Per Wizén b. 1966
Overview
Per Wizén works with paper collages built from art historical images deeply embedded in our culture. Thousands of details are literally cut out and constructed into a new whole, making up works closely related to the original image. In this meticulous process, the content of the work shifts in relation to the source, pinpointing hidden meanings and underlying tensions.
Per Wizén (b. 1966 in Borås) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Selected solo and group exhibitions include the National Museum, Stockholm, in 2024-2025, Moderna Museet Malmö in 2022, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm, CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen in 2019, Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Lund in 2014, and Malmö Art Museum in 2008. His work has also been featured in the touring exhibition Diversity United – Contemporary European Art in Berlin and Moscow, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Amos Rex, Helsinki, Borås Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, National Museum of Art, Stockholm, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Turku Art Museum, Åbo, and at Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris, to name a few.
He is represented in the collections of Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, Moderna Museet, Stokcholm, Malmö Art Museum, Borås Art Museum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Region Dalarna and Stockholm konst.
Exhibitions
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Per Wizén – Still Life
3 October - 1 November 2024We are pleased to present a new series of works by Per Wizén, Still Life . Working with paper collages, Wizén creates images from historical art material transferred into photography....Read more -
Per Wizén – Undercurrents
11 November - 17 December 2022Cecilia Hillström Gallery is pleased to present our third solo exhibition with Per Wizén (b. 1966), featuring new works recently presented at Moderna Museet Malmö in a solo show curated...Read more -
Per Wizén – Trespassers
7 November - 14 December 2019Per Wizén's second solo show at the gallery Trespassers consists of analogue collages transferred to silkscreen and photographic works. Wizén builds intriguing paper collages using fragments of reproductions of historical...Read more -
Per Wizén – CHART Art Fair
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 30 August - 1 September 2019Cecilia Hillström Gallery is proud to present new works by Per Wizén for CHART Art Fair 2019, Copenhagen.Read more -
Linda Hofvander, Sonja Larsson & Per Wizén – Viennacontemporary
Marx Halle, Vienna 21 - 24 September 2017Cecilia Hillström Gallery is proud to present a group presentation with Linda Hofvander, Sonja Larsson and Per Wizén at Viennacontemporary 2017.Read more -
Per Wizén – Subterranean
17 November - 17 December 2016Cecilia Hillström Gallery is pleased to present Per Wizén's first solo exhibition at the gallery, Subterranean . Wizén creates intriguing paper collages using fragments of reproductions of historical art works,...Read more
News
Works
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Pearl Necklace I, 2024
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Pearl Necklace II, 2024
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Paths Crossed, 2024
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The Lost Boys, 2022
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Send in the Clowns, 2022
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Blue Hunt, 2022
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Blue Suspense , 2019
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Trespasser I , 2019
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Trespasser II , 2019
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Reenactor, 2019
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Horse Around III, 2016
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Smoke and Mirrors I, 2016
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Smoke and Mirrors II, 2016
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Horse Around II, 2016
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Coil, 2008
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Horsemen and Knights , 2005
Press
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Hjelm och Wizén hos Hillström
Eva Asp, Konsten.net, 15 October 2024 -
"Tilpo och Wizén på Moderna i Malmö"
Johanna Theander, Konsten.net, 1 June 2022 -
"Wizén skrapar fram det som finns mellan raderna, eller under ytan…Det är storartat.”
Mårten Arndtzén, SR P1 Kultur, 13 November 2019 -
Konstens frågeformulär # 47: Per Wizén
Konsten.net, 20 April 2017 -
”…spel av makt och motmakt…”
Sebastian Johans, Konsten.net, 9 December 2016 -
"Arbetet är mycket skickligt utfört, manuellt och digitalt, och lämnar inga eller obetydliga spår..."
Leif Mattsson, Omkonst, 7 December 2016 -
"Underlandet lockar oss – och glider undan"
Håkan Nilsson, SvD, 1 December 2016 -
"Det finns ett djup och en mjukhet i verken som hade varit svårt att få fram med digital teknik"
John Falkirk, DN, 16 November 2016