Jockum Nordström, born 1963, Stockholm, lives and works in Stockholm (SE)
Jockum Nordström makes fragile collages and graphite drawings in which he evokes a surprising universe, populated with old school sailors, jazz musicians, delicately chronicled flora and fauna, ships and noblemen from past epochs. By consequently using the techniques of drawing and collage, the elegant and carefully composed fragments form a mysterious world, flirting even with the sinister. While looking at Nordström’s work, these excerpts and particularly their very specific mode of representation, trigger our imagination and stories start to develop like fine, curving lines. These stories can take the shape of fairytales, but mostly take on more complex forms questioning modern day alienation.
The same moving fragility can be discovered in his sculptures, small scale models of an obsolete modernist dream showing the empty space behind the façade and the breakable, cardboard skeleton.
Jockum Nordström joined the gallery in 2009.
Jockum Nordström makes fragile collages and graphite drawings in which he evokes a surprising universe, populated with old school sailors, jazz musicians, delicately chronicled flora and fauna, ships and noblemen from past epochs. By consequently using the techniques of drawing and collage, the elegant and carefully composed fragments form a mysterious world, flirting even with the sinister. While looking at Nordström’s work, these excerpts and particularly their very specific mode of representation, trigger our imagination and stories start to develop like fine, curving lines. These stories can take the shape of fairytales, but mostly take on more complex forms questioning modern day alienation.
The same moving fragility can be discovered in his sculptures, small scale models of an obsolete modernist dream showing the empty space behind the façade and the breakable, cardboard skeleton.
Jockum Nordström joined the gallery in 2009.
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Artworks by Jockum Nordström
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Jockum, Nordström, 'Why is Everything a Rag?', CAC New Orleans (US) (2018)
About
Vandaag sta ik dichter bij de natuur
Vogue noemde hem de 'Rock Star of the Stockholm Art Scene'. Jockum Nordström combineert in zijn dynamische collages al jaren de onschuld van volkskunst en outsider art met het KNT-label dat toegekend zou worden aan zijn scènes van copulerende koppels.
Het universum van de Zweedse kunstenaar zweeft tussen herkenbaar en vreemd, onschuldig en gecorrumpeerd, fascinerend en zorgwekkend.
Jozefien Van Beek
There and Now. Here and There.
In his art Nordström addresses political issues such as class society, injustices, as well as existential questions like sexuality, but without pointing fingers. His pictorial worlds are often absurd and amusing. They form a parallel universe that is seemingly recognisable: visually similar to our own, but governed by other rules, like a dream.
Katarina Wadstein MacLeod
In corporate collection:
Statens Konstråd - Public Art Agency Sweden
Market position
Jockum Nordström had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; LaM, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lille; Camden Arts Centre, London; Institut Suédois, Paris; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Uddevalla Konsthall.
He has also participated in several group exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, SFMOMA in San Francisco, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
He has also participated in several group exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, SFMOMA in San Francisco, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 'Pour ne pas dormir’, La Criée, Rennes (FR)
2020 'Without Lantern', Skissernas museum, Lund (SE)
'Jockum Nordström and Bruno Knutman', Tegnerforbundet, Oslo (NO)
2019 'The Anchor Hits the Sand', David Zwirner, London (UK)
2018 'Till Bruno / For Bruno', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Why is Everything a Rag?', CAC New Orleans (US)
2017 'Rymden tystar ljudet', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Jockum Nordström & Dan Wolgers: Ej funktionstestad', Karlskrona konsthall, Karlskrona (SE)
2016 'När ingen vandrar vägen fram, då vandrar vägen själv sitt damm.', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2014 'For the insects and the hounds', David Zwirner, London (GB)
2013 'Jockum Nordström. All I have learned and forgotten again ... ', Camden Arts Centre, London (GB)
'Jockum Nordström. All I have learned and forgotten again ...', Lam, Musée d'art contemporain, Lille (FR)
2012 'Vi Finns Inte ', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2011 'Jockum Nordström and Marcel Dzama', Magnus Karlsson Galleri, Stockholm (SE)
'Les étoiles s'en balancent', Institut Suédois, Paris (FR)
2010 'While the Mortar Dries', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IR)
'Who is sleeping on my pillow', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2009 'Wry', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2008 'Beware the Devil's Yarn', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2006 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2005 'Jockum Nordström: En pinne i skogen / A Stick in the Wood', Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
2004 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, (SE)
2003 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2002 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York, (US)
2001 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2000 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York, NY (US)
1999 'Jockum Nordström', Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (SE), [Beckers Artist Prize]
'Jockum Nordström', Galleri 1, Gothenburg (SE)
1998 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Dialog, Stockholm (SE) [Illustrations and originals from movies]
1997 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Västerås (SE)
'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Kavaletten, Stockholm (SE)
1995 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri 1, Gothenburg (SE)
'Jockum Nordström', Projekt Art Pit, Malmö (SE)
1994 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri St. Olof, Norrköping (SE)
1993 'Jockum Nordström', Olle Olsson-huset, Solna (SE)
1992 'Jockum Nordström', Villa Val Lemme, Torino (IT)
1991 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Arton A, Stockholm (SE)
1989 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Arton A, Stockholm (SE)
1988 'Jockum Nordström', Uddevalla Konsthall (SE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 'Stilla liv/Still Life', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Intermezzo', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2019 'DAS KOLLEGIUM', Grafikstiftung Neo Rauch, Aschersleben (DE)
