New Pictures, New Sculpture
ART CLUB2000, Ingrid Blix, Anders Edström, Tony Karlsson Savci, Louise Lawler, Mona Varichon, Kai Yoshiura
February 13 - April 11, 2026
Max has had the chance to visit a paperweight-work by Louise Lawler here in Stockholm, located in a
collector’s home, now and again, and has grown very fond of it. It was purchased through Christian Larsen
in the 90s. We spoke to the collector and to Christian, and reached out to Louise Lawler via her galleries. We
wrote:
”How artworks and artwork are valued is of continuous interest to us, and we use Antics—an artist-run
gallery—as a space to investigate this. An exhibition that suggests alternative views on what an artistic
practice can or must be has long been in the making, and spontaneously developed into a kind of ‘image
show’, where a feedback loop is created between photography and sculpture. The working title is New
Pictures, New Sculpture. The theme and formal qualities aside, what is stated here may not become the
curatorial statement, as we are not interested in simply illustrating a concept with selected artists, but
hopefully it can paint a picture of why we’d be specifically honored to show a work by Lawler.”
We had a “Fashion show”, an“Art work/Art leisure show”and a“Photography show” in the pipeline, and
somehow they all collapsed into this show. What’s New?
Lawler’s paperweight sits on a sideboard in a home, just like works by Lawler are often seen doing, but the
loan was made on the condition that it was shown in its original set-up, under a plexi hood on top of a
pedestal, accompanied by a wall text. Max built the podium and we made a transfer for the text and put it on
the wall.
Max first encountered ART CLUB2000 as a young art student. We reached out to Artists Space and Jay
Sanders, who forwarded our request to members of AC2K. Shannon Pultz, with other members CC’d, came back with a positive reply and agreed to show one of the photographs from the Commingle show plus another view of the same scene. We later arranged for a video call with Shannon—an artist and art
teacher based in Pittsburgh—where we tried to keep our cool but eventually declared our fandom. It is quite
sentimental for us to show these works at Antics.
Katarina met Mona Varichon at La Cité des Arts in 2021, and showed one of Mona’s video works in her
window as part of a film screening in the yard. Mona was making the La Cité des Arts series at the time,
documenting some of the inhabitants in the residential complex during the pandemic. Katarina has followed
and admired Mona’s practice ever since, which includes the tuba, translations, children, friends, the Insta
Stories Archive, running Le Cadre d’Or and photographing people at work—shown here as a selection of
photos from her ongoing Portraits au travail. They are framed in Photop’s postal frames, a 1991 invention by
Jacques-Henry Varichon.
Katarina and Kai Yoshiura shared a studio at the RCA in London. There, he did performances that made use
of a side grinder in combination with a fridge, an elevator and jumping into trash, parallel to sculptures
and photographs. Kai moved back to Japan after graduation, Katarina moved around and eventually back
to Stockholm. Kai was in a group show that we did in an apartment in Bagarmossen in 2023, next to Nadia
Maghder, Lisa Trogen Devgun, Tim Kummer, Nico Müller and Peter Geschwind. Kai sent us a file with cut
together CCTV footage from his performances and a print, which we framed ourselves yesterday next door
at Rammakarna. Kai sent us requests for finding a specific screen, so we had a think and spontaneously messaged Damian de Arteaga, who will exhibit at Antics this spring. Max and Damian met when Max was
an 8th-grade intern at the IT department at ATG (AB Trav och Galopp), where his dad and Damian worked
(and Damian still does). Meeting Damian was fundamental for Max’s development into an artist, as Damian
educated the 14-year-old Max about painting and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Anyway,
it turned out there were still obsolete screens in the ATG basement and they were on point—even the same
brand, EIZO, that Kai wished for.
We invited Tony Karlsson Savci to join the show and they got back to us with a Catwalk Performance and a
Corpse Pose performance. We met up at Lilla Kina, where they suggested that we re-purpose works shown in
their solo show Doing Time last year, turning them into scores for the performances and thus becoming new
works. Reappropriation is a postmodern trope, and the Pictures Generation questioned the Modernist idea
that art must be totally original. We thought tiny’s idea was great, and fun. We charged our video cameras
this morning and are excited to see how the Catwalk Performance evolves this evening, and the Corpse Pose
tomorrow Saturday.
When Max and Katarina first met (4th of January, 2023, at an exhibition opening in a suite at the ABBA
hotel), they used to sit up all night and talk about art (and they still do). Max showed Katarina a picture by
Anders Edström of a ping pong racket on a table, rendered in a strong light. It was one of the most beautiful
pictures she’d ever seen, for her bringing the joint history of photography, moving images, motion studies,
sports and timekeeping into one flat image. This is the third time that Anders exhibits in this space and we
specifically asked to show this very image. Anders paints his own frames white.
We were surprised to hear that AC2K had never been exhibited in Scandinavia before, but just a couple of
days ago we found out through a Stockholm gallerist that a work exists in a collection here. Sam Pulitzer
scanned the SoHo So Long publication that is available as a PDF on the internet. Anders Edström and AC2K
sat at the same dinner table one or more times in the 90s. Mona Varichon has made paperweight works,
invitation cards and actions corresponding to Louise Lawler’s works, which we weren’t aware of at the time of contacting her. Mark Dion was one of AC2K’s teachers at Cooper Union and he will be exhibiting in Stockholm while this show is up. In an essay in The Conditions of Being Art on Pat Hearn Gallery and
American Fine Arts, Co., where Colin de Land first summoned AC2K, de Land is compared to the TV
detective Columbo. During his time at the RCA, Kai made several works inspired by this very character. These
anecdotes might be insignificant to a visitor of the show, but significant to us. This show has been the gift
that keeps on giving. Dan Graham’s advice to young artists was to start their own alternative galleries and we
can only agree.
Looking ahead: We are so excited to host a screening of Mona Varichon’s La Cité des Arts series together
with a video work by AC2K, as a closing event for New Pictures, New Sculpture. The screening will become
the first in a series organised together with Filmform on the theme “video art about the art world”. We did
a talk about the 80s art scene in Stockholm earlier this year in conjunction with Cecilia Edefalk’s show, and
next up is inevitably the 90s. This talk will take place during Stockholm Art Week at Andréhn-Schiptjenko,
with Marina as the first confirmed to join the panel. The talk is an opportunity to bring forth their archive
of printed matter—flyers, press releases, faxes and publications—from the decade. Damian de Arteaga will
open a solo show here at Antics the same week. Ok, bye!