Name: Hålrum - Juanma González
Start: 2025-09-12T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Roslagsgatan 21, 11355 Stockholm, Sweden

$H\u00e5lrum - Juanma Gonz\u00e1lez$

12-28 September
Vernissage:
Friday, September 12. 18:00
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ABOUT THE SHOW
For me, Detroit Gallery has always felt like a Hålrum: a deep hollow within the building. For this show, I wanted to play with that architectural peculiarity and transform it into a prehistoric cave, like those in which, thousands of years ago, our ancestors sheltered, gathered, exchanged, and lived together — a place of encounter. I am fascinated by the aesthetic manifestations they left behind: their majestic and solemn presence in the landscape, or the sacred traces carved into the rock.
Hålrum is an artistic intervention that creates two separate spaces: the external urban world and the internal enclosed space of the gallery. Through a combination of painting, drawing, and sculpture, the viewer follows a path that takes them away from everyday life and into a symbolism-charged environment. Like an initiation ritual or a liminal process, Hålrum is an invitation to remain in a place where ritual can happen — not only as a performative action, but also as an introspective experience. It is an encounter with the intangible side that makes us human: the realm where ideas, beliefs, feelings, and thoughts reside. Everything that has made us, makes us, and will continue to make us unique, and at the same time, equals.
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OPENING DAYS/HOURS
Friday, August 12: 18:00-22:00
Saturday, August 13: 14:00-17:00
Sunday, August 14: 14:00-17:00
Friday, August 19: 14:00-17:00
Saturday, August 20: 14:00-17:00
Sunday, August 21: 14:00-17:00
Friday, August 26: 14:00-17:00
Saturday, August 27: 14:00-17:00
FINNISSAGE Sunday, August 28: 14:00-17:00
And for appoinment.
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BIO
Juanma González is a Spanish artist based in Botkyrka, Sweden. His practice combines experimental and traditional approaches —drawing, photography, site-specific installation, performance, and artistic intervention. For over ten years, his research has centered on walking as a practice of knowledge and artistic production. Interested in notions of normality in everyday contexts, González creates situations where new meanings can emerge. He conceives walking as a device to interact with space and to facilitate extraordinary experiences for audiences.
He studied historical photographic techniques at Universidad Europea (Madrid, 1999) and graduated in Fine Arts from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2013). In 2016, he received his MFA degree from the Royal Institute of Art (KKH), Stockholm. His artistic education has continued through postgraduate programs, including Research_LAB at KKH (2017), Sites and Situations at Konstfack (2018), Site and Participant at Dramatiska Högskolan (2020), and The Photographic Artist's Book: Performing Sustainability at KKH (2022).
González also integrates his walking practice into teaching. For the Royal Institute of Art he has coordinated and led two workshops: a study-trip to Madrid (2019) and a one-day workshop inspired by the studiecirkel format (2020). In 2022, he taught at Murcia's Art School (Spain).
His work has been exhibited internationally in Los Angeles, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Armenia, and Spain. González is member of the international artist- and curator-run collective Flat Octopus and part of the NKF (The Nordic Art Association) board.
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www.juanmagonzalez.com