Mikael Hallstrøm

Mikael Hallstrøm (b. 1979) is an autodidact visual artist. He holds an MA in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen and works conceptually and formally with the relationship between nature and culture. In his works, repetitive and accumulative mark-making is used as a way to explore the structures, meanings and visual potential of well-known materials such as pens, pencils, watercolours, paper and fire. His works are non-figurative but do often reference geological structures, as in his watercolor works, where he works with a technique he calls 'strata'. Every layer is painted and dried individually and imitates the vaults of the layers formed at the surface of planet earth.

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Hallstrøm lives and works in Copenhagen (DK).