Bo Christian Larsson (born 1976 in Kristinehamn, Sweden) is a Swedish artist who works mostly with large-sized drawings, installations, performances and objects.
Born in 1976 in Sweden, Larsson entered the AKI Academy of Visual Arts in 1994 Enschede, Holland. In 1997 he was an exchange student at Western Australia's College of Fine Arts in Perth, Australia. In 1998, he finished at AKI.
From 2004 to 2008 he lived and worked in Munich, Germany, then moved Hamburg, where he achieved the Philipp Otto Runge Scholarship for one year.
Larsson lives and works in Älvkarhed, Sweden and Berlin, Germany.
Commentary
Stephanie Rosenthal, curator: "Although the Swedish artist works with obvious symbolism, his work remains mystic and arcane and reminds one of a foreign land that wants to be discovered." in: Favoriten 08. Neue Kunst in München, exh.cat., Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, pp.70 – 75.
Bo Christian Larrson: "I think this is the only costume you can wear at all, it makes so little and so much with your body at the same time. No big deal. You put on the wig and you are a different person. This has always fascinated me. I have the wig in front of my eyes. I turn it around, so I can't see anything. This is a very important point in my performances, that I blind myself and have to take a look inside. I become a different person and disappear in this role." (Interview on Bavarian Radio, 24.06.2008)
Stephanie Rosenthal, curator: "Rites of passage are specifically important in Larsson's work. This phase stands for „already-loosening" of the old condition and "not-yet-arrived" in a new condition. In this "twilight-zone" there are the most possibilities to new thoughts. It seems as if Larsson wants to remain there. He becomes a border crosser, an intermediate being, passing through a permanent process of transformation." (in: Favoriten 08. Neue Kunst in München, exh.cat., Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, pp.70 – 75)
Bo Christian Larsson: "I feel uncomfortable as a human in our time. That's why I hardly create new products, but try using already existent material." (SZ newspaper, 26./27.01.2008 in „Der Mann aus dem Wald")
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2015: Bo Christian Larsson, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
2014: Bo Christian Larsson, TS Art Projects, Berlin
2013: Bo Christian Larsson, DH-Artworks, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013: Bo Christian Larsson, Institut für moderne kunst-Nuremberg, Germany
2013: Bo Christian Larsson, Schaustelle Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2013: Bo Christian Larsson, TS Art Projects, Berlin, Germany
2013: Bo Christian Larsson, Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden
2012: Bo Christian Larsson, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2012: Bo Christian Larsson, Ludlow 38, New York City, USA
2012: Bo Christian Larsson, Gallery Vogt, New York City, USA
2012: Bo Christian Larsson, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
2012: Bo Christian Larsson, Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Sweden
2010: Cataclysmic Raft, Performance on Sylt, Kunstraum Sylt Quelle, Germany
2010: A White Mess Pt. 2b, Soundfair, Berlin, Germany
2010: Open Space, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2010: The Intruder, Tongewoelbe T25, Ingolstadt, Germany
2009: Drifting Across That Thin Line, Steinle Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2009: For Earthly Things..., Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria (Sept. 2009) 2008: Silverscreams, Gallery Gad, Oslo, Norway 2008: What was made in the dark, will be brought to the light, Galerie Florian Walch, Munich, Germany 2006: An Itchy Howl Under a Skin Coloured Moon, Von Maltzahn Fine Arts, Munich, Germany 2006: a mediocre squirt in a commonplace tilts the real, Gallery GAD, Oslo, Norway 2005: Oil for food, Fuel for fools, Off Space Du Ag, Munich, Germany