Anna Camner – Intra-action
We are pleased to start the autumn season 2026 with our first solo exhibition by painter Anna Camner. Having launched our representation of Camner in 2025, her works have since been featured at Art Brussels and Art Monte-Carlo in spring 2026.
Anna Camner creates paintings that hover between the tangible and the intangible, blending precise realism with an enigmatic sense of mystery. Working in oil on acrylic panels, she has developed a highly controlled and time-intensive practice focused on surface and materiality. Employing a wet-on-wet technique, Camner completes each small section of a painting in a single sitting, leaning into the medium's natural fluidity and unpredictability. This spontaneous approach yields soft luminosities and subtle transitions, imbuing her works with a distinctive, breathing quality.
In her new exhibition, Intra-action, the focus is on new works in monochrome hues, executed with the characteristic level of detail and play between surface and depth. Camner’s relationship to art history, in particular to paintings of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, has always been strong. One of the paintings in the new exhibition, Vermilion, also alludes to the art-historical importance of colour—the manifestation of wealth and audacity in the use of certain pigments. The toxic pigment vermilion—a brilliant, intensely opaque, and fiery orange-red pigment—occupies a legendary place in art history. Derived primarily from the mineral cinnabar (mercuric sulphide), the exclusive pigment was perhaps most famously used by the Romans on the walls of Pompeii, where wealthy patrons decorated entire rooms in what is known as Pompeian Red.
The paintings in the show seem to start from an almost documentary act of observation without, however, ever resolving into clear identification. Her almost monochrome compositions oscillate between exposure and concealment, appearing as bodily or inanimate, natural or manufactured, real or imagined. Often reminiscent of laboratory samples, dreamscapes, microscopic specimens, or far-off vistas, her luminous, introspective paintings examine how matter changes state and how familiar textures can become strange. In this sense, references to Baroque still lifes or the meticulously rendered details in the portraits of the Renaissance era are clearly visible.
Ultimately, Camner's works invite viewers to look beyond the immediate surface to sense what remains hidden or in flux, offering a quiet yet powerful meditation on perception, vulnerability, and the invisible currents of the inner world.
Anna Camner (b. 1977 in Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm, where she graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in 2003. Camner's work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows, including Kumamoto Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (JP), Liljevalchs Konsthall, Loyal Gallery, Wetterling Gallery, Galerie Forsblom, Larsen Warner, all in Stockholm (SE), Stellan Holm Gallery, New York (USA), and Faggionato Gallery, London (UK). She participated in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cartagena (CO) in 2014 and in a group show in Mumbai (IN) in 2019. In 2017, she received the prominent Beckers Art Award (SE). Camner’s work is represented in collections including Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Malmö Art Museum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Stockholm konst, Wanås Konst, Ståhl Collection, and UBS Art Collection.