'Group Show', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2018 'Stockholm Calling', Galleri Magnus Karlsson at Asia House, London (UK)
'Chemin Papier, l'illustration et ses marges', Centre National du Graphismen Chaumont (FR)
'Autofiktionen – Zeichnung der Gegenwart', Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE)
'David Zwirner: 25 Years', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2017 'Samling i förvandling – Tema: Grafik', Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (SE)
'Horses', Eighteen/ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen (DK)
'The Beauty of the Beast', Kasteel d’Ursel, Hingene (BE)
'Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain', KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (DK)
2016 'The Campaign for Art: Contemporary', SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
'Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Quartet', National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (IS)
2015 'The Bottom Line', S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE)
'Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain', Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (SE)
'Drawing Now', Albertina, Vienna (AT)
'Works on Paper II', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2014 'The Drawing Room', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'Ett tut re - kom och se Barnbok/One two three - come and see the children’s book', Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås (SE)
'Norrsken - Lueurs du nord', Studio Fotokino, Marseille (FR)
2013 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', Borås Konstmuseum, Borås (SE)
'On Paper', Centro de Arte Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres (ES)
'Opening New Space', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Time Waits for Us', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press', National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (US)
2012 'Présentation actuelle des oeuvres du musée', Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
'Utan Söm och Socka, Hellvi Kännungs', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Gotland (SE)
'150 years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm (Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum)', Hillstrom Museum of Art, Minnesota (US)
2011 'Välkommen tillbaka! Saltarvet 10 år', Fiskebäckskil (US)
'3rd Thessaloniki Biennale', Thessaloniki (GR)
'Works on Paper', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2010 'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rotschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection', Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia (ES)
'New Narrative', Heskin Contemporary, New York (US)
'Idag Är Igår Imorgon/Today Is Yesterday Tomorrow', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Thrice Upon a Time', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
2009 'Dekadens - A Rake's Progress / Rucklarens Väg', Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (SE)
'Märta Måås-Fjetterström', Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rotschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection', Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
'Samtidigt: Svenkst måleri på 2000-talet', Borås Konsthall, Borås (SE)
2008 'In praise of shadows', The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IR)
2007 'Hammer Contemporary Collection', UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
2007 'Other Scenes', Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles (US)
2006 'Diptych: Jockum Nordström and Mindy Shapero', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (US)
2005 'Drawing from the Modern: 1975 – 2005', Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
2004 'I linje/In line', Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing', Tate Modern, London (GB)
2003 'OM', Norrköpings konstmuseum (SE)
'Dark Shadows', Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (US)
'EU3', Stephan Friedman Gallery, London (GB)
'Put Out More Flags', Sutton Lane, London (GB)
'Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art at Guild Hall', Guild Hall, East Hampton (US)
'Drawings', Mjellby konsthall, Halmstad (SE)
'Poetic Justice', The 8th International Istanbul Biennial (TR)
'Le Songe d'une nuit d'ete', Works from the collection of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'International Paper', UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
2002 'Art on Paper', The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro (US)
'Drawing Now: Eight Propositions', MoMA QNS, New York (US)
'Expect: Art', The What to Expect Foundation, New York (US)
'Extension - Works from the collection', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (SE)
2001 'Recent Acquisitions', MoMA, New York (US)
' I ♥ NY', David Zwirner, New York (US)
'Karaktärer/Characters', Vikingsbergs Konstmuseum, Helsingborg (SE)
'Locating Drawing', Lawing Gallery, Houston (US)
2000 'Ut och in i barnbokens bilder', Västerås Konstmuseum (SE)
1999 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1998 'Aptitretare', KF, Konstakademin, Stockholm (SE)
2021 'Pour ne pas dormir’, La Criée, Rennes (FR)
2020 'Without Lantern', Skissernas museum, Lund (SE)
'Jockum Nordström and Bruno Knutman', Tegnerforbundet, Oslo (NO)
2019 'The Anchor Hits the Sand', David Zwirner, London (UK)
2018 'Till Bruno / For Bruno', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Why is Everything a Rag?', CAC New Orleans (US)
2017 'Rymden tystar ljudet', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Jockum Nordström & Dan Wolgers: Ej funktionstestad', Karlskrona konsthall, Karlskrona (SE)
2016 'När ingen vandrar vägen fram, då vandrar vägen själv sitt damm.', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2014 'For the insects and the hounds', David Zwirner, London (GB)
2013 'Jockum Nordström. All I have learned and forgotten again ... ', Camden Arts Centre, London (GB)
'Jockum Nordström. All I have learned and forgotten again ...', Lam, Musée d'art contemporain, Lille (FR)
2012 'Vi Finns Inte ', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2011 'Jockum Nordström and Marcel Dzama', Magnus Karlsson Galleri, Stockholm (SE)
'Les étoiles s'en balancent', Institut Suédois, Paris (FR)
2010 'While the Mortar Dries', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IR)
'Who is sleeping on my pillow', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2009 'Wry', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2008 'Beware the Devil's Yarn', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2006 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2005 'Jockum Nordström: En pinne i skogen / A Stick in the Wood', Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
