Annsofie Jonsson

I am a Berlin-based Swedish artist and a member of the art collective, Studio Baustelle in Neukölln, Berlin since 2018. My work revolves mainly around expressive semi-abstract paintings, using collage technics, and mixed media as tools for expression and I often take inspiration from the hypnagogic state of mind. I studied fine art before obtaining my Master's degree in Education, in the field of Culture, Media, and Aesthetics at the University of Malmö, Sweden. I collaborate and perform together with sound artist Håkan Jonsson under the name Hugsten.

Selected works and exhibitions

SAMTALET - The Conversation

An auditory, visual, and tactile painting to be explored.

110x110cm, Dyed raw canvas, recycled canvas, acrylic, ink, charcoal, salt crystals, contact microphone, synthesizer, and speaker. 2023

Hörsägen by HUGSTEN at Studio Baustelle 2023

“Hearsay” can be used to characterize the myths and legends of oral traditions, folklore, as well as gossip and today’s fake news. Its uncertain veracity, transmitted through whispers in confidence, makes it a carrier of uncontrollable ideas, ideal for enhancing, contextualizing, and merging with other stories to maintain its power of virality and give it sustained longevity.

But as we propagate these narratives we may ask ourselves why, and how they affect us: Do we tell stories or do the stories tell us?

In this exhibition, the works tell, twist, improve, and create hearsays by combining visual, aural, and tactile elements in performances, paintings, sculptures, and sound.

Drömmen - The Dream

80 x 100cm

Acrylic, ink, and charcoal on dyed raw canvas and recycled fabric

Sagan - The Fairytale

35 x 45cm

Acrylic, ink, and charcoal on dyed raw canvas

Förtroendet - The Trust

25 x 25cm

Acrylic on dyed raw canvas

Urban Spirits - Mixed media drawings on paper

Urban Spirits 2022

The drawings derive from the artist's drifting practices in the cityscape of Berlin, taking inspiration from Guy Debord and the idea of total dissolution between art and life. The drawings are a form of collage, a mix of micro and macro perspectives, impressions filtered through the artist's membrane and created in a mixed media technic on paper. Exhibited in Los Angeles at Torrence Art Museum, as part of the B-LA Connect Art festival.

DREAMSCAPE I - IN MY DREAMS EVERYTHING IS REAL

70x75cm, Acrylic and ink on dyed raw canvas

CHTHONIC - WHATEVER IS DOWN THERE 2022

The exhibition showed contemporary occulture with artists from Berlin and Sweden, curated by Annsofie Jonsson at Studio Baustelle in Neukölln. The theme, Chthonic, focuses on what dwells in the underworld, whether it be in ourselves, below the earth, or otherwise hidden and the exhibition “Chthonic” applies both to the subjects of the artist's works as well as the subcultural and occultural currents from which they emerge.

Dreamscape II

70x75cm, Acrylic and ink on dyed raw canvas

Dreamscape III

40x40cm, Acrylic, ink and pigment on wood

Dreamscape IV - Airstreamer

47x62cm, Acrylic on canvas

Vara - To be

50x70cm, Acrylic on canvas

Genom - Through

30x30cm, Acrylic on canvas

Vid - At

40x50cm, Acrylic on canvas

OKRA - OCHRE 2021

This exhibition at Lofta Caffé in Sweden presented a series of acrylic paintings that took their inspiration from events in life that are in constant movement and change, the transitional age of menopause. The work is created with the help of the color ochre as a unifying aspect. Ochre is a color commonly associated with the earth element and fits the theme of the paintings, cyclical change, movement, and renewal.

Inom - Within

40x50cm, Acrylic on canvas

Innan - Before

50x70cm, Acrylic on canvas

Initials

This body of work also consists of a series of drawings called Initial because they are the results of the first exercises of the day, contact with the color and the material, a kind of creative exercise to start painting, they are initials, the first forms.

Acrylic and charcoal on paper