Through his art, Paul Fägerskiöld is exploring landscape painting and the relationship between man and nature in a time when human activities have had a significant impact on the climate and ecosystems on Earth. In his artistic practice, he occasionally uses his personal archive; photographs and pictograms that he has collected from his own surroundings and during travels. His large-scaled, monochrome paintings are full of symbols and historical references that together create a network of narratives.

Paul Fägerskiöld (b. 1982) has studied at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm and at Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Fägerskiöld lives and works in Stockholm and New York.
Paul Fägerskiöldʼs paintings can be seen as an ongoing attempt to build up a lexicon of visual language. He employs elements from moments in the history of painting as much as symbols and signs from visual culture
outside the discourse of painting from sources both “high” and “low”.

In his practice Fägerskiöld explores how meaning is created via language, how it can be generated in pictorial space, and how perception functions. There are no figures in the paintings which are instead dependent on the presence of an observer as co-creator of
meaning, whether via thought or movement.

Fägerskiöld's work examines the ambivalence that exists between image, painting, idea, and material. There is only one subject in each of
his paintings. Relationships do not exist within the paintings themselves but are generated between the surface, the image and the viewer.