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Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation Grant Recipients 2026<\/a><\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We congratulate the artists Henrik Jonsson, Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg and Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg, who are the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation Grant Recipients 2026. They will receive a prize of SEK 100,000 each. The grant recipients will be presented in an extensive exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall 9 Dec 2026\u201314 Feb 2027. In 2026, the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation celebrates 40 years, four decades of supporting young artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Maria Bonnier Dahlins Foundation annually awards grants to young Swedish artists to support them in their work. The foundation was founded by Jeanette Bonnier (1934\u20132016) in memory of her daughter Maria, who died in a car accident in 1985, aged just 20. Maria studied architecture at Columbia University in New York and was part of a circle of young artists. Since the first grant was awarded in 1986, the foundation has sought out the new and the innovative for 40 years, and the artists who have received the grant over the years are now some of Sweden\u2019s most notable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2026 guest jury is the artist and former grant recipient Olof Inger and the director of the Liljevalchs art gallery Joanna Sandell Wright. The jury is led by Christel Engelbert, who has been the foundation\u2019s chairwoman since 2016 and is driving the development of the grant.
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The Jury\u2019s Statement<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henrik Jonsson<\/strong>

<\/strong>We have chosen to award Henrik Jonsson the 2026 Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Grant. Jonsson is an artist who manages to make the complicated relationship between our history and ourselves accessible by combining unexpected objects and materials. Simple and playful with a masterful hand, where difficult questions are broken against layers of cultures and myths \u2013 combined in sensual sculptures and magnificent installations.

Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg and Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg<\/strong>

<\/strong>We have chosen to award Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg and Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg the 2026 Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Grant. For their artistic practise that is characterised by an unusual trust in the artistic process. With curiosity, creative joy and a fearless approach to materials, they have developed a personal visual language where the artworks are allowed to grow through the work. In their art, everyday objects are transformed into enigmatic figures and worlds \u2013 where play, seriousness and mystery meet. Their works carry a strong sense of freedom and show what can emerge when intuition and material are allowed to lead the way. Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg and Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg have developed generous and inspiring artistic practices that we look forward to following for a long time to come.

About Henrik Jonsson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henrik Jonsson, born in 1991, was educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts, and now works in Stockholm. Jonsson works with sculptures that raise questions about history, identity and how cultural capital is created and distributed. The works combine art historical references with experiences and aesthetics from the countryside. Jonsson\u2019s works have been shown at, among others, Galleri Andersson\/Sandstr\u00f6m in Stockholm, Nationalmuseum and the art biennial OpenArt in \u00d6rebro. He has also been an artist-in-residence at the Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts in Paris and at the Royal Institute of Art\u2019s studio in Grez-sur-Loing.

About Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg, born in 1994, was educated at the Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts, and now works in Gothenburg. In her works, everyday objects as well as objects loaded with different meanings meet materials in transformation, where disassembly, collapse and reconstruction recur as central themes. Bergman Fr\u00f6berg\u2019s clay sculptures can be seen as both portraits and extensions of herself and the world we live in, while she investigates power structures and the relationship between people, things and the environment. Her work is characterised by a fascination with the fragility of things and life, but also by a desire to let the broken become the starting point for something new. Recently, she has worked with sculptures of prams and other found objects \u2013 together with her twin sister Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg \u2013 where different media are used to process experiences and the changing conditions of our time. Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg\u2019s work has been shown at Galleri Hammar\u00e9n in Gothenburg, Galleri Andersson\/Sandstr\u00f6m in Stockholm, 3:e V\u00e5ningen in Gothenburg, K\u00f6ttinspektionen in Uppsala and at G\u00f6teborgs Konsthall, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg, born in 1994, was educated at the Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts, and now works in Gothenburg. In her art, she investigates materials, motherhood and the relationship between the body, everyday life and the surrounding world. Bergman Fr\u00f6berg works with wood-engravings and found objects, among other things, which she collects and processes into sculptures and physical archives. In her work, the pram recurs as a motif and transforms into sculptures and monuments to motherhood. Some of these sculptures are collaborations with her twin sister Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg. Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg\u2019s work is characterised by a fascination with the resistance and inherent power of materials, sometimes through an investigation of the visible and invisible the rules of the game between humans and predators, between strong and weak. Through physical and repetitive work, she investigates how sculpture can emerge in a dialogue between hand, material and thought. Bergman Fr\u00f6berg\u2019s work has been shown at, among others, Galleri Hammar\u00e9n in Gothenburg, Galleri Andersson\/Sandstr\u00f6m in Stockholm, 3:e V\u00e5ningen in Gothenburg, K\u00f6ttinspektionen in Uppsala and at G\u00f6teborgs Konsthall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: Henrik Jonsson, Rakel Bergman Fr\u00f6berg and Tekla Bergman Fr\u00f6berg. Photo: Christofer Dracke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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