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Vernissage: Orons konjunkturer

Vernissage: Orons konjunkturer

From Öjebyn to Paris, from church murals and jazz bars to Ivar Kreuger’s private apartment: Rudolf Gowenius (1896–1960) navigated an era of profound change. His artistic practice spanned a wide range of techniques and contexts—including the development of a method for painting on velvet—and connected vastly different environments, people, and social strata. In the spring…

Next occurrence: Thursday, 15 October

18:00–20:00

Storgatan 40

From Öjebyn to Paris, from church murals and jazz bars to Ivar Kreuger’s private apartment: Rudolf Gowenius (1896–1960) navigated an era of profound change. His artistic practice spanned a wide range of techniques and contexts—including the development of a method for painting on velvet—and connected vastly different environments, people, and social strata.

In the spring of 1932, Maya and Rudolf Gowenius completed a large velvet painting for Ivar Kreuger’s music room in Paris. Kreuger was found dead just as the work was due to be delivered. The painting subsequently disappeared and is known today only through a photograph and a small preliminary study.

*The Cycles of Unease* (Orons konjunkturer) brings together paintings, sketches, prints, photographs, and other archival material from Gowenius’s life and work. The exhibition also features a new audiovisual installation by Andjeas Pestov Ejiksson—created in collaboration with composer Andreas Westerdahl—inspired by the lost painting commissioned by Kreuger.

The exhibition is curated by Andjeas Pestov Ejiksson, developed in dialogue with Vera Gowenius, and produced by Kin Museum of Contemporary Art.

Opening program 18:00–20:00:
Welcome remarks by Brith Fäldt, Chair of the Piteå Museum Association, and Bettina Persson, Deputy Museum Director at Kin Museum of Contemporary Art.

Andjeas Pestov Ejiksson presents the exhibition.

A conversation between Vera Gowenius (Rudolf Gowenius’s daughter) and Andjeas Pestov Ejiksson regarding the art and life of Rudolf Gowenius.

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Piteå Museum is a cultural and historical museum located in central Piteå, in the old Town Hall at Rådhustorget. The museum focuses on the history and cultural heritage of Piteå and the surrounding region. The exhibitions cover both historical and contemporary topics, with displays of objects, photographs, and stories that reflect everyday life, industry, and…

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Updated: 7 October 2026

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