Sonja Landberg born 1963, Oslo, Norway

1982-1986 Kunstakademiet, Trondheim, Norway

Selected Single Exhibitions:

1988 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK

1992 Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway

1993 Hordaland Kunstnersentrum, Bergen, Norway

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1985 "UNK-Ung Nordisk Konst", Skeppsholmen Stockholm, Sweden

1990-91 "Nettopp ankommet", Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway

1994 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany

2015 "Schwarz Auf Weiss", Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany

Collections:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany

Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, Germany

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Maximilian und Agathe Weisshaupt Sammlung, Munich, Germany

Goethe Institut, Muchen, Germany

Deutsche bank, Munich, Germany

Champion International Corporation, USA

Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway

Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany

Sonja Landberg makes art which is poetic and allegorical, it is the story in which her life is charted and made visible.

So intensely personal are these art works they transform through passion and become a universal language which speak of all our lives.

From a world of forgotten objects, old cutting boards, old trees, stones and old linen, using ancient printing techniques and a sewing machine she gives new life to discarded everyday materials.

These combinations of images are fashioned into modern day Thanka´s which emanate poetry of a deeply spiritual and devotional nature. The paintings address our modern age in which we yearn to reconnect with nature and specifically this the nature of´things`.

Sonja´s work manifest as prayers for humanity and for our continued existence on planet earth.

Jon Groom, Munich, August 2019