Tobias Sjöberg’s art work engages with the physical and metaphysical aspects of vision, perception and perspective.

His practice encompasses an ecology of sensing that foregrounds the somatic and, in his own words, takes the form of living research. Sjöberg has repeatedly worked with questions related to our contemporary worldview and how we can reshape our life perspective in different ways based on what is self-experienced.

In previous works, painting directly on glass, dynamic/ organic substances such as eggs and honey has been used in relation to space and time (light)—a crystal­lization process, a cosmology, and living alchemy of expression. These works would transform over time, with the encounter between artwork, its surroun­dings, and the viewer often transient in nature and constantly changing.

In his new commission for the biennial, Sjöberg has been listening to the specific context of the Gustav Adolf Church in Borås, working with paintings that are set in and around the space to respond to it as living organs of perception. The work is developed out of snow and natural elements transformed through light and dark.

Sensing Sessions

As part of the installation in Gustav Adolf's church, a series of guided sensing sessions are carried out by Tobias Sjöberg, on the perspective "me, you and it”. The tours are taking place between 2 pm and 3 pm every last Sunday of the month, during the run of the biennial and are taking place in the public space outside the church, starting at the main entrance.

Dates for guided tours: 30/5, 27/6, 25/7, 29/8, 26/9.

To participate, please send your booking to email: biennalvisningar@gmail.com

Sjöberg lives and works in Järna and Stockholm, where he also runs an art school (Konstskolan). Selected solo exhibitions include: Väderlek (due to Covid19, digitally represented) at Grafikens hus, Södertälje (2020); Nåd, Uppsala Cathedral, Uppsala (2019); Luz, oxígeno, sal, azúcar y grasa, ComBo, Córdoba, Spain (2015); Free Radicals, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (2015); State of Con­servation, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany (2015); 2014; Freikörperkultur, Gallery Box, Gothenburg, Sweden (2014); How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds? Sinne, Helsinki (2013). His work is in the collections of: Konstfrämjandet (People’s Movements for Art Promo­tion), Stockholm (Public Commission); Culture Adminis­tration of Stockholm, Sweden (Public Commission); the Finnish State Art Commission, Finland; and Södertälje City Hall, Södertälje, Sweden (Public Commission).