BIO

Dina Isæus-Daggfeldt (formerly Dina Isæus-Berlin) is a Swedish abstract painter. Her work asks questions about different types of consciousness, intellectual as well as intuitive, and how various outcomes can be reached through altered states of mind.

In her compositions, the large, calligraphic brushstrokes appears as a figure, often superimposed onto detailed, patterned grounds. The elaborate fields, made in a different pace and state of mind than the fast gestures, is juxtaposed against the flowing movements to either challenge, highlight or support them. The results are paintings defined by kinesthetic energy, spatial ambiguities and a compelling tension formed in the contrast between strokes shaped by bodily, hands-on experience and the slow, meditative layers. By exploring the act of painting itself, continuously learning and unlearning the movements of the brush, she pushes the painting process to unfamiliar territories in a continuous desire to move forward. Coming from the hand of an unoccupied mind, her paintings show the marks of a body in motion. It is a practice in close conversation with Isæus-Daggfeldts’ search for the principles of how to live. 

Dina Isæus-Daggfeldt, born 1991, lives and works in Stockholm, SE. She holds an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm. Isæus-Daggfeldt has been exhibited at Fullersta Gård, Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, Färgfabriken, Liljevalchs, Konstnärshuset and at Gerichtshöfe, Berlin, with Enter Art Foundation. She has been awarded with grants from both Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Swedish Arts Grants Committee, among others. Her work are represented in public collections and private collections in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Austria.

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