Joakim Allgullander is one of Sweden's most famous contemporary artists with art that arouses emotions and curiosity. His ability to capture human nature is reflected in his artwork. Allgulander has previously lived and worked in London, but has been living in Italy since 2019.
“Art is not only interesting and intellectually understandable, but also arouses curiosity, perhaps not a direct longing but at least a desire to reach the world in the image, to be uncompromisingly captured by one's own imagination.”
Joakim Allgulander works in a multidisciplinary manner with painting, graphics, installations and sculpture. Born in 1965, in Stockholm. He studied at Öland Folk High School and then at Konstfack in Stockholm. Allgulander's art is often characterized by a kind of everyday realism that is manifested through a photographic style. Utopian dreams, nature and the romance of doom are recurring themes in his art. The palette is often tastefully stripped down: sepia tones are a signature. His work is characterized by a conceptual base combined with the skill of craftsmanship and a love of the practical process. There is an existential content and a dynamic play with contrast in Allgulander's work. Everything from natural and artificial, new and old, to more archetypal opposites such as light and darkness, life and death. While the motifs are often temporary moments from our immediate surroundings presented as a factual statement, there is a certain underlying humor. His works are represented worldwide in public decorations and private collections.
