Market Art Fair: Evelina Hägglund, Linn Pedersen, Yves Scherer & Marius Steiger

Evelina Hägglund (b. 1992) is a Swedish artist who continually explores the boundaries of language and its absence. In her recent works, Hägglund delves into the complexities of human experience and the search for meaning through a dynamic mix of media that includes metal sculptures and drawings on canvas. Her current exhibition at Golsa, titled ”I Dreamt I Was the Ground,” features pieces that range from figurative to abstract, questioning the nature of representation. Hägglund’s approach to abstraction and figuration invites viewers to reconsider the traditional boundaries of portrait and landscape. Her works presented at Liljevalchs include free-standing sculpture made from reinforcing bars scavenged from a building site in Stockholm, as well as drawings on canvas made from graphite and dust. Together, her works convey a sense of repurposed life and explore the transformation of materials, forms, and life itself.

Hägglund holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2021) and a BA from the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana (2018). Recent exhibitions of Hägglund’s work include: Golsa, Oslo (2024); Parafin, London (2023); Pradiauto (2023), ES; Incubator (2022), UK; Cromwell Place (2022), UK; Green Family Foundation (2022), U.S.; Nicoletti Contemporary (2022), UK; Union Pacific (2021); Saatchi Gallery (2021), UK; Inter Pblc, Copenhagen (2021), DK; Jakobsbergs konsthall (2020), SWE; Kiribati National Museum (2019), Tarawa, KI; Temporary Gallery (2016), DE; and the Biennial of Graphic Arts, The Museum of Modern Art (2015), SLO. Evelina lives and works between London and Stockholm.

Linn Pedersen (b.1982) is a Norwegian artist who works with analog photography, cyanotype, and sculptural installations. Her art captures landscapes, human figures, and consumer goods, blending documentarian and poetic styles. Pedersen’s technique often explores the technical and chemical aspects of photography, creating a painterly effect where emotional resonance and materiality are paramount.

Pedersen holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins College, London, and a BA from UIB Faculty of Fine Art, Bergen. Her recent shows include 50 Shades of Black at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2024); Dagbrudd at Golsa, Oslo (2023), Omland at Golsa, Oslo (2021); New Visions at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2021); Captain ́s Cabin at MELK, Oslo (2018); Pupill at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2017).

Yves Scherer (b. 1987, CH) is a visual artist based in New York City. Working in media spanning from figurative sculpture to oil painting and lenticular prints, he creates immersive environments that combine personal narratives with fan fiction and celebrity culture to offer the viewer an often romantic lens or perspective on the self, relationships and the everyday. 

Scherer holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. His recent exhibitions include Imagine at Peres Projects, Seoul (2024), Yves Scherer at Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, New York (2023), Provence at M. LeBlanc, Chicago (2023), New York Minute at Golsa, Oslo (2023), Family Time at Guido Baudach, Berlin (2021), By Your Side at Cassina Projects, NY (2021), Leaves of Grass at Golsa, Oslo (2020), Candids at Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen (2020), and Sunset at Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen (2019).

Marius Steiger (b.1999) is a London-based Swiss artist known for his use of trompe l’oeil, that explores the interplay of images and objects in the digital age. His works question the rapid consumption of images and emphasise the tension between artistic creation and perception in contemporary art. At Market, Steiger presents a series of mushroom-shaped paintings that explore parallels between worlds. Both poisonous and enchanting, mushrooms exist at the point where children’s stories meet adult playthings and build the bridge between the real and the spiritual. A hybridisation between the natural and the artificial, the familiar and the strange. Much like the motif they depict, these paintings migrate and sprout wherever they encounter nutrients. In effect they become a giant still life made out of a collection of still life paintings. The individuals are somehow as strong as the entire whole.

Steiger holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and a degree in Visual Communications from the Schule für Gestaltung SfGBB, Biel. His recent exhibitions include: ”Marius Steiger,” Belvedere, Zurich (2024); ”Day,” Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway (2024); solo presentation at Blue Velvet during Artissima, Turin (2023); ”Sun shines, Money falls,” Blue Velvet, Zurich (2023); ”Lust for Life,” Incubator, London (2022); ”Burning Land,” Labs Contemporary, Bologna, Italy, with Alessio Barchitta (2022); and ”Free as a bird,” La Placette, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022).