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Escort 2025


Zoom, zoom 2025


Mapping Swedish Cultural History 2024


Paradise 2023



Sweden 2023


Paintings of Photographs 2023


Det Sitter i Väggarna 2023

Portals 2022


It Was Lurking Behind the Facade, Dip-Tych 2022


Portrait of A Portrait 2022


It’s Not Over 2022


Funeral Casket 2021


Do You Remeber the Arctic Char? 2020




Clown 2020




Breadpeople 2019


Ei Saa Peittää 2018


Appartment Study 2016
   


Håkan Karvonen
We Shall Overcome, 2024, Oil on paper, 80x65cm. In 1992 the minister of immigration decided to take matters into her own hands. She and the prime minister held a public meeting to face the frightened mass who felt like they could be the next victim of the notorious murderer "Lasermannen". The crowd thought they were not heard or cared for and the meeting quickly escalated. So Birgit Friggebo decided it was best to speak up and make everybody sing "We Shall Overcome". The song was used in the 50s, and 60s as an anthem in the protests for equal rights for African Americans. In this case, the problem was just that she was a white Swede and did not share any traits with the people being targeted by the raging killer. Detail of "We Shall Overcome". Sch, 2024, Oil on Paper, 29,7x21cm (x21). The artwork includes portraits of the 20 members listed in the "Swedish Academy's" 1997 register, as well as "Kulturprofilen" Jean-Claude Arnault. It marks the first time the Swedish Academy was contacted regarding a rape committed by Arnault. All the members avert their gaze, but Jean-Claude Arnault looks directly at you as if to recreate the Academy's neglect of their knowledge of the crime. Detail of "Sch". Detail of "Sch". ABBA, 2024, Oil on Paper, 102x100cm. Installation view of Mapping Swedish Cultural History at RUD AIR Open Studio November 2024. Nogger Black, 2024, Oil on Paper, 100x70cm. In 2011, the marketing of the ice-cream Nogger Black made by the company GB was reported by the organization Centrum Mot Rasism with the reasoning: - "We are not critical of the coloring of the ice cream or the name 'Black,' but of the entire mindset in the advertisement." The event came to be remembered as "The Nogger Black Case". https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/J1bxE6/gbs-glassreklam-ar-rasistisk Detail of Nogger Black. Babsan (Lars-Åke Wilhelmsson), 2024, Oil on Paper, 92x60cm. Nasirmoskén, 2024, Oil on Paper, 110x70cm. The Nasir mosque was built in 1976 and is Sweden´s first mosque. M/S Estonia, 2024, Oil on Paper, 80x50cm. On September 28, 1994, at 1:48 AM, the passenger ferry M/S Estonia sank under unclear circumstances. The M/S Estonia operated the route between Stockholm and Tallinn. A total of 852 people lost their lives, including many Swedes. All potential explanations for the sinking have faced strong criticism from external investigators, and conspiracy theories claim that the Swedish government has attempted to cover up the incident due to illegal arms shipments. Pippi Långstrump, 2024, Oil on Paper, 66x65cm. Näcken, 2024, Oil on Paper, 80x54cm. Carl Bildt, 2024, Oil on Paper, 84x60cm. Kolonaliseringen av Sápmi, 2024, Oil on Paper, 150x105cm. In 1922, the State Institute for Racial Biology was founded, which, among other things, classified the Sámi and Finns as inferior races. Sweden was a leading nation in racial biology until 1958 when the institute closed. Installation view of Mapping Swedish Cultural History at RUD AIR Open Studio November 2024.

Sketch from Paradise, 2023, AI Generated Print on Paper.