HELENA
BERGENRUD, (born in Luleå)
Member of the Graphic Art Society and The Swedish Artists' Organization (KRO)
About my work
My growing up in nothern Sweden has influenced me very much and it is in nature
there that I find my strength and my inspiration.
With the shiny coppersheet there is no communication and I am totally on my
own. And that's why drypoint demands much solitude and waiting.
In my graphic pictures I try to depict that which is fragile in life but
at the same time that which has it's own inner strength. I often start with an
everyday moment where it feels as if everything suddenly slows down and life
holds it's breath for a second.
/Helena Bergenrud
Education
1975-81 Graphic Art School Forum, Malmö including studytours, 1 1/2 year
in the US and INDIA
1971-74 Ateneum, Helsingfors, FINLAND
1970-71 University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm
Grants
2006 ProGrafika grant
2004 Madeleine Pyks grant
2003 Erik Wessel Fougstedts grant
2000 Visual Arts Copyright Society Grant in Sweden
1992 The Artgrants Committees Workinggrants
1992 Nordic Art Center (atelier grant) Bergen, NORWAY
1989 Malmö Industrial Associationgrant
1981 The Artgrants Committees Workinggrants
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Gallerie Möller, Rostock-Warnemünde, GERMANY
2006 El Museo National del Grabado i Boenos Aires, ARGENTINA
2005 Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
Gula Rummet, Stockholm
2004 Härnösands Art Hall
Gallery Persson, Malmö
2001 Höganäs Museum, Höganäs
The Graphic Art Society, Stockholm
Karlskrona Art Hall
2000 Konstens Hus, Luleå
1994 Norrbottens Museum, Luleå
1992 The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Bergen, NORWAY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Liljevalchs vårsalong, Stockholm
Chagall museum, Vitebsk, BELARUS
2006 Tjeboksary museum, TJUVASJIEN
2005 Contemporary Swedish Fine Art Prints, Graphic Studio Gallery,
Dublin, IRELAND
The 8th Biennial of Graphic Art of the Baltic
States, Kaliningrad, RUSSIA
2003 "The Print Triennial XII" at the Swedish Academy of Fine
Arts in Stockholm
2001 Liljevalchs vårsalong, Stockholm
2000 Liljevalchs vårsalong, Stockholm
1995 Forumfinal Gallery Bergman, Malmö
1993 Landskrona Art Hall
1991 Tomelilla Art Hall
1990 Kalmar Museum
1989 Ystad Art Museum, Eksjö -, Nässjö -, Tranås - & Vetlanda
Museum,
1986 Landskrona Art Hall
1980 Gallery Händer, Stockholm and Malmö
1979 Ystad Art Museum
Selected Public Collection
Brittish Museum, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, The
National Public Art Council, Helsingborgs Museum, Höganäs Museum, Ystads Art
Museum . . .
Commissions 2006 (graphic editions)
• for the Society of Graphic Art at the National Museum in
Stockholm.
• for the Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine. Orderer:
Karolinska Institutet Nobelcommitte
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A r t i s t
H e l e n
a B e r g e n r u d
address: Gamla Alunbruket
277 57 Brösarp, Sweden
phone: +46 731 59 34 56
e-mail: helena@bergenrud.com
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website: www.bergenrud.com <http://www.bergenrud.com>