Who told you the story
Bror Jesper
6-21 September
Description
Bror Jesper’s voice feels less like “emerging” and more like inevitable. There is a rare clarity in his practice. Moving fluidly between painting, film, and installation, he approaches identity not as something fixed, but as urgent, fragile, and unfolding. His work gives form to questions many shy away from, revealing tension, vulnerability, and possibility.
Growing up in the small village of Bjursås in Dalarna, Jesper experienced a world that was both intimate and constrained, where belonging and isolation existed side by side. From that tension emerges art that insists on expanding language and inventing new ways of being seen and understood. Now, on the world stage, he continues his search, his curiosity about identity, relationships, and the systems that shape our lives.
Jesper transforms personal restlessness and the search for identity into a universal mirror. His works open cracks in dominant narratives, offering glimpses of alternative selves, other possibilities, and a freedom that asks for no permission.
At HAS, we show Bror Jesper because his practice embodies exactly what the space was created for: artists who challenge norms, provoke dialogue, and expand the boundaries of contemporary art. Here, Jesper presents new works alongside previous statement pieces, continuing his exploration of identity, form, and perception. Singular, uncompromising, and unmistakable, his practice is less about answers than about the courage to ask questions most avoid. It is this pursuit, fierce, vulnerable, radiant, that makes his art feel inevitable.
Date
6 Sept - 21 Sept
Opening hours 10-18
Vernissage 6th Sept from 6pm to 9pm (afterparty at Café Klotet)
Artists
Bror Jesper
Theme
This exhibition follows Bror Jesper’s restless search for identity, fragile, shifting, and insistent. His work slips between forms, creating fractures in prevailing narratives and exposing new spaces for belonging, difference, and transformation. What unfolds is not closure, but the courage to stay within tension: intimacy alongside isolation, vulnerability beside defiance, presence in the shadow of disappearance.
Credits
Konstnärsnämnden, Konsthissen, Konstfack, Dalarnas museum, Viktor Berglind Ekman, Olle Nykvist, Carl Carboni, Niklas Alriksson, Nadia Maghder, Daniel Daboczy, Thom Mattsson, Ebba Lindgren Jirdén.
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