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Gunnel Wåhlstrand, Mother in Colour, 2024. Ink-wash on paper. 132.7 x 91.5 cm. (52 1/4 x 36 in.) Framed: 155 x 111 cm (61 x 43 3/4 in.) Each painting takes between four to six months. Wåhlstrand never tells anyone, including her gallery, what she is working on. “It’s always been like that. I like to have it as a secret—it makes it more special to enter the room,” she explains. Sometimes her nine-year-old daughter, Turid, will wait for her by the studio door (Turid wants to be a painter too)—or, if invited in, will sit on the floor and draw. Wåhlstrand likes to talk to her paintings and play the same four or so albums repeatedly. Lately, she’s been listening to American composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros, whose minimal music reminds Wåhlstrand of breathing. It’s when she thinks a painting might be ready—and only then—that Jenna Hultén, her partner of 27 years and a musician herself, is allowed to enter Wåhlstrand’s studio to tell her whether the piece is done or not. In addition to Carlos, Wåhlstrand calls out Edvard Munch, Gerhard Richter, and Ola Billgren as inspirations, though it was the look of a series of ink paintings—Jesus Serene (1994) by Marlene Dumas—that Wåhlstrand says led her to experiment with the medium. She began by painting people from her parents’ old school photo album. “I didn’t dare paint them, so I painted the other people in the album, until I realized I was working around something more important: the photos of my father, and the ones he took of my mother and the time they had together.”Officials The Wire Herc Wisconsin Smell The Dairy Air Shirt
Wåhlstrand’s painting method is high-risk: once the ink touches the paper, it cannot be altered. That sense of danger shows up in the work. “I tried to paint in ink that you could remove with water, but it wasn’t the same—everything just felt dead,” she says. “I think I need to feel that I am performing, in a way.” Over the course of her 20-plus-year career—she received her MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2003—Wåhlstrand has remained somewhat under the radar internationally, despite reportedly being one of the most expensive artists working in Sweden. But that could soon change: this weekend, she’ll unveil three new works at New York’s Independent art fair with her gallery, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, and a large show of her work, organized in collaboration with Prince Eugene’s Waldemarsudde in Stockholm, opens next month at the Turku Art Museum in Finland.
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