Andreas Glad | Off Season
We are pleased to present Andreas Glad’s third solo exhibition at Berg Gallery. The exhibiting brings together a new series of paintings depicting geografically diverse yet thematically interconnected locations—Hollywood Hills, Crete, Lomma, and Tokyo. The human figure is consistently absent, and the exhibition revolves around different forms of habitation, both temporary and permanent.
The motifs range from trailers stationed in an arid desert landscape to luxury villas perched in the Hollywood Hills. In Pink Disc House, we see a multi-story building with a parabolic antenna on the roof and clotheslines hanging from the balconys, while Mediterranean Collectors portrays what appears to be an abandoned vacation home. In Reef I & II, our gaze is drawn to the interior of a large, lavish aquarium which, as the title suggests, evokes a coral reef.
What unites the works in the exhibition is not only the absence of human figures, but also a sense that something is slightly ”off” or out of joint. The title alludes to the rhythms of tourism—periods of intense activity and seasonal population, followed by stagnation and emptiness. Glad’s new body of work also highlights the contrast between makeshift dwellings, DIY constructions, and extreme forms of luxury, where the desert trailers and the Hollywood villas represent opposite ends of the same system. In this light, architecture becomes an expression of economic and social structures.
The climate crisis runs like an undercurrent throughout the exhibition. It becomes particularly palpable in Among the Stars, in which we see Mulholland Drive winding through one of the Los Angeles neighborhoods that were affected by the devastating wildfires last year. The empty landscape can be read both literally and symbolically: as the memory of an actual disaster, or as a premonition of future losses. Even the idyllic beaches and Mediterranean settings are marked by an underlying fragility, with rising sea levels and extreme weather lurking just beyond the frame.
Andreas Glad (b. 1976 in Linköping) lives and works in Malmö. He is holds an MFA from Bergen Academy of Art, and a BFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Previous solo exhibitions include Sörmlands Museum (2024), Berg Gallery (2024, 2022), Ljungbergmuseet, Ljungby (2023), and Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris (2019). His work has also been included in exhibitions at Moderna Museet, Malmö; Skissernas Museum, Lund; The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Linköpings Konsthall; Havremagasinet, Boden; and Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm. Glad is represented in the collections of Malmö Konstmuseum, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Swedish Association for Art (SAK), and Region Skåne, among others. In 2021, he received Ljungbergmuseet’s Scholarship, awarded by Sven and Ann Margret Ljungberg’s Foundation, for ”his calm coloristic paintings that contain both observation and criticism”.
