vaasa 2023 and at Amos Rex and HAM in Helsinki 2024. Persson is represented in collections and in many public spaces in Sweden, including on the square in Västra skogen, Stockholm, Täby town hall and on Stortorget in Örebro. During 2025 he will exhibit at Katrineholms konsthall.