Mattias Klum at Hedvig Eleonora Church

Mattias Klum
Inside Out

Hedvig Eleonora Church between May 26 – August 10, 2025

In Inside Out, art photographer Mattias Klum portrays a world where nature’s outermost landscapes meet the body’s inner universe. In a visually striking and thought- provoking exhibition, Icelandic mountain ranges intertwine with microscopic cell structures to create a poetic reflection between Earth’s geology and human biology. Rivers meander like neural pathways, cracks and ravines recall the body’s vulnerability, and nature’s mathematical harmony is found everywhere – from Fibonacci spirals to fractals hidden in tissue and vegetation.

Klum, a world-renowned photographer, filmmaker, and artist, invites the viewer into an encounter – not as a
passive spectator, but as a participant in a living system. The camera as a medium speaks of the immediate, conveyed through Klum’s gaze, and his images evoke a confrontational meeting: between nature and humanity, eternity and impermanence, beauty and responsibility. The meeting takes place in the sacred space of Hedvig
Eleonora Church, whose timeless, spiritual grandeur creates a powerful contrast to the pulsing life of the
photographs. Here arises a charged conversation between the human world of ideas and the wordless wisdom of nature. It is in this meeting that Klum formulates his artistic manifesto – a call for unity, reflection, and wonder.

Inside Out is a small but carefully selected blend of Klum’s work and serves as Mattias’s artistic manifesto, where he addresses the mathematical poetry of transience and life. The very title refers to the content of the works – a mix of large-scale landscapes and microscopic biopsies that together tell of the form language of life and nature. The viewer becomes part of nature’s whole. The beauty of the landscape and the mystery of the body are not separate – they are symbiotic, a reflection of our own health and the state of the planet. In every microscopic detail lie the same forces that shape mountain ranges and ocean currents. The thesis states: nature’s code is something we all carry within us; by observing it, we can understand ourselves. Through Klum’s lens, nature becomes not only beautiful – it becomes personal.

Klum has spent decades in rainforests, deserts, and glaciers in search of nature’s voice. He has portrayed the world’s most fragile ecosystems for National Geographic since 1997, with numerous articles and 13 covers, 12 documentary films, and 17 books in collaboration with scientists like Johan Rockström and Dr. Jane Goodall. His masterful interpretation of nature has been exhibited internationally at institutions in, among others, the USA, Botswana, India, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and has been awarded several international honors, including Sweden’s Royal Medal of the Eighth Size. His recent exhibitions include a retrospective at Fotografiska in Stockholm and a group exhibition at Galleri Alma Lööf.

Inquiries for Mattias Klum
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