Mattias Gunnarsson

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Zine-workshop at HDK-Valand

Mid-February 2026, two-day zine workshop with the students in the freestanding course Bild och berättande (Image and storytelling). Starting with lecture on zines and browsing thru others work, moving on to working with artistic publishing, quick work. The students had their own material and the workshop served as a possibility to sketch new ideas, dive in without (over-) thinking too much, test, try, explore.

Day two ended with a sharing exhibition format where we got to take part of each others work and get inspired.

Such great group and intense work energy in the space.

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Zine workshop at Kulturverkstan, Gothenburg.

Late January-26 One-day workshop, Publishing as Artistic Practice with students at Kulturverkstan. Quick run with images (own or others), drawing, texts on the subject of Longing. Starting with overall lecture on zines, followed by individual work (minimum 12 pages A5 publication) and ending the day with sharing, looking thru, get inspired in a small exhibition format. As always in this place, great energy hard working and interested students!

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Cover artwork for 7" singel

New singel In my pocket somehow by Ghost Rider

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Fijuk Grande at Folk Gothenburg 251213

Lots of exhibitors, both local and international. As always, magic setup by LongestNight

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Teckningar / drawings 20 page zine 2 color riso / laser print gold cover A5

With drawings from the Studiobooks project.

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#65 24 page zine Color laser print A5 Work from the Studiobooks project

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Den mörka korridoren / The dark corridor at Handelshögskolan Gothenburg

This time the Dark corridor worked with PhD students at the Business School in Gothenburg. Some hours of folding, cutting and pasting 8-fold zines for and from on-going research. The Dark Corridor is part of the RITE project and network.

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Fijuk at Folk / Gothenburg 251101

Some new zines and prints, some old.

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MASUworks 16 + 17

Publication work with MASU. Two publications. #16 is from the work at Lidköpings konsthall #17 is from the artist residency ARNA

both A5 color laser print 24 pages

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Eukarya Lidköpings konsthall 2025 - 11

Wiki: A eukaryote is any cell or organism with a defined nucleus.

Eukarya was a process-based exhibition with MASU, with its own form and at the same time part of a larger rhizomatic movement where different projects, sculptures and drawings form a common story, like a common DNA. We worked with the space and the material in a drawing method to shape the spaces in the art gallery. We borrowed the wood from recycling in Lidköping and we got the cardboard from local shops in the area around the konsthall. Everything was painted white on site to give a uniformity in the expression and to enable a common narrative.

The method was as always slow and site-specific.

Lidköping Art Gallery is a relatively large room in terms of surface area, but not very high in ceiling, which has opened up for a more elongated form that moves through the room where the horizontal plane of the wooden structure leads in and divides the room.

The exhibition in Lidköping konsthall has been an exploratory process where we have tried new forms and materials in a kind of play with the material.

In Eukarya there are sculptural drawing objects in cardboard, which are painted white and drawn on with charcoal. These objects are new to MASU and were shown here for the first time and together with the wooden construction they form a possible material dialogue, with spatialities on different scales.

Perhaps there are possible readings here with both Alfons Åberg as a carpenter and Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"

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En långsam rörelse mellan platser / A slow movement between places 2025 - 10

Exhibition with MASU at Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg.

(Material) Site Recordings is a site investigation through materials. The project consists of 5000 wooden laths, 180 cm long, which we connect with cable ties to temporary structures and which we move between different locations.

The project started in 2018 through a residency within Art InsideOut in Halmstad where we built in the city center for three weeks. After that, we have moved the material at irregular intervals in relation to exhibitions and other projects. We were part of LandArt exhibitions in Ängelholm for two years, an exhibition on ecology at Ystad Monastery twice, an exhibition in the garden of the Gathenhielmska House (Gothenburg) and within the artistic research project “Shimmer and Entanglements” we established a Forest Lab in a forest in Skene where we worked for three years until the summer of 2024. We have also worked with workshops within the project at the “Malmö Festival” and with several different student groups from HDK-Valand and other art schools and during the summer of 2024 and 2025 we participated in the Årstads mycket tillfälliga konsthall exhibition with part of the project.

The work is slow and by building with the same material in different places we investigate spaces and relationships where the batten functions both as a form and as a collector of stories and environments.

The material handling itself; carrying and building, offers a kind of gravity for the work that makes us return, continue, and find ourselves in places for a longer time. Over the years, this has generated a number of different thought and material traces that move out from the spatial work itself. These involve drawings, objects, conversations, texts and publications, as well as relationships to the places we have worked in and those who inhabit them, both humans and more-than-humans.

