01/10/2026
WONDERFUL COLOR
Bella Rune is a Swedish contemporary artist who creates sculptures with performative elements, experimenting with various techniques and materials. Her practice is grounded in an interest in handcrafts, history, and contemporary culture.
High Space Light Pillar (2018) and Reverse Order Copy Column (2018) are two textile works by Bella Rune that are part of the Magasin III collection. Vertically oriented and floating in space, the sculptures are woven in silk mohair dyed with curry powder, highlighters, printer ink, and artificially flavored fruit drink.
Starting Saturday, the sculptures can be experienced in this fall’s flagship exhibition at Waldemarsudde in Stockholm: Wonderful Colour – Gothenburg Colorism in a New Light. In the exhibition, they enter into dialogue with vibrant works by the Gothenburg Colorists – a group of artists from western Sweden active in the 1920s – 1940s – and their predecessors and successors. The interplay between the works brings a central element of Gothenburg Colorism into focus: how color and light can be used not only to convey emotion and atmosphere but also to explore surface, depth, and spatiality.