STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.- Fifty-one artists inagurate Bonniers Konsthall 20 years! Grant Recipients of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation 1985 –2005. Bonniers Konsthall in the centre of Stockholm is a new venue for Swedish and international contemporary art. Through exhibitions, seminars, publications, a studio for guest artists and much more, Bonniers Konsthall aims to support the emergence of and the encounter with new art.

Bonniers Konsthall was initiated by the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, founded in 1985 by Jeanette Bonnier in memory of her daughter Maria. The Foundation awards grants to young Swedish artists annually. The Foundation is celebrating twenty years of supporting young Swedish artists by inviting the fifty-one grant recipients to show their recent work. The artists, who have emerged during the three decades and are active in Sweden as well as abroad, are presenting a comprehensive and diverse body of work linking the past activities of the Foundation with the present. Several generations of artists representing a variety of artistic expressions, objectives and methods are brought together to form a multi-faceted whole.

The exhibition shows how the Foundation has established itself within the Swedish art scene by offering young artists opportunities for artistic development. The diversity of this exhibition is testimony to the way in which artists belonging to a wide range of schools and temperaments have been selected. The participating artists are working with a wide range of techniques and forms of expression – painting, sculpture, video, drawing, objects and installations. The artists’ objectives, subject matter and methods are extremely diverse too. Their subject matter ranges from existential and burning social issues, technological inventiveness and formal experiments to references to art history and comical incidents from everyday life.

Participating artists: Eva Löfdahl, Sissel Tolaas, Läderfabriken, Lena Laurin-Karlström, Fredrik Wretman, Cecilia Edefalk, Roger Risberg, Martin Wickström, Per Hüttner, Stefan Karlsson, Martin Ålund, Thomas Olsson, Cecilia Sikström, Sissel Wibom, Karin Mamma Andersson, Sunniva McAlinden, Olov Tällström, Peter Ern, Gunnar Larsson, Birgitta Muhr, Thomas Henriksson, Arijana Kajfes, Michael West, Richard G Carlsson, Klara Kristalova, Karin Ohlin, Johanna Karlin, Björn Stampes, Magnus Wassborg, Åsa Larsson, Cecilia Parsberg, Tanja Airaksinen, Carl-Fredrik Ekström, Eva Marklund, Helena Mutanen, Fredrik Persson, Jacob Dahlgren, Marcus Eek, Linn Fernström, Charlotte Enström, Björn Perborg, Petra Lindholm, Sven Nilsson, Tomas Broomé, Stina Stigell, Ann Böttcher, Tilda Lovell, Gunnel Wåhlstrand, Lisa Jeannin, Lisa Jonasson, Lina Selander, Johan Svensson.