"A pedestrian advances, riders on horseback travel towards the horizon; lone figures in a vast expanse of landscape. The forms of the figures are depicted in a combination of brush strokes; bold and faint. The figures are part defined, part implied. Solid but somewhat translucent at the same time, they assert themselves and yet are part of the background. Present and absent, they are captured almost in a moment of simultaneously appearing and disapppearing, thus isolating the present tense. Large areas of land and sky are laid out for us. We are aware of paint, colour and the coarse texture of the canvas. Such are the paintings of Viktoria Hallenius.

These paintings are undoubtedly existential; people in the world, people in Nature. The tone is one of optimism however. The subjects are not alienated by the landscape, they interact with it, embrace it. As an artist Viktoria concerns herself with Beauty. Beauty in the World. Beauty in Nature. With loosely rendered paint, colour and an obvious presence of exposed canvas she depicts skies, oceans, deserts, shorelines and snowscapes. Her figures enjoy these spaces, celebrate them. These works are about a celebration. A celebration of Beauty. A celebration of Life.

Viktoria brings to these pieces elements of herself, elements of her own life. We witness memories of the desert, Egyptian shorelines, the green fields of England, scenes from Scandinavia and the Mediterranean sun. Like their authoress, the works are warm, feminine and organic. Her female protagonists are nobly dressed. Her figures bathe in the Sublime; sun, moon, sea, green fields, earth and snow. This is her world."

Adam Jaabäk

Nationality: Swedish

Date of Birth: 08.06.1971

Education

77-82
Primary School, Göteborg, Sweden

82-88
The American School, Cobham, Surrey

88-90 St.
Clare's College, International Baccalaureate, Oxford

91-95
St. Andrews University, Master of Art, Scotland

95-96
Chelsea College of Art, London
  

Exhibitions
 
May 97
Galleri Bacchus, debut, solo, Borås, Sweden

May 98
Maymie White Contemporary Art, "Celebration of the figure", London

Dec 98
Galleri Norden, Föreningen Norden, solo, Göteborg, Sweden

Dec 98
Galleri Mocca, Christmas exhibition, Göteborg, Sweden

Sep 99
A-Gallery, solo, Göteborg, Sweden

Sept 00
Utställnings Salongen,solo, Stockholm, Sweden

May 01
Art Diana, solo, Helsinki, Finland

Oct 01
A-Gallery, solo, Göteborg, Sweden

Jul 02
Blue Gallery , solo, Fjällbacka, Sweden

Oct 02
Art Uncorked, Lennox Gallery, London, mixed show

Apr 03
Art Uncorked, Lennox Gallery, London

Jul 03 
Art Diana, solo, Helsinki, Finland

Oct 03
Art Now, solo, Göteborg, Sweden

Nov 03
Hilton Park Lane Skybar, London

Apr 04
Utställnings Salongen,solo, Stockholm, Sweden

Oct 04
aaf Contemporary Art Fair, New York, U.S.A

Jan 05
A-Gallery, solo, Göteborg, Sweden

Jun 05
ArtLondon, Art*, UK

Aug 05
Thomas Henry Fine Art, solo, Nantucket, U.S.A

April 06
The Menier Gallery, London

May 06
Galleri Curt Friman, solo, Vadstena, Sweden