en liknande (A Similar One) — Ossian Söderqvist

Opening : 14 February 2026, 16:00–20:00
Exhibition Dates
14 February–29 March
Opening Hours
Thursday–Saturday 13:00–15:00
Open by appointment outside regular opening hours.

Kipi Konsthall, Borrgatan 2

Ossian Söderqvist is an artist who graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2023. His practice engages primarily with sculptural processes and installation, and his current work employs typography, text, and visual forms to explore language, memory, and materiality. Previous exhibitions, among others, include Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico, and Fullersta gård, Stockholm. He has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (USA) and SOMA (Mexico).

In dialogue with the work a series of texts has emerged through contributions by:
Alexander Lepp (PhD student in literature)
Silvia Thomackenstein (curator)
Jason Hirata (artist)
Francis Brady Patrick (artist)
Graphic and typographic work by William Jokijärvi Andersson.

The memories I hold are mostly of silence. Karl-Erik Johansson, my grandfather, was a typographer and graphic designer who during his studies in Zurich, created a typeface based on Goethe’s poem, carved from a block of pearwood. Later in life, he suffered a stroke that left him with aphasia, unable to work with letters, speak, or read. This poem is among the most translated texts in Swedish, with over 2,000 known interpretations. This can be traced in part to a translation competition announced by Svenska Dagbladet in 1915, following public criticism of an earlier version.
Written in 1780 at a hunting lodge on Mount Kickelhahn, the poem was originally inscribed on a wall. Although the lodge later burned down, a photograph preserved the inscription. Today, a copy of the image hangs at the rebuilt site.
By recreating his typeface, I seek to approach a silence and linguistic concentration held in memory and material—a message not fully deciphered, a form heading towards its own dissolving.