Karl Dunér

Karl Dunér's exhibition consists of a number of independent scenes that one can freely move between. It features automated dolls and free-standing sculptures, each with an open play area where figures are gathered. Some of them are moving. They twist, slowly make their way forward, stop and wait. The movements cannot be repeated or predicted and each sculpture has its own sound atmosphere. In film and photographs, the slow movements of light and the wondrous refractions of water are examined. In purpose-built film cabinets, the unpredictable movements of winding threads or the delicate balancing act of a figure on a bar are conveyed.

Karl Dunér made his directorial debut at Dramaten in 1990. It is on the national stage that he has since been mainly active with plays by, for example, Chekhov, Strindberg, Gombrowicz and Beckett. In parallel with his work for the theatre, Dunér works as an artist and has made several but sporadic exhibitions that have attracted considerable attention. The last time he did a solo exhibition in Sweden was in 2002. All the works in Vandalorum's exhibition are on display for the first time.

Karl Dunér (b. 1963) is active in Stockholm as a director and artist. In 2013 he was awarded the Swedish Academy's Theatre Prize and the Royal Medal Litteris et Artibus.Thanks to: Kulturbryggan, Swedish Arts Grants Committee

^{Photo: Patrik Lindell}