Olle Norås, solo exhibition – The Stena Foundation Culture Scholarship 2025: at Gothenburg Art Museum

Motivation for the scholarship:

The artist Olle Norås approaches organic materials and forms through an exploratory artistic process. Through painting, sculpture, and experiments with texture and surface, he creates works that reflect on humanity’s relationship with nature and the slow processes that shape our surrounding world.

Themes of time, memory, and transformation recur in his map-like images, where scale and meaning continuously shift, from slowly growing lichens to fragments of geological patterns or distant shimmering galaxy clusters. In this oscillation between the microscopic and the cosmic, between closeness and distance, new perceptions arise.

For an artistic practice that, through methodical precision and visionary care, transforms the overlooked into visually charged experiences, Olle Norås is awarded the 2025 Scholarship from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.

The Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research
The Stena Foundation is an important institution in the cultural life of Western Sweden, providing a unique opportunity for artists to produce new works and increase their visibility. This year, six cultural practitioners each receive 300 000 SEK to stimulate further development. Since 1996, the Foundation has awarded 179 scholarships for the continued training of talented individuals in fields such as art, music, theatre, dance, literature, scenography and circus art. Furthermore, the Foundation has awarded grants to many research and culture projects.