About the artist
The Swedish artist Pia-Veronica Åström (*1976) studied painting under Erwin Bohatsch at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Represented in the following collections:
Kupferstichkabinett, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Wien Museum.
Her works are in private collections in Austria and internationally.
Contact
E-mail: mail@pia-veronica-astroem.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/pia_veronica_astroem
Represented by Rodler Gschwenter Gallery
Artist statement:
My work explores the body, its perception and its existence within a material and social world. I work across different media, including sculptural objects, installation, and oil painting on canvas and wood.
I am drawn to the shifting relationship between image and body, abstraction and figuration, surface and depth. My forms move between, skin, flesh, landscape, place, and abstract form, remaining somewhere in between.
My process is intuitive based and material-led. Through an interplay of textiles, self-made canvases and other unconventional materials I experiment with constructing, stitching, layering, and stiffening. These are sometimes combined with industrial parts and materials found in different environments.
Through this process, I develop sculptural objects that occupy a space between body, image and object. The material qualities, aesthetic decisions and underlying meaning of each work guide the process. I am interested in creating states of uncertainty and tension, and to be informed by existential thought. And in creating spaces or images where memory, dream, or history and the present can blur.