Dan Wolgers

Integrating elements of humor, critical contemplation, and metaphoric play Dan Wolgers fabricates art objects that exist between a readymade, a toy, and handicraft. Characteristically conceptual, his work incorporates visually stimulating elements that are both scathing and sympathetic. Wolgers has become a controversial figure through extensive mockery, vandalism, borrowing, and carving into all content and materials at his disposal. With a diverse and expansive oeuvre, consisting of malfunctioning wooden and metal objects, large-scale visual and sound installations, infamous sensationalist stunts, and analytical sculpture, these works rely on clashing notions that thrive off of one another to create varying allusions. Wolgers regards the practice of art as an opportunity to question the social institution and machine of the art world.  His pieces are a reflection of the fragility of this machine, concluding that if one element is faltered with or questioned, the entire system falls apart.

Wolgers has displayed work extensively in solo exhibitions most recently at the Market Art Fair in Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm, Galleri Riis in Stockholm, The Maritime Museum in Stockholm, and Galleri Kari Kenetti in Helsinki, Finland. Additionally his work can be found in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Götenborg Museum of Art in Gothenburg, Sweden, Malmö Art Museum in Malmö, Sweden, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland.