About
Landskapsflykten marks Jesper Waldersten’s (b. 1969) first sustained engagement with the landscape genre. Known for his incisive draughtsmanship and raw, elegant imagery, Waldersten here turns to nature as a stage charged with tension and ambiguity. Figures emerge and dissolve, atmospheres shift, and layered compositions hold the trace of memory and absence. Resonating with the Northern European tradition of landscape as more than backdrop, the series opens the genre to a personal, contemporary register—poetic, unsettling, and open-ended.
Waldersten emerged from illustration and sharp satire to become one of Sweden’s most recognisable contemporary artists. Mixing words, photography, music, and drawing, his work is at once witty and serious. He has published acclaimed books and exhibited widely, including Fotografiska, Färgfabriken, and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, with international presentations in Berlin and Shanghai. He lives and works in Mariefred, outside Stockholm.