2004 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, (SE)
2003 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2002 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York, (US)
2001 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2000 'Jockum Nordström', David Zwirner, New York, NY (US)
1999 'Jockum Nordström', Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (SE), [Beckers Artist Prize]
'Jockum Nordström', Galleri 1, Gothenburg (SE)
1998 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Dialog, Stockholm (SE) [Illustrations and originals from movies]
1997 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Västerås (SE)
'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Kavaletten, Stockholm (SE)
1995 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri 1, Gothenburg (SE)
'Jockum Nordström', Projekt Art Pit, Malmö (SE)
1994 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri St. Olof, Norrköping (SE)
1993 'Jockum Nordström', Olle Olsson-huset, Solna (SE)
1992 'Jockum Nordström', Villa Val Lemme, Torino (IT)
1991 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Arton A, Stockholm (SE)
1989 'Jockum Nordström', Galleri Arton A, Stockholm (SE)
1988 'Jockum Nordström', Uddevalla Konsthall (SE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 'Stilla liv/Still Life', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Intermezzo', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
2019 'DAS KOLLEGIUM', Grafikstiftung Neo Rauch, Aschersleben (DE)
'Group Show', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2018 'Stockholm Calling', Galleri Magnus Karlsson at Asia House, London (UK)
'Chemin Papier, l'illustration et ses marges', Centre National du Graphismen Chaumont (FR)
'Autofiktionen – Zeichnung der Gegenwart', Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE)
'David Zwirner: 25 Years', David Zwirner, New York (US)
2017 'Samling i förvandling – Tema: Grafik', Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (SE)
'Horses', Eighteen/ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen (DK)
'The Beauty of the Beast', Kasteel d’Ursel, Hingene (BE)
'Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain', KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (DK)
2016 'The Campaign for Art: Contemporary', SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
'Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Quartet', National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (IS)
2015 'The Bottom Line', S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE)
'Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain', Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (SE)
'Drawing Now', Albertina, Vienna (AT)
'Works on Paper II', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2014 'The Drawing Room', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'Ett tut re - kom och se Barnbok/One two three - come and see the children’s book', Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås (SE)
'Norrsken - Lueurs du nord', Studio Fotokino, Marseille (FR)
2013 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', Borås Konstmuseum, Borås (SE)
'On Paper', Centro de Arte Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres (ES)
'Opening New Space', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Time Waits for Us', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press', National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (US)
2012 'Présentation actuelle des oeuvres du musée', Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
'Utan Söm och Socka, Hellvi Kännungs', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Gotland (SE)
'150 years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm (Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum)', Hillstrom Museum of Art, Minnesota (US)
2011 'Välkommen tillbaka! Saltarvet 10 år', Fiskebäckskil (US)
'3rd Thessaloniki Biennale', Thessaloniki (GR)
'Works on Paper', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2010 'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rotschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection', Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia (ES)
'New Narrative', Heskin Contemporary, New York (US)
'Idag Är Igår Imorgon/Today Is Yesterday Tomorrow', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (SE)
'Thrice Upon a Time', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
2009 'Dekadens - A Rake's Progress / Rucklarens Väg', Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (SE)
'Märta Måås-Fjetterström', Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rotschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection', Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
'Samtidigt: Svenkst måleri på 2000-talet', Borås Konsthall, Borås (SE)
2008 'In praise of shadows', The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IR)
2007 'Hammer Contemporary Collection', UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
2007 'Other Scenes', Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles (US)
2006 'Diptych: Jockum Nordström and Mindy Shapero', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (US)
2005 'Drawing from the Modern: 1975 – 2005', Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
2004 'I linje/In line', Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing', Tate Modern, London (GB)
2003 'OM', Norrköpings konstmuseum (SE)
'Dark Shadows', Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (US)
'EU3', Stephan Friedman Gallery, London (GB)
'Put Out More Flags', Sutton Lane, London (GB)
'Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art at Guild Hall', Guild Hall, East Hampton (US)
'Drawings', Mjellby konsthall, Halmstad (SE)
'Poetic Justice', The 8th International Istanbul Biennial (TR)
'Le Songe d'une nuit d'ete', Works from the collection of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
'International Paper', UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
2002 'Art on Paper', The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro (US)
'Drawing Now: Eight Propositions', MoMA QNS, New York (US)
'Expect: Art', The What to Expect Foundation, New York (US)
'Extension - Works from the collection', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (SE)
2001 'Recent Acquisitions', MoMA, New York (US)
' I ♥ NY', David Zwirner, New York (US)
'Karaktärer/Characters', Vikingsbergs Konstmuseum, Helsingborg (SE)
'Locating Drawing', Lawing Gallery, Houston (US)
2000 'Ut och in i barnbokens bilder', Västerås Konstmuseum (SE)
1999 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1998 'Aptitretare', KF, Konstakademin, Stockholm (SE)