Exhibition
Atelier Lisa Hilland
Between dream and reality
An exhibition with some of Sweden’s most prominent designers and artists exploring the borderland between dream and reality. The exhibition is displayed in Lisa Hilland's workshop and studio, which she shares with her mother, watercolor artist Margo - Margaretha Olsson - also participating in the exhibition.
Stekelgatan 9E
212 23 Malmö
Studio Kajsa Willner is a cross-disciplinary business that designs and sells objects in small series and also does commissions for visualising spatial installations, curating exhibitions as well as initiating new projects to create innovative symbioses between the design field and other industries in the region.
Kajsa Willner has a bachelor’s degree in furniture design from Italy. After completing her studies in Rome and Milan and a few years of internships and work experience in the Netherlands, she returned to Sweden and founded Studio Kajsa Willner in Malmö in 2013.
Kajsa Willner was shortlisted for Ung Svensk Form (Young Swedish Design) in 2014/15 and was the bronze winner of the A’Design Award 2017. In 2016 she was selected by Konst i Halland (Art in Halland, a regional resource centre operated by Region Halland and Halland Art Museum in Sweden) to be artist in residence at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland.
www.kajsawillner.com
By far Sweden’s most colourful, glamorous fashion designer, no wonder Maxjenny’s garments often is worn by both celebrities (and royals)! However Maxjennys main drive is to create self-boosting fashion for everyday heroines, working with flattering silhouettes and textile prints in a way that makes every garment unique. Maxjenny uses motifs from nature combined with flattering silhouettes, making women spark in their most natural form.
www.maxjenny.com
Mats Theselius is an ingenious design legend. In the late 1970s he studied interior design at Konstfack Stockholm and is responsible for some famous Swedish furniture designs of the 90s. He debuted in 1985 with the Elder Leather Seat, a cylindrical armchair made of elk leather, which evolved into a true design classic. Another iconic product that brought Mats Theselius to prominence is the 1988 vitrine, which contains 25 old copies of National Geographic magazines and is painted in the same yellow colour as the magazine cover. His creations are truly unique and artistic, full of aesthetics, style and extravagance. To this day, Theselius is active in many areas and does not put itself in any drawer: moving freely between art and design furniture, lighting, object design, exhibitions, installations, set designs and even music, films and books. The attempt to assign his creations to an epoch is doomed to failure. His furniture is simply different, timeless and special. A variety of awards and prizes stand for recognition of his work, including the Red Dot Award (1996), the Bruno Mathsson Award (1997) and the Wallpaper Design Award (2011).
Helene Toresdotter is a well-known interior photographer in Sweden and you have probably seen her photos in many interior design magazines. In this exhibition, she has taken new pictures inspired by the theme of Nocturnal Dissonance. With one of Helene's pictures, she collaborates with fashion designer Maxjenny, who produced a graphic pattern and applied it to her iconic garment.
www.toresdotter.se
Driven by passion for the watercolour technique, Margo, Margaretha Olsson explores its potential with a never-ending curiosity. Over the years Margo is represented in Sweden by public institutions and art associations. Recurring motifs are the symbolism of everyday things, nature and the archaic human. More recently, memorials from the passage of life have become abstractions such as interior landscapes and dwellings where the watercolour technique as a bearer of light, plays a major role.
Lisa Hilland creates contemporary design with a poetic twist, combining modern high-tech production techniques with artisan quality craftsmanship. After graduating from Central St Martin's College of Art, she worked ten years as a designer in London before setting up her own studio in Malmö, Sweden in 2005. Her current clients include renowned brand such Orrefors, Gemla, IKEA and Svensk Tenn. Lisa Hilland also founded her very own design range of furniture and accessories, Mylhta in 2018 with inspiration from nature and focus on sustainability. Lisa has received several awards among them Furniture of the Year 2019: Anno Cabinet by Sköna Hem, Furniture of the Year 2019: Mylhta Stool by Form Magazine and Lauritz Icon award 2017 for Gemla Bow Series.
www.lisahilland.com
www.mylhta.com
Designer Stina Henriksson started sa:k design studio in 2021, based in Malmö. She studied design at Malmö university and Lund school of industrial design. Previous to her studies Stina worked many years as a wig maker and make up artist at Malmö Opera and The royal theatre in Copenhagen. Her design work involves everything from exploring biomaterial from smelly juice factory sludge to funiture encouraging ”good enough” and tables that challenge how we think of foldable furnitue. The focus in her work is often on material and aesthetics in everyday objects connected to ideas of value.
Together with designer Carina Seth Andersson, Malmö Porslin has created an exciting and different series in porcelain and glass by Carina called "Pi". The series in porcelain consists of 11 parts in high-quality porcelain produced in the Czech Republic as well as two glass vases mouth-blown in Sweden at Skruf's glass factory.
Carina Seth Andersson, CSA, is a Swedish designer known for her distinctive, functional works in glass and ceramics. Her method is to scale down, finding the balance between simplicity and meaningful form creating timeless products.
The name of the company is reused from Malmö Porslinsfabrik, which was once located on Porslinsgatan in Malmö. Both simple household goods and beautiful tableware were produced there - products that can still be seen in Malmö Museum's collections.
Behind Malmö Porslin are five people with long and solid experience from the world of furniture and design. Ulrika Erlandsson is a lawyer and has worked at IKEA as well as running her own furniture and interior design business. Ann Marie Josefsson is an economist and has previously worked in the textile industry with purchasing and marketing. Magnus Ingerstedt, creative director, with extensive experience in design and interior design, as well as Peter Erlandsson and Pär Josefsson, the founders of String Furniture.