Art Monte-Carlo 2026

Cecilia Hillström Gallery was founded in 2012 in the gallery district in Stockholm, Sweden, and is owned and managed by Cecilia Hillström. Since its inception, the gallery has established itself as one of the leading galleries on the Scandinavian art scene. The gallery features well-established and emerging artists and is committed to long-term representation. Most of the represented artists are Swedish or have a Swedish connection. The gallery program has expanded over the years and offers 10–12 curated exhibitions each year. 

Artists represented by the gallery are frequently engaged in solo and group exhibitions and surveys in Sweden and internationally. Recent important exhibitions are Yael Bartana, German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2024 (IT), Per Wizén, Lovisa Ringborg and Leif Engström at Nationalmuseum (SE), Sigrid Sandström at Perrotin, London (UK), Shanghai (CN) and Tokyo (JP), Anna Odell at Trondheim kunstmuseum (NO), Johannes Heldén at Gwangju Biennale (KOR), Carl Boutard at the Reykjavik Art Museum (IS), and Tova Mozard at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (DK), to name a few.

Cecilia Hillström Gallery regularly takes part in leading art fairs such as MARKET (Stockholm), Art Brussels (Brussels) and CHART (Copenhagen). Over the years, the gallery has also participated in Vienna Contemporary, LOOP-Barcelona and Art International, Istanbul.

Yael Bartana (b. 1970) is one of the world’s most prominent video artists. Her photographs proposed for Art Monte-Carlo are based on the video work Farewell, featured at the Venice Biennale in 2024. In her films, installations, photographs, staged performances, and public monuments she investigates subjects like national identity, trauma, and displacement, often through ceremonies, memorials, public rituals, and collective gatherings.

Throughout the month of May 2026, Yael Bartana’s film Farewell will be featured in Times Square, New York, in the framework of Midnight Moment, which is the world's largest and longest-running digital public art program. Presented nightly to millions of viewers each year, Midnight Moment showcases the work of contemporary artists on one of the most iconic public canvases — the electronic billboards of Times Square.

Bartana’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including solo exhibitions at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (GRC) (2024), GL Strand, Copenhagen (DK) (2024), the Jewish Museum Berlin (2021) (GE); Fondazione Modena Artivisive (IT) (2019/2020); Philadelphia Museum of Art (US) (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) (2015); Secession, Vienna (2012) (AT); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (IL) (2012); Louisiana (DK) (2012); Moderna Museet, Malmö (SE) (2010), and MoMa PS1, New York (US) (2008). Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale / German Pavilion (2024); São Paulo Biennale (2014, 2010, 2006); Berlin Benniale (2012); Venice Biennale / Polish Pavilion (2011); Documenta 12 (2007); Istanbul Biennale (2005), and Manifesta 4 (2002). Yael Bartana is represented in the collections of MoMa, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

 Anna Camner (b. 1977) creates paintings that hover between the tangible and the intangible, blending precise realism with a sense of mystery. Working with oil on acrylic panel, she constructs luminous, introspective images that evoke an inner landscape where emotion and material converge. Using a wet-on-wet technique, Camner paints each section in a single sitting, embracing the fluidity and unpredictability of the medium. This method allows subtle transitions and soft luminosities to emerge, giving her works their distinctive, almost breathing quality. Recurring elements — folds of fabric, reflective surfaces, and organic forms — reveal a fascination with materiality and transformation.

Camner holds an MFA (2003) from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her work has been featured in shows in Japan, Sweden, USA and the United Kingdom. She is represented in prominent private and corporate collections in Sweden, Europe and USA.

Lovisa Ringborg (b. 1979) is one of Scandinavia’s leading artists in contemporary photography. Over the years, the painterly quality of Lovisa Ringborg’s work has become even more pronounced. It is tempting to compare her new still lifes and interiors to 17th-century Dutch painting. Possessing a sharp eye for detail and a gift for striking composition, Ringborg gently guides the viewer toward a heightened state of awareness. Lovisa Ringborg achieves a delicate balance between an underlying sense of unease and quiet wonder.

Lovisa Ringborg holds an MFA from the School of Photography at Gothenburg University. Ringborg's works have been presented at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Bonniers Konsthall, Sven Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, and Kulturhuset, Stockholm, to name a few Swedish collections. She has participated in exhibitions in Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, USA and South Korea.

Ringborg is represented in the collections of Moderna Museet Stockholm, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg (SE), Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL), the Public Art Agency Sweden, as well as in various private collections in Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, USA and South Korea.

Fredrik Söderberg (b. 1972) – With the use of watercolours, mineral colours and gold leaf, Fredrik Söderberg creates an imaginative world, always searching for a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind human behaviour and its implications in a historical context. Art history, philosophy, spirituality and existential queries infuse Söderberg's artistic process and serve as a backdrop for his work. Balancing complex issues in the grey area between good and evil; light and shadow, Fredrik Söderberg's paintings are a result of intense concentration and imbued with a timeless beauty. His oeuvre encompasses meticulously executed watercolours, abstract paintings and richly illustrated publications.

Fredrik Söderberg is based in Stockholm. He holds an MFA from the University College of Arts, Craft & Design and has also studied at the Royal Institute of Art. Recent solo exhibition includes Det äventyrliga hjärtat at Skellefteå konsthall in 2023-24 and a comprehensive survey of his watercolours dated 2008-2019 at the Nordic Watercolour Museum in 2020. In addition, he was represented in the exhibition Start at Örebro konsthall, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Örebro Art School in the Spring of 2020. Other recent exhibitions include Kristianstad konsthall (with Christine Ödlund) during the autumn of 2019. Further, Söderberg has exhibited at the Swedish History Museum, Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris and in numerous gallery exhibitions in Sweden and abroad. His works are included in the collections of Moderna Museet, Magasin II Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Public Art Agency, and The Nordic Watercolour Museum as well as in private collections.