Anna Kinbom

11th – 25th of March 2023

Extension Art Space welcomes Artist Anna Kinbom
Vernissage: Saturday, 11 March, 16:00-19:00 pm
Location: Extension Art Space, Älvkarleövägen 6
(Ropsten t-bana-exit Hjorthagen)

The exhibition is open from 12 p.m. to 16 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, or by appointment. Please visit during the opening hours or email extensionartspace@gmail.com

The artist`s text:
In this exhibition, Anna Kinbom shows work from this year back to 2003.The exhibition’s starting point is the paintings that Anna made at Birkagårdens folkhögskola in Hjorthagens Medborgarhus in 2003-2004 and had never got the chance to exhibit.

Extension Art Space program is supported by Stockholms Stad and Konstfrämjandet

Song by Bryggan duo (performed by Anna Kinbom and Niklas Wennström, written by Anna Kinbom, 2008/2023)

Text written for the exhibition:

What I was wishing for

Anna Kinbom

When I stared with art I wanted to be a painter. A couple of weeks ago I visited curator Abir Boukari´s experimental art space Extension Art space in Hjorthagen in Stockholm. I was attending art school and painting in Hjorthagen at Birkagårdens folkhögskola, so coming back reminded me of this time. In the space Joakim Forsgren was showing his father Urban Forsgren´s weaves. Urban had stopped weaving when Joakim was born. I spoke to both Joakim and Urban in the gallery, as they were celebrating Urban´s 70th birthday, and we were invited with Swedish princess-cake and prosecco. It was a performative moment for me because I connected the body and the two-dimensional surface there. The weaves are not really two-dimensional either, this is interesting too, they are bended here and their by the weight of the threads. Joakim was questioning in his exhibition text: Where does all creativity go? A sadness came to me.
My mom wanted me to paint and supported me with canvas and paint, it is expensive. But after moving my canvases from Hjorthagen in 2005 I didn’t have an audience for my ”painting performance” anymore, no-one saw me come and go at the Medborgarhuset in Hjorthagen anymore. I remember the sound of the glass doors, your entrance wasn’t unnoticed. There was a sofa next to the entrance, where mostly someone sat chatting or having a fika. Downstair in my studio corner, I had to say hi to other students and teachers.

I came to think of the paintings that are still left from this period. They were in my parent’s country house, framed and hung centrally, in the hallway and in the living room. Quit big for a smaller villa. My dad and granddad built the house in the 1960’s and it has the classic ”egna hem”-base. Big oil paintings are maybe not the expected art for these walls. There they were saved until now.

The small yellow painting stood in my grandmother’s window while she and my grandfather still lived in Brevik in Lidingö. She was always an enthusiastic critic of my art. And followed everything I did with great interest. There were things about me she never got to know about, but maybe she understood anyways somehow. The other painting on wood stood in the basement of the house in Färingsö. In my father’s now home cinema.

The song in the video was written in 2008 when I was finishing my degree in Dental technology. We had started a band me and my class mates and this was the first song I wrote for the band. I recorded and arranged it for this exhibition with Bryggan duo: Me and my care job-colleague double bass player Niklas Wennström.

The choreography is inspired by a square dance performance I did with my class in 4th grade.

I told Abir about a performance workshop I made at Index in Stockholm in 2012, I was invited by Diana Baldon for the exhibition Audience is the Mother of Self-invention. My workshop was part of a curated program. Among other things I made a remake of Bruce Nauman’s Walking around the perimeters of a square. He had filmed it in his studio and he walks slowly around a square of marked on the floor. The first round forward, then backwards, then he turns around and walks forward around the square and then backwards one round, and then it ends.