Artist Talk: Paula Tove Alderin & Karolina Modig: Wednesday, May 6, 6.00 pm

Welcome to an artist talk between cultural journalist and editor Karolina Modig and artist Paula Tove Alderin, in connection with her current exhibition at Galleri Duerr.

Where? Galleri Duerr, Hudiksvallsgatan 6, Stockholm
When? 6 May, 6:00 PM
Language? Swedish

Karolina Modig is a journalist, editor, moderator, lecturer, and author, as well as the founder of artnotes.se. She writes for, among others, Dagens Nyheter, Konstnären, and ICON Magazine, and has previously worked for Svenska Dagbladet and NBC News. She has also served as editor for publications at the Public Art Agency Sweden and Moderna Museet.

Modig primarily writes about culture, with a particular interest in how art and culture affect society and people’s lives. She is the author of The Value of Art – for the Brain, Society, and Life (2025) and Hang Art Low (2015), and lectures on the non-financial values of art. She has also written the exhibition text for Alderin’s exhibition SHED / Horizons of Rawness, which serves as a point of departure for the conversation.

Paula Tove Alderin (b. 1971) lives and works in Stockholm and is currently presenting her first exhibition at Galleri Duerr. She holds a post-master’s degree in Fine Art from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2022–2023), as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2000). In 2024 she studied at the Department of Theology at Uppsala University (Beauty, Humor and Desire in the Shadow of the Bomb) and at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg (Writing Methods in Artistic Practice). She also holds a BA in Art History from Lund University.

Alderin’s work takes shape as an expanded painting practice, incorporating sculpture, collage, light, and site-specific installations.

The conversation will focus on her artistic practice, where work with material, layering, and spatial shifts opens up questions of emergence and dissolution. Drawing from the exhibition SHED – Horizons of Rawness, the discussion explores how her work moves between the malleable and the elusive, and how personal, bodily, and existential experiences take form through material. The conversation revolves around rawness as an unstable condition, where meaning arises and shifts in the encounter between work and viewer.

No registration required, but seating is limited.