Today at 16-20 is the opening of the exhibition ”en liknande”. I feel so grateful to be accompanied with a compendium of texts by Alexander Lepp, @thomackenstein , @hiratajason and @francispatrickbrady . It all would never been possible with out @williamjandersson who’s done all the typeface setting and layout.
Kipi Konsthall invites you to the opening of our first solo exhibition Ossian Söderqvist’s ‘en liknande (A Similar One)’. Join us for the opening night 14th February 16.00 - 20.00 for drinks at the Vernissage!
Opening : 14 February, 16.00 – 20.00
Exhibition Dates
14 February – 29 March
Opening Hours
Thursday – Saturday, 13.00 – 15.00
Open by appointment outside regular opening hours.
In dialogue with the work a series of texts has emerged through contributions by:
Alexander Lepp (PhD student in literature)
Silvia Thomackenstein (curator)
Jason Hirata (artist)
Francis Patrick Brady (artist)
Graphic and typographic work by William Jokijärvi Andersson.
The memories I hold are mostly of silence.
Karl-Erik Johansson, my grandfather, was a typographer and graphic designer who during his studies in Zurich, created a typeface based on Goethe’s poem, carved from a block of pearwood. Later in life, he suffered a stroke that left him with aphasia, unable to work with letters, speak, or read.
This poem is among the most translated texts in Swedish, with over 2,000 known interpretations. This can be traced in part to a translation competition announced by Svenska Dagbladet in 1915, following public criticism of an earlier version.
Written in 1780 at a hunting lodge on Mount Kickelhahn, the poem was originally inscribed on a wall. Although the lodge later burned down, a photograph preserved the inscription. Today, a copy of the image hangs at the rebuilt site.
By recreating his typeface, I seek to approach a silence and linguistic concentration held in memory and material—a message not fully deciphered, a form heading towards its own dissolving.
Ossian Söderqvist is an artist who graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2023. His practice engages primarily with sculptural processes and installation, and his current work employs typography, text, and visual forms to explore language, memory, and materiality. Previous exhibitions, among others, include Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico, and Fullersta gård, Stockholm. He has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (USA) and SOMA (Mexico).
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