Jockum Nordström

Though he’s actually a middle-aged man, Nordström makes work that looks like the invention of a late Victorian child with scant formal training in art. Disjointing things further is his wonky feel for time; it seems to have paused in a fit of despair somewhere between the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1893) and the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll.

This imaginative extravagance can be accomplished by humble methods. Nordström’s materials have a quiet pathos, bound up with their meek insignificance and the delicate things they create. In photographs of his studio, you can see the accidental snowscape of fallen paper that collects beneath his desk as he works.
/Charlie Fox,  Frieze Magazine, juni 2015.

Jockum Nordström (b.1963) is one of the most established artists in Sweden. He has exhibited regularly from the beginning of the 90s, and got a international recognition in 2000. Moderna Museet in Stockholm arranged his solo exhibition A Stick in the Wood in 2005. During 2013 the exhibition All I Have Learned and Forgotten Again toured from LAM, Lille to Camden Arts Centre, London. Liljevalchs in Stockholm arranged his solo exhibition No paper, no coins in 2023. Jockum Nordström is represented in the collections of MoMA, New York, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, LAM, Lille, SFMoMA, San Francisco, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Hammer Museum, LA, Magasin III, Stockholm, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, S.M.A.K. Gent et al. He is represented by Galleri Magnus Karlsson ( Stockholm), David Zwirner  (New York/Los Angeles/London/Paris/Hong Kong) and TVLG (Antwerp/Rome).

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Jockum Nordström (f.1963) är en av Sveriges med uppmärksammade konstnärer. Han har ställt ut regelbundet sedan början av 1990-talet, och fick ett internationellt genombrott år 2000. 2005 visades separatutställningen En pinne i skogen på Moderna Museet i Stockholm. 2013 turnerade separatutställningen All I Have Learned and Forgotten Again från LAM, Lille till Camden Arts Centre i London. 2023 visades separatutställningen Inget papper, inga mynt på Liljevalchs i Stockholm. Jockum Nordström finns representerad i samlingarna på bl.a. MoMA, New York, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, LAM, Lille, SFMoMA, San Francisco, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Hammer Museum, LA, Magasin III, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, S.M.A.K. Gent. Han representeras av Galleri Magnus Karlsson  (Stockholm), David Zwirner (New York/Los Angeles/London/Paris/Hong Kong)  och TVLG– Tim van Laere Gallery ( Antwerpen/Rom).