Current
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La vie est une plaie dont je ne me défais pas
Fondation Frances 5 Apr - 19 Jul 2025 Clichy Ouverture au public samedi 5 avril à 14h 21 rue Georges Boisseau, 92110 Clichy contact@fondationfrances.com +33 (0) 174 714 666 Métro 14 Saint-Ouen Métro 13 Mairie de Clichy 42 artistes exposés : Farley Aguilar, Markus Åkesson, Gilles Barbier, Nasser Bakhshi, Romain Bernini, Cathryn Boch, Alin Bozbiciu, Guillaume Bresson, Jake... Read more -
Art Brussels
Brussels Expo 24 - 27 Apr 2025 Berg Gallery, Stockholm. With Ellen Ehk, Hilda Hellström, Pauline Fransson § Ivar Lövheim. Read more
Past
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Land of the Lotus Eaters
Galerie Da-End, Paris 19 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 Solo exhibition Read more -
Palace Garden – Samtida svensk glaskonst
Palace Garden, Ravinen Kulturhus, Båsta 12 Oct 2024 - 12 Jan 2025 A collective exhibition with the artists Bertil Vallien, Åsa Jungnelius, Ellen Ehk Åkesson, Markus Åkesson and Johan Röing. The exhibition Palace Garden shows glass art by Bertil Vallien, a master of Swedish glass art, and works by four other prominent artists, which together give the viewer a picture of where... Read more -
Art Brussels
Brussels Expo 25 - 28 Apr 2024 Berg Gallery, Stockholm.
With Pauline Fransson, Mårten Medbo & John Rainey. Read more -
Weaver's Grove, The Oracle Bones
Berg Gallery, Stockholm 28 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 Encountering Markus Åkesson's paintings is like a crash course in art history; there are references to 19th century realist painting, the Pre-Raphaelites, Renaissance masters Hans Holbein the Younger and Albrecht Dürer, chinoiserie, and art nouveau. And the majority of these references appear on the draped fabrics that cover Åkesson's models.... Read more
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Open Air Exhibition
Solliden Royal Palace, Öland 11 May - 1 Oct 2023 Open air solo exhibiton in the palace garden, Solliden Palace, Borgholm, Sweden, combined with group exhibition Kosta Boda Jubilee Exhibition In Glass with Ellen Ehk, Bertil Vallien, Åsa Jungnelius and Johan Röing. Read more -
Faces Cachées
La Manufacture, Museum of Textile Creation and History, Roubaix, France 22 Apr - 27 Aug 2023 Musée de la mémoire et de la création textile, la Manufacture de Roubaix rassemble le travail de vingt-et-un artistes issus d’horizons culturels éclectiques (France, Belgique, Allemagne, Suède, Bénin, Alaska…) autour du thème du masque et de ses multiples avatars. Sous le commissariat de la plasticienne et photographe Christine Mathieu, c’est... Read more -
Exhibition at The Council Buildings Justus Lipsius
European Council, Brussels 1 Jan - 30 Jun 2023 With Ellen Ehk Åkesson. In conjunction with the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2023, the Council buildings in Brussels will be decorated based on the concept The Yellow Thread developed by the design bureau Färg & Blanche. Exhibited in the hallway of the Justus Lipsius... Read more -
The Roses Of Heliogabalus
Galerie Da-End, Paris 3 Dec 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 In 1826, when Henry Beyle, known as Stendhal, wrote about his trip to Italy in his book 'Rome, Naples and Florence', he effusively described the emotional outpouring he experienced while contemplating the frescoes in the Niccolini Chapel during a visit to the Basilica of Santa Croce. This strange uneasiness that... Read more
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The trailing moss and mystic glow
Kosta Art Gallery, Kosta, SE 26 May - 2 Oct 2022 Duo exhibition with Ellen Ehk. Read more -
Print & Paint
Kasteel d'Ursel, Belgum 26 May - 30 Sep 2022 Come and admire our unique collection of painted and printed cotton fabrics! We combine their remarkable story with dozens of loans from the Antwerp Fashion Museum, previously unseen views of interiors and works by contemporary artists. Some rooms are open to the public for the first time. All this from... Read more -
Le Jardin, Miroir du Monde
Château du Rivau, Lémeré, France 17 May - 30 Sep 2022 Read more -
Market Art Fair 2022
Liljevlach's Art Hall, Stockholm 29 Apr - 1 May 2022 Berg Gallery, Stockholm. Read more
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Cabinet Da-End XI "Asile in Wonderland"
