Viktor Rosdahl b. 1980

Viktor Rosdahl's work straddles the line between the personal and the political. Encountering a place, an image or a specific object – often a somewhat ruined one – can set off an entire story in his imagination. As viewers, we become witness to his attempts to visualize these stories together with their physical point of departure, may it be the public housing programs of the 1960s, alpine landscapes, or a swarming crowd of people. Motifs are often repeated in series where Rosdahl allows his subjects to intersect and cross-reference each other as they transform and reappear in different forms, scales, and compositions. Facing Rosdahl’s work, you can sense an underlying urge and painterly curiosity. Thematically, Rosdahl typically returns to the vulnerability of the individual as well as the relationship between image and reality as we perceive it.

Viktor Rosdahl (b. 1980, Helsingborg) lives and works in Malmö. He holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy (2002–2007). Previous solo and group exhibition venues include Berg Gallery, Stockholm (2025, 2023), CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen (2022), Ljungbergmuseet, Ljungby (2018–2019), Ystads Konstmuseum (2019, 2017, 2011, 2008), Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Malmö, Sweden (2016, 2010–2011), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2016, 2009), Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (2015, 2011, 2010), Frieze New York (2014), The Armory Show, New York (2012), CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania (2010), Frieze London (2009), and Kiasma, Helsinki (2006).

His works are represented in major international and Swedish collections such as British Museum (London), Nationalmuseum (Stockholm), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation (Stockholm), Malmö Konstmuseum (Malmö), and Ståhl Collection (Norrköping).

In 2023, Rosdahl was awarded the prestigious ten-year working grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.