Viktor Rosdahl

Installation view: Viktor Rosdahl, Babylon by Boat, 2010, plexi, 190 x 83 x 21.5 cm. Photo: Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe.

Maria Bonnier Dahlin-juror member of 2009, Cecilia Widenheim, then head of Iaspis writes:

"Viktor Rosdahl's paintings seem to thrive in the most unexpected contexts – in the hole of a broken table top from Ikea, on a shower curtain, or on a damp-stained tarpaulinh. With titles such as ›Wedding night at SKF‹, ›My years as a soccer wife‹ and ›Landing/Shelter for Aniara‹ his abandonned and soot-black industrial landscapes emerge in the painting style of the old masters'. In the borderland between the personal and the political, a long-awaited landing strip is prepared for the wandering spaceship of the folk-home dream (folkhemsdrömmen)"

Viktor Rosdahl inspiration comes from political 1960s lithographs, history painting, and mass media images. His art raises moral issues concerning work, power and politics, and how the life paths of individuals are informed by these factors.

Born 1980 in Helsingborg. Lives and works in Malmö and Stockholm.

He studied at Birkagårdens Folkhögskola in Stockholm 1999-2001, at Örebro Konstskola 2001-02, and at Konsthögskolan i Malmö 2002-07.

Viktor Rosdahl
Babylon by Boat
2010
Oil and acrylic on plexi
190 x 83 x 21.5 cm