Artipelag Exhibits Work by Dina Isæus-Daggfeldt from This Summer’s Concert Series Crossroads

Throughout the past summer, Artipelag hosted Crossroads on three occasions, a concert format where artists temporarily moved out of their studios to work to live music in front of an audience. Under the direction of Jacob Kellermann, Crossroads has been an experiment for all involved: the artists, the musicians, and Artipelag as a museum. The goal was not for new works to be produced during the hour-long concerts but to explore, with curiosity, the potential synergies that can arise in the encounter between artist, musician, and audience. How has the music influenced the artistic process? How has the music responded to the artists’ expressions? And what encounters between art forms can a museum enable for its audience?

The first artist in the concert series was Dina Isæus-Daggfeldt (b. 1991), who has established herself on Stockholm’s art scene in recent years with her abstract, gestural paintings. On June 16, she painted for an hour to the music of composer Jacob Mühlrad, and over the late summer, she completed the work. As a kind of appendix, a standalone addition to Crossroads, the finished work, Sulfur Dream, will be displayed at Artipelag from October 22 to November 24 2024.

In Dina Isæus-Daggfeldt’s paintings, the impulses of intuition are balanced with the reflections of strict discipline. She operates within the gestural tradition of abstract painting, where the often vigorous movement of colour across the canvas and the calligraphic gesture take centre stage. Yet, she also introduces new visual elements through intricate patterns and detailed brushwork.