About
Katarina Wetter-Edman is a Swedish contemporary artist whose practice is rooted in painting while drawing on a long-standing engagement with design and inquiry.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Industrial Design, a PhD in Design, and is Associate Professor (Docent) in Design. Rather than existing as separate fields, her artistic and academic practices inform one another through a shared interest in perception, materiality and the relationships between people, places and systems.
Her practice inhabits the space between the visible and the yet-to-be-articulated. Rather than illustrating an idea, her paintings create a place where the viewer can encounter movement, presence and transformation.
She lives and works at Bärsta Gård, just outside Örebro, Sweden.
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Inspiration
My work begins with attention.
I am drawn to the subtle relationships between body, material and landscape—how experiences leave traces, how surfaces hold memory, and how places shape the way we see. Rather than searching for motifs, I follow questions that emerge through observation and making.
Painting allows me to explore what exists before language: movement, presence and the quiet connections between things.ör.
Utbildning
Master of Fine Arts, Industridesign
Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk (HDK), Göteborgs universitet, 1995–2001
Konstutbildningar
Konstskolan Basis, Stockholm, 1993–1994
Atelier Berino École d'Art, Paris, 1992–1993
Fördjupningskurser
Konstnärligt projektår (50% distans) Kyrkerud folkhögskola (2025-2026)
Gerlesborgsskolan – Astrid Sylwan, Det intuitiva måleriet (2023, 2025)
Gerlesborgsskolan – Lovisa Johansson, Akvarell (2022)
Kulturmagasinet Bergkvara – John Shelton, Experimentell akvarell (2024)
Fiber Art Takes Two – Eva Kalien, Blandteknik (2024)
Medlemskap
KRO
Konstnärscentrum
Svenska Konstnärsförbundet
Separatutställningar
2026 – Egastronomi, Örebro
2024 – Passager, Wadköpingsrummet, Örebro
Grupp- och jurybedömda utställningar (urval)
2026 – Konsthallen Ostvik, Skellefteå
2025 – NK / Artist Arena, Stockholm
2025 – Nationell samlingsutställning, Magasinet, Gysinge
2025 – Svenska Konstnärsförbundet, Galleri Bellman, Stockholm
2025 – Artist Arena, Fabriken Events, Stockholm
2025 – Jurybedömd Midvintersalong, Galleri Ekdahl, Karlstad
2024 – Jurybedömd 30×30, Galleri Oscar, Mjöhult
Abstract colourful oil and acrylics on canvas, paper, wood panel, and mixed media, collage, watercolor
Each painting develops through an open dialogue with the material.
I work in layers, combining acrylic paint, collage and repeated interventions. The process moves between intuitive gestures and careful decisions, allowing the painting to reveal its own direction over time. Rather than illustrating an idea, I use painting as a way of thinking—where making and discovering happen simultaneously.
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