The focus of the exhibition A Slow Movement Between Places at Galleri Konstepidemin is the different material movements and traces that the project has generated in the spaces between. We investigate a situation where collaboration, objects, drawing and repetition build an ecosystem where all parts become voices in the same ongoing story.

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A Summer square / Two sculptures. Falkenberg 2025 - 08

A project with MASU. A prototype for a Summer Square in Falkenberg, August – September 2025. We were invited as part of the 2025 edition of Årstads Mycket Tillfälliga Konsthall. The assignment was to build a portal / entrance to the square and a larger sculpture integrated into the square's design.

We worked on the exhibition as part of our project (Material) Site Recordings with laths and cable ties. The finished work consisted of two sculptural works, which both catch the eye and guide the visitor through the square.

We used 3400 laths, 400 of which were new for the context which visitors could write on to express opinions and thoughts about the square's design and what they would like more or less of. Many got into writing and during the week we talked to many visitors and heard dreams, thoughts, visions, joy, hope and the occasional criticism of the parking lot being smaller.

The portal is 4.8 meters high and about 3 meters wide and deep.

The sculpture is 3 meters at its highest point with a base of about 10 x 5 meters.

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Workshop at Värmlands museum / Konstkollo / 2025 - 06 MASU were invited to Konst-kollo at @varmlandsmuseum to do a one-day workshop ”drawing with material”.  Such an amazing group of participants. Real focus and explorations. Thanx everyone for your engagement, good mood and energy. 

We brought our thin sticks that has been with us since 2018 and we left them in the workshop studio.  Leaving materials to open for new thinkings.

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MEDSKICK from Varberga / Publication / 2025

MEDSKICK from Varberga is the third and final part of MASUs collaboration with Örebrobostäder in Varberga, Örebro. It started in June 2022 with the assignment to artistically step in early in the process where a new place between the houses would be formed and connect a new square with a forest. When the first stage was complete, we were further assigned to build a play sculpture as part of the surface for the young people. Together with carpenters, we worked on a mountain of wood that was inaugurated in October 2024.

To make a summary of the whole process, which is quite different from traditional art-in-public space ways of working, a publication was made. It contains texts by HallemarHejdelind, Anna Maria Hellner, MASU and Ruben Wätte, who have all been involved in the work in different ways.

MEDSKICK from Varberga is edited by Veronica Hejdelind and designed by Mattias Gunnarsson.

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MEDSKICK från Varberga / Exhibition + Publication / galleri F2 2025 - 04

MEDSKICK from Varberga is the third and final part of MASUs collaboration with Örebrobostäder in Varberga, Örebro. It started in June 2022 with the assignment to artistically step in early in the process where a new place between the houses would be formed and connect a new square with a forest. When the first stage was complete, we were further assigned to build a play sculpture as part of the surface for the young people. Together with carpenters, we worked on a mountain of wood that was inaugurated in October 2024.

The publication and exhibition MEDSKICK from Varberga at Galleri F2 is a kind of collection of the entire work process around Varberga with a focus on the area around Gröna villan where several different artists have been part of the process both before and after our work there. The exhibition showed a process room with material from different artistic processes where visitors could read, look and browse. The room was programmed during the exhibition with readings, talks, meetings and screenings. On the second floor of the gallery, Know How showed parts of workshops and processes that are part of the continued work at the site.

As part of the exhibition, MASU worked on a sculpture outside the gallery. The work, which is part of (Material) Site Recordings, moved between the gallery's patio over the plank to a nearby garden and functioned as a connection between F2 and its neighbors.

The entire project was led by Anna Maria Hellner at Örebrobostäder in collaboration with Veronica Hejdelind.

The exhibition at Galleri F2 was curated by Anna Maria Hellner and the participating artists were: Ruben Wätte, MASU, Jenny Käll, Sanaz Hakimi, Tina Macha.

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Building Workshop in Steneby / 250305-06

Workshop with MASU where we worked with students from HDK-Steneby / Metal Art + Furniture Design - Wood Two days of intense sculpture work in groups, with scrap wood and screwdrivers. Day two also included building swings.

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2024-12-12 Salon de Papier at Röhsska museet, Gothenburg. The last @salondepapier of 2024 at @rohsska Artist Klas Trollius @worriesindedance presented a generous collection of his own work, the work from @skogen_masthuggsterrassen , his process and some of his inspirations.  A great evening! Thanx again Klas for presenting at the Salon and thanx again Röhsska for hosting us again.  🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