Galerie Da-End, Paris 15 Jan - 12 Mar 2022 The Da-End gallery pursues its series of contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities and invites this year for the eleventh issue, nearly twenty international artists to unveil their creations in a scenography evoking the wonder-rooms of our childhood. Through a selection of works in various techniques - drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, or... Read more -
Skogens hjärta / The Heart Of The Forest
VIDA Museum, Öland, Sweden 19 Jun - 3 Oct 2021 Duo exhibition with Ellen Ehk. Read more -
Swedish Design Movement
Swedish Institut, Paris 14 Mar - 25 Aug 2021 Swedish Design Movement brings together players in Swedish design, fashion and architecture who are spearheading the transition to sustainability. The initiative seeks to put Sweden on the international design map, raise the profile of sustainable Swedish businesses and set a global example. Design has an important role to play in... Read more -
Now You See Me
Berg Gallery, Stockholm 15 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 Solo exhibition at Berg Gallery, Stockholm. Markus Åkesson draws arcane and mystical journeys on the printed cloth. It is through its patterns – all rooted in the history of art and ideas – that his language is articulated and his symbolic research is deployed, in an in-between world bathed in... Read more
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Strange Days
Galerie Da-End, Paris 17 Sep - 30 Oct 2020 How strange is the world, how strange are those days, unceasingly eluding us and yet or constantly striking us with their absolute necessity A human form stands out against a background of toile de Jouy. It stands out and refuses to be seen. We can barely catch a glimpse of... Read more -
Galeristes
Carreau du Temple, Paris 18 - 20 Oct 2019 Salon des galeries et des collectionneurs engagés, 4e édition Premier salon dans son genre, Galeristes, imaginé par des collectionneurs, est devenu en quatre éditions le rendez-vous parisien incontournable ouvert à tous les passionnés et curieux d’art contemporain. Voici trente ans que Stéphane Corréard, critique d'art, commissaire d'exposition, collectionneur, galeriste, dédie... Read more -
Cabinet Da-En 09
Galerie Da-End 15 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 Things inconspicuously appear. The artists in this Cabinet appeal beyond mere curiosity. Reality does not suffice: they seek to fill a void. One could say that they are chasing dreams and inspiration, but above all, they compose an answer to the lack of meaning in our societies. In 1987, René... Read more -
Insomnia
VIDA Museum, Öland, Sweden 19 May - 24 Jun 2018 Solo exhibition at VIDA Museum, Sweden. Read more
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Loup Y Es/Tu?
Maisons-Laffitte, France 25 Mar - 25 Jun 2018 Participating artists: Lionel Sabatté, Cédric Le Corf, Sarah Jérôme, Nicolas Darrot, Julien Salaud, Javier Perez, Stéphane Penchréac’h, Katia Bourdarel, Cécile de Cassagnac, Maël Nozahic, Fabien Mérelle, Arnaud Rochard, Marko Velk, Davor Vrankic, Leopold Rabus, Till Rabus, Ronan Barrot, Abel Pradalié, Anya Belyat-Guinta, Klervi Bourseul, Cristine Guinamand, Nazanin Pouyandeh, Murielle Belin,... Read more -
La fabrique de l’esprit - Du regard à l’expérience
Fondation Francès, Senlis, France 22 Feb - 22 Aug 2018 Cette exposition donne à voir une sélection d’œuvres de la collection Francès choisies pour illustrer le programme d’histoire de l’art, La Fabrique de l’Esprit®. Ces œuvres n’ont jamais été exposées à la Fondation au cours des dix dernières années. Certaines œuvres interrogent le vivant comme celles créées par les artistes... Read more -
Sleeping Beauty
Kalmar Art Museum, Kalmar, Sweden 10 Feb - 29 Apr 2018 Solo exhibition curated by Joanna Sandell at Kalmar Art Museum. Markus Åkesson skapade rubriker under 2017 när hans verk Sleeping Beauty plockades ner från entrén i den skola som beställt verket. Debatten som följde belyste konstens kraft i samhället och hur mycket offentlig konst kan beröra. Många av motiven som... Read more -
Let me sleep through the night
Galerie Da-End, Paris 13 Jan - 24 Feb 2018 Swedish artist Markus Åkesson returns to the Galerie Da-End for his third solo exhibition, titled ‘Let me sleep through the night’, on the occasion of which he unveils a body of recent paintings and new engraved glass sculptures. A painter of the imaginary, Åkesson meticulously documents his compositions thanks to... Read more
