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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
Dawid (Björn Dawidsson), born 1949 in Örebro, Sweden, is a photo-based artist. Dawid lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. 1969 - 1970 Christer Strömholm’s School of Photography 1971 Beckmans Art School, graphic design
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Dawid made his debut as a photographer in the early 1970ies. Art critics have called him the country’s last modern and its first postmodern artist, challenging the tradition and perceived ideal of documentary photography which at that time dominated the photographic scene in Sweden. With his strong focus on the formal aspects of photography, he constantly explores the medium’s material and visual possibilities as well as its limits, often balancing on a tightrope between the graphic and the photographic. Dawid incessantly discovers new angles to look at those ordinary objects that surround us, simultaneously paying tribute to and questioning their given form. The radicalness, which characterizes Dawid’s works, lies in the constant testing and transgression of this threshold. In 1973, he had his first big solo exhibition “Ingen älskar mig” (Nobody loves me) at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm/Sweden, showing a selection of 50 small camera prints from 35mm negatives. Dawid started early to experiment with large negative shapes. His exhibition “Rost” in 1983 at Fotografiska Museet/Moderna Museet in Stockholm/Sweden, was a defining work of his early career: an open-ended series with 25 images in the exhibition. It marked a significant moment in his career as his works were exhibited at one of the most important Scandinavian art institutions.

 Dawid has been continuing over the years with extensions to and elaborations of some of the series he has been making for a decade or more and parallelly taking new radical directions like i.e. the series MK/AW (2012/13). Constructed from the ephemeral fuzzy structures of ordinary TV screens without broadcast signals, Dawid has created illusionary fabric-like surfaces, exploring the different woven textures of a moment that was never meant to be visible in the first place.

Dawid has been exhibited in many national and international museums and galleries and is represented in a number of significant art collections.

Solo Exhibitions (selection):
 * Swedish Photography, Berlin, Germany), 2013
 * Landskrona Museum, (Landskrona, Sweden), 2012
 * Swedish Photography, Berlin, Germany), 2011
 * Fotografiska, (Stoclholm, Sweden), 2010 and 2011
 * Nordic Light, (Kristiansund, Norway), 2010
 * Hasselblad Center, (Gothenburg, Sweden), 2009
 * Skövde Museum, (Skövde, Sweden), 2008
 * Liljevalchs Konsthall, (Stockholm, Sweden), 2008
 * Millesgårdens Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden), 2005
 * Centre Culturel Suédois, (Paris, France), 2002
 * The Pentagram Gallery, (London, UK), 2001
 * Galerie Priska Pasquer, (Cologne, Germany), 2001
 * Galerie 213, Retrospective of large format works, (Paris, France) 1999
 * Karlshamns Konsthall, Retrospective, (Karlshamn, Sweden), 1997
 * Galleri Krister Fahl, (Stockholm, Sweden). 1994 (
 * Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany), M + M, large format works, 1993
 * Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden) (DAGRAMS), photograms, 1989
 * Centre Culturel Suédois, (Paris, France), 1986
 * Upplandsmuseet, (Uppsala, Sweden), 1985
 * Moderna Museet, “Rost” (Stockholm, Sweden) 1983
 * Galleri Camera Obscura, (Stockholm, Sweden), 1980
 * Liljevalchs Konsthall, “Ingen älskar mig”(Stockholm, Sweden) 1973

Books/Monographs (selection):

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 * Kars, 2011
 * Hybris, Liljevalchs Konsthall (text Niclas Östlind), 2008
 * Beautiful Frames, Steidl (Editor Michael Mack), 2001
 * Mot fotografiet/Arbetsnamn Skulptur (Working Title: Sculpture), by Linde, Ulf, Carlsson Bokförlag, 1989
 * Verkligen?!, by Dawid and Lind, Håkan, Bokförlaget, 1978, (reissued 2009, (text Niclas Östlind)<br

Collections:


 * Absolut Art Collection
 * Bonnier Collection, Stockholm, Sweden
 * Camera Obscura Collection, Stockholm, Sweden
 * Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
 * Dorint Collection, Brussels, Belgium
 * Erling Neby Collection, Norway
 * Folkwang Museum, Essen
 * Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
 * Helsingborg Konstmuseum, Sweden
 * Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
 * Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, Sweden
 * Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden
 * Manfred Heiting Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
 * Museet för samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
 * Nyky taiteen museo, Helsinki, Finland
 * Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
 * The Hasselblad Collection, Gothenburg, Sweden
 * The National Public Art Council, Sweden
 * Upplands Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
 * Örebro Läns Landsting, Sweden